'Work. Life. Parent.' Solutions built with psychological rigour and passion

Whether you are expecting your first child or a parent to teenagers, we can help you find your meaningful and fulfilling work-life balance.

 

Coaching

Length: Tailored to needs

Group size: One-to-one

Cost: Bespoke to programme
We offer a special coaching rate for charities and low-income parents who are self-funding.
Email jayne@parenting-point.com for further information.

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Who’s it for:

Parenting Point offers maternity, paternity and career coaching for self-funding individuals and organisations.

We work with parents before during and after maternity, paternity, adoption and parental leave to support a positive transition back into the workplace.

We coach parents seeking practical and emotional support in balancing the time and energy demands of working parenthood. We also work with parents looking to identify and achieve their next career move and establish a meaningful and fulfilling work-life balance in this new chapter.

What’s involved:

We will work with you to define the specific aims and desired outcomes of your coaching session or programme. Our coaching style is energetic, compassionate and positively challenging, with a focus on developing the right mindset to support work-life balance.

We can incorporate targeted emotional intelligence and personality psychometrics into coaching programmes to help build a deeper-level understanding of personal strengths and potential development areas relating to current and future goals.

With a focus on enhancing self-awareness and building psychological strength, we encourage the development of new thinking habits and behaviours that will have a long-lasting positive impact at work and in life.

Find out more:

We are highly experienced in delivering our coaching virtually and in person. Please contact us for further information.

Workshops

Length: 2-hours

Group size: Up to 25 parents

Total Cost: £50 per parent
Discount code available for charities and low-income parents who are self-funding.
Email jayne@parenting-point.com for the code. No questions asked.

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Who’s it for:

We deliver a variety of workshops on the topics that matter most to working parents, including:

  • Navigating Personal and Professional Change
  • Finding Your Work-Life Balance
  • Managing Expectations at Work
  • Building Psychological Strength and Resilience
  • Values-Led Goal Setting

Book an individual place on our next open workshop, and together with other working parents discover simple strategies and psychology tips for managing time, rejuvenating energy levels and balancing work-life and family commitments.

Organisations can book individual places on our workshops. We also deliver workshops in-house (min. 8 participants per workshop).

Navigating Personal & Professional Change

In this 2-hour workshop we will explore:

  • he different stages of change & navigating accompanying emotions with confidence
  • Three mindset shifts to increase our sense of control during times of uncertainty
  • The different stages of change & navigating accompanying emotions with confidence
  • How to re-focus on what’s most important & prioritise our actions accordingly
  • The value of celebrating our strengths & what we’ve gained during times of change
  • Commitments we can make to take small steps in a meaningful direction

Finding Your Work-Life Balance

In this 2-hour workshop we will explore:

  • How to identify the activities that drain our energy & steal our time
  • The value of re-prioritising our time towards truly important work & life tasks
  • A practical model for categorising time based on the urgent & important
  • Ways to spot the cues that tell us we need to take a break & recharge
  • Opportunities to add simple energy-boosting rituals into our routine

Managing Expectations at Work

In this 2-hour workshop we will explore:

  • The psychological importance of setting clear work-life boundaries
  • The challenges & opportunities associated with flexible working
  • How to find the fit between your personal wants & the business needs
  • Tactics to manage the different priorities & expectations of others
  • Communicating a compelling business case aligned to personal & company values

Building Psychological Strength & Resilience

In this 2-hour workshop we will explore:

  • How we currently interact with different daily pressures & demands
  • Everyday habits that stand in the way of enhanced wellbeing & effectiveness
  • Steps to put the raw model of flourishing into practice (resilience, achievement & wellbeing)
  • Simple strategies for introducing everyday mindfulness practice into our work-life
  • Commitments we can make towards personally meaningful actions

Values-Led Goal Setting

In this 2-hour workshop we will explore:

  • Our evolving ‘identities’ & how work & family life influences our sense of self
  • How to identify the values that are most important to us across different life areas
  • Emotional barriers that might get in the way of vales-based goal achievement
  • Using personal values as an ‘inner compass’ to navigate through challenging times
  • Commitments we can make towards meaningful work and life goals

Find out more:

Our workshops take place virtually and in person. Please contact us for further information and visit our events page for upcoming workshop dates.

