FREE Staylistening Hand in Hand Parenting Workshop

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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)

Staylistening

We are sometimes at a loss about what to do in the face of big feelings from our children. We may know we don’t want to punish or shut our children down when they are upset - like we perhaps were as children - but we don’t often have an easy time figuring out how to respond to their behaviours, wants and needs when they are having their most emotional moments.

Staylistening is a tool you can use with your children for many ‘big-blast’ emotional states—tantrums, grief, fear, even anger with the desire to hit or bite.

It’s good to remember that experiencing intense emotion takes neurobiological precedence over thinking about that emotion. In other words, it’s hard to think and feel at the same time.

Come along to learn and practise responding to your child’s emotional moments in a way that allows you both to think and feel, and leads to connection rather than disconnection.

Connecting with children when they express their emotional experience can support the essential elements of the parent-child relationship. It’s an opportunity for connection, attunement and emotional closeness and can support a parent-child relationship for life.

Whether you are brand new to this approach, or have been experimenting with it at home for some time, come along to share your experience and questions.

We look forward to seeing you there.

Childcare: Only babies under 3 months can be brought into workshop space

⚠️ Please read carefully: the following section reflects a change from our earlier communications.

We’re sorry for a lack of clarity and confusion in our communication around bringing children to the workshop.

Unfortunately, we don’t have capacity to provide a crèche at this free event. Our preference is that you attend without children so you can fully focus on the workshop.

If your baby is under 3 months, you’re welcome to bring them while respecting that this is an adult learning space, which may mean stepping out if they need your attention.

For babies and children over 3 months the venue has a cafe area and anyone looking after your child is welcome to bring your child there if you need to step out of a session to connect with them.

Our preference is that you come without your children, to gift yourself some time where you can be fully present to your needs and participate in the workshop and Listening Partnership exercises without distraction.

We know this may be disappointing and appreciate how hard arranging childcare can be. Please be reassured we plan to run more workshops in future.

Timings

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

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