Rediscover confidence and foster children’s wellbeing
Support parents in your community shift from over-worrying to balanced connection.
Our family systems parenting courses reduce anxiety and promote children’s wellbeing. Offer these transformative resources to show care for your community and enhance your church’s outreach.
With two options for churches: a church video hosting package, or with more comprehensive group facilitator training.
Church video hosting package – the Confident Parent Course
Play the parent course videos at your church, with a short 2 hours of training.
| Host Training | Video resources |
| • Training in family systems ideas – 1.5 hours • Training in answering questions after streaming courses – 10 minutes • Group mentoring session – 1 hour • Online learning hub | • 1-part Cultivating Confident Parenting – 1.5 hour video • 4-part Confident Parent Course – 4 x 1.5 hour videos • $370 for 12 months streaming access |
Group facilitator training and parent course package
Deliver the Confident Parent Course with video highlights and facilitate discussion, with 7.5 hours of training.
| Training | Video resources |
| • Training in family systems ideas – theory course – 2.5 hours • Group facilitator training in how to facilitate discussion and answer questions – 5 hours • Group mentoring sessions -2 x 1 hour • Online learning hub • Resource library with extra webinars to support | • 1-part Cultivating Confident Parenting – 1.5 hour video • 4-part Confident Parent Course – 4 x 1.5 hour videos • Group discussion version of the 4-part Confident Parent Course – 4 x 1 hour videos • $570 for 12 months streaming access |
About the Confident Parent Course
✅ The Confident Parent Course presents a paradigm shift away from focussing on children, to focussing on what is in the parent’s capacity. Parents will gain insights into how they can best contribute to their child’s positive emotional health.
✅ Parents learn to reflect on their energy direction, worry and connecting well with their child.
✅ Parents learn to focus on what is within their control, holding boundaries and parenting by principles to regain confidence.
✅ Principles to achieve long-term parenting goals, based on family systems research.
✅ The course uses video content, with a balance of ideas and action role plays. A workbook is included to help parents reflect and apply the ideas.
Individual options to get started
We want you to understand this unique family systems parenting approach before deciding whether to take a further training step, for you and your orgaisation.
These courses are available for individual use.
Frequently asked questions
From worry about your child, to confidence in your parenting
The overall theme of the Confident Parent Course is when parents’ make a project out of themselves rather than anxiously focussing on their child, this provides developmental ‘breathing space’ for the child, reducing worry and increasing parent confidence.
The 4-part course explores the following questions:
The faith versions of our courses include a short bible reflection at the end of each week of the course, linking a bible verse into the principles talked about in the session.
See more about the course here, or a video intro here.
With both packages you can start with the theory course – Family Systems and symptoms in children (1.5 hours, or 2.5 hours for facilitator training).
You can then watch the parent courses, the Confident Parent Course (5 hours total), or Cultivating Confident Parenting (1.5 hours) to see what is available for parents.
Those with the Church video package will then complete the 20 minutes training in answering questions. Book in a mentor session in the community learning hub. You are then ready to start showing the videos in your community.
Group Facilitator trainees: Complete the training in how to deliver the Confident Parent Course (5 hours). This supports you to facilitate group discussion and answer questions. This will be useful whether you use the full video or group discussion version of the Confident Parent Course.
Book in a group mentor session, available through the community learning hub. After your training, you are able to start delivering the courses in your community.
If you would like some extra mentoring or coaching, this is available at $280 per hour plus GST. This will help you to clarify the ideas in the course to best facilitate parent self discovery for your unique situation.
In the Confident Parent Course and Cultivating Confident Parenting courses, each session of the faith-based version concludes with a short reflection of a relevant bible verse. The workbook has simple reflection questions linked to the verse and parenting principles.
You are able to pause the video before this faith-based section at the end of each course, and skip as required for different audiences. You have access to both workbooks with and without the faith-based questions.
After you have completed your training, you can purchase continued access to our parenting courses here:
- Church video package | without training, available here.
- Parent Course Facilitator package | without training, available here.
12 and 3 month options available.
If you are keen to work more intensively with parents either individually or in small groups using our manualised program, training is available here. This is usually for mental health professionals. 25 hours of training.
If you have completed the theory training in the church package and would like to now undertake the group facilitator training, please contact our office to discuss upgrading.
Downloads
Parent Evaluation Form – Confident Parent Course
