This programme is about starting the journey of becoming self-reliant and independent. Its aim is to prepare and help the parent as their teenager prepares to expand relationships beyond the family network. To prepare the parent for change/struggle/first steps towards independence as their teenager meets new challenges during their teenage years.
Providing parenting support in a variety of models including: public seminars/talks, half day workshops, 3-6 week courses, 1 day weekend course and small group work.
This course aims to prepare parent for first time parenting role, new addition to the family, anxieties/worries.
To empower, encourage and educate fathers, mothers and others who parent in the holistic development of their children, with particular emphasis on the new born to age five years. To raise awareness of parenting as crucial in the development of community. To promote inter-community dialogue based on the common concern of parents for the future of their children, so that children will no longer be marginalised and excluded from future opportunities for development as individuals and citizens
The primary focus of the course is on the participants’ relationship with self. How we relate with ourselves will hugely affect how we relate with others. The course aims to facilitate parents and those working with children, to explore their relationship with self so that they may become conscious of what unconscious protectors may be driving their behaviour when they are stressed.
