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          Raising Happy and Confidant Children

Informative. Empowering. Practical.

The FOURTH "R" of EDUCATION:

RELATIONSHIPS - Learning the Skills

 

Successful relationships and parenting doesn't happen by accident. Decades of experience and research has shown that healthy, lasting relationships are most commonly built through emotional intelligence, EQ.

Unlike IQ, emotional intelligence can be learned and by practicing this work both parents and children increase their emotional intelligence.

Help children develop the Five R’s of Successful Living:

Resourcefulness (problem solving and creativity)

    • Responsibility
    • Respect
    • Relationship investment (respect for the emotions of other people)
    • Regulation of impulses and emotions

Learn to guide children’s behaviour and help them

reach their fullest potential.

    • Understand their experience of the world.
    • Understand their emotional motivations.
    • Understand your emotional responses to them

                         

Children learn by modelling

- by watching how their parents regulate their emotions.

Learn how your childhood experience effects your parenting

and how to change this.

 

Compassionate Parenting is guaranteed to:

• Increase cooperation, self-esteem, and self-discipline in children and parents• Reduce anger, resentment, and hostility in children and parents.

• Deepen emotional connections between parents and children.

 

Think Motivation More than Consequences

Motivation happens before behaviour

Emphasis is on before-the-fact emotional motivation of behaviour,

rather than after-the-fact consequences.

Consequences are after the fact, either too little or too much,

but always too late.

 

Implement discipline with positive parental motivation to protect, nurture, guide, encourage, influence, set limits, & co-operate. Most adults attempt to change children’s behaviour in avoid or attack motivations which produces guilt, shame, or fear. These inhibit learning, lower self-esteem, cause resentment and aggression, and tend to make children selfish and sneaky.

 

Learn how to guide our children to be motivated by their core values, interest and compassion, not fear and temporary submission.

Empower children to come up with solutions that work for them and you.

Instill optimism

"It's easier to build strong children than to repair broken men."

- Frederick Douglass

              

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Our PARENTING WORK is inspired by:

Giving The Love That Heals: A Guide For Parents

by Drs. Harville Hendrix & Helen LaKelly Hunt;

  www.gettingtheloveyouwant.com or www.harvillehendrix.com  

The Compassionate Parenting work of Dr Steven Stosny;

www.compassionpower.com 

InnerBonding work of Dr Margaret Paul

www.innerbonding.com 

and The Nurtured Heart Approach by Howard Glasser

www.difficultchild.com 

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WHO SHOULD ATTEND

                For the General Public and Professionals

              Come with your partner, friends or on your own

  • All parents. Couples and single parents
  • Those preparing for parenthood or considering starting a family
  • Professionals working with children, couples and families - Teachers, Counsellors, Health Professionals, Child Care, Educators
  • Anyone in a parenting role, such as nannies, foster parents, grandparents, extended family

    HOW THIS WORKSHOP WILL BENEFIT YOU…

  • Discover you're not alone in your struggle to parent well
  • Learn more about what you are doing RIGHT!
  • Learn how to discipline more effectively and patiently
  • Have tools to change difficult parent-adult/child relationships
  • Stop losing your patience and raising your voice and start communicating
  • Learn how to create a closer and more loving relationship with your child
  • Understand how to move from Reactive Parenting to Connective Parenting
                         YOU WILL LEARN HOW.....
  • to meet children's needs and about the stages of child development
  • to stay connected with children at any age no matter what they are doing
  • to gracefully get out of power struggles and create win-win solutions
  • both you and the child can express anger effectively
  • to establish healthy boundaries
  • to eliminate blame and criticism
  • to respect your needs and the unique needs of children while nurturing love and safety
  • your childhood experience affects your parenting and guiding children
  • to develop a Parenting Action Plan

CONSCIOUS MARRIAGES MAKE HAPPY FAMILIES

Research shows that the greatest gift you can give children is for

parents to love each other and to express this openly.

ATTENDEES’ FEEDBACK...

“A great workshop which really opened my eyes to see what I could be doing for my children and didn’t know about before the course... Goes a lot deeper than anything I’ve done before....I loved everything

& learned I have to shift my issues to help my children.” Andrea, WA

“The workshop combines powerful dialogues and most recent theories on child rearing and taught me to pause and reflect on what is going on in me when I get reactive with my children.

Instead of jumping straight into problem solving mode and ‘Mum knows best’ I now see our conflict as an opportunity for healing, creating connections and moving into curiosity, love and respect for my children’s decisions, preferences and thinking. Go for your life and enrol!!”

