Understanding and Responding to your Child's Behaviour

Understanding and Responding to your Child's Behaviour

Create and sustain strong, meaningful connections between you and your child.

This training is designed to help parents and caregivers to deepen their understanding of children’s behaviour through a neuroscience perspective, providing tools and strategies to enhance their bond and sustain a healthy relationship along the way.

Who is it for?

This workshop is ideal for parents and caregivers feeling overwhelmed and seeking clarity on how to better support their children.

It offers actionable steps to create a more harmonious and supportive home environment.

Outcomes

  • Understand why your child behaves the way they do: develop an understanding of how the brain affects behaviour, why kids can seem out of control and how past experieces shape reaction.
  • Learn practical strategies for responding to your child’s behaviour: build skills in repairing relationships after conflict, practicing positive interactions and staying calm and connected.

Duration

4 hours, delivered in 2 x 2-hour sessions online or face-to-face.

How to access our trainings

To find out about our upcoming trainings, please phone 08 8232 2438 or email at training@connectedself.com.au .

Polyvagal Practices

Polyvagal practices aim to enhance physiological regulation, restore a sense of safety, and promote engagement through autonomic nervous system regulation.

This enhances social and emotional learning, including recognising and regulating emotions (from a physiological lens) and developing empathy for others.

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PACE

Developed as part of attachment-focused family therapy, PACE is a trauma-informed approach aiming to create safe, trusting, emotionally connected relationships with children and adolescents who have experienced trauma or attachment difficulties. PACE stands for:

Playfulness

  • Approaching with an open, ready, calm, relaxed and engaged attitude.
  • Not taking yourself/situations too seriously.
  • Diffusing difficult/tense situations.

Acceptance

  • Unconditionally accepting the current state/mood/behaviour.
  • Accepting that there are things unseen that lie below behaviour.
  • Acceptance supports feeling secure, safe and loved

Curiosity

  • Understanding the child gently and without judgement.
  • Supporting child to bring awareness to their inner life.
  • Wondering statements.

Empathy

  • A sense of compassion and understanding for young person’s feelings and thoughts.

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