PARENTING WORKSHOPS
Become the parent you want to be
FREE Courses Currently Running : 2014
Natural Flair workshops usually run with a maximum of 12 people and are designed to be fun and very interactive. All attendees enjoy sharing experiences and learning together. I facilitate each workshop and am a very experienced trainer and facilitator with a 14 year background in learning and development. I am also a licenced facilitator for Positive Parenting Publications & Programmes, the Family Links Parenting Puzzle, Protective Behaviours and the Strengthening Families, Strengthening Communities Parent Education Programme. I am quality assured to deliver parenting programmes and training workshops for Herts County Council.
The overall aim of the workshops are to:
- Encourage parents and build confidence
- Develop good parent/child relationships
- Help parents to recognise the good and positive things they already do and encourage them to aspire to be the best parent they can be
- Help think about any changes which could be made to personal parenting styles
- Give time and support to think through some different ideas on parenting
Raising under 5's: What every parent should know / and Raising Kid's in the 21st Century (5-11's focus)
There are six core workshops in all focusing on different areas of parenting. Participants are advised to attend all workshops to achieve maximum benefit. Sessions covered include:
- What Children really need - encouragement and praise, understanding that each child has a unique and different personality,
- Developing Emotional Security - Self Esteem and why it's important, different ways we can show love to our children, (bonding with your baby) how we can make them feel loved and why it's important, active listening skills.
- Loving Limits - developing a loving discipline style for your family.
- Keeping Safe - the dangers children face, risks of playing unsupervised inside and outside the home, using babysitters, bullying, talking about sex, safe screen time (TV, DVD's, computers and computer games). This session also introduces some basic protective behaviour strategies.
- Keeping Sane - allowing you, the parent, to realise you have needs too!
Positive Parenting for Young Mums
This is a course for young parents aged between 16-19 years offering the opportunity to meet other young parents and share experiences. All participants will learn how to boost their child's self esteem, develop coping strategies and tactics for introducing a loving discipline style and improve self confidence.
Understanding Teens: The Gross Stuff & The Ground Rules !
There are six core workshops in all focusing on different areas of parenting teenagers. Participants are advised to attend all workshops to achieve maximum benefit. Sessions covered include:
- The parent / young person relationship & why it is tough being a teenager
- Parenting styles
- Communication
- What to say about sex and sexuality
- Tools for handling conflict
- Identify strategies to raise aspirations and boost self-esteem
- There is an optional session covering step-parenting
Managing Anger & Building Resilience in the family (Time Out from Anger)
This course runs with 6 workshops in all, focusing on managing and understanding anger generally, and also how to help children manage theirs. Participants are advised to attend all sessions to achieve maximum benefit as each week builds on areas from previous sessions. Below I have shown the basic topics for each week. Between sessions attendees are encouraged to complete post workshop tasks to consolidate their learning and in particular keep an “Anger Diary”.
Resources have been chosen and tailored to ensure good adult education practice with a clear purpose and range of learning methods etc. Whilst the strategies shown are proven ways to cope with anger in any situation, some examples & practical exercises focus on managing anger in a family/parenting context.
What will be covered each week ?
Session 1: Understanding Anger Covering: raising awareness of causes and effects of anger, looking at what our personal anger triggers are, introducing the anger process through discussing behavioural responses to conflict, understanding aggressive, passive, passive-aggressive and assertive behavioural responses. The use of positive self talk, the importance of self esteem in managing anger, the use of the rage gage and keeping an Anger Diary.
Session 2: Coping with Anger Covering: continue to raise awareness of causes and effects of anger, to recognise early warning signs in order to manage anger at different points, recognising the impact of our personal beliefs and values, expectations of ourselves and others, I statements, introduction of “ABC” of anger management and learning additional strategies & exercises for development of a personal anger “toolkit”
Session 3: Managing Anger In The Family Covering: enabling parents to respond helpfully to children’s anger using strategies learnt so far, helping parents learn how to model and explain anger management strategies to their children, be more aware of the problems anger can cause children, and why children feel angry. The importance of “feelings” words and developing emotional literacy. Understanding the importance of managing children’s anger and helping their children to understand and identify their early warning signs..
