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
Helping your Children Cope with Separation and Divorce Education programme will enable parents to parent effectively through and after separation/divorce. It assists parents in shifting their relationship to a co-parent relationship while exploring obstacles that prevent co-parenting. This programme aims to put children’s needs as the main focus for separated parents.
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 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.
Visits centre around the individual needs of the parent. Provide support to all parents of children 0-5 years. Rapid response breast feeding support to help establish breast feeding routine in the early days.
To develop and increase the resilience and reduce the risk factors for substance abuse in teens/young people. To improve the social competence, school performance in 12-16 year old young people. To strengthen the bond between the parent and child/teen. To enhance the parenting and coping skills of parents dealing with difficult family situations.
Triple P aims to promote positive caring relationships between children teenagers and their parents and to support parents in managing common behaviour and development issues through enhancing parents’ knowledge, skills and confidence. Younger Programme (2 – 10 years): Triple P teaches parents skills to encourage and support their child’s social and language skills, emotional self regulation, independence and problem solving skills. Teen Programme (11 – 15 years) Triple P teaches parents how to encourage emotional self regulation, how to support their teenager to develop the social skills to get along with others and to do well in school and community.Group work, One-to-one work, Triple P is delivered to groups of parents using active skills training through observation, discussion, practice and feedback on progress. The programme works at prevention, early intervention and intervention level for parents. Parents discuss and receive practical tips and advice about parenting skills that they can incorporate into their everyday interactions with their child/teenager.
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.
