Reflect to Connect: Helping Families Thrive through Strengthening Early Relationships

This one-day workshop is designed for infant and early childhood mental health specialists, and the administrators that support clinical work with zero to three year olds and their families. This training introduces participants to an innovative approach to working with parents and the parent-child relationship, one that emphasizes slowed-down and mindful observation, flexible responsiveness, and reflection as practices that enhance the quality of parent-child interactions, and the attachment relationship itself.  Through examining and discussing video clinical examples, the developer of Mindful Parenting Groups will illustrate this approach in action.

•Demonstrate understanding of the use of mindful observation, flexible responsiveness, and reflective discussion as clinical tools that promote RF;

•Recognize an observational stance and its utility in clinical practice;

•Identify two ways to support reflective thinking in parents;

•Distinguish high and low RF and the relationship of RF to attachment styles and parenting behavior; 

•Differentiate reflective and non-reflective states of mind.

Training Presenter

Diane Reynolds, M.A., MFT, Program Developer of Mindful Parenting Groups, Co-Executive Director of Center for Reflective Parenting, is a licensed marriage and family therapist specializing in infant/early childhood mental health and reflective parent education for nearly 20 years. She created the innovative Mindful Parenting Group model over a decade ago, and was recently approved by California Institute of Mental Health and L.A. County Department of Mental Health as a Community Defined Evidence group model for prevention and early intervention, targeting parenting and family difficulties. Ms. Reynolds has received funding from private foundations and L.A. County DMH to support group facilitator training with mental health professionals serving at-risk families across Los Angeles.  She is in private practice in Santa Monica, serving adults, couples, and families with young children, and is the proud mother of a teenage son and daughter.

Date:                        Friday, September 28,  2012

Time:                        9:00 am ~ 4:00 pm

                                Registration from 8:30 ~ 9:00 am

                               *Continental breakfast & lunch will be provided

Location:                 St. Andrew's Lutheran Church

                                11555 National Blvd.

                                Los Angeles, CA  90064

Cost

Regular:      $110 

CEUs:         $15 for 6 hours

CEUs available for: Psychologists, LMFTs & LCSWs

If you have questions or need a registration form to register by mail, please contact Marta Huertas at winadmin@winla.org / 310.695.7866