The Importance of Connection and how to Build a Relationship with your Child
This is not another workshop about parenting advice or one that outlines yet another list of skills or strategies you need to acquire to be the “perfect” parent. This is a workshop that focuses on understanding connection in human relationships – specifically the critical importance of connection in parent-child relationships. It focuses on the WHY and the HOW TO. We will take a deeper dive into a positive parenting model that really works, called Connected Parenting. Connected Parenting helps parents understand that a few adjustments in how they interact with, and respond to their child, can dramatically impact their relationship in the short and long term. Parents who practice Connected Parenting experience greater calm and confidence, especially when a child’s behaviour is most challenging and triggering. Children in turn feel heard, loved and understood. A win-win.
You will also learn more about how to regulate your own emotions in the BIG moments and help your child regulate their own emotions. Specifically, you will learn what is most and least effective to do. Most importantly, you will learn how to help your child shift from a place of fear or avoidance of emotions, to a place of understanding and how to live with, and embrace all of our emotions.
Speaker: Ulrica Jobe, Parent Coach, Child & Family Counsellor, Connected Parenting Therapist, Founder of True Compass, Honours BA, Psychology and Family Science, MEd, Developmental Psychology and Education, OISE University of Toronto
Speaker Bio: Ulrica is a passionate educator, counsellor, coach, speaker and workshop facilitator who works with parents, children, families and educators. Ulrica is the founder of True Compass, an organization with a mission to support social emotional learning, provide family coaching and counselling services. Ulrica’s warmth and compassion set the stage for everyone to feel at ease, gain trust and be motivated to explore new perspectives. Ulrica has worked as a Sexual Health Educator facilitating workshops with children, adolescents and parents. Ulrica has been trained in the Centred Leadership model and obtained her MEd in Developmental Psychology and Education at OISE University of Toronto, with a specialization in Mental Health. Ulrica brings valuable skills, knowledge and experience to her work with True Compass and Connected Parenting and is the resident Parent Coach on staff at The Giving Tree Centre in Toronto.
Through Ulrica’s coaching and counselling, clients will be encouraged to celebrate their successes while embracing the messiness of life. Clients who work with Ulrica will leave their sessions and workshops with confidence and practical solutions to learn, grow and thrive as a human. Ulrica lives in Toronto with her partner, Dan, and her daughter, Caia.
Organization: True Compass
Website: www.ulricajobe.com
A few other notes:
Attendance will be managed using the Meetup App. Please RSVP before coming to the church.
Doors open at 10:00am, and attendees generally arrive between 10:00 and 10:30. We understand that babies nap at various times, and not everyone is able to join at the same time. In the event you arrive after 10:30, we ask that you please enter quietly to minimize disruption to the speaker. Meeting format:
10:00 - 10:30: Socializing
10:30 - 10:35: Announcements
10:35 - 11:35: Speaker
11:35 - 12:00: Socializing
In order to protect each other and our community, we ask that if you are not feeling well to please stay home.
Please enter the church via the entrance with the rainbow fence on Ridley Blvd. Go up the stairs to the first landing, turn right and we will be in The Henry Marsh Room (The Parlour).
Tuesday meetups are for full members but social members can also join for a $5 drop-in fee.
Strollers are not permitted inside of the church. Please park your stroller next to the entrance.
Please take off all wet/dirty footwear when you arrive and leave it in the coat rack area in the hallway before entering the meeting room.
Parking is available on Ridley Blvd. Please do not park in the church lot (the church has asked us not to park in the church lot).
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Check out our events page for more information and other events. You can also RSVP via our group on the Meetup App.