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Supporting Teens Positive Body Image for Practitioners

With altered images in the media & the pressure to look good, it can have an impact on teenagers’ body image. Through the teenage years, it’s important to help raise their self-esteem & for them to feel more self-accepting. This session helps practitioners support parents to help develop their teenager’s positive self-image and be more self-accepting

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Promoting Teenagers Reslience for Practitioners

Building our teenager’s resilience will help to prepare them for the challenges they may face throughout their lives. This free online session will help practitioners to support parents to understand the importance of developing their teenager’s resilience and equip them to help parents to support their teenager to develop self-control, build self-regulation & develop thinking skills.

Odyssey Parenting Your Teen Belfast

Sound familiar? We can help!

The FREE Odyssey, Parenting Your Teen Programme will be running in Belfast from Monday 28th September 2020!

Duration: 8 week programme – every Monday from the 28th September for an hour and a half each evening
Aim: To improve the parent/adolescent relationship

The teenage years can be notoriously challenging but this programme can help you navigate your way through the reality of parenting teenagers.

The programme covers a range of topics and promotes the Authoritative Parenting style, which has been proven to be most effective. Odyssey, Parenting Your Teen is an evidence based programme and has been found to improve outcomes for parents, children and the whole family. 

The programme will be delivered online and these sessions will be available to parents living in the Belfast area. 

Odyssey Parenting Your Teen Topics

Call us now on 0808 8010 722 to register.

Freephone number currently available Monday – Thursday 9:30 am – 3:30 pm and Friday 9:30 am – 12:30 pm. 

This programme is being delivered free to parents thanks to funding from the Public Health Agency.

Parenting Apart Belfast (Dads Only)

This programme is being delivered as part of the Dads Project and therefore is open to men only. Thanks to funding from the National Lottery Community Fund NI this is free for dads to attend.

Start date: Monday 20th April 2020
Duration: Every Monday for 6 weeks

The Parenting Apart programme is aimed at parents who have separated, are separating, divorced or thinking of divorce.

The programme will provide practical advice and guidance about what children need to know, and what parents can do to meet their children’s need. Although parents are immersed in their own difficulties, this programme can help parents focus on the child’s needs with the aim of minimising the impact of the separation.

The programme explores:

  • Emotional impact
  • Parenting roles
  • Changes in relationships
  • Legalities
  • Financial impact
  • Moving on

To register call us on freephone 0808 8010 722.

Freephone number is currently available Monday – Thursday 9:30 am – 3:30 pm and Friday 9:30 am – 12:30 pm. 

Parenting Children’s Challenging Behaviour Workshop Belfast

Location: Currie Primary School

Tickets on sale: https://pccbbelfast.eventbrite.co.uk

This workshop aims to support parents to identify the behaviours they find most challenging and gain techniques to manage those behaviours effectively leading to a calmer home.

The workshop will:

  • Consider the feelings behind the behaviour
  • Explore how to use the Authoritative Parenting Style which research shows to be the most effective
  • Discuss the difference between children’s needs and wants
  • Emphasise the importance of clear communication
  • Introduce the Stress model and its purpose in managing challenging behaviour
  • Give Top Tips for managing behaviour and positive parenting.

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Dad Matters Belfast

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Understanding the unique and valuable role dad’s play in their children’s lives

Come along to this relaxed Dad Matters workshop to meet other dads and explore a range of topics such as:

  • The challenges of fatherhood
  • How dad’s influence their child’s development and outcomes
  • Understanding how to be an active dad

The workshop will be held on a Tuesday evening in South Belfast. You can register by calling freephone 0808 8010 722.

Freephone number is currently available Monday – Thursday 9:30 am – 3:30 pm and Friday 9:30 am – 12:30 pm. Daddy Matters workshop for dads exploring the unique and valuable role dad’s play in their children’s lives. Call freephone 0808 8010 722 to register.Daddy Matters workshop for dads exploring the unique and valuable role dad’s play in their children’s lives. Call freephone 0808 8010 722 to register.

Dads Project Positive Approaches to Discipline Workshop Belfast

Why do children misbehave?

This workshop will explore:

    • Attitudes to the use of physical punishment on children and young people
    • Current legislation in Northern Ireland
    • Positive approaches to discipline and positive parenting strategies

Call us to register on freephone 0808 8010 722.

The freephone number is currently available Mon – Thurs 9:30 am – 3:30 pm & Fri 9:30 am – 12:30 pm.

Delivery of this programme is being delivered as part of the Dads Project and therefore is open to dads only.

Odyssey, Parenting Your Teen Belfast

Sound familiar? We can help!

The FREE Odyssey, Parenting Your Teen Programme will be running in Belfast from 27th January 2020!

Duration: 8 week programme – every Monday from the 27th January for 2 hours each evening
Aim: To improve the parent/adolescent relationship

The teenage years can be notoriously challenging but this programme can help you navigate your way through the reality of parenting teenagers.

The programme covers a range of topics and promotes the Authoritative Parenting style, which has been proven to be most effective. Odyssey, Parenting Your Teen is an evidence based programme and has been found to improve outcomes for parents, children and the while family. 

Odyssey Parenting Your Teen Topics

Call us now on 0808 8010 722 to register.

Freephone number currently available Monday – Thursday 9:30 am – 3:30 pm and Friday 9:30 am – 12:30 pm. 

This programme is being delivered free to parents thanks to funding from the Public Health Agency.

Keeping Your Cool Belfast (Dads Only)

Keeping Your Cool: Parents Anger Management Programme coming to Belfast from Monday 20th January!

This programme is being delivered as part of the Dads Project and therefore is open to men only. Thanks to funding from the National Lottery Community Fund NI this is free for dads to attend.

Duration: 8 weeks
Aim: To provide parents with the tools to recognise the triggers to their outbursts and manage their emotions.

This programme allows parents to explore their reaction to anger, how losing their cool impacts on their children, identify the triggers to them losing their cool and find positive ways of managing their behaviour. Throughout the programme parents are given techniques to help them manage stress, understand their triggers and keep their cool to ensure family life improves.

The programmes looks at:

  • Choice, change and minding the gap
  • The challenge of keeping your cool
  • The trouble with thinking
  • Escalating emotions
  • Children and anger
  • Gender, life experiences and parental anger
  • Conflict, power and anger management
  • Learning and moving on

To register call us on freephone 0808 8010 722.

Freephone number is currently available Monday – Thursday 9:30 am – 3:30 pm and Friday 9:30 am – 12:30 pm. 

Parenting Children’s Challenging Behaviour Belfast

Duration: Every Wednesday for 6 weeks
Aim: To help parents understand and manage their children’s challenging behaviours

The Parenting Children’s Challenging Behaviour programme will:

  • Help parents understand children’s behaviours
  • Recognise the triggers to their child’s behaviour
  • Give practical tips on how to reinforce positive behaviour

The programme promotes the Authoritative Parenting style which research shows to be the most effective.

The programme is particularly suited to those parenting children aged 2-10 years old.

Call us to register on freephone 0808 8010 722.

The freephone number is currently available Mon – Thurs 9:30 am – 3:30 pm & Fri 9:30 am – 12:30 pm.

Delivery of this programme has been made possible thanks to funding from Assets Recovery Community Scheme.