Difficult Conversations
Engaging parents in honest and supportive conversations can enable change for children and families and help professionals to sustain relationships with parents. Learn how to enter into difficult conversations from a family partnership perspective with the help of this workshop.
About Difficult Conversations
Discussing concerns about children’s development or behaviour and navigating conflicting perspectives can be difficult.
The Difficult Conversations workshop can help early childhood professionals to understand:
- the need for a trusted relationship as a basis for conversations with families about child development
- the factors that accompany difficult conversations
- the factors that enable or become barriers to conversations with families about child development
- the qualities and skills required to work with parents effectively.
This workshop explores the context and desired outcomes of difficult conversations. It considers the skills and qualities required to enter into conversations from a partnership perspective and provides practical opportunities to practice and reflect on newly acquired tools and approaches.
Workshop details
Delivery: online and face-to-face options
Duration: 3 hours
Cost:
- $197 incl GST per online participant
- $226 incl GST per face-to-face participant (Metropolitan Melbourne & Regional Victoria)
Face-to-face workshops will incur additional travel expenses. A quote will be provided on application.
Target audience
This workshop is suitable for all professionals who work with children and families, including early childhood educators and those working with families experiencing vulnerability. All workshops are available to regional and rural locations.
Individuals and small groups can register for our events via our training calendar.
Organisations can book online and face-to-face group sessions for 8 or more participants by contacting us here.
Delivery details for groups
Online:
Online participants will require access to a device (computer or tablet) with MICROPHONE and CAMERA functionality to participate fully in this workshop. Ideally participants should be on their own device and not sharing screens with other participants.
Face-to-face:
Organisations must provide venue and catering. The venue must be able to accommodate participants in a safe environment, allowing for current restrictions around social distancing.
Capacity:
- Minimum 9 online participants, maximum 15
- Minimum of 9 face-to-face participants, maximum 15
Organisations may wish to partner with other organisations to meet minimum numbers.
Customise this program
Customise this program
Difficult Conversations can be tailored to meet the needs of participants and the community context. It can be provided as a brief session (1½-2 hours), a half-day, a one day workshop or a series of sessions. Contact us to find out more and enquire about tailoring this workshop.
Contact us or book a workshop today