Employee Wellbeing Seminars

Supporting parents in the workplace

Supporting employees’ wellbeing, particularly parent employees can reap benefits for employers.

Growing research demonstrates the importance of understanding and supporting parent employees’ health and wellbeing. Workplace access to parenting support can lead to reduced work-family and family-work spill over, improved morale and increased performance.

The Parenting Family Employee Wellbeing Service provides a wide range of issue based one hour seminars delivered by highly qualified & professional practitioners. These can be purchased as a one off Lunch and Learn session or a package of sessions which can be delivered over an agreed time frame, tailored to each individual employer’s needs.

The Benefits

• Increased staff productivity
• Less absenteeism
• Increased staff morale
• Increased staff confidence
• Employee retention

Employee Wellbeing Seminars

Parenting Focus can deliver a range of 28 needs-led Employee Wellbeing Seminars to parent employee's in your organisation.

Facilitated by a professional practitioner these one hour sessions can accommodate up to 30 participants in-person or 100 participants online.

• Being a Working Mum

It can be challenging for working mums to achieve a balance. This seminar takes a look at some of the common issues that working mums face and provide support and advice on how to find a balance by developing strategies to reduce stress and reduce mum guilt.

• Being an Effective Parent

Give parents the time to think about different parenting styles and enable parents to consciously think about how they parent with an overall aim of making life in their home easier with happy and healthy children.

• Bullying

During this seminar parents will have an opportunity to learn more about the forms of bullying, and to understand the effect of bullying, whilst exploring ways to support your child or young person.

• Children’s Emotional Health

Encourage parents to recognise the importance of their children’s mental health, exploring how parents can provide opportunities for children’s emotional development. Children who have positive emotional health and wellbeing tend to have better outcomes in life.

• Coping with Christmas

Parents can discuss concerns about Christmas, whilst exploring how to manage expectations, family conflict and stress during the holiday period.

• Dads' Emotional Health

Encourage dads to recognise the importance of their mental health in their busy lives. Dads will identify and manage different feelings that may impact on parenting while exploring positive coping strategies.

• Digital Safety

This session will raise parent’s awareness of children’s use of technology, explore what children are doing online, and discuss the benefits of technology and the risks children may encounter online. The session will equip parents with skills to enable them to have effective with their child about staying safe online.

• Healthy Lifestyles

Explore the importance of promoting a healthy lifestyle and why it is important for your family.

• Helping Children Manage Change

Parents identify areas of change, explore the impact these changes can have on their child and themselves, and develop strategies to help reduce the impact of change for both.

• Helping with Homework

How to support and encourage children with homework, aiming to help make homework time less stressful for all.

• Improving your Relationship with your Teenager

Help promote a more positive parent-teen relationship through equipping parents with the skills to improve their relationship and improve communication.

• Mindfulness for Parents

Introduce your working parents to Mindfulness with a one hour session. Mindfulness has many benefits for the workplace and job performance, including improving executive functioning, employees engagement levels and reducing work related stress.

• Parenting a Teenager

Explores the challenges of parenting a teenager while maintaining consistency when rules are broken. It will help equip parents to support the implementation of fair boundaries and consequences, while promoting their teenager’s independence.

• Parents' Emotional Health

Encourage parents to recognise the importance of their mental health in their busy lives. Parents will identify and manage different feelings that may impact on parenting while exploring positive coping strategies.

• Preventing Risk Taking Behaviour

This session aims to increase parents understanding of the changes teenagers experience in their thinking, behaviour and bodies and considers how parents can manage risk taking behaviours.

• Promoting Positive Behaviour

Children who struggle to express their feelings may present these as behaviour that is challenging for a parent. This seminar will help parents understand the feelings behind the behaviour, and will support parents to develop strategies to promote more positive behaviour.

• Promoting Resilience in Children

Encouraging the development of resilience in children is important for helping them to be able to ‘bounce back’ from difficult times and setbacks. This seminar will explore building positive relationships, developing self-control and self-regulation, being a positive role
model, and developing thinking skills.

• Promoting Teens' Independence

Explores teenagers need for independence and encourages parents to support their teen to develop independence while maintaining rules and consequences.

• Raising your Child’s Self-Esteem

Parents learn why children need to feel good about themselves and considers what influences a child’s self-esteem, whilst equipping parents with the skills to raise their child’s self esteem.

• Resolving Conflict in the Home

This seminar helps parents understand what causes conflict in their home, recognise their reaction to conflict and offers skills to resolve conflict in their home effectively.

• Setting Rules and Consequences

Raise awareness of the benefit of fair rules and consequences, explore the difficulty of being consistent and what happens in the home when rules are broken.

• Sleep 0-5 yrs

Sleep patterns in children under five can be a challenging time for parents. This session promotes a change in sleep behaviours, by discussing the struggles parents face, sleep recommendations and steps parents can take to make bedtimes less stressful.

• Stepping into School

Enable parents to support their child through school transitions by exploring the impact transitions can have and developing strategies to help make these transition periods easier.

• Supporting Teenagers with Body Image

With the many altered images in the media, this can have an impact on our teenagers body image and self-worth. This semiar helps parents to support their teenager to develop a positive self-image and be more self-accepting.

• Teens' Emotional Health

Parents will explore why positive emotional health and wellbeing is so important. Parents will also be equipped with the skills to improve their young person’s emotional health and wellbeing.

• The Value of Play

Raise parents’ awareness of the importance of play in their child’s development. Parents will be reminded what it is like to play, explore what children learn from play and be given tips on how they can use play to strengthen their relationship with their child and support their child’s development.

• Understanding your Child

Understanding your child can be key to being an effective parent. This session increases parents’ knowledge of children’s ages and stages, so they can best support their child’s development and enhance outcomes for their children.

• Work/Life Balance

Explores what a ‘work/life balance’ means, the impact this has on parents and their children, and considers how to develop positive coping strategies.

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Who we've worked with

Endorsements…

"Queen’s staff/parents loved these workshops and found them extremely useful, providing them with hints and tips when dealing with stressful situations at home. They also found them comforting as the workshops reinforced that they are doing a great job as working parents. These were some of the most popular workshops we have run to date and we will definitely be booking again this year!" Queen's University Belfast

"I thoroughly enjoyed this session. It should be mandatory for all parents." Queen's University Belfast

"I really enjoyed the course and feel it would be of benefit to a much broader audience." Rockwell Collins

"Really enjoyed today’s session – found it very helpful." Dennison Commercials

"Any information that will help me and my child navigate through his teens is great – a very informative session." Belfast City Council

"Very good course with practical ideas to put into practice." Belfast City Council

"Excellent and invaluable seminar." Progressive Building Society

"The content of the seminar was very relevant to my current parenting experiences." Firmus Energy

"Very informative seminar, useful, lots of content in a short space of time, really held our attention." Allen & Overy

"An excellent resource, reassuring that difficulties are shared by others – good to get chance to explore alternatives." Belfast Trust

"Excellent. Well delivered and interesting" RPS