If you have begun working with children and young people, and have been wondering if there are helpful ways to engage and connect with parents, whilst maintaining confidentiality and ensuring safety, then this 3-hour, online and interactive workshop is for you.This workshop offers a safe space to discuss the broad range of possible parents’ fears, and our own fears, as well as to look at the emergence of counter transference in our work. We will also consider how to assess whether parents are willing and capable of readiness to change themselves.This interactive workshop will offer some suggestions to the commonly asked questions by counsellors in supervision about engaging with parents. You will be invited to come with questions about this topic, which will be responded to during the workshop.*How do you …?*What if … ?*When do you … ?*Why would you … ?Working with parents is rarely included as a subject of study in training, and yet many counsellors and psychologists go on to work with children and young people and find themselves uncertain about what are safe, ethical and respectful ways to communicate, connect with and collaborate with parents.This workshop will not be teaching about child counselling techniques, but this opportunity to prepare parents will enhance whatever therapeutic approach you use. It’s all about relationships and the alliance we create with the family, even though we may never meet both parents, each adult needs to have a safe place with us to ask questions and work with us.The workshop includes role plays to create effective plans for you to best respond to hesitancy, resistance and challenges when supporting parents. We will look at what triggers you about parents, consider the influence of our own childhoods in the safety of breakout rooms. For this work, our own self-awareness can be used to support parent and caregiver engagement.We will integrate co regulation techniques and emotion regulation exercises to assist parents making a 'connect before you correct' way of fostering effective parent-child interactions.Participants will be given access to excerpts from one of Kim’s books, as well as a reference list and links to Kim’s YouTube videos about this topic.Certificate: In order to gain OPD points for this event, participants will need to undertake an assessment at the end of the online workshop and pass at no lower than 80%.