The arrival of your child can be accompanied by a myriad of emotions. You may feel joy, wonder, and happiness as well as feel overwhelmed, worried, or tired at different times. These are all normal feelings. Like in any transition, this transition into parenthood will mean many changes for you: in your schedule, daily routine, your marital relationship, and more. It can take several months to get comfortable with your new role as a parent. This workshop aims to help you be more prepared for it all.

The foundation of a happy home is a strong and stable marriage.

You were a couple before you became parents. Becoming a parent will put additional stress to your marital relationship. Part 1 of this workshop will equip you with skills and handles to manage the stress and enable you to be effective and happy co-parents of the new born.

In this session, you will learn to:

• Strengthen trust and commitment by enhancing your Love Maps.
• Make deposits into your partner’s Emotional Bank Account by responding to his or her bids for connection.
• Overcome contempt by sharing fondness and admiration.
• Resolve solvable conflicts and handle perpetual ones.

The first 3 years of your baby’s life are the formative years. Start right and you will put your child on the path to success.

As new parents, you will need to know:

• The developmental stages of your child
• How to soothe a crying baby.
• What a baby needs.
• How to read your baby’s bids.
• How fathers can be involved.
• How to manage work and family life
• How to manage stress and identify postpartum depression.

 

Registration Fee

$120 per couple

NOTE: Sign ups are by couples (i.e. 2 parents) and tied to 2 fixed-date sessions per run.

2019 Calendar

5 and 12 JAN (2-5pm)
9 and 16 MAR (2-5pm)
8 and 15 JUN (2-5pm)
20 and 27 JUL (2-5pm)
5 and 12 OCT (2-5pm)
2 and 9 NOV (2-5pm)
7 and 14 DEC (2-5pm)

NOTE: These dates are subjected to change.

ICAN Fathering Workshop

In this informative workshop, fathers will be equipped to be consistent, aware, and nurturing – the core functions of Effective Fathering. And more importantly, they will be empowered through the interaction with fellow father-participants.

Workshop Highlights

• Developing a Father identity
• Knowing the man who is your father
• Understanding positive Involvement
• Importance of being Consistent
• Entering your child’s world through Awareness
• Building up your child from inside out

Participants will be automatically inducted into the ICAN Alumni following the workshop.

Workshop Fee

$50 per pax

Calendar 2019

26-JAN (1-6pm),
6-APR (1-6pm),
1-JUN (1-6pm),
28-SEP (1-6pm),
23-NOV (1-6pm)

NOTE: These dates are subjected to change.

ICAN Parenting Workshop

Parenting requires teamwork. The beach volleyball team is a picture of parenting. Unlike in a 6-player volleyball team where a player is either a hitter, blocker, defender, or libero, there are no fixed positions in a beach volleyball team. Both players have to be ready to do everything: serve, block, set, attack, etc, when needed. Similarly, the conventional ‘mothering roles’ and ‘fathering roles’ are increasingly collapsed into one called parenting. As such, there are basic skills parents need to possess. They can learn them from a qualified trainer. While the roles that parents play are virtually interchangeable, they might have different abilities from each other. They use their unique abilities not compete against each other but to complement one another.

From this workshop, parents can together learn the basic skills needed to be Effective Parents: Involvement, Consistency, Awareness, and Nurturance.

Workshop Fee

$100 per pair of parents / $50 per single parent

Calendar 2019

23-FEB (1-6pm),
24-AUG (1-6pm)

ICAN Parenting Teens Workshop

Parents with adolescent children (10 and above) can attend the ICAN Parenting Teens Workshop. This workshop will help parents see adolescence as an age of opportunity rather than a stage to be endured.

Outline

In this 5-hour workshop, we will cover:

• How Long does adolescence last
• Puberty and its effects
• Understanding the Adolescent Mind
• Brain and Cognitive Development
• Problem behaviour
• Mental health
• Communication
• Conflict Management
• Authoritative Parenting
• And more.

Workshop Fee

$100 per pair of parents / $50 per single parent

Calendar 2019

4-MAY (1-6pm)
26-OCT (1-6pm)

Centre For Fathering’s Cancellation, Withdrawal, and Refund Policy

1. Registration for the programme closes one (01) week prior to the programme.

2. If the minimum number of participants is not fulfilled, the schedule programme will be postponed to the next run. You will be notified of the postponement and your registration will be automatically carried forward to the next run.

3. If you wish to withdraw your registration, you can either (1) request for a refund or (2) transfer your registration to someone else. Please email us about the change in advance.

4. Refund can be arranged if you withdraw before the registration closing date. Refund will be done via Paypal. The refunded amount will not be equal to the fee paid because of an admin charge by Paypal.

4. There will not be any refund if you withdraw after the registration closing date.

5. If you are unable to attend the run that you have registered for, your registration will remain open for three (3) months. If you are still unable attend any of the runs of the same workshop within three (3) months from the run you registered for, your registration will be forfeited. The fees paid will not be refunded to you.