TOGETHER AGAIN
The Program
Together Again is an extension of the Acorn program and a bridge into open access playgroups. Together Again groups are designed to offer mothers and children who have completed their Acorn journey the opportunity to re-group with participants with a shared experience of attending Acorn and of the impact of a mental health struggle on mother-child relationships.
Together Again emphasises dance and Dance Play, understanding dance to be a pre-verbal language for young children and a metaphor for the mother-child relationship itself.
The Program
The aim of the program is to support the mother-child ‘dance’ by:
- Highlighting the children’s agency and creative capacity
- Supporting the mothers to be playfully and emotionally available to their children
- Encouraging non-verbal, creative choice-making from both mothers and children
- Expanding and strengthening social and community supports for participants through facilitated conversation and shared activity.
‘Together again’ refers to the re-convening of Acorn families, but also to the power of dance and movement to restore play, joy and connection to relationships interrupted or compromised by the mother’s mental health struggle.
The Program
Together Again is an extension of the Acorn program and a bridge into open access playgroups. Together Again groups are designed to offer mothers and children who have completed their Acorn journey the opportunity to re-group with participants with a shared experience of attending Acorn and of the impact of a mental health struggle on mother-child relationships.
Together Again emphasises dance and Dance Play, understanding dance to be a pre-verbal language for young children and a metaphor for the mother-child relationship itself.
The Program
The aim of the program is to support the mother-child ‘dance’ by:
- Highlighting the children’s agency and creative capacity
- Supporting the mothers to be playfully and emotionally available to their children
- Encouraging non-verbal, creative choice-making from both mothers and children
- Expanding and strengthening social and community supports for participants through facilitated conversation and shared activity.
‘Together again’ refers to the re-convening of Acorn families, but also to the power of dance and movement to restore play, joy and connection to relationships interrupted or compromised by the mother’s mental health struggle.
