Parents are the most important people in children's lives!
In this transformative 10-week course, parents will experience an interactive, hands-on learning process designed to deepen their connection with their children. By focusing on Filial Therapy—a research-backed approach that uses play as a therapeutic tool—you’ll gain a deeper understanding of your child’s feelings, development, and needs, and learn how to foster a stronger, more positive relationship.
Throughout the course, you will:
- Engage in Experiential Learning: Participate in activities that empower you as a parent, providing real-time insights into your child’s world.
- Master Effective Communication: Learn techniques for communicating with empathy, understanding, and emotional awareness, enhancing your relationship.
- Harness the Power of Play: Discover how child-centered play can support your child’s emotional regulation, self-expression, and growth, while also bringing joy into your interactions.
- Strengthen Your Parent-Child Bond: Develop the skills to build trust, reduce conflict, and encourage openness between you and your child.
- Build Family Resilience: Equip yourself with practical tools to navigate challenges and create lasting positive change in your family dynamics.
Play is a powerful tool in emotional development and is far more than just fun. It’s how children express their emotions, process experiences, and build resilience. In this course, you’ll learn how a focused, 30-minute weekly play session can help your child build confidence, manage emotions, and thrive in a safe, supportive environment.
Filial Therapy, rooted in intentional play, is a proven approach that has helped countless families improve their parent-child relationships. Supported by the latest research, this method allows you to directly address emotional challenges in a meaningful and fun way.
By the end of this course, you will have developed skills that not only enhance your child’s emotional intelligence but also bring greater understanding, joy, and ease to your parenting journey. Join us to experience the life-changing benefits of therapeutic play and strengthen your relationship with your child.
Benefits
This 10-week Filial Family Therapy course is designed for families with children aged 2-12 who are facing challenges such as moderate conflict, negativity, or simply looking for new ways to connect and better understand their children. It’s especially beneficial for families experiencing stress or tension at home and for those seeking to enhance their relationships.
By participating in this program, families will experience:
- Less Frustration: Discover effective ways to manage household tensions and reduce daily stress.
- Greater Connection: Strengthen the emotional bonds with your children, fostering a sense of trust and understanding.
- Stronger, Cohesive Relationships: Improve overall family dynamics, building a foundation of support and open communication.
This course is ideal for families with children who are facing specific challenges, including:
- Children with anxiety
- Neurodivergent children
- Children with cognitive deficits experiencing moderate emotional challenges
- Foster children
- Late-adopted children or children in care
- Children who have experienced maltreatment but are not currently at risk
The course focuses on helping families better understand and support their children’s emotional and developmental needs. Through the lens of Filial Therapy, we use play as a powerful tool for children to express their thoughts, feelings, and concerns. Since children often find it easier to communicate through play rather than words, this method allows them to express any worries or emotions related to confusing or distressing events.
Key benefits for children include:
- Development of a Secure Relationship: Build a strong, trusting bond with your child that promotes security and comfort.
- Support for Emotional Expression: Encourage your child to express thoughts and feelings in developmentally appropriate ways, improving emotional intelligence.
- Improved Emotional Regulation: Help your child develop self-awareness, better recognize emotions in their body (interoception), and regulate their emotional responses.
- Enhanced Co-regulation Skills: Strengthen your ability to attune to your child’s emotional state and support them through challenging moments.
- Boost in Speech and Language Development: Support your child’s communication skills through therapeutic play.
- Increased Confidence and Sense of Self: Enhance your child’s self-esteem and belief in their abilities.
- Improved Imagination and Problem-Solving: Foster your child’s creativity and critical thinking abilities through play-based learning.
Testimonials
This was a great way to learn how to improve my relationship with my children, whilst being supported to identify and talk through triggers that continually prevented me from having the ability to self regulate, sometimes making connection a challenge during parenting. I noticed improved capacity within myself. This course gave me invaluable insight into the benefits of making time to do some weekly special play time with my child and was supported beautifully by Helen who nurtured our “mistakes” reframing them as learnings for self growth and expansion.
Helen is nonjudgmental and knowledgeable in her experience of understanding the dynamics that have evolved between adult and child, and she helps support parents in the group to, “be with” their child in a totally different way to the usual parenting/teaching style that many of us expect of ourselves as parents. This created a safe container for reflection and exploration and increased self awareness in the group. We could witness that when our child feels seen, heard and validated this starts (or continues) to open up a deeper connection between the parent and child. I noticed beautiful movement with the other participants, as they began to grow in confidence whilst feeling safe and able to be vulnerable. I would highly recommend this course to any parent wanting to deepen their understanding of both themselves as a parent and their child, so that they can give them the opportunity to process and integrate life’s experiences and connect in more intentional and healthy ways, sustaining and improving the family unit. (Sofia, March 2024 Participant)
Flourishing Families, Building Resilience and Connectedness through Play (Online Program)
$950.00 Original price was: $950.00.$845.00Current price is: $845.00.
