This is an 8-week reflective course for families to participate in, exploring together as a group habitual patterns of reacting to parenting stress. The course will help support overall mental wellbeing, helping to find ways to promote a more positive outlook on life, by observing ways that you can pay more attention to the present moment; understand yourself better; manage or reduce family stress. 
 
Participants will finish the course with an understanding of psychological and physical reactions to stress and identify their own unique ways of reacting to parenting stress and other negative thought patterns particularly around 'aversion', paying particular attention to: noticing thought, feeling and bodily reactions to stressful events.
 
As well as its impact on specific problems, mindfulness has been shown to be capable of having effects on underlying emotional and social skills. These include the ability to feel in control, to make meaningful relationships, to accept experience without denying the facts, to manage difficult feelings, and to be calm, resilient, compassionate and empathic to self and the people around them.