A free online training session designed specifically for practitioners, focused on enhancing skills and techniques for supporting families and reducing parental conflict.
The training aims to equip practitioners with:
- A brief overview of impact of conflict in the home on children’s wellbeing
- Key learnings from Family Harmony multi-family creative therapy groups – find out more about these below
- Supporting families to improve relationships and communication using creative tools
- Skills to support families where there is a risk of family conflict
When:
The 2 hour training session will be taking place online on the following dates:
- Mon 7 October 2024, 10am – 12pm
- Mon 14 October 2024, 10am – 12pm
- Thurs 24 October 2024, 11am – 1pm
- Wed 30 October 2024, 3pm – 5pm
What is Family Harmony?
Family Harmony was a programme developed by the Coram Creative Therapy Team with support from the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) in response to research highlighting the harmful impact of conflict on children’s lives. It was a multi-family therapeutic support group designed for parents and caregivers to attend with their children, including those with additional needs and disabilities. Using approaches and techniques from family, music, and art therapy, Family Harmony aimed to help families improve communication and strengthen their relationships, fostering more harmonious home environments for children to thrive in.
Families have found it valuable to come together with others who had similar experiences over 10 sessions, creating art and music in a supportive, therapeutic space. Through these sessions, bonds were strengthened, understanding deepened, and new, creative ways of communicating emerged. The programme has now ended, but following its success, we have now developed a toolkit and training to equip other practitioners with the skills and knowledge needed to facilitate similar groups.
Facilitators
The facilitators of the training will include Edward Bbira (Art Therapist), Madeline Aslan (Music Therapist) and Claire Everest (Infant Mental Health Practitioner). There will be opportunity for discussion and Q&A.
Join us
To find out more and reserve a spot on one of the sessions with our expert team, please use the booking link below.
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