Get Involved
If you’d like to get involved with the Positive Future Group in other ways and can offer us some of your precious time, we are always looking for enthusiastic volunteers to join our team. We need people to help raise funds for the organisation and to help at our events and workshops.
Volunteering is a great way to gain experience (it can count towards Duke of Edinburgh Awards) and will add weight to your CV. If you are passionate about helping young people and the work that the Positive Future Group is doing, then please email us with your CV and a cover letter explaining how you can add value to what we are doing.
Current Workshops
This course will help parents to improve their communication skills and create a framework of discipline and respect in their families. They are useful in reducing tension, squabbling, tantrums and fighting, establishing clearer, more respectful parenting guidelines, and making children happier and more responsible.
The course covers:
• Children’s Misbehaviour – common reasons for misbehaviour; how to deal with misbehaviour; looking after yourself.
• Developing Responsibility – how to provide training, giving encouragement and explaining what discourages children.
• Communication - how to develop good listening and speaking skills, develop confidence and self-esteem.
• Discipline – setting boundaries, choices and consequences; how to cope as a lone parent
• Bringing it together – family meetings; signs of a healthy family; treating one another with respect; time with your children.
This course will reinforce the same parenting skills learnt in the Parenting Children course, while also dealing with the more difficult situations met in the teen years. Because it is so important to reinforce skills being learnt, it is recommended that parents of teenagers experience the Parenting Children sessions first (though this is not essential). The course will give parents of teenagers the skills to deal with the more difficult situations met in the teen years and help them to relate to their teenagers.
The course covers:
• Where do I start - connecting with your teenagers; understanding the adolescent changes; why teenagers misbehave; parenting styles
• When listening helps – learning to listen; stages of active listening
• What encourages teens – training to be responsible; self-esteem and raising confident teenagers.
• Managing conflict – stages of dealing with problems; steps for managing conflict; dealing with abuse and criticism
• Teenagers and discipline – do teenagers need boundaries; choices and consequences; dealing with serious problems; saying no