Join Turnbridge, Integrated Care Concepts, and colleagues for lunch and an important continuing education presentation. Earn 2 CEUs.
Turnbridge Director of Outreach Matt Rubin provides a brief overview of the Turnbridge Adolescent and Young Adult Behavioral Healthcare System followed by “Intentional Parenting & Intentional Family,” an informative presentation addressing some of today’s most daunting parenting challenges.
About “Intentional Parenting & Intentional Family”
Parenting, who knew? Who knew how much harder it was going to be in this generation compared to “back in our day”? In raising the kids and holding the family together, the challenges and intersectionality of so many complex vulnerabilities have created dynamic obstacles to creating a facilitating relational family experience. Families requiring multiple incomes to financially survive, social media, technology, hyper-scheduled kids, social and political divisions, COVID, the number of distractions, disruptions, and demands go on, making the time with our kids, being parents, and being a family more limited than ever. We have less time to be a family, to be a parent, this requires us to not be accidental or coincidental but INTENTIONAL in our approach to the most important thing for our world today.
Intentional Parenting is a mindfulness-based approach to family leadership that incorporates a review of the basic challenge and confusion facing families today, 20th Century parents, parenting 21st Century children in this socio-political, technological, and economic context, post-pandemic. What is required for the family to be an effective place of belongingness and, thereby development is the immediacy of authentic parental presence with a clear understanding of the purpose of parenting and family, preparing the child to thrive in the world on their own terms independently.
Learning Objectives:
- Review of 20th Century, the place of the parent’s beginning
- Review of 21st Century family and parenting context
- Review of the purpose and role of family and parenting.
- Identifying Mindfulness-Based Approaches to parenting and family leadership
Your Speaker:
Larry Thompson, MSW, LCSW
Therapist, Founder, Partner
Larry Thompson, LCSW, was trained at New York University’s School of Social Work and earned a Master’s Degree in Social Work. His theoretical orientation is in the use of self & Zen psychology and psychodynamic-object relations theories of psychology. He was formerly the Director of Children’s Mobile Response in Ocean County and Team Leader for Monmouth County PACT team.
Larry holds post-graduate certificates in Child/Adolescent Mental Health and Parent Education from Rutgers University. Larry incorporates his training in Dialectic Behavioral Therapy and Cognitive Analytic Therapy with nature and holistic approaches in work with adolescents, individuals, and families.
Larry’s passion for integrating a total wellness approach continues to carry over into his professional and personal life. He has completed a post-graduate certificate through Drexel in Complementary and Integrative Therapies, so as to offer his clients additional options for their wellness recovery, as well as iRest yoga nidra meditation through the Integrative Restoration Institute.
Larry is also proud to be part of the #SameHere Psych Alliance.
WHEN:
Thursday, March 20, 2025, 12 p.m. – 3 p.m. (EST)
WHERE:
Tabor Road Tavern
510 Tabor Rd, Morris Plains, NJ 07950
Earn 2 CEUs