Ranka Joyce, Parent Effectiveness Training Facilitator, Perth, WA

“Incredibly powerful! Although the workshop felt like a big time commitment it flew by.

Informative sessions and practical demos really helped me absorb it all. I left feeling very enlightened and motivated to practice it with my 4 children, aged 2 to 15yrs.

Your dedication to improving family relationships is awesome.” Pip Wynn Owen, WA

“As a mother of 4 boys and as a Therapist, I craved to know what makes a healthy family.

Imago teaches openness & understanding between parents & THEN parents and children, not one at the expense of the other giving a deep understanding of what matters in families.

The workshop teaches the value of creating conscious dialogue with children and the value of open parents willing to build their relationship out of care for their children. Incredibly valuable.”

Leah O’Brien, Relationship Counsellor/Coach, Perth WA

 

 

Follow-On SEMINAR SERIES:

We are delighted to offer, a follow on seminar series to the "Born to Love" Parenting weekend workshop. Along the lines of "it takes a village to raise a child" we believe it takes a community to hold/support relationships and that having an on-going relationship with others with similar concerns and values and a deep interest in creating conscious relationships greatly enhances growth and learning.

Many have told us of their need to participate in some sort of on-going group. Attendance in this follow -on series is very highly recommended.


This eight week practical seminar series spread over 3 months, is designed to:

  • empower and support you in successfully applying the newly acquired skills and tools from the workshop in your family life
  • search together for a mutually acceptable solutions that will resolve the conflict in your family
  • provide plenty of practice for you to be confident in applying problem solving skills with your children

Any new skill, either physical or mental, needs to be practiced. It is only practice that will make progress. Equally so, the pull to go back to your old patterns can be very strong. To prevent going back to the old ways of relating in your family and for the new skills to be fully implemented and integrated in your life, we strongly encourage you to avail yourself of the guidance and support of our Associate RANKA JOYCE, who is an accredited Parent Effectivness Training Facilitator and is currently training in Imago methodology and who will be assisting us on the Parenting weekend workshop.

For ENQUIRIES on the Follow-on Series or Workshop:

Phone Ranka Joyce on 08 9204 5887or mobile 0416 057 412

or email johnranka@westnet.com.au

A WORLD OF LOVED AND WANTED CHILDREN WOULD MAKE

A WORLD OF DIFFERENCE

     

      "Children who don't listen have parents who don't listen" - Steven Stosny

 

Parenting Workshop Schedule

Workshop: "Born To Love" Parenting Workshop

Location: Perth, Western Australia.

When: 6-7th June 2009

Venue: Mary MacKillop Centre, 16 York Street, South Perth WA.

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FREE “PARENTING POTENTIAL” SEMINAR

  Introduction to the Born To Love Workshop

- will be held regularly in the next few months - check for dates

(Valued at $39.95 p/person)

When:  14th May 2009

Where: Mt Lawley Neighbourhood Learning Centre

                           715 Beaufort St, Mt Lawley

Time:  7pm – 9pm

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Enhance the skills you already have in parenting and/or

working with children! 

This Introductory Seminar is packed with information, tools and skills including...

~ why you relate the ways you do and how to act differently – as a parent and a partner

~ how to change the way you express yourself so that your partner and children can understand you;

~ how “conflict is growth trying to happen” and

~ how to transform your frustrations and conflict into both people getting their needs met.

 

Your parenting/relationships don’t have to be in trouble to attend!

This information is a Taster for everyone – parents, grandparents, parents-to-be and anyone working with children!

 

      Presented by Shelton Huettig &/or Susie Itzstein

Come along! All Welcome! Bring friends! Spread the word....

It’s FREE and there’s no obligation!

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ALL Parenting ENQUIRIES

or to register your interest contact CHRISTINE at

christine.imagomatters@gmail.com

or phone on 0422 328 677

or email SUSIE at susie@graduate.uwa.edu.au



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Shelton Huettig, M.A., Marriage and Family Therapist
4221 34th Ave S, Seattle, WA. 98118. U.S.A.
Tel: (0011 1) 206 325-6167
email: shuettig@aol.com

Susie Itzstein, B.A., Psychotherapist/Educator
Warm Fuzzy Hill, 50 Traylen Rd,
Stoneville 6081. Western Australia.
Tel: +61(8) 9295 2328
Mobile: 0414 771 741
email: susie@graduate.uwa.edu.au

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