Expected Learning Outcomes

• The ability to conduct the 123 Magic & Emotion Coaching program, as either a three-meeting parent education course or in one-to-one sessions.
• Knowledge of easy-to-use techniques that parents and carers can use to help children develop self-control and respond with flexibility to frustration.

Active PD points apply.

What’s Included

• A comprehensive training manual to teach parents 123 Magic & Emotion Coaching in a three meeting parent education course or in one-to-one sessions.
• Digital practitioner materials including a slideshow for parent presentations (this excludes the 123 Magic DVDs).
• Session-by-session guidelines for parent meetings.
• A certificate of completion.
• A licence to teach the program for three years.
• Lunch and refreshments.
  

Lesson Framework

• An overview of discipline approaches in contemporary Australia.
• Coverage of contemporary thinking in child development, particularly the differences between adult and children’s cognitive abilities.
• Sorting behaviours: what’s involved and the implications for how parents will respond.
• Common mistakes in addressing misbehaviour, particularly the problem with too much talk and too much emotion.
• Choosing your strategy – the three choices:
 do nothing, 
emotion coach 
or use 123 Magic.
• Processes of pattern-establishment and change: how negative reinforcement works, the characteristics of patterns, how to interrupt patterns and extinction bursts.
• Response flexibility in parents and carers: knowing how to avoid getting ‘hooked’ by children’s negative emotions.
• Using 123 Magic & Emotion Coaching: what it’s used for and what it’s not used for, how it’s done properly
, how to implement it at home, how to avoid the two biggest mistakes of parenting.
• Developing response flexibility in children:
 emotion coaching and cognitive strategies parents can teach children.