Parenting and Personal Empowerment Courses

Led by Kathryn Tonges, The Parent Within offers courses and coaching to help parents and individuals enhance relationships, improve communication skills, and grow.

Parenting

I am a parent who would like to learn skills that enhance relationships with children and other important people in my life

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Personal Empowerment

I would like to learn proven communication skills, problem-solving and conflict-resolution skills

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Become an Instructor

I would like to help other parents and their children have better relationships

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Change is possible!

You love your children yet you are tired of your toddlers, tweens or teens fighting, tantrums, too much screen time or backchat. You end up angry, exhausted and yelling.

You yearn to rediscover that peaceful place within you that is loving, nurturing, confident and joyous – The Parent Within.

Option 1. Choose from the three courses below and refine effective communication skills, get your needs met and help your children get their needs met so that there are respectful, loving family interactions. 

Read how one parent rediscovered her Parent Within:

“When I first started PET with Kathryn, I was struggling with my 2 little kids….”

Option 2. Set up a series of coaching sessions to help you achieve your parenting goals and stay on track. 

Read more about The Parent Within coaching and how another parent rediscovered her Parent Within:

“Yet there were lingering parenting issues that were very painful and confusing. It’s then that I signed up for Kathryn’s personal coaching sessions. ….”

Course 1: Parent Effectiveness Training Course

Parent Effectiveness Training (P.E.T.) is a pioneering programme that has helped millions of parents worldwide. Whether you’re the parent of a toddler or a teenager, P.E.T. offers proven communication skills that work. This programme was created by award-winning psychologist and three-time Nobel Peace Prize Nominee, Dr. Thomas Gordon. As an authorised P.E.T. Instructor for over 40 years, I consistently receive feedback from parents who are amazed by the dramatic improvements in their family and personal relationships.

There are online parenting courses planned. Book early to register your interest or secure your place.

Course 2: Be Your Best – Personal Empowerment Course

This workshop teaches you how to become more effective and take responsibility in both your personal and professional life. In addition to the communication skills and conflict resolution methods taught, this course offers training in assertive skills, how to handle anxiety, and how to set goals for becoming more fulfilled.

Course 3: P.E.T. Instructor Certification; Teacher Effectiveness Training Instructor Certification; or Be Your Best 

Would you like to help parents and their children have better relationships?

Becoming a certified Instructor of Parent Effectiveness Training (P.E.T.) enables you to facilitate these comprehensive prestigious programmes within your community or organization. You may also wish to become certified as a Be Your Best Instructor or Teacher Effectiveness Training Instructor. I am often able to conduct training that fits with your schedule.

About Kathryn

I love to teach and share what I know about parenting. As a certified credentialed coach I help parents to move forward and become the parent they want to be. I love to see the changes parents make when they have support to do so. It warms my heart to know that children are the beneficiaries. I also love to share my knowledge of the Effectiveness Training skills with teachers via the Teacher Effectiveness Training course.