Building better families. A 1-hour seminar for parents.
You’re parenting in a harder season than the one your parents raised you in. The pressures are different, the noise is louder, and the kid in front of you is being shaped by 100 voices a day before you’ve even made breakfast. Most parents are doing their best in the dark.
This 1-hour seminar gives you 5 simple tools, drawn from positive psychology research and from Glen’s own experience as a father of 4. He’s spoken to more than 750 schools full of teenagers across his career, which means he’s had a long look behind the curtain at what actually works at home, and what doesn’t. This evening is the parent version of that conversation.
WHAT YOU’LL WALK OUT WITH
5 fundamental tools for connecting with your child and equipping them to tackle a complex world. A clearer view of your first job as a parent (it’s simpler than you think). Practical language you can use in your own kitchen tomorrow morning.
What’s covered:
- How to help your child find a vision.
- The rules of encouragement.
- How to be where you are.
- Teaching your children how to fail.
- How to say you’re sorry.
- Making the home a refuge.
The starting line is a quietly radical idea. Your first responsibility as a parent is to enjoy your kids. Joy is what makes a family thrive. Not angst, not anxiety, not the constant management of risk. Joy. Everything else builds on that.
WHAT PAST PARENTS HAVE WRITTEN IN
Specific shifts, in their own words.
A new parenting language. “It can be difficult to explain to your son why our values and rules differ from his peers. Glen gave us the language for that.” Parent.
A vision board, that night. “I plan on setting up vision boards for my son and myself, and I’ve already added ‘Selah’ moments into my day. I’m feeling more connected to him.” Parent.
A daughter, lifted. “Glen made me feel that persevering and putting some new strategies in place would help me cope with the stress my daughter is under with her schooling and ATAR. My daughter’s spirit was lifted ten-fold.” Parent.
The best parent talk they’ve been to. “I’ve been to many parent talks over the years. Yours was on another level.” Parent.
We get emails like these every week. We keep them.
PAIR IT WITH A STUDENT SEMINAR
The fastest change happens when parents and kids hear the same language in the same week. Schools that book Positive Parenting alongside one of Glen’s student seminars see the kitchen-table conversations open up by the weekend.
Day of Hope. The full 5-hour reset for Years 10 to 12. Pair it with a parent night the same week, and your families share a vocabulary by Sunday.
Hope Express. The 70-minute version for an assembly or a year-level day. Easiest to slot a parent night around.
Men of Honour. The 2-hour seminar for boys in Years 9 to 12. Pairs powerfully with Positive Parenting for fathers and mothers raising sons.
Tell us which one you’re thinking about, and we’ll quote both together.
HOW IT RUNS AND HOW TO BOOK
1 hour. In-person, on your campus or in your community venue. We don’t run this online. Available to schools and community organisations globally. Glen travels.
The format is conversational. Glen on a stage, parents in chairs, no slides for the sake of slides, no jargon, and time at the end for the questions parents actually came to ask.
Positive Parenting works as a P&F evening, a parent education night, a community wellbeing event, or a faith-community gathering.
The earlier you get in touch, the more flexibility you’ve got on dates that suit your community calendar.
Tell us your school or organisation, the size of audience you’re expecting, and the term you’re aiming at. We’ll come back inside the next 2 working days with available dates and a quote.
Email us, call, or use the enquiry form below.