Family Access - Fighting
For
Children’s Rights 

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"Transgenerational Narratives in Parental Alienation: Understanding Language and Metaphors with Alienated Children"

On Sunday, August 4, 2019 at 8 PM EDT, Karen Woodall will be our guest speaker for our international seminar call. 
This call will examine trans-generational elements of parental alienation and the ways in which a new, adapted form of therapy, can provide much needed recovery for families affected by parental alienation.

Drawing upon her clinical work with families, Karen will provide case examples and unpack the meaning of children’s rejection in the post separation landscape and the way in which this is often a response to a trauma which has lain hidden in the family until the crisis of family separation awakens it.

Providing useful tools for immediate use with alienated children, Karen will examine the language and metaphors used by the alienated child to enable greater understanding and bring immediate potential for intervention.

Using the counter intuitive approach which is recognized as necessary in these cases, Karen will demonstrate the ways in which parents and practitioners can meet alienated children in the space that they inhabit in ways that benefit them most.


Listeners will learn

• The path to understanding the trans-generational narratives in parental alienation
• The language of the alienated child
• The metaphors which are used repeatedly by alienated children and their meaning
• Ways of communicating with an alienated child
• The division of the alienated child into different ‘parts’ of the self
• How to find the authentic part of the child in conversation
• How to understand the story of your child’s descent into alienation
• The keys to understanding your own role in the alienation, how you were used and your vulnerabilities utilized and how to change that dynamic for the better.

Karen is committed to experiential learning which creates dynamic change through education, reflection and sharing of new perspectives. This is a call which will deepen your self awareness, increase your understanding of your child and the ways in which you can effect change over the short, mid and longer term. If you want to become the transitional character in your child’s family narrative and grow in confidence so that you can change the future for your child, you will want to be on this call.

Karen Woodall is a psychotherapist with over twenty years experience in working with parents and children affected by family separation. She is also an author and blogger and regularly writes for the Huffington Post on issues that affect the family.

She is a registered Ph.D candidate examining the therapeutic needs of adults alienated as a children. She is the co-author of Understanding Parental Alienation: Learning to Cope, Helping to Heal (Charles C Thomas 2017) and The Guide for Separated Parents (Piatkus 2007) and with her colleague and husband, Nick Woodall.

Karen is currently developing a new form of therapy for families affected by alienation which uses adapted models of trans-generational and psycho-genealogy to meet the needs of this special population.

Karen is an internationally recognized expert in reunification work and has reunited 45 very severely alienated children aged between 7 and 16 using a model adapted from international research and her own practice. Karen also supervises reunification work around the world with trainees who work with the Family Separation Clinic.

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These international seminar calls are complimentary and are of no charge to any of us. You have the option to call in on our conference line, audio skype or by downloading our desk top app. We are averaging over 1,000 callers to our calls with the largest being 1,102. Each caller may submit a question to Karen that is in relation to the subject of this call. Please make the questions no more than 2-3 sentences total. Deadline to submit your question is Tuesday, July 30th. Deadline to register for this call is Sunday, August 4th at 5 PM EDT. These must be firm deadlines!!! To submit your question and / or register for the call, please email familyaccessinnc@aol.com.

www.familyaccessfightingforchildrensrights.org/parental--grandparent-alienation--equal-shared-parenting-symposium.html 

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MISSION  STATEMENT

Our main concern is the children and grandchildren and then the complete family.  Sadly the children and grandchildren who are alienated from family are being treated as pawns and property. They are neither. They are human beings.They should not be regarded as such by their parents or any other family member.  We contend that it should be illegal to use children as pawns or instruments of spiteful behavior in an effort to prevent them from interaction with ALL other family members.  Our purpose and goal is to ensure the preservation of extended, traditional family relationships. In the process of this hell on earth called alienation, we need all the knowledge and support we can get to help our children and grandchildren and then ourselves. To contact us, please email familyaccessinnc@aol.com.
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GOALS

• We will work in bringing awareness to people on the subject of alienation and the effects it has on both the children, grandchildren and their families. Alienation is abuse! We will have many of our top experts on alienation in the world sharing information on their own pages here to help you learn more on alienation and other topics regarding alienation. We are also expanding our web site with much more information including locations of support groups in your area, professionals in your area who do have knowledge of alienation as well as blogs by experts and testimonies from alienated family members.
• To offer international seminar calls with guest speakers who have expertise in the subject matter for that call in giving support and knowledge to alienated family members and professionals who work in the field of alienation. Parental alienation and grandparent alienation and all other family members is hell on earth as too it is for the children and grandchildren dealing with this. These calls are a tremendous help to those going through this and those who work with those who are. Please join us.

HISTORY

In April 2012, Family Access- Fighting for Children's Rights was founded by Elaine Cobb who is also president. Elaine herself is alienated from her granddaughter Dare who she has never seen and is now 8 years old and her adult son Bryan who she has not seen since December 26, 2010. Her granddaughter Dare is alienated from her whole side of her daddy's family. This is why she determined to try in helping make a difference in this abuse being caused to the children, grandchildren and family members. In the beginning, her goal was to help those in the state of North Carolina where the founder  and president, Elaine Cobb resides. In just a short time, Elaine realized that alienation was a huge epidemic which was indeed all over our world. She realized at that time she wanted to do all that she could to help those suffering through this hell on earth. She started the international seminar calls nationwide. In less than a year, she took the calls on an international level. Now Family Access- Fighting for Children's Rights helps in supporting 33 countries in educating as many alienated family members and professionals in regards to alienation through our international seminar calls. 

We also know one of the biggest ways to defeat alienation is to bring more awareness to those who know nothing or very little about alienation. This website was designed with that in mind as well as giving information to alienated family members to help them know all they can to get through this and one day hopefully be able to see their alienated loved ones. It is also here to help professionals i.e.., attorneys, mental health professionals, judges, legislators, school officials, researchers, writers, child advocates, etc. There is much to learn and we hope to give all as much as we can to help.

Laws must be changed as well to protect the rights of these alienated children and grandchildren to see ALL their family members. Family Access- Fighting for Children's Rights has worked tirelessly for equal shared parenting laws as well as grandparents' rights. We will continue in this fight for all the children and grandchildren in our world. Alienation is abuse!!! 

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