Too exhausted and overwhelmed to show up as the parent you want to be?

This Workshop Will Help You Reimagine & Revitalize Your Parenting

Build Community, Release Generational Patterns, and Call in a Juicy New Vision of Parenthood

Your Childhood is Sneaking Into Your Parenting Style

Heart pounding, you yell “Just STOP it!” to your screaming child. Turning away to gulp in some shaky breaths, you think, “Damn, I sound just like my mom.” Guilt and shame wash over you as your kiddo’s screaming gets louder.

Before you became a parent, you had visions of how calm, loving, and centered you would be. “I’ll do it differently than how I was raised,” you thought.

And on most days, you do. But sometimes everything is just. Too. Much.

You wish you had the space and energy to get more intentional about how you show up as a parent. 

You long for support from other parents who get it, and who won’t judge you for your struggles.

You want to shift these generational patterns so that your kiddo doesn’t inherit your trauma, and so you can feel more playful, joyful, and calm as a parent.

We’re Not Meant to Do This Alone

Too often in today’s social context we’re left isolated in single-family units doing the job that entire communities are meant to share.

No wonder loneliness, guilt, confusion, and rage course through our bodies! 

Here’s the thing, though: we actually don’t have to do this alone.

Studies show that community support can radically shift people’s experience of parenting, including:

Boosting confidence in your parenting abilities

Reducing stress, anxiety, and depression

Reducing feelings of isolation

Introducing…

Intergenerational Healing: Raising Littles and Reimagining Legacies

A Two-Part Workshop for Mamas and Birthing Parents

September 11 & 25 / Oakland, CA / 5:30 - 8:00 pm

Join Katherine Mancera, AMFT and Natalíe Ortega, ASW – two fierce healing professionals and mamas – for a two-part workshop supporting birthing parents in intergenerational healing.

The workshops combine reflection, embodied practices, and community support so you can release the generational patterns that are holding you back, harness the strengths of your ancestors, and create a new, juicy vision for the parent you want to be.

Hi, We’re Natalíe and Katherine!

We’re two mamas who have been there…

After our first kiddos were born, we were both struggling. Traumatic birth experiences, sleep deprivation, and distant families made for a potent cocktail of overwhelm and distress. 

Luckily for us, we met in a postpartum support group. Our crew of frazzled, stained-sweatpant-wearing, awestruck mamas cried, raged, laughed, and — most importantly — supported each other through the beautiful and insane months of postpartum.

And we continue supporting each other as our kiddos grow up and we navigate the changing world we live in.

We are both more connected, supported, and joyful because of that experience.

We believe that community support is essential for not just surviving, but thriving, as a parent. 

That’s what inspired us to create this community workshop for birthing parents.

Together, we hope to create a space of cultivation and transformation, holding space for the hard parts of this experience while inviting in more joy, rest, and laughter. 

Natalíe Ortega is a mama, queer, cisgender, Latinx, sober, radical, and spiritual. She is a politicized somatic practitioner, first generation, raised in New York and rooted in Oakland. Natalíe is committed to racial justice, young folks, trauma healing, and all things woo. Natalíe offers somatics as an embodied path towards healing and transformation. Folks learn somatic practices that support connection to self, others, spirit and land as well as increases a sense of safety, dignity and belonging.

Natalíe Ortega, ASW 114276
Supervised by Jennifer Ianniello, LMFT 48321

Katherine Mancera is a Latina psychotherapist with 6+ years of experience supporting anxious perfectionists, perinatal folks, and couples. Katherine helps her clients cultivate peace of mind and radical self-love through therapy that blends wildly soulful explorations with a decolonizing framework and practical strategies to cope with the day-to-day. Katherine is a mama to two small, silly humans who have broken her heart way open.

Katherine Mancera, AMFT #122960
Supervised by Gieve Patel, LMFT #47196

What You Get In The Workshops

 

  • So you can harness the power of politicized somatics and therapeutic healing to reimagine new ways of parenting that are more aligned with your values.

  • (Both the challenges and the strengths) so you can gain awareness of what you want to leave behind and what you want to pass on to the next generation.

  • And connect you to who and what you care about, so you can be choiceful in the way you are in relationship with yourself and others and in the way you move towards your longings.

  • So you can let go of your isolation, guilt, and shame and collectively ignite your radical, loving visions for the future.

  • Giving you the guidance you need to continue your growth beyond the workshop.

  • And strategies for regrounding when you’re activated, so that you have practical tools to shift your experience.

 

Let’s Face It:

This Way of Parenting is Costing You

Shaky tears flow after you’ve reacted to your child in a way that did not feel good…

Rage, blame, and resentment at your parenting partner/s churns in your stomach and feel impossible to communicate… 

Bone-deep exhaustion at the end of another long day when you are just done…

You know you need support, but it feels impossible to get it. 

Therapy sounds lovely but it just doesn’t feel possible to set aside all the money and time to make it happen. 

The parenting books pile up on your shelf, and – even if you do manage to crack one open – it just makes you feel inadequate that you’re not doing it “the right” way. 

Your friends are great, but they’re overwhelmed with their own lives and sometimes their advice feels reductive or judg-y. 

Let us support you, and your tender heart, in community. 

You’re holding so much as a parent. For once, let someone else hold space for you. 

We already know one thing: you have a unique and beautiful way of parenting.

Let’s create space for you to release what’s not working so that your strengths can blossom.

The Deets

We want this community support to be accessible for the mamas and birthing parents who want it.

That’s why we’re charging $375 for both workshops (and throwing in a bonus workbook too!). 

Let your easeful parenting era begin!

I’m In! What’s Next?

Once you register, you’re all set! There’s nothing to prepare for the workshop. Just bring yourself and something to eat if you think you’ll get peckish. 

We’ll send you a reminder before the event including the location, instructions for getting in the building, Covid procedures, etc.

Questions? Read our FAQs below. If you don’t see your question answered, please reach out to katherinemanceratherapy@gmail.com.

FAQs

  • Yes! Offering a sliding scale comes from a desire to create multiple access points for the wild and big hearts called to learn with us. If you'd like a sliding scale spot, please email natalielorraineortega@gmail.com. Here's some guidance:

    • $375 is the top of the sliding scale and the actual cost of the workshops. 

    • $250 is the middle of the scale and is for those who are able to meet basic needs but have little-to-no expendable income.

    • $125 is the bottom of the scale and is for those for whom paying the full fee would be a significant hardship.

  • Please do! We know this workshop is smack dab in the middle of most dinner times, so we’ll set aside some time for you to eat.

  • We’re holding the event at a yoga studio, so there will be plenty of yoga mats, bolsters, blankets, and blocks to make yourself comfy. We’ll also bring several camping chairs for those who need or prefer to sit up off the ground. Feel free to bring your own cozy seating arrangements if you’d like!

  • The workshop space is on the second floor of the building, and there are elevators. 

  • We ask that all attendees take a Covid test the day of, and stay home if you test positive. We will keep the windows open at the event space. Masking is optional; anyone who exhibits cold symptoms such as coughing or sneezing is strongly encouraged to mask. We will have several extra tests and N-95 masks at the event. 

  • Cancellations happen. If you cancel at least one full week before the event, you will get a full refund. Any cancellations with less notice than one full week before the event will not receive a refund. However, we are happy to transfer the cost of your tickets to our next workshops.

  • No. We want this space to be all about you and your needs and desires. Please arrange childcare so that you can set aside your caretaking of others to take care of yourself for a few hours.

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