Overview:

The programme has been designed to meet the needs of parents and families as they face up to the daily challenges of family life. Whether that’s ‘what was normal’ in pre-pandemic times or to support parents and families with the added strains of working from home and home schooling in our ‘new normal’.

The programme has been tried and tested for over 10 years and has been run in large corporate organisations such as Citigroup, Belron plc, Morgan Stanley, Cooper Parry, Boots, in SMEs, to the Dame Kelly Holmes Trust, in local authority Housing Associations, in the NHS, in schools and to public groups – always to resounding success. There are often waiting lists from delegates to attend the programmes.

The skills will equip you to support parents or caregivers specifically 1:1, or as a series of workshops delivered to small groups or to larger groups in organisations. It can be delivered face to face or virtually. 

Techniques or sections from the programme can also be incorporated into 1:1 coaching sessions, if parenting or family life is a topic for coaching.

The programme is about using coaching skills in a family context and focuses on the needs of parents as well as the needs of children.

Suitable for:

Accredited coaches who would like to acquire an exciting range of coaching tools and techniques to use to support clients in their family lives.

Outline Content:

The programme is based around the four key emotional needs of children and explores topics such as:

• The Emotional Needs of Children (and Parents!)

• How Children Make Sense of the World

• Praise – the Magic Ingredient in all Relationships

• The Importance of Attention

• Labels and Seeing Things with Fresh Eyes

• Position in the Family

• The Changing Face of Families and coping with transitions

• Dealing with Feelings

• The Family Emotional Bank Account

• Family Meetings

• Developing Responsibility

21 ICF CCE points are awarded for attending this programme.

Duration:  6 x Half Day Online Workshops,

All sessions run 09:30-12:30:

Thursday 22nd April

Thursday 29th April

Thursday 6th May

Thursday 20th May

Thursday 27th May

Thursday 3rd June

Cost: £550 +vat

Delivered and supported by:

Jo Jones, Lead In-house Coach at Barefoot Coaching

ACC, PG Cert in Business and Personal Coaching, Experienced Substance Misuse Counsellor within Voluntary Sector. Mother to a five-year-old!

Maria Richardson, Parent and Family Life Coach

20 years’ experience as a Health Visitor in the NHS, Safeguarding Consultant