The aim of this course is to facilitate parents realising ways they can take worry and intensity out of their parenting and replace it with clearer principles for managing in the many stressors of child-rearing. It is different to many courses in that it doesn’t tell parents what to do in various situations. Parents are not given steps to follow in managing their children but rather things to observe about themselves. Many parents understandably hope to get formulas for managing their children, but our view is that helping parents discover simple and manageable adjustments to the ways they respond to their children will have more sustainable value. 
Parents learn to measure their progress not based on how their child’s moods or behaviours are today but on how they are parenting, guided more by their principles and job description. 

The Training takes about 15.5 hours. It involves:

• Prerequisite/theory training – 4 hours.
  • Course 1: Research and the Development of the Parent Hope Project (free), and
  • Course 2: Family Systems Understanding of Symptom Development in Children
• watching the full Confident Parent Course – 5 hours
• watching the Confident Parent Course Group Facilitator Highlights (for use in delivering the course) – 2 hours
• complete the training in how to deliver the Confident Parent Course – 4.5 hours
  • Includes a brief written assignment at the end of the training for reflection and understanding.

As this parenting course is based on principles rather than techniques, it applies to all age ranges, from infants through to adult children.

For examples for different age ranges, listen to the Parent Hope Podcast.

The initial training is $352 (AUD, inc GST) per person to complete the training in how to deliver the Confident Parent Course. Sign up here. This provides 4 months access to the training material and videos to deliver the course.

After this time, a 12-month subscription to the video highlights is required to keep delivering the course – this is $220 a year per trainer, and can be purchased here. This can be used as many times as you like in the one organisation. This includes parent workbooks.

If you are a trained facilitator delivering the course in more than one organisation, you are welcome to use your own video highlights subscription. We do ask that each subsequent organisation you deliver the course in purchases access to the workbook, available here for $88.

If you would like some extra mentoring or coaching to implement the Confident Parent Course, this is available at $280 per hour plus GST (we recommend 1.5 or 2 hours). This will help you to clarify the ideas in the course to best facilitate parent self discovery. Contact our office to book.

You will receive training in how to deliver the Confident Parent Course through the training package. It is a 4-part parenting course – these could be run each week over 4 weeks, or a full day’s course for parents.

Allow 1.5 hours for each session. It is possible to make this shorter or longer depending on how long each discussion goes for. Each session will have 30-40 minutes of video content with a role play, and then two sections to pause for discussion questions. Depending on group size, questions could be discussed as smaller groups and then shared with the larger group. Your role will be to facilitate this discussion, help the parents understand the content and grow in confidence in their parenting.

If you would like some extra mentoring or coaching to implement the Confident Parent Course, this is available at $275 a session plus GST. Contact our office to book.

Each session of the faith-based or church edition concludes with a short reflection of a relevant bible verse, and the workbook has reflection questions linked to the verse.

If you would like some extra mentoring or coaching to implement the Confident Parent Course, this is available at $280 per hour plus GST (for 1, 1.5 or 2 hours). This will help clarify the training, clarify the ideas in the course to best facilitate parent self discovery, plan parent engagement and explore your unique parent community. Contact our office to book.

Each person/facilitator will need to purchase their own training package, to run the course in one organisation.

For purchasing the video highlights subscription to deliver the course:

• If multiple people are running the Confident Parent Course in an organisation at different times, you will each require a subscription. No sharing of logins is allowed across an organisation. 
• If multiple facilitators are presenting the course at the one time, you will only need one subscription package (after each facilitator has completed their training).

If you are a trained facilitator delivering the course in another organisation, each organisation will need to purchase their own highlights package, available here.

We encourage you to take advantage of the subscription and review the material again before undertaking the Group Facilitator Training. New points may stand out to you now you have more experience with the Parent Hope Project.