Child & Family Practitioner Training Roadshow - Melbourne

Join child and family practitioners from across Australia for a series of evidence informed training workshops designed to help organisations support more families, improve parent engagement and respond to increasing service demand.

Michael Hawton's 35 years in practice point to a parenting culture that's treating kids as fragile, over-pathologising normal struggle, and making unhelpful accommodations that leave children no more resilient. From October 2026, Thriving Kids begins rolling out across Australia. If you work with families under pressure, you know the gap between what parents need and what they're actually getting. This Roadshow closes that gap, giving practitioners in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane evidence-based tools you can use with your very next client. We want to help you equip parents as confident trainers and mentors who combine warmth with structure so kids build real resilience, through courses you can run with parent groups or one on one. These programs are ready to deliver, backed by research, and straightforward to facilitate.

Why Practitioners Are Booking Into the Roadshow

FREE Recording of Inclusive Adaptation of 1-2-3 Magic & Emotion Coaching: Book 1-2-3 Magic & Emotion Coaching and receive the Inclusive Adaptation supplement (valued at $189), showing you how to adapt the program for neurodivergent and special-needs children.
FREE Live "Present Like a Pro " facilitator tutorial: A 1 hour Zoom webinar with Michael Hawton on 10 December 2026 at 9.30am, packed with tips for engaging parents and attracting them to sessions.
Send up to 3 people from your organisation, to one course or across all three, and receive the bundle discount.

Single Course $549 | Two Courses $949 | Three Courses $1,390

Early Bird Offer Additional 10% discount for registrations received before 30 August 2026

Locations:

Sydney: 19 - 21 October 2026
Brisbane: 9 - 11 November 2026
Melbourne: 23 - 25 November 2026

The Three Roadshow Courses

Each course is ready to deliver, backed by research, and straightforward to facilitate

1-2-3 Magic® & Emotion Coaching
This course shows parents ways they can resolve family conflict and stop feeling guilty when setting boundaries in everyday moments. This masthead, evidence-based course has undergone four university studies and is built on an early intervention model, giving parents practical communication strategies that cut through conflict and rebuild cooperation at home — without the yelling and nagging.

Anxiety Coach™
Anxiety Coach™ is grounded in contemporary research on childhood anxiety and draws extensively on principles from cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT), widely recognised as the gold-standard, evidencebased approach for the preventionand treatment of anxiety in children.

Engaging Adolescents™
Engaging Adolescents™ is a structured professional learning program that equips practitioners with evidence-informed strategies to support adolescents in regulating behaviour and emotional responses. Built on Michael Hawton ' s Engaging Adolescents, this course equips you to help parents and carers manage difficult behaviour with calm, structured techniques that actually stick for older children and teens alike.

To register or buy the bundle click here.

We look forward to seeing you there.

Warm regards,
The Parentshop Team

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