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I hope you are well. We have added three more short courses to our webinar series of specialised courses for parents, carers and professionals working with children and teenagers and parents.
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Each course runs for 1.5 hours, costs €30 and is jam packed with ideas and information. The courses are designed to equip professionals, and parents and carers, with helpful tools for the children in their care. Please see details, including specific course objectives below. Please share with anyone you think may be interested.
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Positive Discipline: A Child Centred Approach to Setting Limits and Boundaries
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Live Webinar Webinar Fee: €30
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Webinar Date: Friday 12th November 2021
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Session Time: 10:00am-11:30am
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This live online course will look at how we can set limits in a therapeutic way with children. It is suitable for parents and carers and also for professionals working with children. The webinar will be facilitated by a highly experienced child and adolescent psychotherapist with a specialisation in play therapy. During the webinar we will:
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- Explore the purpose of limits.
- Look at our ideal outcomes regarding discipline/ consequences/ limits.
- Learn how to set a limit without shaming a child, which will result in most effective communication.
- Identify how to match redirection with need fulfilment for children.
To book your place please click here
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The Impact of Domestic Abuse on Child Development
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Live Online Course Course Fee: €30
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Course Date: Wednesday 24th November 2021
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This live online course will look at how living with Domestic Abuse impacts child development. It is suitable for parents and carers and also for professionals working with children. The webinar will be facilitated by a highly experienced child and adolescent psychotherapists with a specialisation in play therapy. During the webinar we will:
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- Explore the impact of living with Domestic Abuse on development.
- Identify common coping strategies and skills used by children.
- Learn how to talk about the domestic abuse experience.
- Learn how to provide safe ways to give opportunities for revisiting affected developmental milestones.
To book your place please click here
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The Power of Special Playtimes
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Live Online Course Course Fee: €30
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Course Date: Wednesday 8th December 2021
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This live online course will look at how we can make the most of a child’s most valuable toy, a willing adult. It is suitable for parents and carers and also for professionals working with children. The webinar will be facilitated by a highly experienced child and adolescent psychotherapists with a specialisation in play therapy. During the webinar we will:
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- Learn about the relational benefits of play.
- Learn how to introduce, and experience play that will build healthy attachments.
- Learn how to set up special playtimes.
- Learn ways to maximise on the available time you have.
- Learn how to integrate play and focused attention in your day and schedule.
To book you place please click here
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EARLY BOOKING IS ADVISED AS PLACES ARE LIMITED
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Facilitator: Emer McDonagh Emer Mc Donagh S.I.A.P.T.P., holds an MA in Humanistic & Integrative Psychotherapy and Play Therapy and a BA (HONS) in Applied Social Studies in Social Care. She has extensive experience working with children who have experienced domestic violence and also with non residential parents and their children, maintaining and promoting quality contact. Emer has been involved in the Daphne III programme Responding to Child Parent Violence action research project, training in Non Violent Resistance and the Break 4 Change programme targeting services to families affected by Child Parent Violence. Emer has also completed Intensive Filial Therapy Training, and mindfulness training. Emer also provides a family support role with families affected by meningitis. She has developed a number of workshops to support adults such as “You, Your Thoughts & Your ACTions”, addressing stress and anxiety, “Don’t Just Survive, Thrive!, parenting children affected by Meningitis”. She has also developed and facilitated workshops to support whole families including “Reconnecting after Meningitis” and the sibling support workshop “Me Too!”. Emer has worked with the Brothers of Charity services and been involved in a number of Humanitarian aid projects in both Ethiopia and Peru. Email: emer_m@hotmail.com Phone: 087 6841231
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