Online BICS Family Minds Workshops for Parents and Carers
Each workshop is aimed towards parents and carers of young people between the ages of 4 – 17.
Our mental health educational workshops aim to build knowledge and skills to help us manage common difficulties faced by children and young people.
These workshops are facilitated by BICS practitioners and are free to sign up via Eventbrite.
Our Family Minds workshops run throughout the year.
Upcoming online workshops
Family Minds: Supporting your Child to Manage Difficult Emotions
This workshop aims to increase your knowledge on supporting your child managing difficult emotions and provide you with some skills and strategies to assist your young person in coping with their difficult emotions.
Next dates: Wednesday 2 April 2025, 12noon to 1:30pm
Registration via Eventbrite
Family Minds: Understanding Emotional Based School Avoidance (EBSA)
This workshop aims to help you: identify what EBSA is and the risk and resilience factors for it, consider how to talk to children/young people about EBSA, consider what you can do as parents/carers to support, and consider what schools can do to support. There will also be opportunities for reflection and discussion.
Next date: Wednesday 30 April 2025, 12noon to 2pm
Registration via: Eventbrite
Family Minds: Understanding and Managing Anxiety Workshop
Understanding and Managing Anxiety Workshop
This is a two-part workshop that aims to increase your knowledge on anxiety and provide you with some skills and strategies to assist your young person in coping with their anxiety.
- Part 1 will focus on: what anxiety is, how anxiety can develop, and what maintains anxiety.
- Part 2 will build upon this, specifically looking at: understanding anxious thoughts and behaviours, strategies to challenge anxious thoughts and behaviours, signposting, and helpful other resources.
Next date:
Part 1: Wednesday 4 June 2025,12noon - 1:30pm
Part 2: Wednesday 11 June 2025, 12noon - 1:30pm
Registration via: Eventbrite - Please ensure that you sign up for both dates
Family Minds: Understanding Low Mood and Self-Esteem Workshop
This is a workshop that will develop your understanding of low mood and low self-esteem. It will teach you skills to help you to support and talk to your child or young person who may be experiencing low mood and/or low self-esteem. It will also introduce you to the CBT-approach to treating low mood, which includes behavioural activation, identifying values and building mastery and includes children and young people’s views on their experience with low mood and self-esteem. As some children and young people with low mood engage in unhelpful / risky coping behaviours such as self-harm, the workshop will address how to respond and encourage the use of safer coping methods.
Next date: Wednesday 9 July, 12noon to 1:30pm
Registration via: Eventbrite