Our courses are specially designed for people parenting alone, sharing parenting and separating.
For details on courses and how to apply, please see details below.
Zoom Courses
What you can expect from the course:
- This is an 8-week online course via Zoom, in a group-based setting (cameras on)
- Working with a facilitator in live weekly group sessions
- Actively taking part, offering and gaining peer support.
- Getting to know other parents with similar issues in groups of up to 12 parents
- Weekly handouts and slides to support you at home.
- Opportunity to avail of 1-1 parent support
- Certificate of attendance at the end of the 8-week course
This is an opportunity for you to explore in more detail what is happening for you and what additional supports you may need from One Family following completion of the course.
Available Courses
Family Communications | Separating Well for Children
In this programme parents who are parenting post separation or are planning to separate are supported to firstly understand the impact of separation on children. The programme aims to support parents to have a child centred approach post separation, ensuring children are supported to manage the transition well, achieving positive outcomes. The 4 steps of clear and direct communication are explored to help parents improve communication resulting in decreased conflict.
Parents are asked to explore and understand the needs of children and parents at the time of separation and how these needs can be met. In the programme parents are encouraged to have pride in the new family form, inviting children to ask questions and being available to answer the awkward questions about family forms as they arise.
We explore what shared parenting is, why it is beneficial to children when done well and how parents can develop a shared parenting plan to support them to move into the business of shared parenting post separation.
Finally the programme asks you to develop new family traditions to support you as move through this transition with your children, while also exploring how you can manage conflict in the future while maintaining a healthy balance of meeting your needs and those of your children.
Positive Parenting for Changing Families
This course helps with understanding your child’s emotional development and how to manage behaviours in young children.
This programme supports parents of toddlers through to late primary school. The concept of the ‘Good Enough Parent’ supports parents to examine their parenting style and explore how this impacts on the relationship they have with their child. During the programme parents are asked to become more confident in how they parent, allowing them to be assertive in how they handle the many challenges that young children can present. Parents will learn the importance of positive attention, routines and consistency, quality time, quiet time and the active listening. We will also examine the difference in discipline versus punishment, helping parents to teach children as they manage childhood behaviours.
Family Communications | Coping with Teens and Family Life
This programme introduces the concept of the strong family unit, supporting parents to build relationships by ensuring the core ingredients of good communication and assertive parenting are in place within the family. Parents will learn the 4 step process of clear and direct communication also known as NVC.
With these elements in place parents begin to understand the ‘life of a teenager’. You are supported to explore the many changes and challenges that occur for teens as they move through puberty and how you as a parent can support your teen at this vulnerable time. Parents will have an opportunity to reflect on the many behavioural challenges that teens can present with such as power struggles. As a parent the programme helps you to learn when to step in and when to step back.
Parenting under Pressure | Online (via Zoom) or In Person
This parenting programme is designed for families who are facing multiple adversities and stressful circumstances. Delivered by fully accredited practitioners, it is an evidence based model that combines psychological principles relating to parenting, child behaviour, and parental emotion regulation.
Parents Under Pressure and the Family
The programme takes a strengths-based approach where the over-arching aim is to help parents develop positive and secure relationships with their children. As the quality of the care giving relationship improves, parents are able to focus on developing family routines and processes that are age appropriate for their infants and children. Our therapists work with parents to assist them with their understanding of their child’s development while focusing and responding to the child’s emotional needs and in turn improving the manner in which they interact with their child.
Parents Under Pressure and the Parents
The programme aims to improve your relationship with your child/children. It does so by allowing you to explore any pressure you experience as a parent and develops a clear plan regards to managing these. Participating in this programme will allow you to have a look at your own emotional regulation and how this supports your child with developing their own skills. There is a great focus on how to be emotionally available for your child/children and you will see how doing this makes parental life more manageable.
Next Dates
Booking & Cost
Each course costs only €50.
You can book your place on the course today by following the steps outlined below.
- Register on fetchcourses.ie – see the instructions below.
- Once you have registered on fetchcourses.ie One Family will be notified.
- You will receive a link to make a payment for your course – all courses are €50 (for 8 weeks). You can call into One Family to make your payment if you are not in a position to pay online.
- You will also be asked to complete the One Family Registration process at this time. This then allows us to hold your data and make contact with you.
- Following these steps a member of the parenting team will make contact with you to discuss your course choice and secure your place on the course.
Post-Registration
Once registered and engaged in a zoom course you will be emailed a weekly link to the Zoom course where you will have opportunities to talk with and share your experience in the live 8-week group sessions with other parents and the facilitators.
After the Course
Following the 8-week Zoom course One Family Parenting will aim to ensure further appropriate supports are put in place as needed by parents (e.g. Parent Mentoring, further group based support or an internal referral to another service in One Family).