Everyone gets married or forms a long-term partnership with the highest hopes.  And when your first child is born, everything is possible and lies ahead.  It's a wonderful time of life.

As time passes, and the responsibilities of  being a parent become more real, many families find themselves getting stuck in negative spirals of conflicts and arguments, sulks and resentments.

How can you get out of these cycles, or avoid getting into them in the first place?  Goodhardt Counselling's Family  Relationships Programme will show you how to be the best parent to your  children that you can, and how you can work your spousal relationship to be a great role model for your kids.  It's a fun, interactive and highly rewarding six-week course.

This course is not one just you just turn up and listen to. The group will be just as interested to hear your views and experience, so be prepared to talk as well as listen. It is also a course for learning skills, not just theories, so be prepared to practice through role-play and other exercises.

In preparing the material for this course, the presenters - Sharon and Ian Goodhardt - read dozens of books on parenting and have extracted the common themes and wisdom to give you in a concentrated form the best of the collected wisdom on the subject.
 

Building from their popular and successful course for engaged couples - "Getting Married, Being Married" - this course was designed in response to requests for people moving on to the next great change in their lives - becoming parents.
 

Based on the groundbreaking research of Dr John Gottman, the course explains the crucial role of emotion in human relationships and takes you through the five steps of emotion coaching to help you give your kids them best start in life. Also covering such topics as dealing with conflict, sibling rivalry, setting boundaries and communication strategies, it is a complete guide to the challenging and rewarding world of parenthood.
 

To find out more, or to book on our next course, click here to send an email, or call (03) 9507 2249.