Prepare the pre-teen/parent for move from more intimate setting to larger groups, more subject choices, more challenges, holding onto yourself when everything around you is changing/moving.
To explore issues that may affect the mental health of young people. Recognising depression in Teenagers. Communicating about self-harm. Risk factors associated with eating disorders.
To help you to understand what is going on behind your child’s or your own anger, and to give you a toolkit for dealing with intense feelings in a compassionate, respectful way.There will be lots of opportunities to explore your own personal parenting challenges. You will be introduced to new concepts but – more importantly – you will learn how to integrate these new ideas into your life when you go home.
General Parenting, Behaviour Management
The aim of the programme is to promote positive relationships between parents and children.
Support parents to resolve conflict, improve the family communication practicing clear and direct communication.
Understanding our response. Aims to support individuals about the importance of relationships within family and community and how compassion and understanding the intention of behaviour brigs about personal change sand conflict resolution.
To support parents in having more education about their child’s needs.
To understand what is motivating the child’s behaviour. Learn to look at what is behind the behaviour, the feelings and needs of the child; Develop the ability to see things from the child’s perspective; Develop more awareness and consciousness about what is really going on in our relationship with our child and in relationship with self while we parent; Develop understanding and skills in emphatic listening; Learn more about anger, what is really going on when someone is angry, triggers, about what happens in the brain when someone is angry, and how to respond to anger in the child and/or in the parent; Understanding self compassion, learn how this can help and support us in our parenting; Learning about how our own childhood can impact on how we are in close relationships in adulthood and how it can influence how we parent; Exploring our strengths as a parent, and also looking at what we want for our children – a manifesto for parenting. Within the course/workshop there will be presentations, big group exercises, small group work and lots of opportunities for sharing and exploring your own personal parenting challenges.
To help parents create families who: Think more clearly; Connect more compassionately; Behave more response-ably; And live more joyfully.