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6 week Parenting Starter Class (Online)

April 22, 2021 @ 11:00 - 12:00

£320 – £360
Parenting Starter Class with Roma Norriss

Starting online – Thursday 22 April 2021

“This course has been unbelievable, life changing. I wish everyone would have the chance to do this”

“The difference between me at the beginning of this course and me now is NIGHT and DAY!”

Full information and booking here >>

Join me to connect with other parents like you, work on the specific challenges you face in your family, gain guidance and support.

>>> You’ll be part of a weekly class where you’ll get to connect with like minded parents, learn a cutting-edge, progressive approach to parenting and receive emotional support for the worries and regrets you carry as a parent.

>>> Access all online starter class video content to work through in your own time. This is the course from our amazing Founder Patty Wipfler, who gives a unique transmission of the approach.  You’ll get to keep this for 6 months. It’s a great way to consolidate your learning and share with your partner/co-parent/family.

 

 Meet Roma for an introduction to the Parenting Starter Class

 

 During this 6 week course you will discover how to…

  • Set up support for yourself that allows you to make changes in the automatic parenting responses you wish you didn’t have

  • Say the magic words that allow your child to feel connected and valued

  • Understand your child’s emotions and what they are really asking for; crying, tantrums and how you can respond to them

  • Set clear, effective limits with warmth

  • Change rigid, unworkable, maddening behaviours

  • Help an angry child become playful and compassionate

  • Work on any issues around sleep/food/separation/school/siblings/aggression and more

 

Here’s what other parents said about this course:

“It has been life changing for me. I hated being a parent and I’m so much happier now. All my views are different and my perceptions have all changed.”

“This course has has such a profound influence on me. I found it through the desperation of ‘This is NOT what my life is gonna be like’ and ‘Parenting CAN’T be this hard!’ All the things that were wrong I now feel the opposite about. It’s changed my view of the world. It’s built bridges with people in my life because I’m stronger. It’s enabled me to crack my little safe shell and start growing into the person I want to be. It’s brought me to real, unconditional love and my daughter is blossoming in that environment – she’s singing and dancing and she tells me she loves me.”

“The course has been amazing. All the other parenting courses I’ve done have been so cerebral and this was so simple and just made sense. My husband says he sees me relating differently to my children. I’m being more ME, more authentic and more respectful.”

“I just don’t take it all so personally anymore and that’s been quite a big breakthrough for me. Also realising that it’s not my fault when they go off track and having tools I can use makes me feel more in charge of the situation. When I used to take it personally we’d end up getting into battles, but now I’m much calmer and he can calm down and appologise and soften quite quickly.”

“My 4 year old daughter says I shout less and we’re in a really good place. I’m coping with stress better and playing spontaneously even when I haven’t a lot to give, it’s enough.”

“Things are really different. I don’t feel so panicked and actually I can get through this. Things have really shifted for my eldest daughter and I think she feels more loved.”

“I’ve noticed that my son is no longer aggressive and I am closer to my children.”

“My little girl wouldn’t leave the house without us dragging her out kicking and screaming, it was controlling our lives and now she goes and plays outside outside.”

 

Course content:

Week 1 – Understanding children’s emotions, what is really going on? Receiving support for the emotional work of parenting using Listening Partnerships

Week 2 – The science behind connection. How to really listen to children so they can feel it, using the tool we call Staylistening. How to cope with crying and tantrums. What to say when children are upset.

Week 3 – How our own experiences impact on our parenting. How to increase your child’s sweetness and co-operation and feel like a really good parent, using the tool we call Special Time.

Week 4 –  Building co-operation and ease in the family: how to set limits to stop difficult behaviour such as hitting, throwing, snatching and assert an expectation such as getting dressed, doing homework, sitting in the car, brushing teeth etc. Learn our radical approach to setting limits that is both warm, kind, respectful AND entirely effective every time.

Week 5 – Increasing joy and play: Accessing our playfulness and diverting conflict using play. Helping our children work on separation, sleep, picky eating, aggression or co-operation using games.

Week 6 – Building our resilience as parents: How to build this approach into your life for maximum effect. What to do when you are losing it.

Support groups in breakout rooms are limited to 6 places to allow for individual attention for your particular family’s issues.

 

Cost

Early Bird before 31 March £320 (couples Early Bird £600)

April 1st-19th £360 (couples £670)

Cost includes manual, booklets and the whole course in video segments online as well as the 6 weekly 1.5 hour sessions.

Booking closes Monday 19th April

 

How to apply

Visit this page for full Starter Class information and booking >>

 

Is the Parenting Starter Class right for me?

What will I get from taking this class?

You will by the end of the 6 week course have started to build a strong and potentially lifelong support network for parenting. You’ll know how to help your child when their behaviour goes off track and how to prevent them getting to that point so often. You’ll discover how to set effective, respectful limits and know when limits are needed or not. You’ll start to develop your resourcefulness and ability to divert situations playfully. You can rediscover how to play and have fun with your child and feel like a good parent. Overall, you’ll gain confidence in your parenting and a clear idea of how to navigate most situations.

What kind of issues will I be able to work on using the Hand in Hand approach?

This approach can be applied across the board for any ages and will improve difficult/defiant behaviour, sibling relationships, sleep, picky eating, challenges with separation, aggression, conflicts about getting dressed or chores or whatever. It will improve your child’s capacity to take bold steps in the world and access their intelligence.

Will this help if my child’s behaviours are really extreme?

These are trauma informed, therapeutic parenting tools. If you read my story, you’ll see I’ve turned my own family around from a pretty extreme place. I would go so far as to say this might be the most likely thing to actually make a difference!

I’m not sure I have enough parenting challenges to warrant taking a class.

This approach will give you a way of being that enhances every relationship in your life. It’s hard to imagine what more connection, fun and ease can look like before you’ve experienced it. We take for granted that parenting involves struggle and that we need to do it by ourselves and yet here is a way to make life easier, more connected, more supported, more joyful and PLAYFUL!

How much time do I need to allocate to doing the Starter Class?

We meet weekly for a live Zoom call for 90 minutes.
Plus there are video tutorials from Hand in Hand founder Patty Wipfler to watch each week, lasting between 60 – 85 minutes.

Ideally you will also be able to schedule time to practice the tools we teach each week. There is also reading material if you have time. Please allow 30-60 minutes for this homework.

BUT if you’re pressed for time and can only make the live call and spare half an hour during the week to engage with the material and try things out, that’s enough 🙂 You have 6 months’ access to the videos to go over the content in more depth.

I can’t afford the fee!

Do get in touch with me if you are worried about affording it. I can accept payment in installments and sometimes have offers. The course includes materials and you will get to keep the manual and booklets. You can share the online course with your spouse and you’ll have that content for 6 months. This is a really good value course.

 

Details

Date:
April 22, 2021
Time:
11:00 - 12:00
Cost:
£320 – £360
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Website:
https://roma-norriss.mykajabi.com/starterclass

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