The Next Wave: The Motherhood Studies Certification - Self Study

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

A Reflection Activity

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

A Reflection Activity

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

A Reflection Activity

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August 4th 8pm 2025

September 8th 2025 10am

October 6th 8pm 2025

November 3rd 10am 2025

December 8th 8pm 2025

January 19th 10am 2026

February 9th 8pm 2026

March 2nd 10am 2026

April 13th 8pm 2026

May 11th 10am 2026

Links to call replays

Listen to course trainings via podcast

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

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

Matrescence Masterclass

Matrescence and Maternal Wellbeing ANU Seminar

Essential MotherCare Knowledge Replay

Curriculum Download

Reading downloads

Instructions for Certifying

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Final Question, Feedback & Practitioner Directory