Trans Wellbeing – Parenting Program

About

An online 7-week course and group program for parents of transgender and gender
diverse people.

www.transwellbeing.com

Program Outline:

Creating an Effective Support Plan

• The statistics are alarming. Here’s why you don’t need to worry
• Evidence based Risk & Resilience Factors: What really makes a difference
• The varied parental reactions, and when your co-parent has a different one to you
• The power of parent-child connectedness
• Acknowledging and attending to parental fear and grief
• Dealing with the doomsayers

Bodies & Gender

• The social significance of bodies
• What science is revealing about the diversity of biological sex
• Practical ways to talk about bodies with your child
• The functions of gender identity
• How do they know they are trans?
• Why language is important, and terminology isn’t

Names & Pronouns

• Why adopting new language is so difficult
• Names and pronouns as symbols for identity
• Loving ways to use terms of endearment & descriptors

Femininity & Masculinity

• Understanding the myths around femininity and masculinity
• Learning from history
• Practical ways you can enable authentic expression

Dysphoria

• ‘Big D’ and ‘little d’ dysphoria
• Does dysphoria make you trans?
• How dysphoria disguises itself
• Practical strategies that help
• How you can help foster joy and confidence

Transition & Affirmation

• Traditions of transition: unveiling our legacy of concealment
• The real purpose of transition
• Gender affirmation is for everyone. So what is different here?
• Common parent and child feelings during transitions
• Addressing your child’s urgency while you want to slow things down
• A model for responding to new information (even when you are freaking out)

Presence & Proximity

• Parenting when we’re afraid
• The vulnerability of parenthood
• Finding the right balance of closeness and autonomy
• How to repair after conflict and hurt
• Loving collaboration during decision making
• When your child doesn’t talk to you, and what you can do to help
• Creating conditions for bonding

Your Child & The World

• Responding to transphobia
• Responses that heal
• Alleviating your child’s burdens
• 5 types of conversation you can have, and models to guide you
• Parental self-compassion 
• Three types of community, and their gifts
• When community is hard to access

We are a part of Trans Wellbeing, who are registered as a: Partnership.

More details

LGBTIQ Owned and Operated: Yes
Qualifications: Psychotherapist
Service Delivery Format:

• - Online forum/Group

Service Delivery Location:

• - All of Victoria

Cost: $$$
Opening Times: Anytime

Accessibility

Wheel Chair accessible
Hearing impaired
Sight Impaired
Cognitive Sensibility