Virtual Workshop!
Setting Secure Boundaries and Writing Effective Home Contracts
A Parallel Process Intensive Workshop for Parents (of kids aged 11-23)
Sat March 29th (12pm – 4pm EST)
Are you stuck in negative parenting dynamics with your teen? Are you unsure how to respond to their emotions and behaviors? Do you feel caught in frequent power-struggles? Does your child show up entitled, disrespectful, or become easily escalated, defiant or shutdown? Do you struggle to set limits and boundaries as a parent? Are you on egg-shells around your struggling child? Do you want to RESET your home structure, rules and boundaries to create more security for your child? Do you want to learn how to hold your child accountable?
Are you ready to Reset your home structure, learn how to set secure boundaries, write effective home contracts and gain more skills? Do you want to have a felt experience of how to show up and hold boundaries with your preteen, teen or young adult? Do you want to step back into your safe parental authority?
In this workshop, parents will learn The Parallel Process skills to identify, understand, learn the tools to transform their negative relationship patterns with their child. Parents will learn how to set choice-based boundaries and how to hold their children accountable, with a home contract. Participants will learn new communication skills that will be integrated through learning new dialogues, role-plays, attunement to feelings, boundary setting and a stronger awareness of parent-child differentiation. Attendees will have a greater awareness of parent-child enmeshment and how it can interfere with boundary setting and their children’s emotional skill development. And when parents have accountability built into the home plan, there will not be a need to react to yell or over-manage their children.
Ready to Reset Your Home?
Join this workshop to:
Learn how to set secure boundaries and create effective home contracts.
Gain skills to confidently engage with your teen and reclaim your parental authority.
Parents will:
Identify and transform negative relationship patterns.
Master choice-based boundaries and accountability through home contracts.
Develop new communication skills using dialogues, role-plays, and emotional attunement.
By understanding parent-child enmeshment, participants will see how it undermines boundary setting and emotional development. When parents build in structure and accountability it leads to a more peaceful home environment without the need for yelling or over-managing.
Workshop Leader
Krissy Pozatek, MSW
Krissy received her education at Middlebury College, Smith College and NM Highlands University. She has had almost 30 years of experience in the wilderness therapy and adolescent treatment field. In 2006, Krissy switched from adolescent therapy to parent coaching, and works with parents of struggling adolescents and young adults in her parent coaching practice and on her digital coaching platforms. She is the author of The Parallel Process, the landmark book that teaches parents how to grow alongside their struggling adolescent or young adult child in treatment and to integrate the changes into the home. Krissy has coached parents in home transitions since 2012, and launched Parallel Process Transitions in 2023. Krissy was also a visiting professor at Middlebury College. Krissy is the mother of 2 daughters (one is a young adult and one a teen), and lives in Vermont with her partner. She loves to travel, to be in nature, skiing, hiking, yoga and mostly being with her family.
Workshop Schedule
Sat March 29th: (eastern times)
12:00-12:15 Workshop attendees introductions
12:15-1:00 Parallel Process Principles and Concepts
1:00 – 1:30 Attunement and Boundary Setting Exercises
1:30-2:00 Writing Effective Home Contracts
2:00-2:30 Break
2:30-3:15 Experiential Exercises with Partners
3:15-3:50 Participant Boundary Setting Role-Plays
3:50-4:00 Wrap up.