Newborn Dads
Sleep deprivation, role shock, bonding, partnership changes, and becoming responsible for a tiny human overnight.
A 12-week therapist-led mind and body group for fathers and primary male caregivers navigating the stress, identity shifts, anger, overwhelm, and relationship changes that can come with fatherhood.
Fatherhood can stretch every part of you. This group makes room for the parts men are often expected to handle quietly.
You do not have to arrive calm, polished, or certain. The point is to practice.
The Grounded Father is designed to make room for different stages and paths into fatherhood and primary male caregiving.
Sleep deprivation, role shock, bonding, partnership changes, and becoming responsible for a tiny human overnight.
Tantrums, sensory overload, boundary-setting, developmental leaps, and the daily work of staying regulated.
Entering an established family, earning trust, navigating authority, and finding your place without forcing it.
Placement transitions, bonding journeys, uncertainty, and the emotional complexity of building safety and connection.
Stepping into a primary caregiving role while managing responsibility, changing family dynamics, and your own emotions.
This is a therapist-led group built around emotional regulation, nervous-system awareness, body-based practice, reflection, and the real situations dads face at home.
Learn to notice fight, flight, and shutdown patterns before they automatically turn into yelling, escaping, scrolling, or disconnection.
Practice grounding and body-based tools that can help you create more space between activation and action.
Build capacity to stay present with a child or partner’s distress without needing to immediately solve, control, or shut it down.
Put language to what is happening underneath anger and exhaustion — including fear, grief, shame, pressure, and loneliness.
The curriculum moves from understanding your stress response to building connection, emotional resilience, self-trust, and a more sustainable way of showing up.
Find your footing, understand fight/flight/shutdown, and learn what activation feels like in your own body.
Weeks 1–2Explore body-based regulation practices and the foundations of authenticity, acceptance, regulation, and self-trust.
Weeks 3–4Practice staying grounded around other people’s big feelings and identifying what exists underneath “I’m just tired.”
Weeks 5–6Understand “dad rage,” anxiety, performance pressure, helplessness, and the responsibility of trying to protect everyone.
Weeks 7–8Make room for missing your old life, feeling imperfect, and questioning whether you are doing enough — without letting shame run the show.
Weeks 9–10Reconnect with moments of joy, build a sustainable toolkit, and clarify the kind of father or caregiver you want to keep becoming.
Weeks 11–12This is not twelve weeks of sitting around being told how you should parent. Each session combines learning, body awareness, practice, reflection, and conversation.
You are never required to perform vulnerability. Participation is supported at your own pace.
Each cycle is facilitated by a qualified Kula clinician. The facilitator guides the structure of the group, supports emotional safety, introduces the week’s skills and concepts, and helps participants connect the work to everyday fatherhood.
You do not need to know exactly what you need before joining. These are some of the questions dads and caregivers may have before registering.
Fatherhood can be exhausting, meaningful, frustrating, funny, lonely, and deeply important — sometimes in the same hour. The Grounded Father gives you a place to work with all of it.
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