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Co-Parent Empowerment Group
Class Content What can I expect in the Co-Parent Empowerment Group?  Session 1
In the first session you will get to know the guidelines by which the group will run. Together we make an agreement to keep all information shared within the group confidential. Each participant has an opportunity to talk about their situation and individual goals are established. Because groups are small (five to seven participants), the focus is on your particular needs.
In the second session we focus on feelings — your problematic feelings as well as your response to problematic feelings in the other. A wide variety of emotional and anger management skills are taught. Each person is challenged to make specific plans for their own management and appropriate expression of feelings.
In the third session we delve into communications — what works, what may not work, how and why. Through interactive experiences, we gain understanding of our own communication traps and develop a plan for effective and successful communication with the other parent given the level of conflict present in that relationship. We each predict what highly charged scenarios may occur and we develop plans for responding peacefully and effectively.
By the fourth session, we are actively practicing good communication techniques in the group and at home. At this point we refocus on the children's experience of divorce and co-parenting. We learn about and discuss loyalty binds — an inherent, but avoidable part of the co-parenting situation.
The fifth session is devoted to building a personal co-parenting plan — a frame on which to build our futures as parents. Emphasis at this point is on personalizing each participant's plan to fit his/her specific life and unique parenting situation.
The last session is used to tie up any unfinished business from the previous five meetings. Group closure may include the following: a
review of what skills have been put into practice, support and appreciation for group participants, unanswered questions, a final ceremony — designed to reinforce learning and let go of negative experiences.
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