What All Children Want Their Parents to Know

Teach me to love and care for myself

Through your positive example.

I will learn much more from what you do

Than from anything you could ever say.

Notice me often,

And take joy in my very existence,

So that I grow up to feel special

And know that I am loved.

Listen to me

With an open ear and loving heart,

So that I learn to understand my feelings

And trust that my needs will be heard.

Play with me often.

Let down your guard and be more carefree.

The memories will last long,

And our connection even longer.

Focus on what I am doing right,

And tell me when you appreciate me,

So that I learn to feel worthy

And motivated to do even more.

Tell me more about your life,

Your hopes, dreams and successes,

So that I come to know you as a person

And can call you my friend

As well as my parent.

Parenting from the Inside Out

Parenting from the Inside Out offers creative guidance to unlock your natural parenting wisdom, so you can:

enhance two-way communication between you and your child,
understand your child - from the inside out,
hone your parenting intuition,
enhance a secure attachment,
increase cooperation,
promote your child's emotional well-being,
be empowered in your role as parent,
parent from your own set of conscious values and beliefs, and
make the parenting relationship more joyous and alive.

An empowering workshop program for parents, Parenting from the Inside Out is more than just a 'how to' seminar about raising happy and resilient children – it aims to help you create a deep and lasting relationship that is unique to you and your child. Using techniques that are based on connection rather than shaming, manipulation or punishment, these workshops introduce you to insightful and practical ways to benefit your child's emotional wellbeing and development.

Inside every parent is the intuition to know exactly what is right for their child. Parenting from the Inside Out ignites that intuition, validates its wisdom and provokes it into action in a workshop that dares to give parents back their dignity and connect them to their innate wisdom. In so doing, Parenting from the Inside Out is a journey into meaningful, authentic connection with ourselves and our child.

The key to our own wisdom and intuition as a parent lies in our body-memory of having been a child ourselves. Revisiting our own childhood is something we don't do often enough – and yet, our ‘inner-child' memory holds so many answers!

This therapeutic parenting program is offered over two weekends and has the potential to change the way you see your role as a parent and the way you treat yourself and your child. The program is based on a range of information gathered from the work of many well documented parent educators such as Pam Leo's "Connection Parenting", Aletha Solter's "Aware Parenting", Lawrence Cohen's "Playful Parenting", Robin Grille's "Heart to Heart Parenting" and Alfie Kohn's "Unconditional Parenting".

Workshop Times

Friday: Registration and Arrival 6.30pm, Workshop 7.00pm sharp - 9.00pm

Saturday and Sunday: Arrival 8.45am, Workshop 9.00am sharp - 5.00pm

Venue and Dates

INSIDE OUT Centre for Children's Emotional Well-Being, Buderim, Sunshine Coast, Queensland. Directions will be posted to you on registration.

Parenting from the Inside Out 1: 4th - 6th July

Parenting from the Inside Out 2: 1st - 3rd August

ContentThis workshop is for parents, step parents, foster carers, kinship carers or anyone wanting to increase their connection with a child in their life. It is aimed at developing a better understanding of the parenting relationship and at promoting the development of positive relationships. The workshop is especially helpful for parents whose child has experienced a trauma or stressful life event or is in an ongoing stressful situation.

Over the weekend workshop we will cover:

Knowing and understanding what you bring to parenting

Understanding child development, attachment and behaviour

Core concepts in building attachment and the importance of providing a ‘secure base’

Parenting Styles

Communication skills in parenting

Understanding emotions and their place in healing stress and trauma

Managing behaviours through relationship

At the completion of the workshop program participants should have an enhanced understanding of what they bring to the parenting relationship and an understanding of a parenting approach that promotes lasting family relationships.

Investment

Each weekend workshop is $300 per person or $500 per couple. Your participation in these workshops and commitment to being the best parent you can be is an important investment in your child's life and emotional well-being and is a gift to the world.

Parenting is the most important job you can do and one we rarely get training in, yet when we do, the gifts of parenting are more joyous,deeper, richer and heart warming.

Fees include manual, lunch, morning and afternoon tea.

For further information please phone Monique on 0439 456 335 or send an email.

To register for this workshop, click here.

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