Chest tight, translating your own “normal.”
A child grows through recognisable stages. The relationships holding them, parents, co-parents, grandparents, aunties, the whole kinship network, move through their own, shaped by the specific cultural inheritance each family carries.
Becoming maps the individual child. But the relationships around that child, parents, co-parents, extended kin, move through their own arc, shaped by the specific cultural inheritance each family carries.
It already exists in practice as Hold the Roots, Change the Route, our parenting program. Each stage below names the session it corresponds to, and the relational patterns that tend to show up there, real and specific, but never assumed of any one family based on where they're from.
The research behind treating multiple caregivers as genuine attachment figures is laid out in full at An Inclusive View of Attachment.
Hold the Roots, Change the Route is where this family track lives in full detail, seven sessions, each already mapped to a stage above.
"Becoming, as built, is really the individual's map. Hold the Roots, Change the Route is already the family's map. It just hadn't been named as running on the same spine."
Anoshe Therapies works on Wadawurrung and Dja Dja Wurrung Country, and on the lands of the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung and Boonwurrung peoples of the Kulin Nation. We deliver online across many other Countries, and we acknowledge the Traditional Owners of each of them.
We pay respect to Elders past and present, and to the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who continue to hold knowledge about family, kinship and belonging that long predates anything we practise.
Sovereignty was never ceded. This always was, and always will be, Aboriginal land.
Everything on this site is built on our published model. Read the full framework here.