Holding Space & Letting Go

A 5-Week Small Group for Parents Who Are Carrying a Lot 

Some days it feels like you’re walking upstream.

Advocating.

Explaining.

Managing appointments.

Holding everything together.

Often while your own energy is thin. 

If you’re tired, it makes sense.  Walking against a current takes strength.

When Everything Feels Under Strain

When a building is being repaired or reinforced, it uses scaffolding.  Not because it’s failing.  Because support is needed while the work is happening.  For many families of children with significant needs, life feels like that.

Systems are stretched.

Capacity is stretched.

Patience is stretched.

Holding Space & Letting Go is scaffolding.  A small, contained structure around you so you don’t have to carry everything unsupported.  This course won’t remove the river.

It won’t fix the system.

It won’t change your child.

It will help you build more room inside the moment.

More capacity.

More ways to look after yourself in real time.

More choice in how you respond.

Before We Let Go, We Grow Roots

Letting go sounds simple but if you’re already exhausted, letting go can feel like collapse.  So we don’t start there.  We start with roots.  We build:

• awareness without judgement
  
  
• short, realistic ways to steady yourself
  
  
• small “capacity moments” in ordinary days
  
  
• language for what’s happening inside
  
  

Only when there is enough ground beneath you do we begin loosening the old rules and expectations that tighten everything.  This is not about forcing change.  It’s about having enough room, safety and regulation to choose it.

 Growth doesn't begin at the top - it begins  at the bottom.

The 5-Week Arc

Each week builds on the last gently.

Week 1 - Understanding Your Patterns

Noticing what happens when you are under pressure.

No fixing. No analysing. Just awareness.

Week 2 - Building Capacity

Simple, repeatable practices you can use in the kitchen, the car, or before school pick-up.

Not spa days. Real-life tools.

Week 3 - Seeing the Underlying Rules

Gently recognising the expectations and beliefs that add pressure to already hard moments.

Week 4 - Loosening the Grip

Experimenting with small shifts - from safety, not force.

Week 5 - Integration

Keeping what works. Leaving what doesn’t. Strengthening what feels supportive.

What This Is (and Isn’t)

This is:

• A small group (maximum 12 people)
  
• Space to speak, or not speak
  
• Practical support
  
• Permission to show up as you are
  
• 90 minutes a week of structured breathing room
  

This isn’t:

• Therapy
  
• A performance space
  
• A place to be told what you’re doing wrong
  
• Homework-heavy
  
• One more burden
  

You don’t have to fix yourself.

You don’t have to transform your child.

You just need a little more room inside the hard moments.

Feedback From the First Group

“The group was a relief.”

“I can be totally overwhelmed and still feel ok in the moment.”

“No great effort or big changes were needed. I was invited to participate in whatever capacity I could manage.”

That’s the shift.

Not perfection.

Not control.

Capacity.

Practical Details

• 5 x weekly sessions
  
• 90 minutes each
  
• Maximum 12 participants
  
• £99
• Dates  10am, 20th April, 27th April, 11th May, 18th May, final session 6th July 2026
  

Small enough to be heard.

Structured enough to feel contained.

Affordable enough to be accessible.

If you’re walking upstream and you’re tired, this is scaffolding.

You don’t have to decide today but if this feels like the kind of support you need, you’re welcome to join.

Email us if you have any questions on admin@thepdaspace.com