Healing Hearts has a range of workshops that will support parents, carers and family members to learn about parenting and improve their parenting skills. New "ready-made" workshops will be added to this as times goes by, so keep looking to see what new workshops we have to offer.

Remember, if you don't see a workshop that meets your needs, contact Healing Hearts and staff will be happy to discuss creation of workshop that is tailored to the whatever area/skill/issue you wish to target.

Adolescent development is broken up into stages that run approximately from 9 years of age to 24 years of age and biological changes are happening for young people usually 2-3 years before puberty! Young people can begin the process at different ages, however understanding the stages of adolescence can help you better understand what is happening for a young person, biologically, psychologically, cognitively and socially. This can help you to support them through these confusing and tumultuous times.

This is a 3 hour workshop

Self-esteem is how we value ourselves; it is how we perceive our value to the world and how valuable we think we are to others. Self-esteem affects our trust in others, our relationships, our work – nearly every part of our lives. Positive self-esteem gives us the strength and flexibility to take charge of our lives and grow from our mistakes without the fear of rejection.

Self-Esteem is a workshop provided by Healing Hearts, and is aimed at providing parents and carers with the skills and techniques they need to build and maintain self-esteem in their children and teenagers.

This is a 2 hour workshop

Boundaries are the means by which parents control the rate of change; helping teenagers find a reasonable and balanced approach to growing up.  Allowing children and teenagers to take on more a little bit at a time rather than allowing them to take on everything and getting overwhelmed in the process.

Teenagers need clear structures and guidelines (although they will never admit to it).  Teenagers have enough change to deal with in their lives, having parents clearly define the playing field provides a vital degree of certainty and stability.

Healing Hearts provides a workshop aimed at providing parents and carers with the skills and techniques they need to create and implement effective boundaries and consequences for their teenagers.

This is a 2 hour workshop.

Alcohol and other drugs are something most parents and carers have concerns about. It is well known that teenagers often experiment with alcohol and other drugs, however this use can be dangerous and harmful.

Healing Hearts has a workshop that provides parents and carers with information and skills to discuss alcohol and other drugs with their teenager.

This is a 2 hour workshop.

Healing Hearts has a range of programmes that will support parents, carers and family members to learn and grow, better preparing them for the challenges of parenting. New programmes will be added to this as times goes by, so keep looking to see what new workshops we have to offer.

Remember, if you don't see a programme that meets your needs, contact Healing Hearts and staff will be happy to discuss creation of a tailored programme to meet you individual need(s).

1-2-3 Magic is a programme that provides information and resources for parents on effective discipline and the best way to educate, motivate and encourage children. It uses humour to engage parents and carers but don't think it's all fun and games! This programmes takes a serious look as discipline and how to productively discipline children, without yelling or spanking.

The programme runs over 3 weeks, in 3, 2 hour workshops

Alternatively it can be run as on full day workshop

Communicating with a teenager can often seem like an impossible job. Between the grunts, the lack of eye contact and the feeling that they are never listening, holding a conversation with a teenager can make parents feel invisible.

Engaging Adolescents is a programme that provides information and practical strategies for parents, carers and family members to:

• learn to better communicate with their teenagers

• learn how to hold the "tough" conversations
• learn how to negotiate better behaviour
• deal with adolescent behaviour better

Engaging Adolescents is a 3 week programme, run in 3, 2 hour sessions.

Alternatively it can be delivered as a one day workshop.