Caregivers Worksop

Saturday, November 22, 2025 | 9 a.m. to 12 p.m.

As caregivers, it’s essential to reflect on our childhood experiences and how they shape our current parenting practices. Many of us carry wounds from our childhood relational experiences that shape the foundations of developmental immaturity. This shows up not only in our adult relationships but also in how we parent our children.

This workshop invites you to get curious about the parenting you received and how it has influenced your own parenting patterns. Through our own self-exploration and healing work, we can strengthen our connection with our children and bring more empathy, understanding and balance into our relationships with them. This also helps to model what healthy balance looks like within the framework of Post Induction Therapy (PIT), the model used at Green Shoe Foundation. At the heart of PIT is the idea that trauma causes developmental immaturity, leading to difficulties with self-esteem, boundaries, dependency, reality and moderation. Some common outcomes of these childhood relational wounds can arise in patterns of shame, people-pleasing, emotional reactivity or chronic self-doubt.

Caring for children is one of the most challenging jobs in the world. Similarly, children are experiencing those challenges through a different lens. They are trying to learn and navigate the world through attachment styles and by experiencing how adults teach and model PIT’s five core issues of self-esteem, boundaries, reality, dependency and moderation. As caregivers, our job is to provide everything a child needs. It is through loving and supportive early parent-child relationships that the foundations for future healthy relationships and healthy attachments are formed. In essence, we need to be able to parent the child in front of us from a place of love, balance and secure attachment. This also means we should not parent the way we needed to be parented, as we would be operating out of unresolved relational wounds.

The focus of this workshop is to explore the components of healthy, supportive parenting:

    • Teaches your child they have value and worth

    • Teaches them how to treat themselves in a loving manner

    • Attending to your child’s needs and wants

    • creates a feeling of safety

    • teaches them how to protect and contain themselves

    • teaches a child how to affirm themselves

    • creates intimacy and connections

    • teaches a child moderation

    • teaches a child responsibility and accountability

Additionally, the workshop will focus on helping your child develop healthy self-esteem, appropriate boundaries and emotional regulation; teach healthy dependence; and provide a safe place for healthy spontaneity.  

We invite you to explore, in a safe space, how we learned to “do” relationships with ourselves and others — more specifically, how and what we learned about parenting. This is an opportunity to learn about yourself as you navigate the role of parenting and gain helpful tools to provide a healthy foundation for your child.

Green Shoe embraces Pia Mellody’s PIT and the five core issues of developmental immaturity: self-esteem, boundaries, reality, dependency and moderation. These five core issues move to extremes when we experience relational traumas, or shame binds, that can hinder our ability to be fully authentic human beings. In this model, trauma is seen as anything that is less than nurturing. If we have been a child, we have experienced something that was less than nurturing, and if we have been a parent, we have done something less than nurturing. So now we do the repair work necessary to embrace being perfectly imperfect, which is the nature of each human. This means you and your child are allowed to make mistakes and know that those mistakes do not make you less than. Our strengths don’t make us better than, and our weaknesses do not make us less than — both just define our humanity. No human is the perfect parent, and we will all make mistakes. How do we teach appropriate accountability to our children while extending the same grace to ourselves?

Join us to explore your parenting patterns and learn healthy tools to use with your child.