The Importance of Self Care and Interconnectedness

Brief Overview

This workshop explores how successful Therapeutic Parenting relies on carers providing a secure emotional base for the children in their care and attuning to them. It considers the impact of this on carers own emotional health and discusses the importance of self-care and self-compassion for carers as they care for children with Developmental Trauma. It explains how compassion fatigue (blocked care) arises and the impact of this as well as providing hope in the form of effective strategies for re-establishing inner peace and reconnecting with foster children for carers who feel impacted by this.