Session 4: Helping Children Manage Anger Covering: Discussing managing anger in school, handling rage, feelings and what we do with them, helping children to manage stress and developing good communication
Session 5: Helping Children Manage Anger Covering: Age appropriate strategies which children and young people can be taught to manage anger and develop assertiveness.
Session 6: Developing Tools For A Calmer Family Life Covering: Finalisation of conflict resolution tool kit, “The Anger Gremlin” model, Anger management games; evaluation and presentation of certificates.
Special Needs
This course material can be adapted to cover both low and high level special needs. This 7 session course aims to help share feelings and experiences, and come up with your own solutions to problems on the basis of what works - not what's mean't to work! Topics covered include:
- Helping self esteem
- Coping with feelings
- Understanding and managing behaviour
- Home / school issues and the wider family
Living and Understanding ADHD
This 6 week course aims to help share feelings and experiences around parenting a child with ADHD - it is designed to help parents with the challenges that are unique to them and focuses on stategies that are practical and realistic empowering the parent to try new things, as standard parenting advice often doesn't work, leaving parents feeling isolated and stranded. - This very supportive course will enable parents to finish the course with a good toolkit of strategies to use.
Living and Understanding ASD
This 6 week course aims to help share feelings and experiences around parenting a child with ASD - it is designed to help parents with the challenges that are unique to them and it focuses on stategies that are practical and realistic empowering the parent to try new things - as standard parenting advice often doesn't work, leaving parents feeling isolated and stranded. - This very supportive course will enable parents to finish the course with a good toolkit of strategies to use.
The Family Links Parenting Puzzle
The Family Link Parenting Puzzle Nurturing Programme is a 10 week course which helps improve relationships and emotional well-being within families. It is a universal programme used widely with families of children aged 2-15. It builds on the skills parents already have and suggests lots of ways to improve family life and manage the behaviour of children. The Nurturing Programme helps to improve parents' confidence. It suggests ways of maintaining effective positive discipline while gaining more understanding of your own and your child's emotional needs.
The Nurturing Programme is designed to:
- promote emotional and mental health and wellbeing
- enhance relationship and nurturing skills
- build self-esteem and confidence
- encourage positive approaches to behaviour management
- build empathy
Week 1 – Introduction. Building Blocks: The 4 Constructs, giving praise
Week 2 – The question of Discipline, Time out….. To calm down
Week 3 – Family Rules; rewards and penalties
Week 4 – Personal Power; Self esteem, Choices & Consequences
Week 5 - Feelings & communication
Week 6 – Kinds of touch; nurturing ourselves
Week 7 – Ages and stages in child development
Week 8 – Issues around sex; helping children to stay safe
Week 9 – Behaviour to ignore; problem solving & negotiating
Week 10 – Continuing the family journey
Feeling Safe and Standing Strong
This is a 10 session course based on Protective Behaviours and is highly participative and effective.
Understanding Boy/Girl Teens : The Taster Session
Topics covered include:
- To identify parents feelings
- To understand a teenagers world
- How to boost confidence and develop responsibility
- How to handle common teenage problems
- Sex sense for teens
Home Alone: special session for single parents
This workshop runs for 2 hours. Work materials and refreshments are provided. Topics covered include:
- Encouraging the group in their role as a parent
- Recognising and taking pride in their achievements
- Taking control and making changes
- Reducing the feeling of isolation
- Giving an opportunity to make friends / support group
3 Steps to Effective Parenting
A one-off 2 hour workshop which can be tailored to have either an under 5's or 5-11 focus.
