Schools Courses

Foster positive partnerships with parents, support student mental health

Empower your school with the Parent Hope Project: family systems courses that  build positive parent partnerships, and enhance student wellbeing by reducing anxiety and promoting confidence.

The family systems approach helps parents move from worry about their children, to making a project out of themselves. This helps to take some of the stress out of the school system, supporting teachers and students.

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Schools Package

The schools package includes access to professional development training and video courses for streaming. There are pathways from short introductions to more comprehensive 4 part course.

TrainingResources
• Training in family systems ideas, to help you understand the theory behind the parenting courses – 2.5 hours

• Group facilitator training in how to run the group discussions and answer questions – 4 x 1.5 hour training sessions

• Training in how to use the Confident Parent Course for teachers – 20 minutes

• Group mentoring sessions -2 x 1 hour

• Online learning hub for support, to help you support parents as they undertake the courses

• Resource library of webinars specific to schools
• Introductory welcome video to Parent Hope resources (20 minutes)

• 1-part Cultivating Confident Parenting course- 1.5 hours

• 4-part Confident Parent Course, 4 x 1.5 hours

• 4-part Confident Parent Course, edited for group discussion. Each session has 2 x 20 minute sections with a group question time

• A digital copy of Dr Jenny Brown’s book; Parenting with Clarity

$1050 for 12 months access, and future years without training $590

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.

✅ This course is great for teacher professional development. Part 1 and 3 of the course are useful for teachers to put into practice in the classroom.

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.

Parenting for Flourishing Children

Free course, 2 weeks access 

 

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Cultivating Confident Parenting

1 Part Course, $25 1 month access 

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The Confident Parent Course

4-part course, $99 five months access

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Family systems theory training

Theory course in Bowen family systems and symptoms in children

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Parenting with Clarity book

A companion guide to the 4-part course. Ebook or paperback.

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Free school resources

Frequently asked questions

The schools package contains training courses for your professional development, and streaming resources for you to use for parents and staff at your school. This provides provides 12 months access to resources to support you in introducing a family systems approach to supporting parents, students and teachers at your school.

The training courses are:

  • Family systems and symptoms in children (the theory course, 3 hours)
  • Facilitator training – how to deliver the Confident Parent Course (5 hours), using videos and facilitating discussion.

The streaming courses include

  • Introductory welcome video for parents as they start at your school (15 minutes)
  • 1 part parenting video course – Cultivating Confident Parenting (1.5 hours)
  • 4 part parenting course – Confident Parent Course – full video version (4 x 1.5 hours), and ‘highlights’ version to use when facilitating the live course (4 x 1 hour)

Other resources:

  • Mentoring sessions with a trainer – 2 x 1 hour group sessions to support you in implementing the schools package in your school community.
  • Online support, community of other trainees and clinicians to share learnings, live monthly webinars with trainers.
  • Copy of E-book “Parenting with Clarity” – this is the companion book to the Confident Parent Course.

For a short video describing these resources, see here.

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:

See more about the course here, or a video intro here.

You can start with

  • the theory course – Family systems and symptoms in children for an understanding of the family systems approach to parenting.
  • watch the streaming resources, the Confident Parent Course (either the full video version, or highlights), or Cultivating Confident Parenting to see what is available for parents and staff.
  • complete the facilitator training course in how to present the Confident Parent Course.
  • work through the School Resources course:
    • download your free book,
    • view the introductory 15 minute session for parents in the School Resources course
    • work through the extra webinars, on facilitation and applying the package in schools.
  • book into your live mentoring sessions in the Community Learning Hub, dates are listed, along with share you experiences. The Resource library is also available with your package, and contains some webinars which may be useful for facilitating the course.
  • Plan how to use your package in your school. Perhaps begin with teacher training, scheduling an initial 1 part parenting courses, followed by the 4 part course for interested parents.

If you would like some extra mentoring or coaching to implement the Schools Package, this is available at $280 per hour plus GST. Contact our office to book in any additional mentoring sessions.

If you would like some extra mentoring or coaching to implement the Confident Parent Course, this is available for 1 hour, 1.5 or 2 hours, costed at $280 per hour plus GST with Jenny, Vicki or another trainer. Contact our office to book.

2 x group sessions are provided as part of the schools package, to look at the big picture of the school package strategy. Extra sessions can be useful for single-event preparation or discussing a single dilemma.

The initial sessions will cover:

  • clarifying the training (family systems theory and children’s mental health and wellbeing) and the streaming resources
  • what is unique about the messaging – not telling parents how to do their job, but a framework for parent self-discovery so they can parent more calmly and confidently
  • Exploring the context of the school and its unique parent communities
  • Brainstorming ideas for engaging parents

Session 1: Work through your school’s unique context in engaging parents, teasing out remaining questions.

Session 2: After you have completed the theory training course and after the first delivery of the group – Q & A about course content – brainstorm ways to respond to parent questions and reactions.

In the Confident Parent Course, each session of the faith-based version concludes with a short reflection of a relevant bible verse, and the workbook has reflection questions linked to the verse.

Each person/facilitator will need to purchase their own schools package, sharing of logins in not allowed. This allows facilitators to run the courses in one organisation/school.

The schools package is $1050 AUD including GST, sign up here.

Future years will not include the training component, and will still include the streaming access to all the courses for your school plus online support, for $590 available here for those who have already completed the theory and facilitator training.

If you have completed your first year using the schools package, and have completed your theory training and training in Confident Parent Course group facilitation, you can now purchase 12 months access to our Schools Package – resources without training.

This provides access to all our courses, including highlights to facilitate the Confident Parent Course live, plus ongoing support with a community hub, resource library and live webinars.

Downloads

Parent Evaluation Form – Confident Parent Course

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