Home - Parent Gym

01
Week
Chat
Talking and listening to your child in a positive way every day
02
Week
Love
Getting the right balance of closeness and independence
03
Week
Behave
Bring calm to your family with rules and routines that work
04
Week
Care
Keep yourself and your family healthy and happy
05
Week
Discover
Help develop healthy learning habits with your child
06
Week
Together
Keep your family feeling happy, supported and loved
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Six-week programme

Parent Gym is a programme made up of six two-hour sessions, with ‘missions’ to complete between sessions. Each programme has up to twenty parents and one Parent Gym coach.

The Parent Gym programme has been designed by leading psychologists, drawing on parenting research. All sessions are designed to be highly interactive and participative.

- Parent gym
  For hosts
  Bring one of our coaches to your organisation - or train a member of your staff to deliver the programme in-house.
- Schools/centres
- Companies
- Local authorities
- Parent gym
  For volunteers
  Volunteer to support parents and improve their family lives. We are now recruiting in London, Leeds, Bradford, Manchester and Brighton & Hove.
- Coaches
- Ambassadors
- Office volunteers

The programme allows parents the fantastic chance to make connections and establish a bonding network, something which I feel no other programme would allow.
Emma Shapero
It changed some of my parents' lives for the better and they also reconnected with their children. Definitely, 100% run the courses. Parent Gym is vital and all parents should be doing it! You learn so much and better yourself as well as your family!
Play therapist
Moss Hall Nursery School
Mind Gym tycoon wants to roll out free parenting lessons across country
Black founded the Parent Gym programme, which runs in 22 schools in the most deprived areas of London, using profits from the sale of his Mind Gym "brain workout" sessions to corporate clients. His training method has been backed by the London mayor, Boris Johnson, and involves nine two-hour sessions for parents. Themes include communication, managing relationships, play and learning, parenting styles, rules and routines, and creating a supporting and nurturing home environment.
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The Guardian, May 18, 2012
Parenting, the flip chart way
Parent Gym is a... philanthropic offshoot of [the] company Mind Gym. While Mind Gym sets out to improve people’s performance at work, Parent Gym tries to do the same at home. It has been running classes across London since 2009.
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Sunday Times, May 20, 2012

"The level of change for
parenting variables and
mental well-being is
impressive"

Our programme has been developed by leading psychologists to address six parenting priorities: communication, love, managing behaviour, health, learning and handling conflict.

Parent Gym has been independently evaluated by four universities since 2010.

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Contact

160 Kensington High Street, London W8 7RG UK Telephone: +44 (0)20 7368 5698 Email: info@parentgym.com

Schools and children's centres - Want to host one of our volunteer coaches, or train a member of your staff to run Parent Gym in-house?

Parents - Want to introduce Parent Gym to your child’s school, or become a Parent Gym volunteer?

Companies - Want to host Parent Gym in your workplace?

For these and other enquiries email us at info@parentgym.com, or use the link below to access our contact form.

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