Confident Parenting = A Happy You ! (Assertiveness Skills for Parents)
This workshop runs for 2 hours. Objectives:
- Understanding what it means to be assertive, passive and aggressive
- Understanding the impact that these 3 behaviour traits (physical or emotional) can have on our family relationships.
- Understanding how we can become more assertive both in the way we talk and our physical actions and how this will improve our confidence, family relationships and parenting skills allowing us to become the parent we want to be and bring harmony to our home.
Stress-busting Tips for Parents
This workshop runs for 2 hours. Objectives:
- To look at what causes us stress and how it effects family life
- Understand and recognise our personal early warning signs
- Discover & develop strategies for coping with stress
Step-Parenting
This workshop runs for 2 hours.
Objectives:
- To illustrate the complexities of step-families
- To look at strategies for common step-parenting problems
- To provide a safe place where concerns can be shared
Keeping Safe and Protecting Young Minds - "Protective Behaviour Workshop" (can be focused for either under 5's or 5-11's)
This workshop runs for 2 hours. Work materials and refreshments are provided. Topics covered include:
- Alerting parents to the dangers children face
- Risks of playing unsupervised inside and outside the home
- What to do about bullying
- How to protect young minds from pornography
- Safe use of the internet
Building / Improving Self Esteem in our Children
This workshop runs for 2 hours. Work material and refreshments are provided. Topics covered include:
- Self Esteem and why it's important
- Different ways we can show love to our children
- How we can make children feel loved and why it's important
- Active listening skills
Building / Improving Self Esteem in our Teenagers
This 2 hour practical and interactive workshop has been developed using material from popular Parenting Programmes and research in other areas. This workshop aims to explore why self esteem is essential to emotional wellbeing and how a parent can help. Resources used promote good adult education practice with a clear purpose and range of learning methods etc. It also promotes positive parenting and the parent/child relationship.
Learning Outcomes & Workshop Objectives:
- Understanding what self esteem is and why It’s important
- To recognise and learn how to build self esteem in ourselves and our children
- To develop ways to help children develop a sense of self
- The importance of emotional intelligence and how to help your child develop it.
- Strategies and practical tips on how to raise self esteem
What Children Really Need
This workshop runs for 2 hours. Work material and refreshments are provided. Topics covered include:
- Understanding the importance of encouragement and praise
- Understanding that each child has a unique and different personality
- Understanding the importance of quality time
What to say about Sex and Sexuality (aimed at parents of teens)
This workshop runs for 2 hours. Objectives:
- Talking about sex and being more able to explain some of the risks of early sex
- The pressure on boys and girls and have greater confidence in the parental role of a life educator
- STI's and and choices & consequences
Bullybusters
This 2 hour practical and interactive workshop has been developed using material from popular Parenting Programmes and research in other areas. This workshop aims to explore the area of bullying and how parent can empower their children to manage the situation. Resources used promote good adult education practice with a clear purpose and range of learning methods etc. It also promotes positive parenting and the parent/child relationship.
Learning Outcomes & Workshop Objectives:
- Understanding what bullying is
- To recognise the signs of bullying
- Look at areas of help for a parent
- Learn strategies that will help empower a child faced with bullying
- Learn some basic protective behaviour strategies
Enough of the Huff (managing tantrums in under 5's)
This 2 hour practical and interactive workshop has been developed using material from popular Parenting Programmes and research in other areas. This workshop aims to explore the area of tantrums in 2-5 year olds and how parent can manage the situation. Resources used promote good adult education practice with a clear purpose and range of learning methods etc. It also promotes positive parenting and the parent/child relationship.
Learning Outcomes & Workshop Objectives:
- Understanding the reasons children misbehave
- To understand how our words, language and responses effect our children
- To look at ways a parent can cope
- Recognising strategies that will help manage tantrums
Living with self-harm
This 2 and half hour practical and interactive workshop has been developed using material from Trust for the Study of Adolescence and research in other areas. This workshop aims to explore self harm and emotional wellbeing in young people. Resources used promote good adult education practice with a clear purpose and range of learning methods etc. It also promotes positive parenting and the parent/child relationship.
