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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" Testimonials

I found the workshop interesting, challenging and very helpful!  The activities were powerful and the art work was very revealing - I loved usine crayons and symbols.  Monique was insightful and compassionate.  The manual was informative, the venue was beautiful and nurturing and the catering was brilliant.  The workshop gave me a sense of hopefulness and joyfulness in relation to the parenting journey.

Janet Tempest, parent of three

 

The highlight of the program for me was the Sandplay activity!!  I found the workshop very worthwhile, thought provoking and life changing.

Jacinta Wolens, parent

 

I found Monique to be very patient and I enjoyed being able to find my voice and to feel my emotions safely.  The workshop was very worthwhile and I would like to build on my knowledge and experiences.

Dr. Tania Morris, parent

 

This workshop taught me to continue to follow my heart and to TRUST!  Monique was very human, encouraging, empathic, honest and fantastic!  The activities encouraged me to think on a different level.  The manual was comprehensive - great to go back to.  I enjoyed the lack of rigidity in the program structure and the venue was very comfortable and welcoming.  I found this workshop INSPIRING!  It was great to be in a group environment with like minded individuals - warts and all!

Nicole Munt, parent

 

The highlight of this workshop was the insight and realisation gained about myself and how this has impacted upon me and my parenting.  I found this the most insightful and enlightening experience of my life.  Thank you for taking me on this journey of self discovery and education!

Wade Salmond, parent of four, step parent of 3

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,
  • promote your child's behavioural 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.

 

The Parenting from the Inside Out series of three two-day intensive workshops is designed for people who are serious about their parenting journey, and wish to connect authentically to their child/ren and to their own authentic selves.  The workshop is for parents who are committed to creating a family environment based on love, and who see the parenting journey as an opportunity for personal growth.

During the Parenting from the Inside Out workshop, participants take an experiential journey from the roots of their own childhood, through the challenges that emerge and impact on their family to exploring their current parenting role.  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!  The workshop is both educational and experiential – it is a unique journey into participant's own wisdom, offering some time to connect within and with a small, supportive and like minded peer group whilst also providing an opportunity to discover unowned parts of self that can support the parenting journey.
 
The educational journey will cover the following topics: 
Workshop One: 
  • Secure attachment - what it is and how to develop it in our children
  • How our past impacts on our present - from a neurological perspective
  • Safe emotional expression - supporting tears and tantrums in our children and ourselves
  • Developing our own parenting philosophy
Workshop Two: 
  • Discipline Styles:  Introduction to discipline through relationship
  • The connection between discipline styles and attachment styles
  • Punitive vs Non-punitive discipline approaches
  • The ten principles of positive discipline - the key principles that enhance cooperation and mutual respect

Workshop Three:

  • The seven key skills of attachment oriented discipline
  • Conscious communication processes
  • Self Nurture - the importance of looking after ourselves

    Working with experiential and creative modalities, participants will re-connect with their innate parenting wisdom, discovering answers to their parenting challenges from within, creating an opportunity for long lasting change.

    Workshop Times

    Registration and Arrival:   8.45am

    Workshop:   9.00am sharp - 4.00pm

    Venue and Dates

    Venue:  INSIDE OUT Counselling & Training Centre, Buderim, Sunshine Coast, Queensland.  Directions will be posted to you on registration.

    Dates:  Friday & Saturday - 14th - 15th; 21st - 22nd; 28th - 29th August, 2009

    Who Should Attend?These workshops are 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 series of workshops we will cover:

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  • 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 series participants should have an enhanced understanding of what they bring to the parenting relationship and an understanding of a parenting approach that is sustainable and that promotes lasting family relationships.

    Investment

    Each two-day workshop is valued at $245 per person.

    To receive a DISCOUNT:  Payment for all three workshops paid in full, two weeks prior to Workshop one, is $595.

    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 comprehensive manual, healthy & delicious lunch, morning and afternoon tea.

     

    For further information please phone Monique on (07) 5476 8084 or send an email.

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