Dr Dan Hughes: Supporting Parents to Use PACE (Play, Acceptance, Curiosity, Empathy)

If you are working to support parents in your school or other setting, this webinar is a must. It will give you a wealth of ways to be, and what to say that you can pass on to parents, all demonstrating a beautiful way of being together. When PACE (play, acceptance, curiosity and empathy) is mastered as a parent’s main mode of relating it brings secure attachment in the child and a family atmosphere that is calm and deeply satisfying as opposed to blighted with stress, arguments, people being in separate rooms/on their devices and/or in cold withdrawal, often for hours.

Dr Dan Hughes addresses how to stay engaged with a child or young person even in very stressful situations. Through role play he beautifully models a PACE response in the face of the most challenging of behaviours, when a parent’s first instinct is often to move into anger and control.

Dan will also demonstrate how PACE brings connection and closeness, whereas ‘power over’ parent-child interactions are guaranteed to sever connection and to engender flight, flight, or freeze behaviour in the child.