“This is a phenomenal course that teaches more than just parenting skills.  It is a revolutionary approach to parenting leadership in that it combines heart, wisdom, spirit, and love with practical and hands-on tools and ideas.  It brought me back to my inner wisdom and intentions and empowered me to look within first to create the family vision I want/have.  It is amazing to see the instant manifestation of my parenting intentions! …tangible results within hours of doing the exercises at your workshop!  You have made it easy for me to apply these tools at home.

I find 9 ways to be the ultimate guide to creating and building a rich and meaningful relationship with my children, family, and even my work!  Thank you, Maggie, for your inspirational stories and your “guilt-free” way to parenting!  You have over-delivered on my expectations!”

• Jane Campardo, JMC Management Consulting

9 Ways Parenting Course
the heartfelt program
that is revolutionizing the parent-child relationship!

• Do you want to know how to empower both your child and yourself for life?
• Do you ever wonder how to set boundaries that provide the necessary discipline and maximize your child’s potential?
• Are you sometimes confused about how to teach your child appropriate behavior and still behave appropriately yourself?

This course based on Maggie Reigh’s book, 9 Ways to Bring out the Best in You and Your Child shows you how to raise children full of life and spirit, maintain your sanity, and have fun at the same time! Get involved and explore how to bring your deepest values to life in your family. Enjoy stories, anecdotes and interactive learning experiences as you gain practical tools that bring out the best in you and your child.

We’ll explore how to

• Turn power struggles into powerful relationships.
• Discipline in ways that strengthen, rather than damage your child’s self esteem and your relationship.
• Increase co-operation and teach your child to take the initiative in completing chores.
• Help your child develop empathy and compassion.
• Give your child the tools and inner strength to deal with unhealthy peer pressure.
• Teach your child respect, resiliency and self-reliance.
• Help your child gain self-control and teach him to release frustration and anger appropriately.
• Encourage your child to take responsibility for his misbehaviour and make amends.
• Connect deeply and develop meaningful communication in your home.
• Discipline in ways that develop self-discipline and self-motivation.
• Add more life, laughter and learning to your home.
• Increase your child’s “Emotional Intelligence” and improve your own at the same time!
• Recognize and transform unwanted communication patterns you “inherited” from your parents!

Participants continually comment on the applicability of the skills they learn in this course to every relationship in their lives: to spousal and partner relationships, to business relationships, and to the relationships they have with their own parents!

The Way of Mutual Respect; Cracking the Old Parenting Mold The Way of Mutual Empowerment; Turning Power Struggles into Powerful Relationships The Way of Emotional Grounding; Dealing with Feelings- Yours and Your Child’s The Way of Communication; Developing Meaningful Communication 0		The Way of Vision; Bringing Your Values to Life The Way of Encouragement; Raising Resilient, Self-Motivated & Responsible Individuals The Way of Living Harmoniously with Others; Helping Kids Get Along The Way of Loving Discipline; Providing Guidance in a Context of Love, Respect, and Responsibility
The Way of Parenting with Spirit; Honouring the Highest Good in Yourself & Your Child & Embracing Delight

9 Ways Leadership Training

In addition to the course itself, we offer Leadership Training and a Leader’s Kit that empowers people to facilitate this course in their own community.

The Leadership Training
for Parents and Care Providers
a fun & effective way learn to lead parent education groups!

• Practice facilitation skills such as universalizing, linking, redirecting, maintaining focus, blocking, and processing learning experiences
• Set up a structure for learning that allows for concept development, skill practice and skill application as well as evaluation.
• Deal effectively with difficult situations.
• Motivate parents to get involved in sessions and apply learning at home.
• Understand the role of the facilitator and co-facilitator
• Gain confidence with hands on practice in facilitating course skills and concepts 

Participants learn all of this and more!  Working with the material at this depth is life changing!  Here’s what participants are saying…
“Enlightening, powerful and revitalizing! This course and facilitator training have made a huge impact on the way I see myself, deal with my children, & has improved 100% every relationship in my life.”
“Practical, enlightening, empowering, valuable, the best yet! I am so excited about sharing this information with as many parents as possible!”

The Leadership Kit Includes

Leader’s Guidebook including assessment and awareness tools regarding facilitation skills, a step by step guide to teaching this experiential approach to presenting concepts, group development techniques and concepts, and a section dealing with common concerns  facilitator’s face. The book, 9 Ways to Bring out the Best in You and Your Child The participants’ workbook. A CD containing the “Remembering De-Light” story that the last chapter is based on, as well as a relaxation and guided visualization exercise to take parents and children to “the wise part within”.

