Embercombe

and
Children

Grundtvig
So6 Skills Leadership for Parents
2 year programme involving 7 partners from
across Europe.
Partners share exisCng educaConal
programmes in the elds of so6 skills trainings
and parent educaCon focusing on leadership,
coaching, emo1onal intelligence, Step-by-
Step programme, Paren1ng-by-Connec1on
and Sustainable Paren1ng, with the aim of
adopCng exisCng tools to the needs and
contexts of parents involved with partner
organisaCons and to support further training in
these areas.

IntenCon
A commitment to exploring how adults at
Embercombe relate to children
What are our wider responsibiliCes to children?
What we are modelling to the wider world?

With the aim of arriving at a common
understanding of the embercombe approach to
rela0ng with children that can be pracCsed, shared
and disseminated.


Feb to July 6 morning sessions.
Inquiry into adult/child relaCng.

August 2 day training. Hand in Hand Approach
August Family Camp

 Sustainable Paren1ng
At Embercombe for last 6 years.
Aim - supporCng parents to resource themselves
by tapping into what Embercombe oers - the
land, the sense of community, the sense of
purpose
PLUS held Cme for reconnecCng with themselves.
ParenCng is as demanding as it is rewarding - and
o6en unvalued and unseen in our prot driven
culture.
Children need 24/7 aUenCon
Raising the next generaCon to be funcConal,
thinking, hearWul condent beings.

 Hand in Hand Paren1ng = ParenCng by ConnecCon

www.handinhandparenCng.org
Not prescripCve about life-style choices - eg co-
sleeping, school choices, screens etc
Focuses on the importance of ConnecCon - for children
(secure aUachment) and for parents (parenCng can be
very isolaCng)
Simple and profound.
Grew out of Peace Movement and Co-counselling.
Reaches all income brackets.
Oers 6 Listening Tools - 2 for parents (Listening
Partnerships and Parent Support Groups) and 4 with
children (Staylistening, Special Time, Se_ng Limits,
Playlistening).

Dates for our mornings together

1. Feb 11th
2. March 11th
3. April 15th
4. May 27th
5. June 17th
6. July 22nd

Outline of sessions
1. IntroducCon to our work, including Hand in Hand
ParenCng. Children as Mirrors - And ResCmulaCon
2. ConnecCon before CorrecCon/DirecCon - And Secure
AUachment. Special Time
3. Tantrums and Crying as a Natural Release mechanism -
Staylistening and Listening Partnerships
4. Violence and Aggression - Change the Environment not the
Behaviour - And Se_ng Loving Limits
5. DisCnguishing Human Beings and Human Becomings -
Parent/Adult Leadership and Spiritual Equality: keeping the
relaConship both safe and creaCve. Play Listening
6. Modelling as children's main teacher - Children learn what
they see - Be the Change. Bringing our meeCngs to a close

 And the end of all our exploring

Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the rst Cme.
- T.S.Elliot

 Global TransformaCon.... starts with us and

how we parent Dr Shefali Tsabary - see
HYPERLINK "
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