The Peregrine Centre provides specialised training in the area of parenting after family violence. The Black Box Parenting group program, particularly for parents and carers who have experienced domestic and family violence. The program was written by the Director of The Peregrine Centre, Dr Rebecca Sng, and combines five fortnightly group sessions with individual phone calls and play coaching in the alternate weeks. Topics covered include trauma, attachment disruption and how these experiences can affect our present interactions. The group concentrates on the effects of these experiences, rather than asking participants to share the details of their own traumatic events.
The group focuses on how a parent can both support the healing of their children while managing their own recovery. It is primarily for biological parents and kinship carers but foster carers with their own history of family violence may also find it helpful.
Many trainees have found the program useful for their work with individual family units as well.
Training consists of 1 x Full-Day Workshop and then trainees commit to running the program in full with either a group or with an individual family unit. During this first run-through of the program, trainees attend a one-hour online group supervision session at the beginning, middle, and end of their program. This ensures trainee facilitators are fully supported in their first trial of the program. Supervision schedules follow the NSW School Terms and have a variety of times available.
Teams wishing to hold a workshop in their workplace are welcome to contact us to discuss the possibilities. Usually, we need a minimum of 15 trainees to run a workshop. Training is available anywhere in Australia. We are particularly happy to receive requests for training from rural areas.
Since 2019 over 400 practitioners have attended a Black Box Parenting workshop.Workshop feedback ratings are consistently over 9/10 and many participants feel the group offers parents something they have not experienced before, a non-blaming parenting group that understands their particular needs.