Emotion Coaching

NEXT WORKSHOP: NOVEMBER 11th, 2023

Is your child struggling to follow directions, share, or communicate their needs? Children experience big feelings as they move through life, and many parents find it challenging to know how best to help their child through these emotions. Are you struggling to know how to talk to your growing child? How best to connect with them emotionally?

The Emotion Coaching- The Heart of Parenting Workshop is a one day workshop created to help parents learn and develop their Emotion Coaching parenting skills.

Emotion Coaching, at its core aims to help children learn about their emotions and begin to manage them and their behaviour.

The key to helping children be successful now and into the future is helping to grow their emotional intelligence. How parents connect with their kids and the quality of their communication is pivotal to Emotion Coaching.

Developed by the Gottman Institute

This psycho-educational workshop, developed by the Gottman Institute, is based on the two decades of acclaimed research by Dr. John Gottman, which was published in his book Raising an Emotionally Intelligent Child. If you haven’t yet heard of him, Dr. John Gottman, is a world renowned researcher and therapist in relationship stability.

Dr. John Gottman and his colleagues have been studying the difference between children who develop successfully to those that don’t. In their research they looked at how well children performed in school, how well they related to their peers, whether they behaved appropriately in social situations and how they related with their parents. They found that the children who had been Emotion Coached by their parents were more successful as an adult in areas such as peer friendships, employment and academic achievement.

Parents who were what Gottman termed Emotion Coaches were those who helped their children understand their own emotions and the emotions of others, they taught their children to manage their emotions in a positive way so that they could eventually regulate their own emotions and behaviour.

What you will learn

 This one day, workshop provides evidence based tools to help parents develop an Emotion Coaching approach to parenting, through teaching and demonstrations that focus on:

• Understanding the importance of Emotional Intelligence

• Learning to recognize, respond to, and validate your child’s feelings

• Learning how to be an effective emotion coach using the 5 Steps of Emotion Coaching

• Discovering ways to express understanding and empathy

• Learning how to effectively set limits and problem solve with your children

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Be aware of your child’s emotion

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Recognise your child’s expression of emotion as a perfect moment for intimacy and teachinG

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Listen with empathy and validate your child’s feelings

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Help your child learn to label their emotions with words

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Set limits when you are helping your child to solve problems or deal with upsetting situations appropriately

Benefits of Emotion Coaching

BenEfits for Parents

• Increased emotional connection with children

• Become emotionally responsive parents

BenEfits for Children

Dr. Gottman’s researched showed children who were emotion coached by their caregivers:

• Perform better academically

• Have fewer behavioural problems

• Have fewer infectious illnesses

• Are more emotionally stable

• Are more resilient

• Can focus attention and motivate themselves

Your Presenters

Kerrie and Adrian, your presenters, have been married since 2008, they are both Principal Psychologists, and Directors in their two psychology practices (Motivating Marriages Psychology and Motivating Minds Psychological Practice). After 10 years of unsuccessfully trying to have children Kerrie underwent a hysterectomy in the beginning of 2018. Their journey of infertility has lead Adrian and Kerrie to make a decision, in the absence of their own children, to put their psychological skills and their unused parenting hearts to good use…for your kids! It is a personal and professional mission of ours to see all children, wherever possible, raised in a home by two loving and committed parents who are equipped to teach them about their emotions and how to manage them.

Can you just imagine the psycho-analysis flying around behind their closed doors!

Together they have a combined 30 years of clinical experience, they are both Certified Gottman Therapists and use Gottman Method Couples Therapy in their work with clients (and with each other!).

What does the Workshop include?

• 6 hours of combined presentations, psycho-educational skills training and presenter role plays demonstrating the use of Gottman Skills.

• Opportunity to practice skills with your partner in a safe and private environment

• Two Parent Workbooks

• Fully catered lunch and morning and afternoon tea