Pregnancy – 2 years: Parenting programs

For parents expecting a baby, the Bringing Up Great Kids Pregnancy and Beyond program is for you. For parents who have recently had a baby, the Bringing Up Great Kids – Babies program is for you.

Thousands of expecting couples and parents just like you are looking for ways to give their kids the best start in life. Deb offers this program to help you learn about brain development, understand what your child needs, and build strong family relationships.

With Deb’s warm and welcoming coaching, you’ll learn to:

• Develop an understanding of the significance of the first thousand days and the needs of babies and young children during this period;
• Learn about brain development both during pregnancy and after concerning the growth and development of children;
• Understand the basics of parenting styles and recognise the significance of a positive start in the first thousand days;
• Identify the importance of giving positive nurturing messages to babies and young children and how to achieve this;
• Discover how to overcome some of the obstacles getting in the way of being the kind of parents you would like to be
• Explore ways to nurture your needs as a parent and find support when needed.

Circle of Security Parenting is an eight-session series based on decades of evidence-based research. The program focuses on supporting and strengthening parent-child relationships by guiding you through new ways to understand and respond to your child’s behaviour.

Discover new ways to connect with your children. Deb focuses on supporting safe, responsive and protective relationships between children and those who care for them.

You will learn to:

• recognise your child’s emotional needs
• support your child’s ability to manage their emotions successfully
• encourage the development of your child’s self-esteem.

For parents with a newborn to one year old, The Incredible Years® Baby program is for you. For parents with a child aged 1 to 3 years, The Incredible Years® Toddler program is for you.

Facilitated by the warm and engaging Deb Woods, The Incredible Years®, this excellent evidence-based parenting course focuses on strengthening parent-child interactions, nurturing relationships, reducing harsh discipline, and fostering parents’ ability to promote children’s social, emotional, and language development. And with the pre-school and school-age programs, Deb helps parents learn how to encourage school readiness skills.

Parents, teachers and children worldwide have gone through The Incredible Years programs successfully.

These workshops will look at the background of safety, recent research and ways to recognise when Protective Behaviours are needed. Deb will introduce the Stay Safe program and show you fun, interactive ways you can teach your children to:

• identify the signs when things are no longer safe
• think clearly about your options
• take the right action to stay safe
• seek help from your support network
• problem-solve using your support network.

Are you navigating the turbulent waters of parenting post-separation? Keeping Kids in Mind (KKIM) offers a supportive setting where you can learn to nurture your child’s emotional well-being through and beyond the hurdles of separation.

In the KKIM course, you will gain invaluable insights and skills such as:

• Empathy through your child’s eyes: Understand the separation from your child’s perspective to foster empathy and improve communication.
• In-depth understanding and support: Learn how to effectively support your child’s adjustment and emotional well-being after separation.
• Strategies for emotional growth: Equip yourself with tools to aid your child’s emotional development, ensuring they navigate post-separation changes with resilience.

Transform your approach to post-separation parenting with the comprehensive support and expert guidance of Keeping Kids in Mind.

Key features

• Expert-led support: Led by the warm and enigmatic Deb Woods, this programme offers a nurturing environment for shared learning and mutual understanding among parents facing similar challenges.
• Comprehensive support framework: Beyond practical strategies, the programme provides a holistic approach to addressing the emotional and psychological needs of both parents and children during this challenging time.
• Community and connection: Engage with a community of parents who understand your journey, offering mutual support and shared experiences to enrich your learning.

'Me Time' for Mums is a wellness program for managing stress and anger for Mums or female caregivers.

Becoming a mum brings huge life changes and new responsibilities that impact all aspects of life. Becoming a Mum can transform your physical, mental and emotional health, change relationships, and impact your sense of self.  Understandably, this often brings a range of mixed and big emotions for Mum’s.

Have you lost yourself since becoming a Mum?

Are you feeling overwhelmed and having outbursts you later regret?

Do you want to reconnect with your family and start having more fun?

Finding it hard to reach out and ask for help?

If you are looking for support with the above or support as a Mum, we will help you identify where these big emotions are coming from, recognise the early warning signs and know how to ask for help (and get it).

Adapted from the original Tuning in to Kids® curriculum, Tuning in to Toddlers focuses on improving parent-child emotional connection through emotion coaching. Tuning in to Toddlers will develop parents and carer’s ability to support your toddler to manage their emotions in a healthy way and equip parents and carers with the skills to support children through the ups and downs of life.

This program provides tools and resources to emotion coach toddlers with an emphasis on non-verbal ways of responding to emotions and a focus on responding to the attachment and exploration needs of toddlers.

This evidence-based, emotion-focused group parenting program focusing on emotion coaching and parents will be taught:

• Building connection with your toddler
• Awareness of your own emotions
• Recognise, understand and manage your child’s emotions
• Communicate in meaningful ways with your child
• Help your child learn to manage and self-regulate their emotions
• Handling discipline and challenging behaviour
• Equip your child with problem solving skills

As a parent, the benefits include:

• Learn about emotional intelligence and why it matters
• Improve awareness of your child’s emotions. Notice them before they become harder to manage
• Use children’s emotional expressions as an opportunity to connect and teach
• Expand your language for describing and responding to emotions
• Use simple calming strategies in your daily life

Learn to emotion coach your toddler