Facilitating Parent Courses

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 course is on our online learning platform, where the video resources are also located. The facilitator training video is of a live training event recorded on zoom, while the streaming resources are filmed to professional quality. You can work through the course at a pace to suit you. A final assignment is required to check understanding for both the theory course and facilitator training.

The training progression involves:

• Theory training
  • Research and the Development of the Parent Hope Project (free and optional – 1 hour)
  • Theory course: Family Systems and Symptoms in Children (2.5 hours with a short assignment)
• watch the full Confident Parent Course – 5 hours (optional – or just watch the highlights version)
• watch the Confident Parent Course Group Facilitator Highlights (for use in delivering the course) – 2.5 hours
• facilitator training in how to deliver the Confident Parent Course – 5 hours
  • Includes a short written assignment at the end of the training for reflection and understanding.
• Book in a group mentoring session for before and after you complete the training.
• You are then ready to start planning your first group. Resources and logos are provided to help you advertise the course in your community/practice, and mentoring sessions can help you plan.

As this parenting course is based on principles rather than techniques, it applies to all age ranges, from infants through to adult children. The role plays will come in younger child and teenager/older child options to suit your audience (Coming late March 2025).

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

The first year of training and streaming access is $750 (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 Parent Course package – without training is available with all streaming resources and ongoing support- this is $440 a year or $220 for 3 months access, and can be purchased here. This can be used as many times as you like in the time period. This includes parent workbooks.

If you would like some extra mentoring to implement the Confident Parent Course, 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. 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 $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.

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).

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.

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.