Parents
Parents may find themselves struggling to understand what their children are going through. The speed of technological change, social media, what kids have access to online, bullying, climate change, natural disasters, COVID-19 - our kids are navigating a very different world to the one we grew up in. We help parents understand and support their kids through these unsettling times.
Workshops for Parents
Parent workshops can be booked by anyone. Typically organisations book them as part of their workplace wellbeing programme, schools and PTAs book for their parents, and community organisations and councils often run workshops for parents in their local region. Workshops can be booked individually or we can create a series of workshops tackling your parents' main concerns and deliver them over an agreed period of time.
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Workshops can be held in evenings and weekends if necessary to accommodate working parents; with options ranging from one and half hours to full days, in-person or online.
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Once we understand what areas your parents would like help with, we deliver workshops to suit. The workshops below have been commonly chosen by parents looking to better understand and support their kids and improve relationships.
Popular Workshops
Anxiety & Depression
With more and more of our rangatahi struggling with anxiety and depression, parents may need help dealing with it. We help them learn new and better ways to help and support their children who are struggling with mental illness.
Parenting Teenagers
The teenage years can be particularly challenging for parents. We explain the latest research on what happens in the brain and body as children change, providing tips on how to nurture, role model and support children through all these changes.
Managing Big Emotions
Young people can struggle to self-regulate their emotions. We help parents understand the role of big feelings in development, how to support their children, and how to be a regulating force for them.
Developmental Challenges
Parents with neuro-diverse children (eg ADHD, ASD, FASD) may be finding it hard to deal with behavioural and developmental challenges. But there are some proven ways to work with these youth that will help both them and you.
Gender Identity & Rainbow Awareness
How gender is expressed and experienced has changed significantly in recent years and young people are often more aware of it than parents are. How you talk about and respond to these changes has a direct impact on your ability to communicate with your kids.
Social Media
Good, bad, or ugly, young people are spending an enormous amount of time on social media and it is impacting them in ways they don't even understand. We help you understand the benefits and risks of social media better so you can support them as needed.
Sexuality & Relationships
Porn is so accessible and the way consent is often portrayed is creating an inaccurate perspective on sex. With physical and digital sexual abuse so prevalent in New Zealand, this is a topic that parents need to lead and may want help to deal with in an appropriate manner.
Self-Harm & Suicide
A growing problem amongst our youth, we help parents learn how to spot the signs that something is wrong and give practical tools on how to help their own children if they are feeling this way, or deal with their children's friends who may be feeling this way.