INTRODUCING

The Parenting For Success Programme

The world is becoming faster, more complex with more choice than ever before. In spite of a living cost crisis, there is more abundance coupled with higher expectations than ever before. 

This increased complexity, choice and expectation creates overwhelm, anxiety and disappointment.

• Do I have enough?

• Am I making the right choice?

• What are others doing?

• Will I be approved of or judged?

And so on...

The impact? These unpleasant emotions are driving challenging behaviours.

The solution? We need to find a way to live with technology, abundance of choice and information, complexity and uncertainty, that doesn’t have a detrimental impact on our physical and mental health and wellbeing. We need to adopt habits that will achieve true life success.

Design Your Home Environment For Thriving

Emotions, generally, are running high, with levels of stress, anxiety and depression and mental health issues higher than ever before.

This is exacerbated for young people, at a time when their brains (and bodies) are still developing.

They are overwhelmed, with little opportunity to learn the life skills needed to navigate the world they are growing up in.

Furthermore, the leaders they look towards (parents, educators, employers etc) are ill-equipped to model these skills or support young people experiencing high emotions and challenging behaviours. This is different to the world they grew up in.

In fact, there is a 'perfect storm' creating a vicious cycle:

• Young people are struggling;
• Behaviours become challenging;
• Expectations are higher, further increasing anxieties;

On top of this:

• Parents, educators, leaders etc are also struggling;
• Emotions are contagious (especially negative ones);
• Choice, complexity, pace etc continue to rise.

The current system isn't working - something needs to change. 

Young people don't need to be fixed, they need to be understood, equipped with skills and inspired to take action.

We need to provide an environment in which young people can thrive, where they feel completely safe, and they can grow, practise behaviours and learn what works and what doesn’t.

We need to stop the old paradigm patterns of controlling and fixing and shift to the new paradigm of challenging and coaching to increase resilience and inspire a new world of young people able to create solutions to their problems.