Attachment and Mindful Parenting Skills (AMPS) Training​

📍 Location: Onsite – UCN Thompson
📅 Dates: July 15–16, 2025
⏰ Time: 9:00 AM – 4:30 PM (Central Time)
🕒 Total Hours: 13 hours
🔒 Registration (Closed):

🌱 About the Workshop​

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Parenting shapes the architecture of a child's brain, emotions, and lifelong relationships. The AMPS Workshop explores the deep connection between attachment theory, child development, and mindful parenting practices. This evidence-informed training is designed to help caregivers, professionals, and parents gain critical skills to nurture emotionally secure, resilient children.Participants will delve into the science of attachment, neuroplasticity, and childhood brain development, while exploring how parenting styles and emotional dynamics affect children's mental health and emotional regulation.

🔍 Topics Covered​
  • The Four Attachment Styles: Understanding secure, anxious, avoidant, and disorganized attachment patterns.
  • The Six Stages of Attachment and Five Keys to Secure Bonding: Tools to foster connection, safety, and trust.
  • Parenting Preferences & Secure Attachment: Exploring how choices impact relational development.
  • Parental Alienation, Estrangement & Resistance: Addressing high-conflict family dynamics and emotional fallout.
  • Understanding Aggressive Parenting & Justified Resistance: Tools for transforming conflict and rebuilding trust.
  • Healing through Mindfulness: Rewiring the brain to foster emotional wellbeing, compassion, and resilience.
  • Navigating Household Challenges: Responding to anger, substance use (AOD), grief, trauma, and guilt.
  • Mindful Parenting in Action: Exercises to enhance joy, reduce tantrums, and promote emotional intelligence.

🧘‍♀️ What You’ll Learn
  • Build strong attachment bonds so children want to collaborate and connect.
  • Understand the principles of mindful parenting and how to integrate them into daily life.
  • Release limiting or false beliefs around parenting and discipline.
  • Learn to respond with empathy and compassion to children’s difficult emotions.
  • Apply mindfulness-based tools to stay calm and centered during family stress or conflict.
  • Create meaningful connections through small, intentional family interactions.
  • Support children in managing stress, pain, and emotional dysregulation.
  • Use play-based and mindfulness activities to reduce household tension and improve happiness.
  • Foster emotional intelligence and self-management in children through mindful discipline.
  • Learn the secrets to authentic happiness and peace in parenting—especially in high-conflict situations.

💡 Who Should Attend?This workshop is ideal for:
  • Parents and caregivers
  • Family therapists and counselors
  • Social workers and mental health professionals
  • Early childhood educators
  • Foster and kinship caregivers
  • Anyone seeking to deepen their parenting wisdom through mindfulness and evidence-based attachment science.