This two-part workshop is structured around practical worksheets proven effective in rigorous evidence based research of the SPACE approach by Eli R. Lebowitz, PhD at Yale, which you’ll use during the sessions and can return to afterward.
You’ll explore:
What in your child creates their anxiety
Understanding how anxiety is born and grows
How anxiety is impacting you and your child
Understanding how anxiety shows up for you and for them
Common parenting traps
Compassionate ways we accidentally accommodate anxiety—and how to shift out of them
You and your child’s anxiety
How the dynamic between you matters, and how to regulate yourself first
The things you say
Identifying language that feeds anxiety vs. language that helps it move through
Supportive statements
Learning how to communicate both acceptance and confidence at the same time
Your personalized plan
Creating a clear, realistic plan for responding differently when anxiety shows up
Choosing focus
Gently noticing and adjusting the specific ways anxiety is being reinforced—without shame or self-blame
These worksheets are adapted from evidence-based material* that we will be using as tools for implementation, not homework overload. *(Eli R. Lebowitz, PhD, developer of Yale’s S.P.A.C.E. approach, a parent-based treatment for childhood and adolescent anxiety and OCD. Supportive Parenting for Anxious Childhood Emotions)