The Parallel Process Curriculum
Do you have a preteen, teen or young adult in treatment? Are you unsure how to respond to their emotions and behaviors? Are you ready to examine your parenting patterns?
In this Parallel Process Intensive, parents will be let step by step though The Parallel Process Curriculum. Parents will come away with a new clarity and a fresh perspective on how to have healthier boundaries with their child, how to promote their child emotional maturation, and how to develop a new parent-child relational script.
Course Duration
The course is designed as an intensive where parents can complete in 1 month or 3 months depending on their schedules. However, parents will have lifetime access to the course upon purchase.
Modules
Each module gives parents an audio teaching, content, written assignments and action items. The action items will allow parents to engage in the material in a direct and experiential way.
Time Commitment
This course requires about 30 mins a day plus additional time for daily reflection. However the pace can be completed at the convenience of the student's schedule. You will be blown away at the cumulative impact of doing the daily work!
Is This Course for Me?
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📹 Welcome & Watch
Assignment
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🔊 Identifying Enmeshment in the Parent-Child Relationship
Ask Yourself
Action Items
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🔊 Self-Attunement
Ask Yourself
Feelings Journal
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🔊 Attune to Child
Steps for Emotional Attunement
River of Emotions Slides
Action Items
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🔊 Parental Authority
Co-Parenting Essentials
Action Items
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🔊 Setting Behavioral Boundaries
How to Give Effective Consequences
Action Items
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🔊 The Value of Struggle
Action Items
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🔊 Identifying Your Pattern - Self-Awareness
Action Items
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🔊 Skills
Reflective Listening
Reframing
Setting Limits
Action Items
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🔊 Gratitude for the Journey
Forgiveness: You & Your Child
Action Items
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🔊 Closing Listen
Reflection
Are you stuck in negative parenting dynamics with your child? Do you feel caught in frequent power-struggles? Do you struggle with how to respond to your child who is defiant or shut-down? Are you over-involved as a parent? Unsure how to back away, how to let go, or how to provide the best support as a parent? Is your child engaged in unsafe behavior? Do you fear your child can't handle life's obstacles?
This class is aimed at parents of struggling preteens, teens and young adults who may have received some treatment for behavioral, emotional or mental health struggles.
Over the years, parents have told me how much they resonated with The Parallel Process, but did not know how to bring the changes into their parenting. This Parallel Process Intensive is my answer. In this comprehensive curriculum, parents go through the the steps to become more skilled and clear in their parenting again. Parents will come away more equipped to promote their child's emotional growth and maturation.
In this course, parents will work through 10 modules including a one welcome video and ten audios to guide parents step-by-step through The Parallel Process content. Parents will learn how to re-write the parent-child script through emotionally attuning, stepping into their safe parental authority, setting boundaries, allowing safe struggle. This process allows parents to un-enmesh their boundaries, allowing their child to individuate and resume their emotional growth and maturation.
This comprehensive intensive has over 5 hours of video and audio content, journal assignments, daily reflections and action items to bring change into your parenting.
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$250
NOTES FROM HAPPY PARENTS
"I never fully saw my enmeshment until I took this class, and I am a therapist."
"I want to get this right and be ready when my son comes home. I have 3 boys and they have all struggled. I am so thankful.”
"I really think this course may save our family– it's been that eye opening!"
"Very wonderful class, wonderful "investment" in my family's wellbeing. Krissy's books are also wonderful, and although I learn a great deal from books, being an avid reader and someone who makes time for reflection and learning, this was a more effective way for me to learn about parenting. And I felt "supported" with this class. I was skeptical that it would be helpful, skeptical about the online format, and was proven wrong. I almost didn't sign up, and am so glad I did. Thank you again!"
Krissy Pozatek, MSW
Krissy Pozatek, MSW, has identified the lessons and skills kids gain in the treatment and integrated them into everyday parenting so kids can be more adaptable and resilient in the home setting. Krissy has had over 25 years of experience in the wilderness therapy and adolescent treatment field.
Krissy currently works as a parent coach with parents of struggling adolescents and young adults through her coaching practice, Parallel Process, LLC. She also conducts parent workshops, seminars, lectures, and was a visiting professor at Middlebury College. Explore her books below!
Brave Parenting
“A Buddhist-inspired guide to raising resilient children.”
The Parallel Process
“Growing alongside your adolescent or young adult child in treatment.”
Brave Teaching
“Bringing emotional-resiliency skills from the wilderness to the classroom.”
Frequently Asked Questions
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Yes! Parents in the class will be at different places in their trajectory: struggling with a child at home, in home-based therapy, in a therapy program, home after treatment, in college or some type of gap year. Wherever your child is at, if your child is struggling, parents frequently are getting stuck in negative patterns and dynamics in the parent/child relationship. This class will teach parents how to have a new parent/child script to promote your child's skill development and have new outcomes in the parent-child relationships. It is applicable to all stages listed above.
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The best time to do the class is when you are wanting help. When you are feeling stuck in your parenting. Sometimes the best time to do this work is when your child is away because you have a break from day to day parenting and can focus a bit more on self-reflection and working to build new skills to try with your child via phone calls and visits. That being said, if your child is home, you may want this daily coaching to have support in your day to day struggles, so really it reflects where the parent is at and their readiness to engage in the course and the content.
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No. The aim of this class is for the parents to put the spotlight on themselves and to do some deeper self-reflection. Typically there has been so much efforting to change the child. Kids feel this. In this class parents will look at the parent growth process, and find their own parenting edge and hopefully be willing to try some new responses and strategies in their parenting. That being said, when parents change, when parents change the home, this will change your parent-child relationship, and I believe you will have new outcomes with your child.
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Many parents experience fear when it comes to trying new things because they don't want to make things worse. However I ask parents, do you want fear to drive your parenting? Also many parents coming to my books and this class typically are ready for some type of change because things are not going well in the home environment. I will be walking you through all of this in the class, and obviously the parent is in charge of their parenting and what is best for your home, so only make the changes you feel ready for.