Parent coaching: training, continuing education, further training, overview of providers and offers

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Parent coaching / educational counseling (cert.): Competent parenting and competent support for parents

Courses and training in parent coaching and educational counseling are aimed at mothers, fathers, grandmothers and other parents as well as counselors and coaches. They impart specialist knowledge about child development, family dynamics and parenting tasks as well as models for dealing with conflict situations to both the "affected parents" and those working in counseling.

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Parent coaching: Listening, advising, supporting.

Children need attention and care. However, it is not always clear to parents how to raise and guide their children properly. Children with physical or mental illnesses in particular need special attention, which can quickly overwhelm parents if they do not receive any support. In such cases, professional parent coaching is essential to make life easier for the family.

A job in this professional field is suitable for anyone who has a lot of empathy and would like to get involved in social work. Certificate courses, which are offered by some schools in Switzerland, prepare students for work in parent coaching. These courses are available in a wide variety of forms and can last a few days or a few weeks and have different participation requirements depending on the school. However, to help you find the best course for you, you can get a good overview on Ausbildung-Weiterbildung.ch. Find out more about the schools that offer courses in parent coaching and receive in-depth information simply and without obligation.

Questions and answers

Parent coaching training teaches you how to support parents in difficult situations. It teaches understanding and skills for dealing with resource-poor, overburdened families. In a coaching course for mothers and fathers, you learn roughly the following:

  • Attitude of the parent coach
  • Basics of systemic counseling
  • Development and attachment theory
  • Family psychology and conflict theories
  • Marte Meo
  • Parental presence

 

Graduates can expand their skills in working with parents in complex situations and deepen their understanding of family dynamics.

A parent coach is also called a parent educator. You usually become a parent coach by completing a parenting counseling course. This is usually a course with a certificate. This requires a positive attitude to life and the ability to get started. A certain level of cooperation and independence is also important. Of course, you need to have parenting experience. However, if you want to work professionally as a parenting coach, you should ideally have completed training in adult education or training in the educational, psychological, social or medical field before training as a parenting coach. The profession usually involves freelance work.

Ideally, professionals from the educational, social, medical or therapeutic field conduct coaching for parents. In most cases, however, there are no special requirements for participation - apart from experience in parenting (coaching parents) - and parents or guardians who would like support for their own educational work can also take part. However, please contact the schools to find out about the applicable admission requirements.

The following is important in parent coaching:

  • Teach parents that it is quite normal to push boundaries in parenting.
  • Sometimes it can help to talk to people from outside to bring order to the emotional chaos.
  • It is important to find out what is going well and what is currently difficult.

Basically, mother coaching is not much different from parent coaching. After all, nowadays it is not always the mothers who do most of the parenting. At most, mothers are perhaps more concerned with boosting their self-confidence. However, the focus of parent coaching training is always on the following topics:

  • Everyday family life
  • Patchwork families
  • Divorce
  • Child development from infancy to puberty
  • Integration
  • Set boundaries
  • Budget and pocket money
  • Media consumption
  • School questions and homework
  • Roles as partner and parent
  • Questions about nutrition, exercise and play
  • Social and political framework conditions

A systemic parent and family coach supports expectant parents, mothers and fathers as well as other parents:

  • Responsible organization of growing up and living together in the family
  • Strengthen educators in all family forms through specialist and methodological knowledge as well as social and transcultural skills

 

The following activities can be practiced after "Systemic Parent Coaching Training":

  • Support parents and guardians in their parenting skills
  • Plan, organize, manage and evaluate offers on various parenting, education and family issues
  • Research and communicate up-to-date specialist knowledge
  • Promote the exchange of experiences among educators, group learning and the formation of networks
  • Market your own educational offers
  • Create invoices

Tips, tests and information on "Parent coaching / Educational counseling (cert.)"

What is parent coaching or parenting advice? What do these activities look like?
» Professional activity
What educational paths and qualifications are there?
» Training, requirements, qualifications
What do I learn in the various training courses?
» Knowledge and expertise
What opportunities does the apprenticeship open up for me?
» Prospects and development opportunities
How do the training courses work and how much do they cost?
» Procedure and costs for parent coaching training
Is parent coach training right for me?
» Target group
What are the advantages of training as a parent coach?
» 10 advantages of parent coaching
Was I perhaps born to coach? Is coaching my vocation?
» Vocation test Consulting / Coaching
What experiences have previous course participants had with the parent coaching/educational counseling training?
» Evaluation of training / experience

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8610 Uster
Onken Academy
The Onken Academy GmbH has been located in Uster since 2011. Five minutes' walk from the train station, it has its learning-friendly premises on the 1st floor. Here, the Onken Academy and its highly qualified teaching staff offer courses in course management (up to the BP professional examination), systemic coaching and professional counseling.

