May  2018  AAMFT  Luncheon  Topic  

Post-Childhood Nurturing 

and

The Role of the 

Generations Dialogue Workshop

PRESENTERS

               M. Dorsey Cartwright,                          Wendy Byrd,

                  M.Ed., LPC, LMFT, CCMHC                   MA, LPC-S, LMFT-S

M. Dorsey Cartwright, M.Ed., LPC, LMFT, CCMHC

Dorsey is a certified Imago Relationship therapist, a Voice Dialogue trainer, and a past-president of the Austin Association of Marriage and Family Therapy. A deep desire to heal lingering wounds with her own adult sons guided her to the Generations Dialogue Workshop, which provided a safe, empowering structure for their healing and growth. Now certified by Dr.’s Roland and Sabine Bösel, Imago workshop presenters, and creators of the Generations Dialogue Workshop, she has been providing this healing opportunity to other parents and adult sons and daughters in a number of countries - most recently New Zealand. “I love watching the joy and liberation they experience as they go through this process together.” Dorsey    www.MDorseyCartwright.com

Wendy Byrd, MA, LPC-S, LMFT-S 

Wendy is an Imago Certified relationship therapist with a private practice in Austin, TX and is a facilitator of the Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) technique at the Institute for Professional and Creative Development. She currently holds a Director position on the EMDR International Association board.  Wendy trains therapists to use Imago processes and EMDR tools to help their clients. After learning about the Generations Dialogue workshops she realized that many of her own clients would benefit from this work and began the process to become a presenter.  As part of her training she recently had the opportunity to attend the workshop with her mother.  “I am now even more excited to have this resource to share with my clients and others.” Wendy   www.wendybyrd.com

Presentation summary

Post-Childhood Nurturing & the Role of the Generations Dialogue Workshop

We will explore Post-Childhood Nurturing as what may well be the final phase of parenting, and one that is often overlooked. Participants will experience the possibility of healing attachment wounds between parents and adult children and how it might apply to their own relationships, as well as their clients, and how the Generations Dialogue Workshop supports this healing and the creation of conscious adult-to-adult relationships.

As one adult son said, “Now when I interact with my mother, I no longer have the shadows of childhood weighing on my shoulders. I experience us more as two growing individuals in an evolving relationship.” W.K.

Learning objectives

At the conclusion of this presentation, participants will be able to:

1. Define and describe Post-Childhood Nurturing.

2. Explain the healing benefits of the dialogue process between parents and their adult children. 

3.  Differentiate between a conscious adult-to-adult relationship and an unconscious symbiotic parent/child relationship between parents and adult children.

4. Evaluate when the Generations Dialogue workshop is an appropriate resource for the individuals, couples, and families they work with

This presentation is designed to be useful for all levels of training and experience.