FREE Playlistening Hand in Hand Parenting Workshop

About this event

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We are delighted to offer this informative workshop entirely free of charge, thanks to a grant awarded to Sustainable Families by the Big Lottery Fund (Awards for All)

Playlistening: Play that Helps with Power Struggles

“Everything Happens in Play!” – Patty Wipfler, Founder, Hand in Hand Parenting

“Play is the Highest Form of Research” – Albert Einstein, Theoretical Physicist

Play is how children learn the world.  It’s an essential need for children.  Through play they can show us what they feel, what things have happened to them, and what they are wrestling with. 

Playlistening is a special kind of play that supports children and teens to move through fears to recover their confidence in themselves.  

Children and teens are learners in an adult world and must ‘fail a 1000 times’ before they learn to walk as toddlers, speak, learn at school or home, socialise and understand their world as they grow. Playlistening supports their experiments as learners as well as your parent/child relationships.  

Not so excited about play?  Most of us had parents who were working too hard or were too stressed to play.  Playlistening is not  the easiest tool for some of us. Alongside Playlistening we’ll experiment with how it is to play as adults, introduce the tool of Listening Partnerships and help you re-connect to your own feelings around play.  It may help you get a little ‘un-stuck’ and you may even have some fun, play and laughter!

No creche this time / Funding available for low income families

Unfortunately we aren't able to offer a creche space as we have on our previous workshops, however we have some funding available towards childcare costs for low income families who would otherwise be unable to attend - please email: SustainableFamiliesDevon@gmail.com

Timings

Arrive from 12:15 for 12:30 start. Finish 4:30.

Babes-in-arms welcome!

We can accommodate babies who are not yet crawling at the workshop, who are welcome to stay with you.

If they are needing attention (ie distracting you or others in the workshop space) you may use the café space to tend to their needs.

Unfortunately you cannot bring your children other than pre-crawling babies, but please do email us if you are from a low-income family about the childcare funding that is available: SustainableFamiliesDevon@gmail.com

Parking:

Mardle Way Car Park (pay and display / approx 5 min walk to venue) https://maps.app.goo.gl/KfFnidC6tBGSvfm37

Victoria Woodholme Car Park (pay and display / approx 10 min walk to venue) https://maps.app.goo.gl/VoFmCnVxnTnSmWkUA

Finding the venue:

The venue is Moor Imagination Collective (which used to be the Buckfastleigh Methodist Church)

Google Maps: https://maps.app.goo.gl/E5mv1FKUoaue6M899

Address: 21B Chapel St, Buckfastleigh TQ11 0AQ

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About the trainers:

Anna Cole is an accredited Hand in Hand Instructor with over a decade’s experience sharing this approach & mother of two young people aged 18 & 20

Workshop assistants Jane Thrift and Joanna Watters are both trained in Hand in Hand Parenting

I f you have any questions, please email: SustainableFamiliesDevon@gmail.com