What's Involved:

Our flagship 10 session Positive Parenting Course will give you a toolbox full of skills and strategies, and training in how best to use them, to help manage the day-to-day challenges of being a parent. During the course you will be given 'assignments' so you can take the skills home and practice between sessions knowing that each week you can come back to get further coaching on how you can use these skills to have a positive impact on your family's life.

We offer morning or evening classes during school term time (with a break for half term) from a number of venues across SW London and also often in Farnham. (See below) OR you can gather a group of friends and book a course to be run in the comfort of your own home.

You can join the 10 session courses at any time - it doesn't have to be at the start of term so please call for details.

We also offer a 5 Session Positive Parenting Core Skills Course. This course covers Modules 1 to 5 of the full course and runs on specific dates each term at one of our centres or you can arrange to have it run in your own home. The Core course is designed for busy couples, working parents, nannies and anyone else who cannot commit to the 10 session course but would like to pick up the core skills.

What's covered in the Course:

Module 1:

How to develop your child's motivation, co-operation, confidence and consideration using Descriptive Praise.

Module 2:

Reflective Listening: Improve your emotional bond with your children, encourage communication and good behaviour by understanding and helping them manage their emotions more effectively.

Module 3:

Setting up for Success: How to make home life more harmonious and reduce stressful moments.

Module 4:

Rules: How to make and consistently follow through on rules in ways that pass on the values you want to your children and encourage cooperation while preserving individuality.

Module 5:

Negative Behaviours: How to respond constructively to negative behaviours in ways that teach children to take responsibility and learn from their mistakes without damaging self-esteem.

Module 6:

Fostering independence and encouraging good behaviour. Apply the skills to train your children in those attributes that you think they should have as adults. Training children to be more self-reliant boosts their confidence hugely as well as giving them skills for life.

Module 7:

Being in Charge. Explore how to be in charge without being over controlling and how to discipline effectively in positive ways which encourage children to learn, not to fear.

Module 8:

Fostering good relationships between siblings and other children. Look at ways to foster positive relationships between children, siblings and friends, and ways of resolving conflict constructively.

Module 9:

Keeping Calm. How to structure your life so that when faced with provocative behaviour you can access your skills. Assess whether your expectations of your children are realistic by reference to stages of development and temperament.

Module 10:

What to do when your children push your buttons. When our buttons have been pushed our skills go out the window and we respond to our children's behaviour in ineffective ways. Learn how to recognise and defuse your buttons so you can react appropriately in the face of button-pushing behaviour.