Course Objectives

• Strengthen the understanding of talent development 

• Examine their perceptions of parenting / family issues 

• Rewire the mindset towards parenting

• Address to child’s uniqueness instead of narrowing the issues as problems/troubles

• Acquire skills to enhance awareness and generate mindful energy to tackle issues with child and in family

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Course Outline

Parents are guided to examine and articulate how their perceptions affect the parent-child relationship and make parenting ineffective. 

With the practice of mindfulness in daily life (e.g., communication, eating, playing, working etc), parents can gradually develop clarity and generate mindful energy to understand their child(ren), embrace feelings and vulnerabilities with enhanced awareness within self and their loved ones. Practices acquired can be applied in various daily situations that support the continuous and whole-person development of every member in the family.

 

Session 1: What is talent development? What and how to nourish?
Session 2: Uniqueness VS disruptive behavior: How to tackle?
Session 3: Do I support / spoil my kid? How to praise?
Session 4: Self-efficacy VS comparison 
Session 5: Peer relationship & empathy: Strike the balance?
Session 6: Ready for new beginning
 

 

Target Participants / Prerequisite

Parents who have K3-P2 children are welcome.

 

Course Instructor

Ms. Jo NG 

Ms. Jo Ng is the Programme Director (Curriculum Development) of CAISE, HKU. She designs, conducts, evaluates and supports talent development with creativity programmes, mainly in affective domains, as well as promoting curriculum development in CAISE. She received her master’s degree in Special Education with Gifted Education Concentration from The University of British Columbia. Jo is an experienced social worker, teacher and mindfulness practitioner, currently being a supervisor of MEd (Gifted Education and Talent Development) practicum and teaching PGDE course in gifted and talent development at HKU.

 

Jo is keen to support the growth and well-being of children, adolescents, parents and educators through providing case consultation, developmental groups and professional development training. She has been practicing mindfulness under the tradition of Plum Village since 2013 and completed the one-year Mindfulness Teachers Training Program by The Mindfulness Academy in 2015. She has initiated a quarterly Day of Mindfulness for Children with Plum Village monastics and HKU CAISE since March 2016.

 

Her aspiration is to cultivate joy and happiness in children, family, schools and the society.



Medium of Instruction

Cantonese

 

課程宗旨

家長能夠： 

• 加強對才華發展的認識 

• 檢視自己對家長管教/家庭議題的想法 

• 重新對家長管教建立新思維 

• 尊重孩子的獨特性而非只視為問題

掌握技巧去加強覺察力，建立正念的能量去處理孩子及家庭議題

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課程大綱

導師會引領家長去表達其個人想法如何影響親子開係，從中檢視令家長管教欠成效的因由。

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透過日常的正念練習(如溝通、進食、玩耍、工作等) ，家長能逐漸產生正念及澄明的能量，由心而發去覺察自己與所愛的人，諒解孩子，擁抱他們的情感與脆弱。家長所學的正念練習能應用於生活各層面，具延展性地支持家中各成員的全人發展。

 

第一節：什麼是才華發展？滋養什麼？ 如何去做？

第二節：獨特性「對決」破壞行為：如何處理？

第三節：我是支持，還是縱容孩子？如何讚？如何賞？ 

第四節：相信自己能做到「對決」比較

第五節：朋輩關係與同理心：平衡點是......

第六節：準備新開始

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目標對象／參加條件

幼稚園三年級至小二學生的家長

 

課程導師

吳文潔女士

香港大學教育學院融合與特殊教育研究發展中心的總監 (課程發展)。她設計、教授、評估及支援【發展創意 施展才華】情意發展課程，推動中心學生課程發展。她在加拿大卑詩大學獲頒特殊教育碩士學位(主修資優教育)，曾任職本地及國際學校。她是位資深社工、教師及正念修習者，正於香港大學教育碩士課程督導實習及教育文憑課程教授資優與才華發展課程。

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吳女士以個案諮商、成長小組、專業發展培訓及公開講座，推廣及支援孩子、青年、父母及教育工作者的成長與身心幸福。她自2013年起參與梅村的正念修習，2015年修畢為期一年的「正念導師培訓課程」(由Plum Village Mindfulness Academy舉辦)。吳女士於2016年3月起協助開辦季度兒童正念日，與梅村僧侶及香港大學教育學院融合與特殊教育研究發展中心共同推行。

 

她的願景是在孩子、家庭、學校及社區中耕種喜悅、幸福的種子。

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授課語言

廣東話輔以英語詞彙