A coaching programme to empower parents, build self-esteem in children and enable them to connect and work together at a deeper level.

Rationale
To empower parents and increase self-esteem in their children, to enable them to create a different relationship with their children and develop this relationship within an ongoing coaching approach. Including tools for ongoing development.

This course is based on a powerful combination of successful programmes:

1) Cognitive development - building self-esteem and confidence that also enhanced test and assessment performances.

2) Personal empowerment - that has been incorporated in the Kent County Council training programme for foster carers.

3) Physical challenges - creating emotional breakthroughs as developed by Tony Robbins at his events so successfully, see www.tonyrobbins.com

4) Coaching - consolidating and focusing the success onto previously agreed outcomes, all managed by a professional coach.

Description of target audience
Parents and children open to doing something different.

Programme Outline
The course is divided into three parts:

1) Parents in a group - interactive training for empowerment and creating outcomes for the family. Children in a group - building self worth, self-esteem and confidence

2) Combine parents and children as one group at an outdoor education establishment to use the emotional breakthroughs experienced and coaching towards the parent's outcomes. The children's experiences are used to reinforce their self-esteem and confidence. All facilitated by the trainers and coach to create a new and different relationship between the parents and their children.

3) Follow up meetings to ensure outcomes agreed are followed through. A work book will be provided to engage the parent/carer/referrer and enable them to participate in the process.

Overall Aims
To empower all the participants by building their self worth, self-esteem and self belief, and realising that they can achieve whatever they set their mind too. The participants will have overcome a variety of blockages and the successes will have been reinforced during this programme by the coach.

To create a new and different relationship between the parents and children, whilst providing a strategy and tools and support for future use.

Main benefits for participants

1) Empower you as a parent by:

• Recognising the importance of, and adopting, a positive framework for embracing change
• Acknowledging what we do well, and valuing its worth
• Raising awareness of what is important in our lives and reflecting on whether we are honouring what we value
• Exploring how things can be improved
• The importance of taking one step at a time
• Recognising and valuing what difference intended changes will make to our lives
• The impact SMART Goals have on engendering success

2) Enable you to connect with your child by:

• Presenting you with exercises and models to encourage your child's learning and growth both academically and emotionally
• Creating an environment in which you are both willing to be open and honest and share difficulties, explore options for change, and celebrate success

3) Create the relationship you want by:

• Being there for each other
• Valuing your child's perspective and ideas
• Listening to them

4) Empower your child by:

• Raising understanding and appreciation of valuing themselves and others
• Developing their awareness of emotions and feelings and how they affect behaviour
• Utilising their skills in visualisation and dreaming
• Developing your child's self-belief, self-esteem and confidence
• Appreciate success or progress (there is no such thing as failure) towards a goal
• Identifying their preferred learning style
• Working together to evaluate what has worked well,and what could be improved upon

Maximise Effectiveness
To gain maximum effectiveness a teacher, SENCO or FLO should be part of the team throughout the programme to enable them to continue working with the parent and child towards their outcomes and revising them accordingly.

Number of participants
A total of six parents and their six children.

Method of assessment
A Rosenberg self-esteem scale will be used at the beginning and end of the programme, sessions will have self and peer reviews in addition to those by trainers and coach.

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