Georges River Life Care offers a range of parenting courses for parents and carers. Please see below for our current schedule or Contact us for more information.
CIRCLE OF SECURITY
At times all parents feel lost or without a clue about what our child might need from us. Imagine what it might feel like if you were able to make sense of what your child was really asking from you. The Circle of Security® Parenting™ program is based on decades of research about how secure parent-child relationships can be supported and strengthened.
Circle of Security assists parents and caregivers to:
- Understand their child’s emotional world by learning to ‘read’ their needs
- Support their child’s ability to successfully manage emotions
- Enhance the development of their child’s self esteem
- Honour the innate wisdom and desire for their child to be secure.
Course Dates
Term 3 Thursdays 7pm – 9.30pm from 6 August (8 weeks) $50
Term 4 Thursdays 10am – 12.30pm from 22 October (8 weeks) $50
123 MAGIC & EMOTION COACHING
This course supports parents and carers to better manage challenging behaviours such as defiance, tantrums and arguing. You will also learn practical skills for encouraging your child’s positive behaviour and self control, resulting in a more enjoyable experience for everyone.
Course Dates
Term 3: Thursdays 10am – 12.30pm from 3 September (3 weeks) $45
Term 4: Mondays 7pm – 9.30pm from 9 November (3 weeks) $45
Subsidy available for suitable applicants
ENGAGING ADOLESCENTS
This 3 week course provides parents and carers with easy-to-use techniques to:
- Enlist adolescents to manage their own behaviour problems and emotional reactions
- Build their relationship with their teenager, and
- Deal with unacceptable behaviour while maintaining reasonable expectations of their adolescent
Parents will walk away with a new understanding of adolescents and a renewed sense of confidence about the role they can play in their teenagers’ lives, without conversations morphing into arguments.
Course Dates for 2020
Cost: $45 (includes manual) subsidy available for suitable applicants
NO SCAREDY CATS
The No Scaredy Cats™ 3 week course is based on three underlying principles: first, by having an understanding of how anxiety develops parents can counter its progress, second, parents can take a preventative role in the development of anxiety problems, third, there are practical steps parents can take to build resilience.
The course provides opportunity for a greater understanding of the problem of increasing levels of anxiety in children and some strategies to assist reducing anxiety and building resilience in children aged 2-12years.
Course Dates
Cost: $45 (includes manual) subsidy available for suitable applicants