A Group for Parents: How to Navigate the “Hot Topics” Facing Our Kids Today
What: 8-week Parent Group with CJ and Lindsey Rithner
Who: Limited to 6 family units (open to parents, grandparents, caregivers)
When: Please join the waitlist to be notified of our next group!
Where: Virtual
Cost: $480 per family unit (for 8, 1.5 - hour sessions), Payment plans available
Your kids are facing challenges. Are you prepared?
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Social Media
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Depression
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Substance Abuse
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Identity
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Sex
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Faith
This group is a good fit for you if…
✓ You continue to find yourself in “stalemates” with your kids around these topics, or feel a growing “chasm” in your relationships with your kids because of these topics.
✓ You don’t currently feel comfortable engaging these topics with your kids, but know there is a need for such engagement.
✓ You are currently facing specific challenges with your kids in one or more of these topics and need support and space to process through those challenges.
✓ You long for deeper connection and conversations with your kids and to grow in how to communicate with them on a level they will meet you in.
✓ You want to feel more equipped to help your kids navigate their constantly changing and challenging world.
✓ You feel alone, scared, burdened, or overwhelmed in parenting your kids through the challenges they face around these topics.
✓ You fear losing connection with your child because of one or more of these topics.
What you can expect to receive…
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You will leave the group feeling supported, contained, and seen in your parenting. You will have the opportunity to develop a greater support network with other caregivers in the group.
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You will learn practical communication skills for engaging your kids on these topics, specifically, as well as generally in your day to day.
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Through new language formation and exploration, you will form new ways to attune to your children and see life through their lens, creating deeper and long-lasting connections.
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You will learn how to set and hold firm and healthy boundaries for your kids that foster deeper relationship.
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You will learn how to hold tension with polarizing topics for the sake of creating healthy dialogue and discourse in an increasingly divided world.
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You will gain a greater understanding and awareness of current challenges facing your kids today.
A Typical Group:
In each session (not including the first and last sessions), you’ll receive about 30 minutes of teaching on the hot topic and about 60 minutes of processing and guided exploration into how this is impacting you and your family.
Hot Topics Include:
Social Media (video games, TikTok, Snapchat, Instagram, Facebook, Meme app, Be Real, etc.)
Depression/ Anxiety (self harm, suicidal ideation, isolation, social anxiety, school shootings, etc.)
Drug/ Alcohol Abuse (statistics, addiction, dissociating/numbing, etc.)
Identity (sexual identity and gender identity, etc.)
Sex and Relationships (talking about sex, pornography, dating, privacy, sexual identity, etc.)
Faith (I am not “religious” like my parents, exploring the why, etc.)
Meet your facilitators
CJ and Lindsey Rithner have been married for seven years and have two kids together. CJ is a Licensed Professional Counselor that specializes in working with adolescents and their families and Lindsey is a trauma-informed care provider.
As houseparents to teenage girls at an alternative high school, every day for 3.5 years they navigated the hot topics teens face on a daily basis. The girls came from very hard circumstances, and CJ and Lindsey were able to see first hand what they believe so strongly: healing comes through vulnerably entering another person’s story.
This experience deeply informed their understanding of trauma and abuse, teenage issues, severe mental health issues, substance use, addiction, attachment, case management, developmental disabilities, etc. Trained in TBRI (Trust Based Relational Intervention) and foster-adoptive care, CJ and Lindsey are passionate about equipping parents with tools and language around the issues teens and adolescents face today.
With a curious and inviting spirit, they seek to help parents build their relationships with their kids through open conversation, intentionality, and play.
Parent Group
Please apply to b notified of next group dates.
*Limited to 6 family units (single parent, couples, etc.) Need 4 family units to run
Please complete the application form. We will be in touch with you to answer any questions you have, and to make sure this group is a good fit for your needs.
Thank you!