Anxiety Coaching for Parents

This FREE three-part series is brought to you by CatholicCare and The Neighbourhood Hub's Early Connections Program. This workshop is specifically designed for parents and carers of children aged 0 - 8 years and will provide a greater understanding of the problem of increasing levels of anxiety in children to help parents to manage and counter its progress.

You can expect:

• An overview of how a well-honed theory of parenting (what you need to repeatedly do) can assist parents to manage children's worries.

• Coverage of how some misguided policies are making parents and children more anxious.

• The brain, including how the pre-frontal middle cortex and the amygdala operate, and where fear and anxiety originates.

• Commonly misused phrases and cognitive distortions used by children and their peers.

• A helicopter view of what risks we can allow, and which require us to keep children safe.

• 'Traps and trip wires': what to do when a child's amygdala starts to play-up.

• Memorable strengthening sayings, questioning strategies and mindfulness exercises.

Children welcome and morning tea provided.