Support Groups
All Support Groups are Virtual for your Convenience! Accessible internationally! MDR Facilitators have traveled the same journey, and bring you professional skills to help you navigate yours.
ENROLLING NOW!
MDR’s new Targeted Parent Support Groups are specially designed for those who are recently alienated and seeking clarity, and for those who have been struggling with the change due to child absence, court litigation, conflict with divorce.
SEASONAL TARGETED PARENT SUPPORT GROUPS!
Winter, Spring, & Summer Sessions
Wednesdays, 7:30PM EST
TASTING LIFE AGAIN!
This six-week INTERACTIVE, virtual program is designed for those searching for self-esteem, better health, lots of fun, through food!
WHY SUPPORT GROUPS?
Support Groups serve as a forum for mutual acceptance, understanding and self-discovery with peers. Participants are encouraged to share their experience, strength and hope. You don’t have to be alone anymore. You never were. Many have suffered in silence for too long.
We are here to listen to what keeps you up at night and provide support. The group is here to provide a safe, non-judgmental environment, where everyone will be able to listen to your problems and most importantly, relate to them.
Our mission is to offer you information that can help you reaffirm your identity and gain more confidence to move forward with clarity.
For family professionals, you will find like minded people facing challenges that will bring you resilience and focus for more effective work in behalf of your clients.
We look forward to welcoming you to our community.
ANOTHER OPTION: DIVORCE AND LIFE COACHING
Coaching is an interesting opportunity to work with a seasoned professional that will work with you to help you find clarity and goals.
Unlike therapy, coaching provides no diagnosis, no treatment. It is a partnership to learn and grow.
A seasoned coach will help you to navigate through your understanding and journey of Parental Alienation, family change, divorce survival, co-parenting skills, and rebuilding new love relationships.
Coaches are thoughtful and wise, and will help you stay focused on your priorities, and personal goals. They will give you tools and confidence in developing your own, unique journey.
“Support is the primary tool to assure emotional sustenance, and survival skills in a cruel and complex world.”
Dr. Mark David Roseman
Preserving Family Ties Support Groups
Friends, you may find having a coach with you during your support group journey to be a unique and vital assistance! As you engage your elected support group, journeying through stress, and change, through child custody, parental alienation, divorce from a toxic ex, or want help to envision present and future vocational, avocational goals, you will find having a coach make this journey so much easier for you.
Let MDR help you with an experienced and sensitive Associate who will give you convenience, attention and time at a modest rate. Please accept our offer of coaching services at $70 per hour session instead of our standard $95 per hour rate. At checkout, use the code: SUPPORTCOACH. Click here for more options!
Parental Alienation Support Groups
Targeted Parents
New 2022 Support Group Series
MDR’s TARGETED PARENT SUPPORT GROUP series offers a unique opportunity to venture into the world of understanding Parental Alienation. The MDR Support Group Model uniquely incorporates group facilitation, exercise, readings, and discussion to help you learn how it may manifest in your own children, learn strategies for coping, and be guided by those who have experienced this egregious phenomenon.
Here, you will find context in your unique, personal experience. With our help, you will create paths to seeing opportunities for reunification, and learn strategies best for you to cope with this malady of parental alienation, and of resources to help you process the ‘how and why’ of parental alienation. Past participants have shared that they have enjoyed building com\
munity, and finding hope in this process, this journey as a targeted parent, often made more challenging in the last eighteen months given the pandemic.
WINTER January 10 – March 14, 2023
SPRING April 4 – June 6, 2023
SUMMER June 25 – September 19, 2023
FALL October 10 – December 12, 2023
- 10-Week Sessions on Wednesdays
- $125 per participant + $25 Registration Fee
- 7:30pm EST/6:30 CST/4:30/PST
- Virtual Meetings!
- Join Now! Each group is limited to 10!
