Motherhood often carries invisible emotional labour — the constant balancing of care, responsibility, exhaustion, love, expectation, guilt, tenderness, and self-doubt. In the midst of tending to others, many mothers rarely receive the space to pause and reflect on their own inner worlds with care and honesty.
Good Enough Mothers workshop draws from the psychological idea of the “good enough mother,” introduced by psychoanalyst Donald Winnicott; which suggests that children do not require perfect parenting in order to feel loved, secure, and emotionally held. Rather than striving for impossible ideals of motherhood, the workshop invites participants to explore the value of imperfection, repair, emotional complexity, and humanness within caregiving relationships.
Good Enough Mothers – An Online Reflective Workshop
16th May, 2026 Saturday; 11am to 12:30pm, India time
Facilitated by Ragini Rao and Roshni Bhatia, the session brings together Transactional Analysis and Art Therapy within a reflective and supportive online space.
Through guided conversation, creative exploration, and gentle prompts, participants will have the opportunity to notice emotional patterns, express experiences that may be difficult to articulate verbally, and reconnect with themselves beyond the pressures of “getting motherhood right.”
The workshop is not designed as a parenting lecture or self-improvement session. Instead, it offers mothers a space for pause, reflection, expression, and self-understanding through accessible art-based processes and relational inquiry.
No prior art experience is required. The focus is on process, reflection, and engagement rather than artistic skill.
About the Facilitators
Ragini Rao is a Teaching and Supervising Transactional Analyst(TSTA), certified by International Transactional Analysis Association (ITAA).She has over twenty five years of experience as Counsellor, Trainer and Therapist. She runs advanced training groups in Transactional Analysis to train individuals to become certified Transactional Analysts in psychotherapy. She is a former President of the SAATA.
Roshni Bhatia is an Art Psychotherapist from Bangalore, working within a psychodynamic and trauma-informed framework. She has worked in diverse settings, including a children’s home and a girls’ residential facility in Singapore, supporting individuals with experiences of complex trauma.
She currently runs a private practice in Bangalore and facilitates community-based art interventions across South East Asia. Roshni is a trained supervisor with a supervision qualification from the British Association of Art Therapists.
