Birth Order: Understanding belonging and connection, rivalry and resentment in families

17 October 2024, 9:00am - 12:00pm AEDT

Belonging and connection are influenced by birth order. Looking back at the beginnings of a family’s formation, and early patterns between siblings and with parents and caregivers can create healthy re-parenting opportunities.

This workshop will help counsellors and allied practitioners identify the effect of birth order on relational patterns in the children and parents they work with, as well as with the adult clients who struggle with family of origin issues. This knowledge can enhance the usual intake genogram drawing, and can be a catalyst for immediate change, and making sense of attachment needs.

The research of Alfred Adler and contemporary psychotherapists provides the theoretical foundation of the workshop around how we make sense of birth order in family dynamics, parenting, sibling rivalry and personality.

Presenter:

Kim Biillington is a registered supervisor and counsellor and is registered as a clinical supervisor with PACFA and ACA. She holds a Masters in Counselling, Masters in Narrative Therapy and Community Work, Bachelors in Education. Kim is passionate about training and supervision and is the author of two books for practitioners: A Counsellor’s Companion, for those working with children, and Counselling Conversations for those working with adult clients.

Committed to passing forward her ever-evolving counselling skills and knowledge, Kim aims to support and inspire counselling practitioners to develop their own unique creative skills and explore new ways to connect with their clients to support healing and identity growth.

As a dynamic course facilitator, Kim has been running training programs including, Playful Narrative Therapy since 2013 for Sydney Centre for Creative Change. She has been facilitating groups and workshops for over 25 years.

This course counts towards 3 hours of category A CPD.

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