The Motherhood Studies Certification 2026

1: Welcome to Module 1 - Why This Work Matters & What We’re Disrupting

2: The Fish Tank Model - Your Essential Foundation

3: The Perfect Mother Myth (& Intensive Mothering Ideology)

4: The Perfect Child Myth - Breaking the Second Chain

5: The Care Career Conundrum

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A Reflection Activity

1: Motherhood Isn’t Just Personal - Understand The Social System of Motherhood

2: Why this Work Matters - The Impacts on Mothers

3: The Five Forms of Invisible Labour in Mothering

A Reflection Activity

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1: The Good Mother Bad Mother Binary

2: Mothers on the Margins: Resistance, Inequality, and the Rewriting of Motherhood

3: The Maternal Panopticon - The Invisible System that Keeps Mothers in Line

4: The Social Conditioning Pyramid - How Society's Rules 'Get in Our Heads'

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1: The Anger-Guilt Trap - Breaking the Cycle

2: Alchemising Anger in Motherhood

3: The Guilt Guard Framework - Decode, Discern, and Dismantle/Direct

4: Embracing the 'And' - The Power of Maternal Ambivalence

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Experiential Activities to Try

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1: How Society Shapes Maternal Relationships

2: The Social Conditioning Pyramid for Dads

3: The 'Fish Tank' for Dads

4: What Now? Awareness, Action, and the Power of the Everyday

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Personal Community Mapping Activity

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1: Matrescence Meets Sociology: Rethinking Identity Through a Social Lens

2: Disrupting the 'Divide' - What the Stay-at-Home vs Working Mum Binary Hides

3: The Maternal Self in Motion - A Framework for Identity

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1: Beyond the Myth - Practising New Paradigms of Mothering

2: Matricentric Feminism: A Framework for Change and a Practice for Life and Work

3: Reclaiming Power, Presence, and Joy in Motherhood

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Reflective Practices/Activities

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1. From Learning to Living: Reflective Practice and Integration

2: Sharing with Integrity: Attribution, Boundaries, and Practitioner Power

3. Reframing Imposter Syndrome: The Integrity in Self-Doubt

4. You Are Part of the Next Wave of Motherhood Visionaries

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6 May 10am AEST (intro call)

6 May 5pm AEST (intro call)

13 May 10am AEST

20 May 5pm AEST

27 May 10am AEST

3 June 5pm AEST

17 June 10am AEST

24 June 5pm AEST

1 July 10am AEST

22 July 10am AEST

22nd July 5pm AEST

Links to call replays

Listen to course trainings via podcast

The Missing Piece in Mother-Care Work: An Introduction to Motherhood Studies and the Sociological Lens

Matrescence: Maternal Wellbeing and the Transition to Motherhood - Australian National University

Matrescence Masterclass

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Reading downloads

Instructions for Certifying

Take The Quiz

Final Question, Feedback & Practitioner Directory