Programmes

Length: x3 2-hour workshops

Group size: Up to 12 parents

Total Cost: £295 per person
Discount code available for charities and low-income parents who are self-funding.
Email jayne@parenting-point.com for the code. No questions asked.

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Who’s it for:

Whether you are expecting your first child, or a parent to teenagers, we can help you find your meaningful and fulfilling work-life balance.

Book an individual place on our next open programme, and together with a small group of working parents discover simple strategies and psychology tips targeting the anxieties, pressures and conflicting demands of working parenthood.

Organisations can book individual places on our Work. Life. Parent Programme. We also deliver this programme in-house (min. 6 participants per programme).

What’s involved:

The Work. Life. Parent Programme includes three 2-hour interactive group workshops for up to 12 parents. Sessions are energetic, supportive and collaborative, with a focus on identifying the specific actions you can take to live an effective life for you.

Across each of the workshops we will explore how to:
  • Re-focus on what and who matters most to you at work and in life
  • Identify where your attention and energy is currently going and if that’s serving you well
  • Spot the habits and behaviours that could get in the way of your work-life balance
  • Strengthen your psychological muscles to build self-belief, resilience and emotional wellbeing
  • Commit to small, specific actions that will move you in a meaningful direction
The Work. Life. Parent Programme is for anyone who wants to:
  • Find out how to get the balance of work life and family life right for them
  • Reconnect with who they are and what they value most personally and professionally
  • Identify meaningful work and life goals to focus on next and feel energised working towards them
  • Discover everyday tactics for increasing personal confidence, effectiveness and wellbeing at work and in life
  • Build a close network of working parents to support them on this journey
Find out more:

Our programmes take place virtually and in person. Please contact us for further information on our next open programme and to book a place.

My Role

Creative Director/Design Lead [Hands On, Internal]
Tasks: Everything...Creative Direction; Quality Assurance; UI; AI; UX; Ideation; Direction; Adobe Suite; Java; Videography; Photography; Sound; etc...Everything.


The Brief/Purpose

Before arriving at Mind Gym they'd undergone a recent rebrand. Unfortunately, the identity wasn’t a hit with the CEO and owners, and therefore needed updating.
An energetic, professional, and trustworthy learning and development company, they consider themselves to be one of the movers and shakers; the ones that change how things are done.


The Restrictions

  • Must stick closely to the original company logo
  • Must use the colour green
  • Heavy senior stakeholder investment

Audience

  • Business to Business
  • FTSE 100 Companies
  • S&P 500 Companies
  • Global Audience

Outputs

Lots...pretty much every form of business communication tool you can think of.
Two differing identities were required for the separate streams of business buyers, and the participants of the courses.

  • Logo
  • Brand guidelines
  • Iconography and infographics
  • Digital and moving image
  • Illustration and imagery, including custom photoshoot
  • Various material formats
  • Marketing assets
  • Sales assets
  • Typography
  • Language/Syntax rules

Team

Many amazing people put in a lot of work on this project. There were lots of battles to get ideas accepted; some won, some lost. Without this team, it would not have been done...

Core design team:
Myself [Creative Director/Design Lead (hands on)] | Ekaterina Solomeina [Design Director] | Ian Friday [Design] | Melissa Goddard [Design] | Alida Romano [Design] | Ewa Hackworth [Design] | Steven Craig [Artwork] | Danielle Raye [Design] | Ella Hiti [Presentations] | Judith Wanderer [Design] | Thomas Barnett [Design] | Faye Dennett [Design] | Justyna Ramzska-Long [Design] | Russ Turk [Studio Management]

Consultant & Freelance
Michael Wolff [Consultant] | NB Studio [Consultant] | We Like Today [Consultant] | Matt Sanderman [Design] | Julie Binchet [Design] | Heiko Prigge [Photography]


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Organisational Culture Audit

Parenting Point offers research and consulting services to establish the team and organisational-level habits, behaviours and practices helping and hindering the success of working parents.

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We help organisations create a positive and inclusive performance culture that encourages the development and growth of working parents.

We provide targeted solutions to address specific needs, including:

  • Training and development support for soon-to-be and working parents
  • Training and development support for line managers of returning parents
  • 1:1 and small group psychological coaching support

Please contact us for further information.

Speaker/Events

Please contact us if you would like Parenting Point to speak at or participate in an upcoming company event.