Two training DVD’s Booklet of ideas to promote the leadership course including suggested press releases to the radio and newspapers as well as letters to teachers, principals, and school parent advisory committees. 9 Ways bookmarks with quotes to remember Certificates celebrating completion of the course

9 Ways 3 Day Train the Trainer Course
a refreshing approach to reach & educate parents in your community!

1. Parent leaders emerge in your community and promote positive parenting
2. Parents support & mentor other parents
   
3. Parents gain valuable skills for harmony at home & work
   
4. Your organization establishes a fun and exciting way to educate parents
5. Lively skill building activities involve participants in learning holistic strategies to create lasting change in family life
6. People trained as parent facilitators receive transferable skills for the workplace as well as increased confidence and self esteem
7. Your organization acquires a complete Leader’s Kit Containing practical and effective tools to promote and facilitate parent education.

Two Ways to Bring the 9 Ways Program to Your Community
Schools, Agencies and Family Service Groups are invited to register staff who will be provided with the training to coach parents in their community to lead this course.

Step 1: Option “A”

1. Your organization purchases the program and selects staff to be Program Leaders. Program leaders are people already familiar with facilitating parent education.
2. The Program Leaders receive information and guidance in recruiting people who want to be trained as parent education facilitators.
3.  Program leaders organize the space and attend the facilitator training along with the people they have recruited (10 to 15 people per group). The facilitator training consists of:
            a. Part 1: All participants experience the 9 Ways Course as if they were participating as a parent coming to the course for the first time.  This means attending one session per week for seven weeks and applying the tools to their own lives.  (Teleconference sessions can be provided where weekly travel is not feasible.)
b. Part 2: Three additional full days complete the second, facilitator training part of the course and will be led by Maggie Reigh in person. All parents and coaches attend and participate.
4. The Program Leaders coach the participants who have been trained to promote and co-facilitate the 9 Ways course for parents in a variety of settings. 

9 Ways parent facilitators have delivered the course to:

• friends around the kitchen table
• church communities
• parents whose children attended the same preschool or other function while the child was busy with their activity
• groups organized by PAC committees
• parents who responded to radio, TV and newspaper public service announcements
• parents from various work settings
• groups organized by agencies that provide service to parents
• aboriginal communities interested and involved with parenting
• people brought together through a variety of creative and industrious ways initiated by newly trained facilitators

5.  Once facilitators have fulfilled their commitment to deliver one full course in exchange for their training many continue to facilitate courses as a way to bring in a supplemental income for their families and to deepen the use of the course’s tools to build healthy relationships and harmonious environments in their own lives.  

Here’s what parents are saying about the 9 Ways Leadership Training

“Enlightening, powerful, revitalizing! I am so excited about
sharing this info with as many parents as possible.”

“It has made a huge impact on the way I see myself, deal with my children,
and has improved 100% every relationship in my life.”

“Eye opening, revolutionary and rewarding - Probably the best course I’ve ever taken in my life. When I started I couldn’t see myself as a facilitator, now I do.” 

 Step 1 Option “B”

Three Day Training for Professionals Working with Parents and Caregivers:
This is a “hands on” facilitator training session that gives professionals the tools to facilitate the 9 Ways course and requires active participation as we

• Explore the concepts and ideas presented in the course. 
• Work with proven and effective methods of involving parents in the learning experience and in developing the skills to put concepts to work in their homes.
• Practice presenting and facilitating concepts from the course
• Explore ways to handle challenging situations in parent education groups
• Share effective openings and closings
• Discuss ways to adapt the course to specific needs and situations and get parents involved in parent education

The cost of the three day training is $500.00 per participant and includes the complete kit described above.  A minimum of 10 participants to a maximum of 18 are required to run the course.

• This proposal requires a host agency to set the training up and provide the space.  The fee and kit for one participant from the host agency will be waived in appreciation of the work done by the host agency.

Step 2

9 Ways Train the Trainer (allows participants to train parents to lead the 9 Ways Course)

• This two day course is made available to people who have completed the Leadership Training Course and facilitated a minimum of two 9 Ways Courses.
• The course explores
• methods to teach facilitation skills
• ways to promote parent education and develop parent leaders in your community
• skills to support and coach parent facilitators
• dealing with challenging situations
• adapting facilitation methods to group needs and situations
• reaching parents through the media and other innovative methods
• advanced exploration of concepts presented in the course

Philosophy & History of the
9 Ways Parent Leadership Course

With the intent of creating a community where learning about parenting is valued and sought after, this course was originally designed in 2003 to provide training to people who are passionate about parenting and enjoy communicating with others. These people were given the course training as well as additional facilitator training so that they can co-lead the course with another participant.
The first course trainings were provided free of charge to participants through a coalition of agencies in Kelowna BC (Parenting with Purpose). In exchange for the training, the newly trained parenting facilitators promoted the course and facilitated it in their own social and church groups, or to the community at large. Participants in their courses paid only for course materials.
After leading one course, many facilitators continue to lead the course and set their own course fees. Thus, parents receive intensive training in parenting skills, bringing about deep and significant changes in their families, gain advanced communication skills, and are able to bring in additional income by offering courses in the most important arena of their life, parenting. The confidence these facilitators develop and the advanced communication training in interpersonal skills is also a huge advantage and help to them in the workforce, or to re-entering the workforce when the time comes.