Embodied Wisdom: Parenting ADHD with presence and creativity
Schedule
Fri Oct 03 2025 at 10:00 am to 12:00 pm
UTC+02:00Location
Central Public Library - Malta | Valletta, MA
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In this 5-part series, we will be meeting some of the main qualities of ADHD in a creative and embodied manner. This is NOT a parenting course, where you’ll learn how to manage your child’s behaviour. Instead, it’s a space where you’ll be supported and empowered to experience the energetic imprint of your child on your nervous system and body. This will allow you to develop insight into what’s being created in each of you when you are together. Additionally, it will support you, as the parent, to offer attuned co-regulation to your child. During these workshops, we will use metaphors, stories, and myths as portals to encounter ways in which you can rewrite the identities you assign to yourself and your child. We will also be using rituals as grounding techniques to create a safe communal space. Additionally, we will be adopting trauma-informed language and polyvagal insights to connect you to your body’s wisdom. Systemic thinking will allow us to focus on what’s being created in your families, rather than just concentrating on the child with the neurodevelopmental disorder.
Dates:
Session 1 - 3rd October 10am - 12pm
Session 2 - 10th October 10am - 12pm
Session 3 - 17th October 10am - 12pm
Session 4 - 24th October 10am - 12pm
session 5 - 31st October 10am - 12pm
Who's this for?
This is for parents of children (up to 18 years old) with ADHD. This is not a behaviour management course. It is for parents who are ready to explore ADHD from a lens that is embodied, non-judgmental, and non-medicalised. It is for parents who want to refine their abilities to attune with and be co-regulators for their children.
Things to bring:
- a cushion to sit on
- a notebook and pen
Wear comfortable clothing that allows you to move easily.
Fee:
€300 (€100 as a deposit upon registering, and the rest to be paid by August 31, 2025).
€450 for couples (€200 as a deposit upon registering, and the rest to be paid by August 31, 2025).
Limited spaces are available since this will be a small group.
A certificate of attendance with 10 CPD hours will be given.
Fill in this form to register:
https://forms.gle/VachWBWm46EcBGk87
The facilitator and teacher:
Gianella Caligari is a warranted systemic family psychotherapist who has over a decade's worth of experience working with children and adolescents in the national mental health service. She, therefore, has extensive experience working with families of ADHD-diagnosed children, besides her own experiences of ADHD within her family. She has also researched families with ADHD-diagnosed children for her Master's dissertation, which was also presented at a conference in 2021.
Gianella is invested in learning and teaching about embodied and creative practices to support the healing of relational injuries and traumas. She enjoys bridging various fields, which allows her to create alternative frames of how mental wellbeing, mental disorders, and neurodevelopmental disorders can be viewed, thereby going beyond medicalised discourses.
Email: [email protected]
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Where is it happening?
Central Public Library - Malta, Central Public Library,Floriana, Malta, VallettaEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
