The Mana Ake Team connected with many local schools welcome you to another FREE Parenting Event partnering with Youth Alive Trust in New Brighton.

For this upcoming event..
A workshop for parents and caregivers of children in their Primary Years.

Join Anna Mowat (Director of Real Parents) and Sandy Hitchens (Doors of Hope Counselling) to explore the journey of parenting in 2023, offering their top tips from professional and personal experience in raising tamariki to thrive. From big emotions, to building healthy whānau relationships through connection and play.

Anna Mowat:
Anna works across many Aotearoa initiatives and projects that support tamariki and whānau. She directs Real Parents here in Christchurch providing parenting support, and works across national tamariki and whānau focussed initiatives such as Tākai and Manahau. She is a trainer for the team at New Zealand Institute of Wellbeing and Resilience and project lead Sparklers for over 7 years. She is clinically trained in psychology with a predominant focus on tamariki wellbeing.
Anna will be speaking with us about raising great kids takes good enough parenting. She’ll discuss what the evidence shows us in that growing happy, capable adults doesn’t require being a perfect parenting.

Sandy Hitchens:
Sandy is a counsellor who specialises in working with children and/or their parents. She has experience in private practice, primary schools and high school counselling. Sandy enjoys a close connection with Youth Alive Trust to offer counselling and support to local schools. Alongside her counselling practice, Sandy enjoys presenting seminars and courses for parents and professionals. She is also a faculty intern with the Neufeld Institute.
Sandy will be speaking with us about "The Parenting Superpower." A superpower that can help in most situations, not only for our children but also for us as adults. A superpower to work with big emotions, connection and to help our children grow and develop into all they can be.

Thank you to Anna and Sandy for sharing your expertise and Youth Alive Trust for hosting us at your venue.

Some feedback from our last workshop on 'Supporting Young People with Big Emotions'
'Thank you so much, it was so helpful, and started lots of dialogue amongst the attendees, great to reflect immediately on what we were learning. Really appreciate it, will implement what I learned into our everyday lives'
'Thank you for organising this. A great community service. So nice to be able to sit and relax with a hot drink too. Great evening thanks.'