Parenting
Seminars
Parenting with Purpose
– Raising Resilient Kids
This seminar includes:
- The factors that develop resilience in children
- The research on what young people need from the adults and carers in their lives
- Practical tips for enhancing a parent’s relationship with their children and teenagers
Raising Teenagers who Flourish
– Resilient Teens; in life, relationships & their online world
This seminar includes:
- Understanding teen emotion and behaviour
- The factors that develop resilience in teens
- Who matters to teens and why?
- What leads to teen flourishing?
- Ideas on HOW to communicate with young people when things go wrong.
- Practical tips for connecting with teenagers.
A Mental Health Toolkbox
– supporting young people’s mental health
This seminar includes:
- The signs and symptoms of anxiety in adolescents
- Stress, anxiety and depression.
- Recognising the triggers for anxiety in young people
- Enhancing wellbeing (through mental, physical and social resilience factors)
- How to practically support anxious teens at school.
“We need to talk about sex”
– when, how and what to say to our Primary aged Tweens.
This seminar includes:
- How to talk about body safety
- Actual scripts I recommend for beginning and continuing conversations about sex and body development
- When and how to talk to tweens about exposure to adult content online
The Healthy Relationships Toolkit
– for parents of High Schoolers (the reason Collett wrote, ‘THEY’LL be OKAY’)
This seminar includes:
- The foundations of Relationship Intelligence (RI) and personal values
- Appropriate ages for talking about body safety, sex and sexualised media
- How to talk to tweens and teens about exposure to ‘adult content’ online, before exposure occurs
- How to respond when your child comes across p*rnography
- Conversation ideas on consent and respectful relationships
Girls & Friendships
– teaching girls to build each other up
This sessions explores:
- Emotional Intelligence and girls
- How we might equip girls to recognise their own worth, as well as the worth of others
- What girls need from parents and carers when things go wrong in friendships and relationships
- When parents need to hold back and when to step in
- Strategies for developing both assertiveness and kindness in our girls
Growing our Boys
– What boys need, to grow into healthy strong men
In this seminar Collett explores:
- The mental health issues facing boys and men
- Validating boys’ emotions – Emotional Intelligence
- Teaching boys about healthy relationships – Relationship Intelligence
- The language we might use around boys on; sex, intimacy, respect, strength and consent.
- The research on the importance of mentors in raising boys
About
My name is Collett Smart. I am a psychologist, qualified teacher, speaker and internationally published author. I have 25 years’ experience working with young people and their families, in private and public schools, as well as in private practice. I am also ‘Mum’ to 3 children.
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