E-Learning for Parents
E-Learning with One Family is self-directed learning, in your own home and your own pace. We currently offer three e-learning courses, Family Communications – Coping with Family Life, Communication with Teenagers – Positive Parenting for Changing Families and Family Communications, Parenting when Separated.
The courses are suitable for parents in all family forms and can be done from the comfort of your own home at a time that suits you. The eight weekly sessions will be communicated via email from One Family and include reflective exercises and completion of a Learning Journal. On completion we will issue you with a Certificate of Completion.
Participants on our e-learning courses are invited to email the parenting team: parenting@onefamily.ie if they are struggling with the course content or would like some additional support.
This course costs €9.99 which includes ten weekly emails (eight with course content), optional individual support on the parenting topics explored, and optional assessment with issue of a Certificate of Completion.
New E-Learning Platform
We are currently moving more courses to our new E-Learning platform, which will offer five parenting courses.
- Parenting Through Stressful Times
- Clear & Direct Communication
- Positive Parenting for Changing Families
- Family Communications – Parenting when Separated
- Family Communications – Parenting Teens
These courses will be free until early in the New Year as we continue to make them available. The course offer video support from the One Family Parenting team to support you as you work through the course content. You will also find many additional videos and reading materials to help extend your opportunities to learn as you engage in these e-learning courses.
Course Descriptions
Family Communications
Aims
- Explore the key components of clear and direct communication to help parents to communicate effectively, while reducing conflict, when parenting teens and sharing parenting.
- To understand the impact separation has on children and teens.
- To explore what shared parenting is and how to move into the business of shared parenting after separation.
- Explore a day in the life of a teenager and develop ways in which you can understand your teen and form a positive relationship.
- Resolve conflict within family relationships and support your teen to negotiate change.
- To explore boundaries and implement fair rules within the home to meet the needs of each member.
- Develop listening skills and find a way to allow each family member to voice needs and be heard in the home.
Positive Parenting for Changing Families
About the course:
This course explores with parents the key components of clear and direct communication (Non Violent Communication Process) as a tool for managing behaviour and developing healthy communication in the home.
The course will also give opportunity to explore sibling relationships, problem solving, managing a crisis and respecting difference.
Aims:
- Develop ways in which you can understand your teen and form a positive relationship.
- Resolve conflict within family relationships and support your teen to negotiate change.
- To explore boundaries and implement fair rules within the home to meet the needs of each member.
- Develop listening skills and find a way to allow each family member to voice needs and be heard in the home.
Parenting When Separated
About the course:
This course is an online adaption of our in-house ‘Family Communications: Parenting When Separated’ course. It is for parents who have separated and may be in the process of agreeing how to share parenting. The course will explore the key components of clear and direct communication (Non Violent Communication Process) as a tool to support parents to communicate effectively in a non conflictual way in order to achieve success when sharing parenting.
Aims:
- To understand the impact separation has on children.
- To explore what shared parenting is and how to move into the business of shared parenting after separation.
- To develop the skills of compromise and negotiation in order to parent effectively with the other parent.
- To recognise the challenges of parenting after separation and identifying ways to support ones own wellbeing.
- To move forward with new family rituals and routines accepting the new family form welcoming a new future.