“The book will give the reader a historical background of Family Court as well as a direction for the future. It is a must reading for the professional and for the layman facing litigation. The summary of the research is excellent and easy to understand.” Dr. Douglas Darnall, author, Divorce Casualties: Understanding Parental Alienation.
“The family court process does not necessarily mirror the child development process; it is up to each of us to bring new knowledge to the court to improve the likelihood of more equitable child custody decisions. Participating in a support group will give us the encouragement to do this.” Dr. Mark
Moms Group
Emotional support for people who have recently had hearings or are feeling stressed and down about not seeing their kids. Connect with other women with a focus on relieving stress and restoring balance to your life.
ADULTS WHO GREW UP IN A TOXIC FAMILY
Monday @ 7:30PM Central Time
With Ann O’Keeffe Rodgers & Bryan Holtz
$75 for 6-Week Series.
$25 registration fee.
As you maneuver the world of family change, you may unexpectedly and repeatedly recall your own childhood traumas. It may have hit you like a hammer to the face, with different emotions surfacing. Toxic families leave scars that no one sees and many cannot fully understand unless they’ve actually walked the walk.
Your adult relationships may be extensions of the boundaries or lack thereof that you learned in childhood. People-pleasing a problem? Low self-worth? Not loving yourself enough to say no? Afraid of confrontation because you don’t want to upset people, but not respecting yourself enough to voice your opinion? Repeated abusive relationships in adulthood? Struggle with anxiety, depression, social anxiety, OCD?
We offer virtual peer support to adults who will learn to thrive after living through a tumultuous childhood.
Long Timers Family Club
INTEREST SIGN UP
Starting July 20th!
This support group is lead by Dr. Mark Roseman.
$150 for 8 weeks
An additional one-time $25 registration fee is required.
If interested in this Support Group, please contact Mark.
A unique weekly support group for those parents, grandparents and extended family members who have for years lost contact with those children so very meaningful to their lives.
For those with 10 or more years dealing with the absence of their children and grandchildren. Led by Dr. Mark Roseman.
It is an opportunity to reflect, to guide and to share what has given them strength and resilience to move forward with little or no contact with sons, daughters, grandchildren, nieces and nephews for more than 10 years.
Children of Divorce
Starting Soon!
If interested in this Support Group, please contact Mark.
This is an important meeting ground for adolescents and adult children who have discovered they have been brainwashed by one parent towards another, fear reconnection with the targeted or absent parent, and struggle to seek the comfort and validation of peers who can help guide and support this period of reunification and contentment.
Professional Support Groups
Family Professionals Discussion Group NEW!
Meets1st Sunday of the month, 8PM
Membership Fee: $225/year.
$25 for an individual session.
This is a support group led by a Family Law Attorney, who specializes in Parental Alienation. This group is a novel resource and collaboration to help family professionals across disciplines to more effectively improve child custody outcomes for children whose alienated parents fear loss of access and undermining of their right to continue a loving, parent-child relationship with their children.
- Attorneys will learn more the nuanced approach for less hostile litigation, for putting children first.
- Therapists and school counselors will better determine the deleterious effects of mild, moderate and severe alienating behaviors, and learn how and why their clients may suffer from the a misunderstood, often oppressive court process and mysterious courtroom procedures.
- Physicians and clergy will learn of the predictable damage upon their young patients and congregant families and will discover the signs showing that referrals for interventions need be immediate to forestall further toxicity in the parent-child relationship before and subsequent to parents’ separation.
Parent Legal Coaching Group - NEW!
Meets 3rd Sunday of the month, 8PM
Membership Fee: $225/year
$25 for an individual session
This is a support group led by a Family Law Attorney, who specializes in Parental Alienation. It has been started as a resource and collaboration to help alienated parents navigate the Court System, understand how to collect evidence, understand how to interpret statutes, case law, and your rights.
Furthermore, it is also offered as a resource to communicate and share ideas with other parents facing the same problem of being alienated from their children.
