Parenting for resilience in challenging times
Please note this page is from the last time I ran this webinar in September 2025, but please do sign up to my mailing list to be first to hear when I am running this session again
A powerful and practical 90-minute webinar
Whether our children become resilient or traumatised in the face of the climate and social crisis entirely depends on the support they have from adults around them.
This online seminar will give you information and practical tools to parent your child for lifelong resilience.
Cultivating resilience, empathy, and collaboration in an uncertain world
Children and young people are experiencing soaring rates of anxiety and stress. Parents are under enormous pressure to meet their needs in a culture that offers little support. Climate science is showing that this generation of children and young people will be facing unprecedented and unimaginable change and disruption in their lifetimes. In a world with severe social and environmental disruption, so many of us don’t know where to turn for the right support when we desperately want to care well for the children and young people we love.
In this webinar, we will explore how to cultivate resilience in our children by prioritising warm, responsive relationships and addressing the challenges posed by the immense pressures of these ever more disrupted times.
A PARENTING APPROACH FOR LIFELONG RESILIENCE
Climate psychology and neurobiology offer insights about the powerful role of emotions in growing resilience. We will learn how to stand alongside our young people to protect them from being alone with what they are experiencing. You can make a significant difference, empower yourself and your children and you are not alone in this work. Join a growing movement of informed, aware and active parents and educators.
WHO IS THIS FOR?
This webinar is for all adults who care for and about children and who would like to understand how to raise truly resilient children who are equipped to deal with the challenges they face.
Parents, youth workers, educators, foster carers, grandparents, uncles and aunts, mentors, mental health professionals…anyone who cares about the wellbeing of children and young people, this is for you.
Whether you are already aware of climate change or just starting to engage with it you are welcome.
WHAT WE WILL LEARN AND EXPLORE:
We will cover current research and practical strategies for understanding and responding to children and young people in a way that fosters true resilience. Delivered with warmth and compassion and a deep understanding of how very challenging it is to do this work.
Practical tools for prioritising warm and responsive relationships
Being your child's biggest ally now and for the future
A model of resilience based on human needs
Understand the evolution of human needs over time and applying this model to parenting in the context of social and environmental disruption
Nurture emotional intelligence
Create a warm responsive environment that supports family thriving
Neurobiological research and child development
Key findings on children's needs for healthy growth and translating research into practical parenting strategies
Responding to distress
The importance of finding support for your own strong feelings and holding your child in theirs
Equipping children with skills to face present and future challenges
Develop a holistic approach to parenting and education and learn simple practices for nervous system regulation for the whole family
I am offering this talk free of charge in order to make it as accessible as possible.
We want this work to reach and support as many people as possible. Please do what you can to share the message, bring your parents, cousins, colleagues and friends, we are all needed. Thank you!