Children experience many difficulties when parents decide to separate and divorce. When one or both of their parents decide to re-partner, their children can be even more challenged in dealing with the complexity of the new family dynamics and structure.
This enjoyable 4 session course aims to support children in understanding and integrating their experiences. It will empower them by raising their self-awareness and developing emotional skills to protect and build their own resilience in the years it can take for the family to ‘gel’, and beyond into adult life. Topics covered in this course include: 

    • How to process the difficult feelings after family loss and change 
    • What can I do with all my frustrations and confusing thoughts? 
    • How do I manage the new relationships with stepparents and stepsiblings? 
    • How can I speak up for myself in a way more likely get my parents to hear me? 
    • Who can I be in this new family?