This course is one day version of Dr Muhammad Abdul Bari's 12-hour parenting course programme developed over a decade ago. With the help of his colleagues, he continuously updates its content. The course was accredited by British educational awarding body ASDAN in 2013. The course is interactive with role plays, exercises and home-works. The 2 full-day course has been delivered in many parts of Britain and some world cities.
The course components:
Balanced growth and development
Parent-child relationships
Discipline and control,
Family and community perspective
Faith, culture and spirituality
The course objectives:
Illustrate to parents the concept of positive, proactive, effective, innovative and life-long parenting.
Empower parents with confidence in building one-to-one relationships with each child.
Assist parents in understanding and applying methods of assertive discipline with a view to creating respectful behaviour in children.
Help parents in creating a tension-free and violence-free family life through providing them with strategies, skills, techniques and relevant information
Start: 9am
End: 6pm
There will be frequent breaks in between.
Dr Muhammad Abdul Bari is an educationalist, community activist, author, parenting consultant and commentator on social and political issues.
He began his research studies in the UK after training as an Air Force officer in Bangladesh. A physicist and educationalist by training, Dr Bari received his doctorate and qualified as a teacher from King’s College London, and gained a Management Degree from the Open University. He took an early retirement as a Specialist teacher (Behaviour Support) in 2011 to work with diverse communities, particularity the youth, and engage in writing.
He is a founding member of The East London Communities Organisation (TELCO), now part of the Citizens UK (CUK). He was Secretary General of the Muslim Council of Britain (2006 – 10), Chair of the East London Mosque Trust (2002 – 13) and non-executive board member of the London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games (LOCOG 2006-13). He served on the Good Childhood Inquiry Panel which was set up by the Children’s Society in 2006.
He is a patron of Anchor House, an award winning homeless charity, the Ramphal Institute and Nida Trust, an educational charity. He is also a trustee of Muslim Aid, a leading international charity.
Dr Bari has written for various newspapers, blogs and journals including The Huffington Post and Al-Jazeera English, and is the author of a number of books on marriage, family, parenting, identity and community issues from contemporary British Muslim perspectives.
In recognition of his services to the community, he was conferred an MBE in 2003. He was awarded ‘Community Cohesion Champion’ by Sikhs in England in 2006. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, an Honorary Fellow of Queen Mary (University of London) and an Honorary Doctor of Education of the University of East London.
Dr Bari is founding director of AmanaParenting. He is also the founder of Head2Heart - a socio-political forum.
ADDRESS: 80 Rickard Rd Bankstown NSW 2200
WEBSITE: www.blakc.com.au
The event is being organised by Islamic Practice and Dawah Circle. The organisation operates across Australia. To learn more about us please visit our website www.ipdc.org.au or drop us email on info@ipdc.org.au
