Supporting Working Parents

 

Provides a toolkit for parents and care-givers of children of all ages, to boost resilience and enhance their health and wellbeing, and bring their best self to work and family life.

Being a working parent or care-giver has always been a serious act of juggling, requiring extra good organisation skills. But the new challenges we have been facing in recent years are changing the rules and good time management and organisation skills are not enough anymore to live a happy & fulfilling life both at work and at play.

The fast pace of change in our society, lack of time, vanished boundaries between work and home and hyper connectivity are making it extremely difficult for working parents to feel good (and sometimes perform well) in both their roles.

This session, relevant for parents and care-givers of children of all ages, is a very practical workshop, anchored both in the latest scientific research and a deeply compassionate perspective.

We will quickly set the scene by exploring the challenges of being a working parent in 2022. Change always starts with awareness, this step will allow participants to identify all their struggles and the areas that require some attention.

We will then move straight to a series of easy and practical tips and tools to help parents consistently bring their best self to work and be the best parent at home. These tools are all issued from The Science of Happiness, they are easy, practical, not very time consuming and evidence based (they work!).

We will focus on how to:

  • Create a virtual barrier between work and home and learn to unplug from work when need be (and vice versa)

  • Feel like an amazing parent and best support your family

  • Communicate both at work and at home to support to balance, responsibilities, priorities and personal choices

  • Keep your cool under pressure when time and personal resources seem to be running out

We are not talking about time management anymore but about focus management. Steph has experienced all aspects of parenting : working parent, full-time parent, and now working single parent. She has experienced the struggle herself and she is walking her talk! She will share with humility, humor and compassion, stories and illustrations for each tool so that they resonate with all participants.

You will leave the workshop with a different perspective on being a working parent, one more positive, exciting and empowering and most importantly with a set of tools that will support you on this amazing journey.

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What people say:

Thank you for aknowledgement and support for working parents which is complicated and challenging particularly with the anxiety caused by the pandemic and the stress home-schooling.

- Participant at National Theatre

Key Outputs

  • Provides awareness of the challenges of being a working parent or care-giver

  • Shares practical time-efficient strategies to help parents bring their best self to work and be the best parent at home

  • Reduces feelings of guilt by empowering participants with a sense of what real parenthood looks like

  • Fosters shared connections with colleagues

 
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