LifeWorks Parenting Workshops

LifeWorks Counselling and Development operates from a villa at 996 Al Wasl Road, Umm Sequeim 1, Dubai. Our home away from home offers parents a place to come to gain the valuable skills needed to enjoy your parenting journey.

Carmen Benton, an experienced teacher runs practical and interactive workshops for parents, teachers and nannies.

Workshops cost: Dhs: 200 per person or Dhs300 per couple

Location: LifeWorks Villa, 996 Al Wasal Road, Umm Sequiem 1, Dubai

To register for any of the following workshops

please phone: 050 7384719
e-mail: carmen@lifeworksdubai.com
or visit: LifeWorksDubai.com

LifeWorks is currently running the following workshops for parents.

Workshops can be tailor made for your school. Please let us know if you are interested in a topic that is not currently running so we may consider it for the future. For more information or to register for any of our workshops please contact Carmen Benton.

Positive Discipline for Preschoolers (3-5 year olds) - A five week course

This month LifeWorks is launching our 5 week course in 'Positive Discipline'. These five sessions are for parents who are looking for long-term parenting skills. Based on the latest research on child development and learning, by Jane Nelsen. This course will teach you how to use kind and firm methods to raise a child who is responsible, respectful, and resourceful. Learn practical ways to:

Avoid power struggles that often come with mastering sleeping, eating and potty training.

See misbehaviour as an opportunity to teach non-punitive discipline - not punishment.

Instil valuable social skills and positive behaviour inside and outside the home

Learn more at: Parenting-with-positive-discipline

Times and Dates

Workshops

Click on the above links to read more about each workshop topic

Foundations to Effective Parenting

The key to being the best parent you can starts with a solid foundation. This workshop highlights the most important keys to being an effective parent.

Learn about your parenting style and the importance of forming your own parenting mission and philosophy. Keeping the end goal in sight helps make the path of parenting clearer to follow.

Creative Discipline

This workshop focuses on the 'hows' and 'whys' of discipline. Come away armed with skills to help you be an effect parent when it comes to disciplining your children.

Learn the alternatives to:

spanking,

the naughty step,

or shouting!

Help your child be part of the solution and improve the way discipline happens in your home.

Find out how to have a home environment that is positive and peaceful where discipline is a vehicle to teach your children rather than a form of punishment!

Discover Your Child's Learning Style

This workshop shows you how to assess and nurture your child's individual learning potential based on his or her talents, interests, disposition, preferred environment and more.

You'll discover how to create the right atmosphere for learning that helps your child excel not only in school but at home and in life as well. Learn how to keep the motivation to learn alive in your children.

Playful Parenting

Learn how playing with your child helps them to become more confident. Through play we learn how to join our children in their world and help them to:

express and understand complex emotions,

break through shyness, anger and fear,

empower themselves,

play their way through sibling rivalry as well as cooperate without power struggles.

The Power of Play

"Play is not only essential in fostering healthy mental and social development, it's what sets the stage for learning in the first place (Elkind 2007)". Learn the benefits of unscheduled, imaginative play in preparing children for both academic and social success.

Understand how children learn through play and the importance of providing play experiences for them. A practical workshop that will teach you how to play with your child and gain the most out of the time you spend with them.

Enjoying the School Holidays

Are you feeling daunted by all those weeks at home with your children? This workshop will offer hundreds of ideas to help you run your own summer camp at home with your children.

Come away inspired.

Learn the importance of: having a routine, setting up holiday projects, allowing your children time to play and the importance of your input in their play. Learn art, craft, music, drama, science, maths and language ideas and projects that will motivate your children and keep them entertained and learning for hours during the holidays whether you are in Dubai or away on holiday.

Raising a Third Culture Kid

What are the implications of being raised in a country that is not the same as one or both of your parent's?

What are the benefits and potential concerns for a child raised as an expatriate?

Learn ways to support your child as they are raised in a third culture (that of an expat). This workshop will explore the life of a third culture kid and address the impact of culture shock and being globally nomadic.

Raising Confident Children

Strong self-esteem is vital for children to be their best and to cope with the ups and downs of life. This workshop will explore the vital part parents play in improving their children's self-esteem and confidence.

It will look at research into the importance of self-esteem and will give parents practical and effective ways to improve their children's self-confidence, nurture independence and encourage the children to deal constructively with challenges.

Why is self-esteem important?

How do I raise a child's confidence?

How do I nurturing independence and resourcefulness?

How can I help my child stand up for himself?

Early Childhood Based Workshops

(aimed at parents of 2 - 6 year old children)

Help Your Child Reach Their Full Potential

The desire to help a child reach their full potential is at the forefront of most parents' minds. This workshop will show you how to provide a creative environment for your child and explains how your child's natural abilities can be supported and enhanced.

Learn how to: encourage your child's natural talents, understanding the importance of birth order and gender, boost your child's confidence through creativity, and the importance of your support in the process. Find out how young children learn.

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