Hosted by the Anna Freud Centre, this free seminar will take place online. Lockdown has seen some fascinating developments. There’s been an outpouring of kindness – for support of NHS staff and other key workers – and concern for the health and financial wellbeing of our friends, families and neighbours. But how deep is this? Does this herald a new approach for society? And does it provide an opportunity to rethink our approach to the earliest years of childhood?

 

In this seminar we will look at perinatal mental health and the all-important early years and how by supporting families, particularly those new mothers who experience prolonged distress following childbirth.

 

We will reflect on how the pandemic has shone a new light on compassion, how we applied it to mothers-to-be and young families in the past, and to look at what the opportunities are to rethinking support in the future.

 

The seminar will look at compassion-focused therapy and how the compassionate mind can support and nurture parent-infant relationships and how we can build a society in that enables mothers to be kinder to themselves.

 

After the talk the audience will be invited to contribute their own thoughts on three questions which will be shared and a report will be fed back to them. The three questions will focus on how we embed ‘kindness’ including self-kindness into our support for families and the early years.

 

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