Groups & Seminars

Kate & Emily provide seminars and workshops for employers who want to offer ways of helping their members of staff who are single parents juggle what can be a challenging work / life balance.

The benefits to the employee of managing their home situation in a positive and successful way is enormous and this in turn can feed through to improved productivity, staff retention levels and provide a very real benefit to those in this situation .

Our most recent seminars have been to employees at CSFB and Citi Group.

Our corporate seminars have been developed to give participants as much practical information in an hour, in as upbeat and informal a manner as is appropriate. Experience has shown us that this is the best way of making participants comfortable and receptive to a subject that is often painful and emotionally charged.

By the year 2020 children brought up in a home with both parents will be a minority. Single parents are sometimes reluctant to seek advice, but we have found that a little goes a long way and although people often feel their situation is different to everyone else there are a handful of common topics and concerns. So we offer the most practical, positive palatable parenting tips for mothers and fathers based upon a no nonsense corporate model around the good old business plan for single parents. Without prodding and exposing anyone we motivate single parents, Mums or Dads with or without new partners, to help their children adapt, adjust and enjoy a happy childhood

1 HOUR SEMINAR TOPICS INCLUDE:

Positive post divorce parenting
Juggling work when the children live at home
How to be a great parent when your children don't live with you

All our seminars and workshops are:

· Confidential

· Use real life issues and concerns.

· Empowering.

· Non-judgmental (we too are single parents!).

· Flexible-can be tailored to suit your organisation.

We would welcome the opportunity to come for an introductory meeting to tell you more about the work we do.

This is one thing we are passionate about doing so go to the contact page and get in touch or else find out more about by looking at our partner's website the marvellous and creative www.talkincompany.com

Single parent mentoring programme

Kate and Emily have worked with individual single parents for several years, listening to their particular story - why they are where they are, and then listening to where they would like to be... if only the barriers weren't in the way... Everyone feels their story is different and their situation unique: they're not, they're is enormous commonality across all single parents and it is this commonality that our practical approach taps into as it allows us to speak to a group who all feel unique, yet what we say will touch them all. Our lunchtime seminars are often where the penny drops: 'if my situation and story isn't unique, then it must mean that others have trodden this path before and I could learn from their experience'.

However, although our seminars allow people to see that they are not alone and to get the motivation and tips on how to successfully raise children post seperation, their view that their own situation is unique does of course have some truth to it - not everything we all do can be shared experience! It is important to akcnowlwdge the unique elements of a story and situation to to tailor ideas and advice to an individual. Single parenting impacts not only on parenting but also how we manage our own lives, hopes and fears. Kate and Emily deal with the unique in one-to-one mentoring sessions. where issues are aired and solutions considered and followed up in a further session. We find that a group lunchtime seminar and 2 one-to-one seesions is enough to give people the tools and motivation they need to bring up a child with an ex partner but also to better manage their own lives and to build a future.

The nuts and bolts:

The lunchtime introduction seminar would be run by Kate and Emily though orgainised by TalkInCompany
Following the seminar delegates can sign up to the mentoring programme
Following the first mentoring session the mentee should recieve a summary of the takeaways from the discussion with action points . These can be followed up in person or via email
We recommend a gap of about a month between communications to allow the mentee time to relfect as well as to try out some of the things previously discussed. The discusson then builds upon what they have tried / find out over the last month..

Contining support

We are very aware that single parenting is an on-going and constantly changing state, which never settles into one way of being for very long. We therefore always keep the door open to ex-mentees to re-contact us, ask for more sessions or send a question or problem to us by email.