COURSES FOR PROFESSIONALS
Online Courses for Professionals
Using The Parenting Toolkit
with your clients
THE PARENTING TOOLKIT: Courses for Professionals to use with clients
Part 1 and Part 2
Part 1
This two-day course for professionals who work individually with parents and their children looks at both theory and practice of parenting education. We are currently running it online due to the Coronavirus pandemic. It includes advanced communication skills, positive discipline strategies, emotional literacy and empathic parenting skills, child led play, descriptive praise and stress management. It also covers social learning theory, systemic family therapy interventions, problems in child development and communication with distressed children.
FEE: £200
Part 2
This two-day course is for professionals who work with parents and their children. Also online due to the Coronavirus pandemic. This builds on the first course on the Parenting Toolkit Strategies and develops workers' skills and understanding of group work theory, group process and facilitation skills. Within this it deepens the skills learnt from Part 1 in advanced communication skills, positive discipline strategies, emotional literacy and empathic parenting skills, child led play, descriptive praise and stress management.
FEE: £250
Trainers:
Caroline Penney BSc, SRN, MSc, PGCE
pioneered the Empowering Parents, Empowering Communities project at the South London and Maudsley Hospital, London, where she trained parents to run parenting groups. A systemic family therapist she has run parenting education and facilitator training courses in many countries. She is the mother of three children and the grandmother of two. Her great-grandfather was Sigmund Freud and her great-aunt was Anna Freud whose work has inspired her. She has spent thirty years working in parenting education, social services, Parent Network, the Maudsley Hospital and the Lantern Family Centre. She has written several parenting manuals.
Cathy Kearney MA in Children and Families work,
first started working with parents in the local community when her own 3 sons (now in their early twenties) were born. She ran her first parenting course when she was a Deputy Centre Manager of a Family Centre. Cathy subsequently moved to China with her young family for three years, running parenting courses for parents of children with addictions. On her return to the UK, Cathy was a Family Support Worker for offenders and their families. At this point, Cathy joined the Empowering Parents Empowering Communities team initially as an Outreach Worker, then a Hub Manager and finally as a Specialist Trainer.
Practitioners from overseas are especially welcome on this course. Part 1 and 2 take place over 4 days .
Evaluations and Testimonials from The Parenting Toolkit Training - Part1:
Working Individually With Families and Children
Your feedback from the March 2020 course was fabulous and really positive, here is a sample of comments made by the course delegates:
"It was really useful to have the opportunity to put the information from the book, THE PARENTING TOOLKIT, into practice, and to have discussions with fellow professionals". Adoption Social Worker
"I have enjoyed both days, thinking about strategies to help parents understand what might help aid more effective communication with children has been invaluable." Rachel, School Counsellor.
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