Group Coaching for Parents
Being a working parent can be tough. Working parents make up around a third of the UK workforce, and reports suggest up to 90% face challenges in balancing their work and home commitments. Achieving this balance is important for the well-being of parents and their children: research has shown that stress generated by parenting issues at home can reduce productivity at work, and that stress at work can have a negative impact on family life and parenting.
We believe coaching can help and we offer a range of group coaching interventions to help working parents come together and work through their individual challenges in a supportive and facilitated group setting. This typically fosters a wonderful spirit of shared learning and community within the group which lasts long beyond the coaching.
Working Parents
Working Well
Our Working Parents Working Well programme offers professional coaching support to parent employees and can be delivered online or face-to-face. Through a series of facilitated group coaching sessions, working parents from across the organisation come together in a safe space to think through their challenges and find new, more productive ways forward. Each session draws on established psychological and coaching models that are easy to understand and apply to day-to-day life.
The programme also supports the development of coaching skills that transfer back into the workplace and enable more effective parenting. Participants benefit from a new sense of inclusion and community at work - there are no silos or hierarchies, just common challenges and shared experiences - whilst employers can reap huge benefits in terms of productivity, employee retention, employee engagement and confidence.
“I would highly recommend this coaching to all working parents. It has given me some tools that I have genuinely implemented into our lives and honestly, they are making a real difference already.”
Relationship Manager, Triodos Bank
What to expect
Our Working Parents Working Well includes modules on:
- Exploring and managing the expectations we put on ourselves.
- Understanding the development needs of children and our own needs as working parents.
- Looking at our relationship with time and the choices we make between the different domains of our life.
- Setting and managing boundaries, including the specific challenges of working from home.
- Regulating emotions and building resilience.
“A reciprocal course that benefits you at home and at work is so fantastic. It makes me proud to work here.”
Open Group Coaching
We also offer open group coaching sessions where employees can sign up to a group session as and when they need support. Members can attend for one session only or for as many as they like, working with a different group each time. Sessions typically consist of 4 members and are 90 minutes long.
Each member brings their own issue to work on but benefits from the support of the group, which in turn generates greater insight and ideas and fosters a sense of camaraderie amongst group members.
“It was brilliant to take a step back and reflect on a hugely important area of life with colleagues in similar situations, and feel like it is okay to do so.”
Marketing Manager, Danone
Tailored Group Coaching Interventions
We also offer bespoke workshops and coaching programmes tailored to individual and organisational needs. We are highly experienced in running webinars, facilitating workshops, and designing group coaching programmes to tackle specific challenges and situations.
Recent examples include:
- An online group coaching programme to support working parents through the COVID pandemic who were managing the juggle of work whilst having their children at home with them.
- A parent wellbeing workshop to help bolster parents’ capacity to manage work/family issues.
- A series of group coaching programmes that employees could choose to sign up to depending on what they wanted to focus on. Themes included: Finding balance, managing the overwhelm, looking after ourselves, and managing uncertainty.
If you’d like to know more about our group coaching options then please get in touch.
“I found Gill’s style spot on for the group; she struck a great balance between input, listening, coaching and questioning. She placed the group perfectly with trust and openness.”
Head of Learning, Danone UK
