Parent Workshops
Our Parent Workshops are aimed to support YOU in supporting your child or young person.
If you’re looking to engage with your child around their mental health, or need help with having difficult conversations – Lancashire Mind are here to provide support. Whether you’re struggling to talk about self harm or needing some resources to look after the wellbeing of your neurodiverse child.
We understand how challenging it can feel for a parent or carer of a child or young person who is struggling with their mental health or self-harm. Managing those emotions, understanding warning signs, communicating your concerns, and attending to your child or young person’s mental health and wellbeing, alongside your own; can feel overwhelming.
Together Workshop: You and Your Young Person
The you and your young person workshop is aimed at supporting parents/supporters of children who struggle with their mental health and challenges surrounding neurodiversity. The workshop promotes understanding by sharing and learning with other members of the workshop. Providing tips and techniques in supporting family wellbeing when your young person is struggling. It offers tips around communication and resilience for both you and your young person.
Following the course, you will receive a copy of the course slides, further sign posting information, a wellbeing pack or a neurodiversity and wellbeing pack for yourself and your young person with advice and work sheets specific to reflection activities, managing big feelings, self-care and goal setting.
“A standout area of the workshops I found particularly helpful was speaking to other parents.”
We currently offer two workshops:
Delivered in the evening virtually, via zoom, our workshops offer a safe space and anonymity to share your experience whilst learning new techniques to support yourself and your child or young person.
- Together Workshop: You and Your Young Person/strong
- Together Workshop: Understanding Self-Injury
Together Workshop: Understanding Self-Injury
Our Understanding self injury workshop is specific to self-harm/self-injury behaviour, based around the cycle of self-harm, the workshop discusses ways to manage and talk about self-harming behaviour with your young person. The workshop focus’s on destigmatising self-harming behaviour, understanding why a child or young person might self-injure and how to talk about and manage self-harming behaviour and where to go for help and support.
Following the course, you will receive a copy of the course slides, further signposting information, and further resources.
“The resources we received following the workshops have helped me in supporting my child with their mental health and wellbeing as they have made me more confident in the knowledge gained to be able to better support my child, and also to not feel so alone and isolated.”
"I attended both the together workshops, understanding self-injury and you and your young person. Attending the workshops has helped me in supporting my child as they have provided a wider understanding and improved our communication."
Support for parents and carers
You changed my daughter’s life, and I am so very grateful for what you did for our family. Faye* is thriving at 6th form although she can still get down and overwhelmed, she is so much stronger, and you have given her the tools she needed to help herself.
Register your interest or join a workshop
These workshops are for parents or carer’s of children or young people who struggle with their mental health and/or self-harm behavior.
Please contact training@lancashiremind.org.uk if you have any questions or would like to register your interest for future workshops. You can also see our current workshops through our upcoming training and events hub.
If you are concerned about your Child or Young person's mental health, if you feel they cannot keep themself safe, if you notice a change or decline in the way they present, always seek professional advice from your GP, NHS 111 service, Your CAHM’s Practitioner or your local Accident and emergency department.
"For Parents and Carers considering attending the workshops in the future I would say: Be open and honest about your struggles because nobody in the workshop will judge, only support, and help you with their own experiences."
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