Course Overview:Belonging and connection are influenced by birth order. Looking back at the very beginnings of the family’s formation, and early patterns between siblings and with parents and caregivers can create healthy re-parenting opportunities.This workshop will help counsellors and allied practitioners identify the effect of birth order on relational patterns in the children and parents they work with, as well as with the adult clients who struggle with family of origin issues.This knowledge can enhance the usual genogram drawing at intake, and can be a catalyst for immediate change, and making sense of attachment needs.The research of Alfred Adler and contemporary psychotherapists provides the theoretical foundation of the workshop around how we make sense of birth order, and its implications in family dynamics, parenting patterns, sibling rivalry and personality tendencies. (if you could source any current or even not so current research studies around this – all the better! This can also inform patterns in transference and countertransference. “Does birth order explain everything?No, but it has always proved to be a helpful toolwhen clients understand it and apply it to their lives.”Kevin Leman, Psychologist and author    This will be a fully interactive and dynamic learning process where participants will be sharing deindentified stories from their cases and own family experiences, and listening and supporting others to find ways to understand this birth order phenomena and explore the impact of sibling birth order in their client work.