Workshops
- Parent/Child Connect
- Managing Emotions and Stress In Teenagers
- Understanding Children of Today
- Understanding Children In Care
- Who Am I? Wellness Workshop
- Mind Setting Workshop
- Laughter Workshop
- Drumming Workshop
- Drama Movement Workshop
- Music / Movement Workshop
- Living With ASD Workshop
- Living with Dementia
- Domestic Violence Awareness
Supporting families of Special Children
At Empowered Therapy and Training, we excel in training to ensure that when you sign up, you will get the highest quality training in any one of our courses.
Upon completion of the Authentic Professional Speakers Training course, Empowered Therapy and Training offer you employment and provide you with the opportunity to become a trainer for our workshops and Train the Trainer program.
- Playfulness
- Acceptance
- Love
- Curiosity and Empathy
These key areas will be addressed in the workshops by focusing on attachment and re-attachment issues that children in care face while understanding how to communicate effectively.
Understanding children in care workshop will focus on:
- Supporting children who are fostered or adopted
- Nurturing attachment through attachment theory and its impact on attachment and exploration
- Care giving and its impact on attachment and exploration (characteristic of attachment relationship and exploration of behaviour and how it changes through childhood development).
- Patterns of attachments
- Secure attachment patterns
- Organise insecure patterns
- Disorganised/controlling attachment patterns
- Non-attachment
- Difficulties in development through the impact loss and trauma
- Attachment, relationship and development moving into foster home
- Supporting children with the experience of loss and separation
- Helping children recover through early trauma of adverse parenting and safe placements
- Parenting children with difficulties experiencing relationships as secure
- Understanding attachment theory and how it influences parenting.
- Increased feeling of safety for children through therapeutic help.
- Parenting a child who has not learned to selectively-attach
- The model for parenting a child with difficulties in:
- The challenge of parenting children
- Understanding your child’s attachment history
- What is empathy?
- What is meant by attunement relationships?
- What is a family atmosphere?
- The use of family rituals and claiming behaviours to help children feel that they belong
- Helping children who are angry
- Finding and being aware of stress and coping mechanisms
- Helping the children to enjoy being a part of the family
- Managing special difficulties: lying, stealing and self-harm
- Managing risk of suicide
Understanding Children in Care Workshop Includes
- Meditation
- Role Plays
- Afirmations
- Arts & Crafts
- Movement & Creative Play
- Drumming
- Laughter