Feeling alone as you face your parenting struggles? Meet online with other parents in the UK to share challenges in Connect for Parents workshops facilitated by our therapists. Our therapists have lived experience. They can ease your sense of isolation and support you with new parenting ideas to build positivity and resilience.
Workshop overview for January to February 2025
- Location: Online
- Cost: Free and fully funded (see below)
- Duration: 3-4 sessions, each lasting up to 2 hours
- Suitable for: Struggling parents and carers in the UK. Support and early help workers, community professionals and teachers also welcome!
- Focus topics: Neurodiversity, and violent and agressive behaviour in children.
We have two upcoming workshop programmes in January. Book your place or register your interest!
Connect for Parents workshops: Neurodiversity
Key topics covered:
- Neurodivergent parenting
- Sensory issues
- Burn out
- Masking
- School issues
- Low arousal / demand parenting
- Practical tools and approaches
Download digital flyer for full details.
Book a place / register your interest:
Connect for Parents workshops: Violent and aggressive behaviour in children
Key topics covered:
- Exploring causes and impact on the family
- Emotional dyregulation
- De-escalation
- Practical regulation strategies for childrend and adults
- The impact of parental presence, reconciliation and resilience
Download digital flyer for full details.
Book a place / register your interest:
Are Connect for Parents workshops really free?
Yes, they are, for the most part – with occasional exceptions which are priced at affordable rates and which you have no obligation to attend.
With funding from the National Lottery, we have established much needed and valued services in the community. We look forward to expanding further so that we can help more families over the next few years.
PLUS: With the support of the Heart of England Community Fund, and the Inclusive Communities Fund, we’re extending our reach to provide specialised support through Connect for Parents workshops.
Is a Connect for Parents workshop right for me?
If you are a UK parent or carer who fits any of the criteria below, you are welcome to book onto a Connect for Parents workshop.
- Parents who are struggling, emotionally or socially
- Parents who want to help their family feel safer
- Parents managing neurodiversity
- Parents who are finding their children’s emotional behaviour a challenge
- Parents facing challenges due to resettling, e.g. as a displaced / refugee family
- Parents who feel that their stories are not being heard or understood
- Participants are asked to complete an evaluation via link, to help us improve our services.
What to expect from a Connect for Parents workshop
These workshops are for parents and carers, not for group work with your children. Connect for Parents workshops are designed to help you learn more about how to support your children and feel better as parents, guardians, and caregivers.
Workshop topics
Each workshop is designed to be educational and informative. It will typically focus on one key topic and challenge, such as neurodivergence, or Challenging Childhood Violent and Aggressive Behaviours (CCVAB).
Workshop leaders
Connect for Parents workshops are facilitated by our qualified and experienced therapists. They have lived experience of the challenges you may be facing. In addition, they have all been trained in play therapies and Theraplay®, a relational support that uses play to build and strengthen relationships with your child.
What parents say about us…
“This session gave me a really good boost and I now know I’m not alone.”
“This week has been difficult – almost at the point of placement breakdown. This (workshop) has given me hope!”
“It is refreshing to meet people with the same sort of circumstances – parenting as a neurodivergent adult, having children with conflicting sensory needs, clash/triggering each other.”
“It was so helpful to know there is help out there and that other parents are in similar situations. I feel less alone when I start to think I’m struggling or drowning.”
“It has been good to think about support networks, and how that helps to reduce violent and aggressive behaviours, as well as increasing capacity to manage the situation.”
“A great opportunity to get together with other parents and care givers going through similar experiences, to hear how others are living lives like ours.”
“I never knew how much I needed this until I started, but knew I was burning out. I got so much out of it personally and lots to take away.”
“I have not just a greater understanding after this workshop but feeling that what we are living is real and not just our perception and that someone else gets it.”
Further support
Did you know? If you are based in the West Midlands and your child needs extra support with social and emotional development, you can sign up cost-free to our in-person local Connect for Kids Theraplay® group sessions. These sessions help parents and carers and their children play together to find safe, fun ways to enjoy human connection.