1-2-3 Magic® & Emotion Coaching

ONE-DAY PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT: Equips you with the knowledge to teach parents and carers of 2-12 year-old children, skills to manage their children’s difficult behaviour.

123 Magic & Emotion Coaching is based on two underlying perspectives on parenting: first, that children can be taught to respond more flexibly when they are frustrated or upset and second, that parents and carers can be taught easy-to-use skills they can use at particular parenting moments.

The professional training includes role play, group discussion, worksheets and videos. This one-day course equips professionals with the knowledge to teach parents the program over three sessions and/or how to teach the tenets of the program in a few one-to-one clinical sessions. Each certified participant receives professional practitioner training resources including a manual, slideshow and session-by-session guidelines to facilitate parent meetings.

Expected Learning Outcomes

The ability to conduct the 123 Magic & Emotion Coaching program, as either a three-meeting parent education course or in one-to-one sessions.
Knowledge of easy-to-use techniques that parents and carers can use to help children develop self-control and respond with flexibility to frustration.

What’s Included

A comprehensive training manual to teach parents 123 Magic & Emotion Coaching in a three meeting parent education course or in one-to-one sessions.
A certificate of completion.

Lesson Framework

An overview of discipline approaches in contemporary Australia.
Coverage of contemporary thinking in child development, particularly the differences between adult and children’s cognitive abilities.
Sorting behaviours: what’s involved and the implications for how parents will respond.
Common mistakes in addressing misbehaviour, particularly the problem with too much talk and too much emotion.
Choosing your strategy – the three choices: do nothing, emotion coach or use 123 Magic.
Processes of pattern-establishment and change: how negative reinforcement works, the characteristics of patterns, how to interrupt patterns and extinction bursts.
Response flexibility in parents and carers: knowing how to avoid getting ‘hooked’ by children’s negative emotions.
Using 123 Magic & Emotion Coaching: what it’s used for and what it’s not used for, how it’s done properly, how to implement it at home, how to avoid the two biggest mistakes of parenting.
Developing response flexibility in children: emotion coaching and cognitive strategies parents can teach children.