Course Overview:
Course Title: Empowered Working Parents: Building Flexibility with ACT
Course Description: This 10-week online, 1.5 hours a week (16h00 – 17h30) course, starting on 3 February 2025, is designed to support working parents build psychological flexibility skills and empower working parents of adolescents to manage the challenging demands placed on parents by the dual commitment of work and parenting.
Outcome Goals:
- Understand the principles of ACT and psychological flexibility
- Increase awareness of personal values and goals.
- Build present moment awareness.
- Learn to defuse from unhelpful thoughts.
- Practice acceptance of difficult emotions.
- Commit to taking values based actions
Each weekly session will consist of the following:
- Overview and presentation of the week’s course content
- Weekly email on the session content
- Previous session recording
- Previous session summary notes
- Previous session slide deck
- Every two weeks 45 minutes zoom support session
ZOOM Link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81638571390?pwd=X7GoAR5Rdyi891XlGvidIaGstgOrcn.1
Meeting ID: 816 3857 1390
Passcode: 601221
Course Content
Week 1: Introduction to Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Date: 5 Feb 2025 Time: 16:00 – 17:30
Week 2: Overview of Work-parenting pressure
Date: 11 Feb 2025. Time: 16:00 – 17:0
Week 3: Introduction to Psychological Flexibility
Date: 18 Feb 2025. Time: 16:00 – 17:30
Week 4: Cognitive Defusion Techniques
Date: 26 Feb 2025. Time: 16:00 – 17:30
Week 5: Acceptance and Willingness to Open up
Date: 5 Mar 2025. Time: 16:00 – 17:30
Week 6: Mindfulness and Present Moment Awareness
Date: 12 Mar 2025. Time: 16:00 – 17:30
Week 7: The Observing Self (Pure Awareness)
Date: 19 Mar 2025. Time: 16:00 – 17:30
Week 8: Values and Purpose (Know what Matters)
Date: 26 Mar 2025. Time: 16:00 – 17:30
Week 9: Committed Action (Do What it Takes)
Date: 2 April 2025. Time: 16:00 – 17:30
Week 10: Build your Empowered Working Parents Flexibility plan
Date: 9 April 2025. Time: 16:00 – 17:30
