The accompanying course for pregnancies following perinatal bereavement that reduces stress and promotes responsive parenting for moms and dads-we are waiting for you!
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how hard your heart beats meWislawa Szymborska
The Rainbow Project is a permanent project of the CiaoLapo Association aimed at women and couples who are again expecting after one or more events of perinatal loss. The goal of the project is to promote the health and well-being of parents and the unborn child, through correct information on psychological well-being in the first thousand days and sharing the most useful and simple tools for taking care of oneself and one’s baby after perinatal bereavement: we help couples learn how to manage stress during pregnancy and in the first thousand days, through supportive meetings and practical workshops. The heart of the Rainbow Project is the course on accompanying pregnancy and parenting after perinatal bereavement: the course is designed to share the experience of waiting after a bereavement, learn how to manage anxiety, fear and other complex emotions, and be able to enjoy this new parenting to the fullest. The course’s imprint is highly practical: parents, through psychoeducation meetings, sharing of their experiences, and exercises, learn new tools for managing the stress and difficult emotions often present in pregnancy and parenting after loss. Psychoeducation, mindfulness and picture book bibliotherapy are the main tools we will use in this course. The simple weekly exercises, carried out between meetings, will accompany us on our journey and remain in our toolbox to be used later on. Since 2022 we have already conducted seven editions of the course and accompanied 50 couples and their boys and girls.
“The course is designed to deal together with the fears and anxieties of waiting after a bereavement and to find together useful strategies and resources to improve the well-being of both the couple and the incoming baby/children.My husband and I are glad we participated; many things we learned in the course are useful even now, that our Elisa is two years old.”
The course consists of theoretical parts, sharing parts and practice parts, which week after week will allow us to improve our emotional skills with respect to managing rainbow pregnancy: in particular, at the course we will learn how to use some techniques for stress management and we will work on responsive parenting a topic that is very close to our hearts, as parents who have gone through it, as practitioners and also as trainers. Responsive parenting and responsive care are very important for the health and well-being of families: they become very important after one or more previous losses, when the need for support is much higher because managing attendance and absence is learned and this learning requires special and prolonged care.
Practical information
The course takes place online on our moodle platform: ciaolapo.moodlecloud.com Each group will have its own confidential forum, to compare between meetings on mindfulness practices, exercises, albums and share different experiences and moods. Weekly meetings take place on zoom. There are 11 meetings of two hours each:
- 1 meeting to introduce the project and the tools we will use
- 7 meetings weekly during pregnancy
- 2 meetings after delivery, every 3 weeks
- 1 concluding meeting.
Who will accompany us in this course?
Our psychotherapists who are experts in perinatal psychology, perinatal grief, mindfulness and the first thousand days.
New groups start every 10 to 12 weeks.
Who can participate in the course?
Any woman or couple from the 20th week of pregnancy after a perinatal bereavement experience, subject to a mandatory cognitive interview.
The course activates with a minimum of 6 students enrolled.
How to enroll
The course is reserved for CiaoLapo members and associates in good standing.
There is a contribution of 150 euros per household (usually the course is attended by women, more rarely by couples: however, the participation of partners is strongly recommended, as it is a course for stress management and parenting after a bereavement) CiaoLapo APSETS, at Banca Etica, Florence branch IBAN: IT12D05018028000011183837 reason for payment: rainbow course The contribution covers the costs of attending the course, the course materials, the weekly exercise book in pdf, and the rainbow kit, which includes two self-help books for parents, and two books for infants.
For information: arcobaleno@ciaolapo.it
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Note: The course is a psychological support course and is not a substitute for obstetrical cut birth accompaniment courses and obstetrical-gynecological specialist medical examinations, or any drug therapies.
