Dr. Christian Kloß
Coaching / Workshops / Talks
Understanding COPMI and yourself
Children Of Parents with a Mental Illness, COPMI, are growing up under very special circumstances.
COPMI and specialists need to understand the conditions as well as the burden and needs alike that derive from these circumstances.
I will deliver an authentic insight to these issues. You will gain a deeper understanding of COPMI therefore.
NEWS
Peaceful parenting requires a complex skillset many of us were never taught. This can be specifically challenging if you are a child of parents with a mental illness – a #COPMI.
It involves awareness of our own feelings, our own bodies.
It requires having a sense of our basic needs being met, which connects to self-care, having a sense of our own worth to choose self-care, routine skills, mind management skills, positive and effective communication skills.
It requires parenting skills like understanding our children’s developmental needs and desires and how to meet them, and firm but kind boundary skills.
It requires health skills so your body and brain can operate the way they were designed.
You don’t have to be stuck in your anger patterns.
Starting March 14, I will be interviewed as part of an incredible free interview series that will guide you through the various root causes of patterns of anger, irratibility, and losing your temper.
Hear from trauma experts, anger experts, communications skills experts, health experts, psychologists, and more – all of whom have worked powerfully through their own anger challenges.
Know that if you enter in, listen, and try out what you learn, you WILL be different when you get to the other side.
Will you join us?
Click here. (This event is in English)
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About Chris
Dr. Christian Kloß
Christian Kloß is active in the field of COPMI since 2005 and works as a speaker, coach and author since 2007.
In 2005, he founded the first self-helping group for adult COPMI in southwest Germany in Heidelberg (Rhein-Neckar region).
Christian is a founding member of “Seelenerbe e.V. – Verein für erwachsene Kinder psychisch erkrankter Eltern” in 2014 and was a member of the board until 2020.
He runs the blog Lust for Life, in which he addresses various, sometimes very personal concerns in the context of COPMI.
In the video log Everything but the Kitchen Trauma, he discusses all kinds of questions about traumatization with the US-American psychologist Dr. Ava Pommerenk.
I am providing an authentic insight into the life of a COPMI for the benefit of your personal growth.
Publications
- Kloß, Christian (2017): Als sei nichts – Leben und Trauern als erwachsenes Kind psychisch kranker Eltern. Hamburg: tredition. (in German)
- Kloß, Christian (2012): Unterstützung für Kinder psychisch kranker Eltern: Liebe, Entlastung, Trauer – ein Erfahrungsbericht, in: Ullrich Bauer et al. (Hg.): Prävention für Familien mit psychisch kranken Eltern. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag, S. 13-22. (in German)
