This course is for parents, grandparents, foster parents, people hoping to be parents and child care professionals.
It is free standing but also comes with the opportunity to take Growing Up Well (GROW) for parents and children on the following week.  See poster and information below.

We will be looking honestly at issues connected with parenting, keeping your primary relationship strong, family dynamics and how to balance work and childcare, whether your work is directly with children or not. All of these are ripe ground for old beliefs about who you are and how you have to be, on your own, with others or in Life in general. Not forgetting all the demands about how your children have to be!

You will learn skills that will enable you to choose how you are, rather than feeling overwhelmed by all the demands from others, and how to have loving and real relationships with children.These tools will include how to acknowledge your qualities, as well as theirs, and make solid choices that will create a different relationship within your family or workplace.

We will have a small group of about 10- 12 people taking the course, and three team members, as well as myself, to support each person well. Our experience ranges from myself ~ child care professional, grandmother & mother, to a mother of young adults, a writer of children’s literature and a lovely young woman closer to being a teenager than any of the rest of us! We are an experienced and solid team. We will use group work, a DVD, facilitated individual and pair work in a light, airy and supportive environment.

The course has a set of CDs or downloads for each participant with supplementary and explanatory material and is a mixture of experiential exercises and underlying psychology.

GROW will be held on 27,28 & 29 Oct. 10.00 -4.00
This is an integrative arts course for parents and children and will be exploring issues for self esteem for children aged either 7-9 or 10-12. Parents need to have done the SEE course, either this one or a previous one.

Making puppets, collage work, drama, art work and talking together will be just part of the mix. We have the use of a large village hall plus a room at the back for planning or break out work (either for adults or children!).  Each child will have a workbook as part of the course in addition to keeping what they make. Some of the course will be for all ages together, some will have specific age-related exercises. We will be encouraging growth through respect, kindness, fun and boundaries and none of us are too old, or young, for that!

If you would like to know more about Self esteem for raising children either ring me on 01379 851959 or 07813035763

 Poster | registration form

2-day course:
24 & 25 Oct

18 hours accreditation:
Continued Professional Development

Quy Village Hall
Main Street
Stow-cum-Quy
Cambridgeshire CB25 9AB

£300 Professional rate with CPD
£250 full fee
£185 part time work
£125 benefits rate

£450 two caregivers on full rate
£300 two caregivers on pt. time
£200 two caregivers on benefits

Cost spreading may be available please speak to me about this.

GROW
£180 full price 1 adult & child
£10 per day per extra child
£30 per day per extra adult

10% off for family rate £270

conc rate
£75 1 adult & child
£5 per day per extra child
£10 per day per extra adult

10% off for family rate £108