Motherhood Studies Practitioner Certification 2027

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

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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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5 May 10am AEST (intro call)

5 May 5pm AEST (intro call)

12 May 10am AEST

19 May 5pm AEST

26 May 10am AEST

2 June 5pm AEST

16 June 10am AEST

23 June 5pm AEST

30 June 10am AEST

21 July 10am AEST (Integration Call)

21 July 5pm AEST (Integration Call)

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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Instructions for Certifying

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Final Question, Feedback & Practitioner Directory