Coparenting Classes: Gaia’s Group

For mothers seeking support, best practices and expert feedback on co-parenting through and beyond divorce

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Gaia’s Group

If you ask a woman thinking about — or dealing — with divorce what her biggest worries are, the response often hinges on the money and the kids. And when it comes to the kids and divorce, it’s the worry if her kids will turn out all right, and if along the way, she’ll know what to do, what to say to be strong, and how to respond to their inevitable, poignant, needy, well-founded, and above all, heartbreaking questions and comments.

“This is the most important performance of our lives – our children are watching.”

~ SAS for Women

Co-parenting is a process where two people strive to raise healthy children as single parents

Gaia’s Group is designed to support you as you support your children through one of the toughest moments in your lives. We all need a thoughtful, committed plan to helping our children weather separation, divorce and all the big and small changes — in the healthiest possible way. Gaia’s Group cultivates the tremendous power you have already as your children’s mother. You know them better than anyone else.

In our online, coparenting class, we’ll delve into the divorce journey, where your kids are and how to healthily support them as you navigate this challenge and rebuild your life afterward.

And there is a life afterward. Don’t let your kids psyche you out. They don’t know a lot of things. They are taking cues from you. Children determine how safe or dangerous a divorce is based on how their parents show up, treat each other, and behave.

Although there is a lively debate about divorce and its long-term effects on children, there is little question that the more conflict kids experience as they go through divorce, the harder it is for them to recover — near and especially, longterm.

This means, your primary focus as their mother is protecting your kids as much as possible as you make your way through what is best described as chaos.

In Gaia’s Group you will KNOW how to stand in your power and protect and nourish your children in two important ways:

Embodying the Mother you always intended yourself to be (we’ve all swerved away from our best selves in the throes of divorce stress)
Defining, and more importantly leveraging the new relationship you have with your children’s father*. Co-parenting.

As researchers have studied, combining who you are as a parent AND as a coparent is important because ….

Many individuals who may parent alone successfully find it difficult to do so with their coparenting partners (McHale 1997).

Gayla Margolin and her colleagues go a step further, noting that a parent may display excellent child management skills and a high level of emotional attention to a child but at the same time make the mistake of disrespecting the other partner in front of the children. (Margolin, Gordis, and John 2001, p. 5).

In Gaia’s Group you will …

Understand what it takes to lessen the impact on your kids
Get clear on the difference between your divorce and your child’s divorce experience
Attain perspective and learn what healthy parenting through divorce looks like
Be matched with a Sister Partner (if you choose) to ensure mutual support & growth
Get personalized answers to your questions and daunting dilemmas from a Coparenting and Child Specialist

Parenting

Learn how to answer your children’s questions: how to talk about what’s happened, may happen and what’s going to happen in the future
Discover what you must know about your (young, pre-teen, adolescent, young adult, adult) child and the different messaging that is appropriate
Learn how to connect with a child who doesn’t communicate; or what you can do to help a struggling teen who is trying to separate
Be on the look out for “trouble” signs
Appreciate when, how & if you introduce your kids to a new partner; when to have conversations about step parenting and blended families

Coparenting

Experience the ability to avoid “inflamed” interactions with your Ex.
Benefit from understanding what goes into a good parenting plan (what you want yours to look like, its implications of time sharing, decision-making, optimal parenting schedules and holidays) and how to live with one
Master the tools to re-start and maintain an open communication with your Co-parent
Get clearer on what Child Support really is, how it’s determined, who pays, and what it’s used for
Examine the reality of narcissism, parental alienation, rage and victimhood — and the role you play
Demonstrate the optimal (and ongoing!) co-parenting skills you need to nurture your children: honest communication, boundaries, rule setting, self responsibility, and conscious intention

“It is our responsibility to gain the courage and clarity to move forward with grace and depth for ourselves AND our children.”

~ SAS for Women

Added Benefits

A deepened trust in YOURSELF and your ability as a woman and a mother
A competency in answering your children’s life-altering questions
Feel less alone as you gain connection to a female-centered community and collective wisdom
Process and examine what you are going through WHILE becoming the best parent possible
Be matched with a sister-participant (if you wish) so you mutually support and help each other (Participants tell us this sense of bonding is one of the biggest boons to our programs)
Understand the art of successful coparenting, the tools to use and models to follow
A safe place to deconstruct the ongoing challenges and a private way to work through them
A renewed sense of peace that you are doing something to heal the rift of divorce for your children

BONUS: A confidential, 30-minute coaching session on the topic of your choice with Gaia Group Leader, Liza Caldwell; or, a private consultation with a divorce attorney to discuss your legal, coparenting challenge

“This generation has lived it, learned it or heard firsthand how disastrous divorce can be if the parents do not strive to co-parent civilly. People can do it the way they want to, not the way their parents did it.”

~ Liza Caldwell, SAS Cofounder, New York Post (March 2017)

FIND OUT IF GAIA’S GROUP IS RIGHT FOR YOU. SCHEDULE YOUR QUICK 15-MINUTE CHAT

Gaia’s Group

Become more of the powerful mother you already are. Gain perspective and clarity as the parent you want to be.

LOCATION: Your safe/private space

DESIGNED FOR: Mothers :: Considering, dealing with or rebuilding after divorce

DATES: Class is starting soon. Schedule your brief chat to learn the dates and if Gaia is right for you

WHAT YOU NEED: A telephone or laptop, a means to take notes, and a commitment to yourself & children

PREREQUISITES: A brief conversation to discover if Gaia’s Group is right for you and where you are in your journey.

SCHEDULE HERE YOUR QUICK CONVERSATION TO LEARN MORE

FEEL SAFE

We understand the need for privacy. You are welcome to participate using your first name only or a pseudonym. Immersed in an atmosphere of sisterhood, kindness, and mutual respect, we will hold a confidentiality agreement.

GUARANTEE

You will absolutely learn more about coparenting . . . and experience a shift in your way of thinking and what is possible for you as a mother, or write to Liza and SAS will refund your money.

PLEASE NOTE

Due to the subject and the vulnerability of participants, we must protect the co-parenting support space and keep it limited.

SCHEDULE YOUR 15-MINUTE CHAT TO LEARN IF GAIA IS RIGHT FOR YOU AS A MOTHER

“I would say to any single parent currently feeling the weight of stereotype or stigmatization that I am prouder of my years as a single mother than of any other part of my life.”

~ J.K. Rowling, author of Harry Potter

Gaia’s Group is named after the Greek goddess Gaia, who, as the first being who sprang from Chaos, became the great mother of all creation–and from whom the heavenly gods were descended.

*At SAS we respect same-sex marriages, however, for the sake of simplicity in this conversation we refer to your spouse or ex-partner as male. ** This class is not intended to serve as a court mandated parenting class. Check with Google for a “court mandated parenting class” near you.