Good teaching and supportive advice can be learned! There are practical tips, methodological tools, didactic considerations for creative teaching and learnable processes for helpful, process-oriented coaching.

Maya Onken is the managing director of the Onken Academy and teaches in all courses.
Strengths: We are strong in expanding the skills of our participants.
Discount for Swisscom employees: 10% (when registering via this platform at «Course registration» )
Region: Zürich
Sites: Uster
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Sonnenbergstrasse 36
8032 Zürich
Coaching Institute living sense
(5.8) Excellent 62 62 Ratings (100% )
Are you looking for a sound coaching education with Swiss & international recognition? Do you value a high degree of flexibility in your study plan? Trust the institute with experts for coach & trainer training. Experience the difference in quality of individually supervised coaching training and the unique promotion of success for your performance as a coach!

Scientifically sound - inspired by life!
Experience-oriented training at 3 locations
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Individual support incorporating your previous knowledge
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Entrust your vocation to a specialist! Coaching training - individual & unique
Strengths: Psychologically based coaching training, high practical component, flexible course dates, subject-financed, federally and internationally recognized, 6****** assessment, numerous methods, personality development
Discount for Swisscom employees: 10% (when registering via this platform at «Course registration» )
Region: Bern, Ostschweiz, Zürich
Sites: Bern- Oberburg, Bürglen TG, Ganze Schweiz, Zürich
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Haldenstrasse 75
4900 Langenthal
Alfred Adler Institute - IP Education
Specialist in education - educational coach, individual psychological counselor with a focus on educational counseling
3 modules - each module concludes with a diploma!
- the 1st module, the basic training to become an educational specialist
- the 2nd module, the advanced training to become an educational coach
- the 3rd module, the final training to become an individual psychological counselor with a focus on educational counseling

This will enable you to manage your everyday work or family life more competently - understand children better and implement new parenting strategies - enter a social profession - coach and support parents - arrange parenting courses under the umbrella of the Family Workshop - provide individual psychological counseling.

We are recognized by the SGfB. If you have attended all three modules, you can take a national examination at the SGfB to become an HFP counselor in the psychosocial field with a federal diploma. After taking this exam, you will be reimbursed half of the course costs by the federal government.
Region: Zürich
Sites: Zürich
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Hofmannstrasse 24
8405 Winterthur
PlaygroupsLEAD
We have been training and supporting parents and people who work with pre-school children since 1978. This takes the form of further training, advice and specialist publications that sensitize them in their work with children, inform them about what children need to grow up and develop healthily and provide them with practical suggestions and help.

Course: 5 modules with in-depth psychological and educational knowledge about pre-school children, their development, support and encouragement, for everyday life with young children. For parents who want to accompany their careers and families and, if desired, complete 2 additional modules to obtain a diploma as a playgroup leader. The qualification is recognized by the swiss. SSLV recognized.
Advanced modules: for "specific language development" and for the specialization "forest and nature experience".
Various courses: for parents on pedagogical topics in everyday parenting. Parent coaching in individual settings on request. Supervision for playgroup leaders or other educational professionals.
Region: Zürich
Sites: Winterthur
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Napoleonsberg 124
52076 Aachen
CENTER FOR COMPETENCE COACHING - ElternKompetenzCoach
Effectively support families as a parenting skills coach and guide them competently through challenges

In this continuing education, further training in 12 modules (joint online course days/varied course materials on our learning platform/online in-depth meetings/supervision during the training, and afterwards if desired), you will acquire the ability to effectively support parents and guardians in coping with daily challenges by teaching them versatile strategies and techniques.

By teaching individually targeted methods in process- and solution-oriented coaching sessions, you will help parents to create an even more beneficial atmosphere for themselves and their children, to constructively master their everyday family life with concrete, practical changes and to strengthen their resilience and that of their children.

After successfully completing the continuing education, further training you will receive the Parent Competence Coach certificate. Click on the logo for more information.

Next course start: 18.01.2025 or immediately in 1:1 training
Strengths: The special thing about this further training to become a Parent Competence Coach is the variety of methods and techniques from very different areas and the holistic approach to teaching.
Region: Aargau, Basel, Bern, Liechtenstein, Ostschweiz, Tessin, Virtuelles Klassenzimmer, Westschweiz, Zentralschweiz, Zürich
Sites: Aachen-Kornelimünster
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Schulhausstrasse 64
8002 Zürich
IEF Institute for Systemic Development and Training
Our institute offers professionals - tailored to their individual needs - a wide range of further training courses in the areas of systemic psychotherapy (federally recognized), hypnosystemic training and further training, conflict management and mediation, systemic parent coaching and social-pedagogical family support, some of which are CAS courses. We use the different professional backgrounds of the participants as a learning environment and support their individual skills and learning processes.
Region: Zürich
Sites: Zürich
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