Taught over 5 Friday mornings, the Partnership Parenting Core Course offers hope and relief to parents longing for mutual respect and close and loving connection with their children. It gives all the tools you need to become the authentic, confident, joyful parent you long to be.
Who is the course for?
You, if you:
- are the parent or carer of a child of any age from infancy to adulthood
- want to enjoy deeper connection with your children
- would like effective alternatives to reward and punishment
- are tired of feeling angry or guilty and want more joy and peace
- would like to feel more confidence in your parenting
- don’t want to be authoritarian or permissive, but don’t have an alternative
- are worn out and in need of compassion, support and understanding
The core course is an introduction to all areas of the Partnership Parenting approach. You can expect to come away with an understanding of how to apply the 3 step Partnership Parenting model to any parenting challenge so that you can build the relationship you want with your children.
How the material is structured is responsive to the needs of each particular group, but sessions usually run with the following pattern:
Week 1: A Partnership Parenting perspective on your relationship with your children
Partnership Parenting tools and framework overview
Making sense of your children’s behaviour – and your own
Week 2: Step 1 – What’s really going on for your children?
Understanding what your children’s emotions are about
Recognising habitual responses to your children’s behaviour which block your relationship with them
Listening to your children so that they feel heard
Getting clear what your children really need
Week 3: Step 2 – What’s really going for you?
Understanding why you react to your children the way you do
Transforming the anger and guilt we can feel as parents
Shifting judgment and blaming of yourselves and your children
Alternatives to shouting or withdrawing
Week 4: Step 3 – What do you want to do about it?
Generic Partnership Parenting strategies:
- Anger management
- Expressing yourself honestly in ways which make you more likely to be heard
- Joint solution finding which balances our needs and our children’s
- Setting and enforcing loving boundaries, and when to use insistence
Week 5: Bringing it all together
Bringing the 3 steps together to give you a framework for resolving current and future challenges
Further strategies within the Partnership Parenting model.
The course is for parents and carers of children of any age.
