MotherWoman Facilitator Training: What You'll Learn

In MotherWoman Facilitator Training you will learn how to create and facilitate MotherWoman’s powerful women’s group model, in which women:

• Explore personal issues in an environment of safety, respect, support and empowerment.
• Discover inherent strength, emotional intelligence, and resilience.
• Increase confidence and competence as mothers and women.
• Learn effective ways to communicate needs and ensure self-care.
• Explore the deep challenges experienced by all mothers, but which are often difficult to share.
• Understand the personal impact of the marginalization of mothering in the U.S.
• Find community among mothers - the “village” that has been missing.
• Develop insight, support and confidence to make decisions that move themselves and their families forward.

Professionally, In MotherWoman Facilitator Training you will learn to:

• Create a safe group for women to share their real experiences of motherhood.
• Understand group process, so as to sensitively address the unique needs of individuals, and the group as a whole.
• Encourage inherent strength, emotional intelligence and positive self-esteem in each woman.
• Create community among diverse women.
• Identify the cultural and family of origin messages that impact mothers and families.
• Identify the social and political context of motherhood and its relationship to maternal depression and disempowerment.
• The skills necessary to create your own group, including marketing, publicity, and identifying resources.

Personally, In MotherWoman Facilitator Training you will:

• Develop confidence in yourself, as a leader of women, which will benefit your work, your family, your parenting and yourself.
• Create a MotherWoman group that reflects the needs of women you hope to serve.
• Become part of a vibrant, inspiring MotherWoman community of your own.
• Become a catalyst for personal and social change!