WEBINARS AND WORKSHOPS
Webinars and workshops
We all have times when we feel a little stuck. If your baby isn’t sleeping or your teenager is in meltdown it’s hard to think about anything else. At the Connected Lives we offer one-off parenting talks and workshops to give you help and advice for those tricky times.
Upcoming Events…
Webinar: Why honest conversations with your teen about drugs and alcohol matter
Date: Wednesday 26th September
Time: 8.00 - 9.15 pm
Where: Online via zoom
Cost: £5, bursaries available, please just ask katie.logan@connectedlives.org.uk
How can you talk so your child will listen — and listen so they’ll talk?
Teenagers today are growing up in a world where exposure to drugs and alcohol is often just one click or conversation away. As a parent or carer, knowing how to talk to your child about these issues is vital — but not always easy.
Topics will include:
Where, when and how young people are most commonly exposed to drugs and alcohol
What you and your child need to know about the risks and effects
What influences young people’s choices — and how you can too
Practical strategies for talking, listening, and building trust
Speaker Fiona Spargo-Mabbs OBE is a leading voice in drug education, Chair of the Drug Education Forum, and a member of the government’s Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs. The Daniel Spargo- Mabbs Foundation was set up in 2014 by Fiona and Tim Spargo-Mabbs after the tragic death of their 16 year old son Daniel as a result of an accidental overdose of ecstasy. Fiona now works passionately with families, schools and policymakers to reduce harm and save lives.
Catch our previous parenting talks online here:
Are you and your child smartphone ready?
Listen to Arabella Northey from Seqrd Technology help us explore whether we are smartphone ready. We discuss how to keep children safe online, encourage responsible phone use, and reflect on our own digital habits.
Webinar for Professionals - Understanding Connected Teens
Connected Teens is a new programme, written by specialists in adolescent mental health, which is designed to equip and support the parents and carers of teenagers. Join the three originators to hear an outline of the programme, information on the encouraing results from the pilot groups and to chat through how to refer parents and how you might use it to support parents and teens in your service or community.
He said, she said!!
From toddlers to teenagers: Listen to how to you can help your child negotiate their sibling relationships and see how far you should get involved.
One of the toughest things about being a parent is helping our children negotiate these first peer relationships with humour and sensitivity. The talk considers issues like when we step in and when we give them space to sort things out between themselves; how we help them repair their relationships after a fall out and how we lay strong foundations for these most important of family relationships. After all these are likely to be the longest relationships they have in their lifetime.
let’s talk about Porn
Pornography is more widespread and accessible than it has ever been at any other time in History. Its content is also increasingly more extreme and often violent. The average age of children exposed to Pornography in the UK is 11 years old and 90% of young people aged 8-16 have watched porn online.
It is easier than ever for young people to seek out or even stumble upon pornographic material online, so it is vital that we have these difficult conversations with our children about porm and its harmful effects. Islan Van Tricht aims to provide information, tools and advice on how to tackle this tricky topic with our young people - how to open the discussion and how to help them understand what healthy sex and relationships look like.
Parenting Teens Webinar - Creating a Consent Culture
Following the rapid review Ofsted reported on in June as a result of the 'Everyone's Invited expose' in March, the results show that sexual harassment and online sexual abuse is such a routine part of our children's lives that they don't see any point in challenging or reporting it. How has it got to this..... Listen to Bekah Legg to find out how to start a conversation with our kids to help them understand that this is not 'normal' and attitudes and behaviours need to change. The talk looks at combating coercion, standing up to unhelpful peer pressure, helping our kids treat one another with respect and what consent actually means.
Helping Anxious Teens Stay Motivated
Join Bettina Hohnen, Clinical Psychologist with over 20 years experience in the field, to hear about different ways to help teens cope with anxiety in the coming months including how to buffer stress, reduce the chances of anxiety becoming an anxiety disorder and foster resilience.
Oxygen Masks on First - How to take care of yourself in lockdown
This season continues to be tough for Parents and Carers so why not listen to this webinar by Louise Bomber for some top tips in looking after yourself in these strange times. Together we will consider some practical strategies to help anchor and support us to keep going and to ‘live brave’.
what your child really needs during the third lockdown
What an exhausting and relentless task it is to be a parent right now. In this talk, Dr Kathryn Hollins touches on some helpful concepts about being being ‘bigger, stronger, wiser and kind’ with your children, and why ‘time in’ with them can work better and be more satisfying than ‘time out’.
helping your tweens and teenagers with their big emotions
How are both you and your tweens or teenagers coping with each other? Want to see beyond the frustrations of your children’s bad behaviour, moodiness, anger and jealousy? Want to build a better relationship with them? Join Dr Clare Gates, a specialist in working with teenagers, for tips on helping your child understand what is driving their behaviour and together you can make sense of their feelings and validate their big emotions while giving them pointers to process them.
leaving lockdown - helping your child cope with the transition back into the outside world
Louise Bomber discusses with Jenny Peters in a Q and A session how best to help our children go back to school or indeed into the outside world. They particularly look at how we can help our children make sense of this new world in ways that leave them feeling safe and secure.