Support worried parents and promote children's wellbeing

✅ The Confident Parent Course presents a paradigm shift away from focussing on children, to focussing on what is in the parent’s capacity. Parents will gain insights into how they can best contribute to their child’s positive emotional health.

✅ Parents learn to reflect on their energy direction, worry and connecting well with their child.

✅ Parents learn to focus on what is within their control, holding boundaries and parenting by principles to regain confidence.

✅ Principles to achieve long-term parenting goals, based on family systems research.

✅ This package trains you to deliver the course with parent groups, facilitating discussion and using video content.  Includes theory training and video parenting course resources.

Package includes 12 months access to:

Training resources

  • Theory training- Family Systems and symptoms in children, 3 hours
  • Group facilitator training, how to deliver the Confident Parent Course, answer questions and facilitate discussion, 12.5 hours. 
  • Group mentoring session 
  • Online support with our learning hub for questions, webinars and resource library. 


Streaming resources

  • The Confident Parent Course, 4-part full video version
  • The Confident Parent Course group discussion highlights version, to use when facilitating the course. This includes a role play, description of key concepts and discussion questions. 
  • Cultivating Confident Parenting, a 1-part parenting course.


Sign up for facilitator training and streaming access

  • AUD $750.00 (Incl. GST)

    12 months access to training and streaming resources

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Course Reviews

5 star rating

Such valuable information, easy to understand.

Sue Linstrom

I'm excited to share this with our school community.

I'm excited to share this with our school community.

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5 star rating

Insightful, essential

Robyn Bowman

The content in this course should be required learning for anyone about to have children. They will never regret finding out how to be a calm, consistent par...

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The content in this course should be required learning for anyone about to have children. They will never regret finding out how to be a calm, consistent parent.

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5 star rating

Great framing of Family Systems approach

Lisa Eschenbach

I learned so much already about my own parenting - past, current, and hopefully, future - and also my therapeutic practice with kids and families. It is exci...

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I learned so much already about my own parenting - past, current, and hopefully, future - and also my therapeutic practice with kids and families. It is exciting to be turning upside down my thinking and approach to parenting and also supporting parents/caregivers in their efforts to raise children to be psychologically autonomous.

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5 star rating

The Confident Parent Course

Alison Illick

All four sections were excellent. I will be thinking about this for a long time. And I am looking forward to conversations I will soon be having with two su...

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All four sections were excellent. I will be thinking about this for a long time. And I am looking forward to conversations I will soon be having with two supervisors who also took the course and come to it through studying Bowen Theory. Thank you very much Jenny Brown.

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5 star rating

The confident parenting course chapter 1

sarah selden

this was incredibly useful way of thinking about how we interact with our kids and the effect that we have on them. Whereas we may have intended to be helpfu...

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this was incredibly useful way of thinking about how we interact with our kids and the effect that we have on them. Whereas we may have intended to be helpful in certain situation, through this lens we can see we are actually undermining them and we can adjust our behavior accordingly.

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5 star rating

Great Title

Selden Dunbar Illick

excellent content detailed and well thought through

excellent content detailed and well thought through

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5 star rating

setting clear limits

Alison Oxley

very helpful and practical

very helpful and practical

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