Happy Families offers several workshops designed for parents. Each workshop can be provided as a one-off session, or broken into a workshop series spanning several weeks.

For bookings, how to organise a workshop (or series), or other information, please email Justin (justin - insert @ symbol - happyfamilies.com.au) for more information.

How to Have World Peace at Home

Magazines, books, blogs, and popular media make families look like bliss much of the time. Reality gives us a different view. Family and home life can be immensely challenging, demanding, and plain exasperating.

This workshop provides the keys to happy families, and world peace at home.

Presentation Highlights

• What your child needs from you
• How to create a "connected" family
• Seeing the world through your child's eyes
• Discipline as a way of teaching, versus discipline as a euphimism for punishment
• Why being a parent is more difficult - and more worthwhile - than being a rocket scientist

Setting Limits

"How do I get the children to do as they’re told?" Before we had children we were so sure our kids were never going to do “that”. We had all the answers too, discipline would never be a problem and we knew when we became parents we would never lose our temper, hit/punish, use time out, or bribe.

But best laid plans often come unstuck, especially when stress, work, commitments, other children, and our own needs all hit us at once.

This workshop is designed to help parents discover that “behaviour management” is only a short term solution to parenting challenges, and that real change in children’s behaviour comes from guiding children through working with them rather than doing things to them.

In this workshop we ask deep questions about what we really want for, and from, our children. Is it compliance and obedience? Or do we want them to make decisions about their behaviour with less involvement from us.

Presentation Highlights

• Understanding your child’s development can influence what limits you set
• How to set your children up to be successful
• Effective ways to guide children to choose appropriate behaviour for themselves
• Simple ways to restructure children’s thought processes so they UNDERSTAND what the rules are, AND why we have them.

How Happiness Happens at Home

In this workshop you’ll discover the most effective things you can do to make sure you maximise your family's potential for happiness.

Building on recent research in Positive Psychology, this workshop will direct your family to the resources you already have which point the way to the MOUNTAINS OF JOY waiting for you to explore.

Discover the character strengths and habits you and your children can cultivate to feel great as a family.

Presentation Highlights

• What makes us happy, what doesn't, and why - and does happiness really matter?
• The habits of happiness
• Why individual happiness habits aren't the same as family happiness habits
• How to maximise our children’s happiness
• How our families create meaning
• Creating an orientation to parenting that makes your life better, and your children's lives happier

All photos courtesy of Tim Coulson Photography