About our training & courses

About our training

Whether you are a professional wishing to attend Protective Behaviours training for the first time, keen to progress your skills as a Protective Behaviours practitioner or become a facilitator of a course for families there are various options. We have a highly experienced team of trainers and all courses are evaluated showing a 99% satisfaction rate and consistently good feedback.

• Level 1: Training to understand what Protective Behaviours is and explore ways to apply it
• Level 2: To deepen and broaden understanding and increase confidence and skills using Protective Behaviours.

With Level 2 completed you can gain further professional development and access further courses so that you can facilitate a course within your own setting for parents and carers and/or workshops with parents and children together:

• Facilitator training: to be able to run the evidence-based Families Feeling Safe programme – Protective Behaviours for mums, dads & carers. This is a 2 Day course and you will receive your own Facilitator Manual.
• Facilitator training: to be able to run the Morris and his friends talk about feelings workshops. This is a 1 Day course and you will receive your own facilitator guidance.

We will support you after the training by keeping in touch and providing termly network meetings.

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Would you like to commission your own training?

Training for schools can be commissioned as an Inset day, a fantastic way to begin developing a whole school approach. Training can be commissioned by organisations to train their teams ‘in-house’ providing a consistent approach used by everyone. We can deliver Level 1, Level 2 or Facilitator training and bespoke workshops for staff.

Commissioning workshops and courses for parents, carers or children

Are you a school or service who would like a workshop or course delivered to children, parents or carers within your school or organisation? If so, please email enquiries@familiesfeelingsafe.co.uk to discuss specific training, workshops or courses for your schools or organisation.

About our workshops and courses for parents, carers and children

We are proud to have a highly knowledgeable, skilled and experienced team of facilitators who provide our courses and workshops with integrity, written with you in mind. In fact, many parents have helped to shape the content of the courses. Parents and carers give us honest feedback and a high rating of satisfaction and we love to hear about the changes that families have made by attending our workshops and courses.

Our support to parents and carers

We appreciate many parents and carers may feel highly anxious or resistant before attending a course. Our facilitators are highly skilled at communicating with parents and will help you to overcome any barriers. We promise to always:

• Ensure all parents have an understanding of what the course is about and the expectations of attendance
• Value parents’ privacy and not expect them to talk about personal issues unless they choose to nor tell them what to do
• Involve all parents in creating a Group Agreement to create clarity and a safe environment for all at the beginning of the course
• Follow up any concerns raised both within and between sessions

You will also receive:

• Families Feeling Safe Participant Workbook – written by Fiona Benjamin & Dave Austin, which is available to all parents who attend the Families Feeling Safe programme.
• A folder with your child’s artwork and session notes or all parents and children attending the Morris workshops

Find out more about our workshops and courses here and each our courses and workshops calendar for what’s coming up by clicking here

Are you a school or service who would like a workshop or course delivered to children, parents or carers within your school or organisation? If so, please email enquiries@familiesfeelingsafe.co.uk