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Training for professionals who work with families

The MAP® Time-In 2 day workshop is for clinical and educational professionals working with parents of children and adolescents and provides a sound understanding of relationship ruptures, attachment theory and developmental psychology. It will help you to successfully implement ‘Time-In’ procedures within your clinical practice and allow you to provide an alternative to 'time-out' for your clients.

What is Time-In?
Time-In is about time together. It enhances the parent-child connection and enables better communication. Using mindfulness and self-compassion with a child during Time-In is a powerful way for a child to express their feelings and feel understood, even as the adult maintains a limit or boundary.

Why Choose Time-In?
When a child is distressed, upset or behaving in a difficult way, the MAP® Time-In procedure shows the child that their parent's love, support and concern for them is unshakable. It demonstrates to the child that their parent wants to help them to feel better without judging, blaming or humiliating them.

This is a multi-disciplinary workshop, suitable for all health, allied health and education professionals working with parents of infants, children and adolescents. The training:

• Shows you a different approach to teach to parents - switching from behavioural techniques to a relationship-based way of interacting with their children.
• Shows you ways of doing that without putting parents offside or making them feel bad about themselves and where they are at with their children.
• Covers the three stages of child development - early childhood, middle childhood and adolescence.
• Provides a theoretical overview and clinical application of the MAP® Time-In procedure.
• Involves experiential exercises to understand the power of Mindfulness and self-compassion.
• Supports clinical practice and enables professionals to provide families with a relationship (attachment) solution and alternative to ‘time-out’.

No prior experience of Mindfulness is necessary but would be an advantage in the immediate use of the Time-In procedure with clients following the workshop. If you have no previous experience of Mindfulness you may find it useful to undertake some additional training in Mindfulness following the workshop (eg MAP Instructor Training, Mindful Approaches to working with Families & Children (MAFC) workshop, Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy training) to enable you to model the skills when working with parents and children.

The Time-In workshop was developed by Dr Rebecca Coleman, an Australian clinical psychologist specialising in child, adolescent and family mental health.

Next Courses This course is available in-house in 2012

This course is run by Dr Rebecca Coleman.