Learning Outcomes & Workshop Objectives:
- Understanding what is self harm and why people self harm
- To recognise and learn how to respond helpfully to self-harm behaviour
- Managing feelings
- Ways to support someone who self harms
- Give an opportunity to discuss in a safe and supportive environment
Developing a Healthy Self-Esteem and Positive Body Image in Girls
This 2 hour practical and interactive workshop has been developed using some material from Positive Parenting Publications & Programmes and research in other areas. This workshop aims to explore the key areas of parenting a pre-teen girl. Resources used promote good adult education practice with a clear purpose and range of learning methods etc. It also promotes positive parenting and the parent/child relationship.
Learning Outcomes & Workshop Objectives:
- To understand the physical & emotional developmental stages
- Developing a healthy attitude to sex and sexuality
- Understanding what self esteem is and why It’s important
- To recognise and learn how to build self esteem in our girls
- Understand what damages body image
- How social networking sites (e.g. facebook) and the virtual world links to self esteem and body image
Talking About Sex & Puberty to a Pre-Teen and Teen with Special Needs
This 2 hour practical and interactive workshop has been developed following specific feedback from professionals and parents. This workshop aims to address parents’ concerns and what messages about sex and sexuality they want to put across now and in future.
It is an interactive session with small group work, discussion and case studies, and has been tailored to ensure good adult education practice with a clear purpose and range of learning methods etc. It also promotes positive parenting and the parent/child relationship.
Learning Outcomes:
By the end of the workshop participants will be able to;
- Discuss the parental role in sex education
- Identify the importance of sexual health
- Learn practical tips to discuss relationships and appropriate behaviour
- Learn strategies to equip children to learn about the importance of personal hygiene
- Discuss ways of talking and preparing a SEN child for puberty
- Understand the importance of self esteem and body image
- Discuss/learn strategies in talking about safety & privacy and long term relationships
Understanding Your Pre-Teen Girl
This 2 hour practical and interactive workshop has been developed using some material from Positive Parenting Publications & Programmes and research in other areas. This workshop aims to explore the key areas of parenting a pre-teen girl. Resources used promote good adult education practice with a clear purpose and range of learning methods etc. It also promotes positive parenting and the parent/child relationship.
Learning Outcomes & Workshop Objectives:
- To understand the developmental stages of a pre-teen
- Understanding what self esteem is and why It’s important
- To recognise and learn how to build self esteem in our girls
- The link between self esteem and body image
- How to boost confidence and develop responsibility
Understanding Pre-Teen Boys
This 2 hour practical and interactive workshop has been developed using some material from Positive Parenting Publications & Programmes and research in other areas. This workshop aims to explore the key areas of parenting a pre-teen boy and how and why boys are different.
Resources used promote good adult education practice with a clear purpose and range of learning methods etc. It also promotes positive parenting and the parent/child relationship.
Learning Outcomes & Workshop Objectives:
- To understand the developmental stages of a pre-teen boy (physical & emotional)
- How and why boys are different
- To understand how feelings link to behaviour
- How to boost confidence and develop responsibility and self esteem
- How to handle challenging behaviour
Moving on to Year 7 (Getting Ready - Transition to Secondary School Workshop)
This 2 hour practical and interactive workshop has been developed using some material from research and evidence based feedback. This workshop aims to explore the key areas of preparing children for the transition from year 6 to year 7 into secondary school. Resources used promote good adult education practice with a clear purpose and range of learning methods etc. It also promotes positive parenting and the parent/child relationship.
Learning Outcomes & Workshop Objectives:
- How to help your child before they start
- Tips on good organisation skills
- What are your child’s needs when moving on to Yr 7?
- Discuss anxieties around peer pressure & bullying etc
- Tips to ensure a smooth transition for your child
Become the parent you want to be - contact me NOW for more information on these exciting and inspirational workshops
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