GROW - Working with Families for Practitioners

• 📅 Dates: February 12 & 13, 2027

• 🕘 Time: 9:00am – 3:00pm (AEST)

• 💻 Location: Online (Zoom)

• 🎓 CPD: 8 Hours

• 👥 Facilitators: Phyllis Traficante & Anna Skolarikis

🌿 The Context of Change

A child’s regulation is shaped — and reshaped — within their relationships, particularly with parents and caregivers.

This shifts the focus of our work:

We are not only supporting the child.
👉 We are working with the relationships that organise their experience.

The environment around the child is where change becomes possible.

🌿 Where We Meet Families

We do not meet families at the surface of behaviour.

We meet them in:

• the patterns that persist

• the moments where connection is interrupted

• what has not yet been able to be supported

👉 This is where parent, child, and practitioner come into relationship.

🌿 Working With Parents

Parents are central to this work.

You will learn how to support parents to:

• understand what sits beneath behaviour

• recognise their own responses and triggers

• respond in ways that support regulation and connection

Small shifts in a parent’s response can change the direction of an interaction.

🌿 The Practitioner’s Role

Change is shaped through how you engage.

• your tone

• your timing

• your capacity to remain steady

Each interaction influences the family system — supporting regulation, connection, and change over time.

🌿 In Practice

The anxious parent.
The reactive child.
The overwhelmed practitioner.

These are the real moments we meet.

Through this approach, you will be supported to:

• slow interactions down

• understand what is happening across the family system

• support new responses to emerge

👉 What has not shifted before can begin to shift here.

🌿 What Begins to Change

As parents are supported differently:

• family patterns begin to shift

• interactions become less reactive

• connection becomes more available

Families begin to experience:

• greater clarity

• more confidence

• less overwhelm

• more connected relationships

Because change happens through relationships.

🌿 This Training Is For Practitioners Who:

• want to work with both children and parents as part of the same system

• are seeking a clear, practical framework for engaging families

• want to move beyond managing behaviour into understanding it

• are ready to support change within everyday family interactions