No not at all, you can join from anywhere in the world. You just need a computer and access to the internet. Most of the videos and audios can be downloaded when you have access to high-speed wifi. You can post your questions at any time, and they’ll be answered as others are online and you can monitor notifications. We change around the times that we offer webinars to facilitate different time zones, and also people can send a question in ahead of time and then watch the replay after the event.

The training is open to anyone who has ongoing contact with children. It's ideal for parents, grandparents or teachers. It's important to be able to observe children and practice what you learn through your communication with one or more children in your world. You don't need to interact with children of all ages as the Village forums and resources like the problem solving and loving limits scripts offer lots of answers to typical questions relating to a wide range of ages.

We offer that participants can become certified in a shorter or longer time than the year because we recognize that participants will come from a diverse range of personal and professional experiences and that each person will have different needs to meet to get to the stage where they feel competent and confident to offer their services in their community as a peaceful parenting instructor and/or educator.

The same is true for those who do the training for the purpose of integrating the tools into their current therapeutic or teaching practice who may not have the wish or need to market themselves as a peaceful parenting instructor or educator. Allowing for this, participants can gain their certification once they've met the requirements whether this takes 5 months or 2 years.

Especially for those who have already completed the Peaceful Parenting Step by Step eCourse at some point in recent years or who have already had some one on one appointments with me over recent years, they may be able to meet the requirements in a much shorter length of time. Also for those who have already been practicing some of the core principles of non-punitive connection based parenting and/or teaching, and especially those who have already tackled a lot of their own inner self-healing work, again they may be able to move through the material with more ease and speed than others. And for many reasons, other participants will need to take a lot more time before achieving the point of competence and confidence to offer their services as a peaceful parenting instructor and educator.

Breaking down the time required to complete the eCourses plus the resources in each of the Resource Kits over the 12 months, we recommend making an appointment with yourself in your diary to spend at least 8 hours per month or 2 hours per week to engage in the training material.  Whether that's a 2 hour block one evening or weekend morning, or 30 minutes 4 nights a week.  And in addition to this, we require that participants preferably attend or watch the replay of a minimum of four of the support webinars for trainees.

If you have a look at the eCourse library; you'll see the list of eCourses and estimated recommended time to work through each of them as follows:

The Peaceful Parenting Step by Step eCourse; Time Commitment - approximately 12 - 14 hours; 7 modules (about 2 hours each) broken into 4-5 units of about 20-30 minutes each. To allow time to practice each approach while they're fresh in your mind, we suggest you plan to work on this course over 6-8 weeks. There is an accompanying workbook and several summary sheets where the approaches are summarized into easy simplified one-pagers that can all be printed out and kept in your PP Instructor learning folder.

The Discipline without Punishment Video eCourse; Time Commitment - approx. 5 hours to cover 9 videos approx. 15-20 minutes each, accompanying text and 6 reflection worksheets. Most of the videos are excerpts from live seminars, the longer versions of these seminars can be made available on request.

Mama Meltdown eCourse recommended time commitment is 2 ½ hours over 4 units. Again this will depend on a participant's previous experience in working with their own and other people's emotional journey towards greater harmony and emotional regulation and emotional self-management.

10 Day Peaceful Parent Challenge: In this mini eCourse we suggest that participants carve out just ten minutes per day to practice each day's simple yet powerful practice that's aimed to increase one's ability to be mindfully calm present and connected with their own and their child's feelings and needs. Yet in reality reading each day's suggested practice, practicing it with your child during the day, then returning to answer the on-screen reflection questions to help integrate the practice and gain any subsequent insights will take about 30 minutes a day over 10 days. So especially when doing this eCourse with the intention of potentially guiding clients or course participants to follow through it, we suggest allowing 5 hours for this eCourse.

Covering the information in these eCourses is estimated to take about 25 hours in total. This doesn't include the time spent practicing what you're learning. The richest learning, of course, comes from the practice in putting the theory into practice with the child or children in your life on a day to day basis. We've estimated that if you can spend 8 hours per month or 2 hours per week to engage in the training material you can cover the basic requirements.  And in addition to this, we require that participants preferably attend or watch the replay of a minimum of four of the support webinars for trainees. In addition to these requirements there are additional optional zoom video calls that trainees can avail of depending on what they need to gain the confidence and competence they need during the training or download to access as needed later as they develop their practice or business (See "Additional optional zoom video call" topics in the list of requirements on the information page).

Covering the additional material in our resource library and any other relevant information that relates to where you see the gaps in your learning and understanding to be, we recommend spending a minimum of one hour per week working through this material and encourage you to engage in the eCourses learning forum in the Village to share your thoughts, insights and ask your questions.

This additional material that we encourage participants to become familiar with is based on equipping you to feel confident answering some of the most common questions that arise in consultations with parents and on workshops: * Meeting Aggression with Connection, * Mindful Parenting, * Ending Parental Conflict * Teens and alcohol, * Kids Conflicts and Sibling Rivalry * Screens vs Self-Directed Play * Peacefully parenting Strong-Willed Children * Tears and tantrums * The food-mood connection. Additionally, one of the webinars will cover how to tackle any concerns that a parent or teacher may have that the child may have a condition that needs to be identified and addressed

It is a one year long program. The cost of the program for those who manage to complete all requirements within the year is $325 USD per month over 12 months or $3,000 USD in one upfront payment. For those who need longer to complete, they can continue to stay engaged with the training material and ongoing video calls and support through the forum as long as they need to at the cost of $30 per month.  It's also a possibility to pause the training if unexpected challenges arise, just make contact and have that conversation.

The training fee includes all the required eCourses, resource kits and optional video webinars during the training. The one on one supervision appointments with Genevieve are not included in the training fee.  The normal fee of NZ$150 per hour or US$100 per hour will be reduced to NZ$110 (or US$70) for trainees or certified instructors within the first two years post-certification.

Yes each peaceful parenting instructor will build their own client base.  There will be a page on the website with the details of each instructor and their contact and other relevant information.  Instructors can have their own page on the website if they send us their bio and relevant information and links.  They are then welcome to use this link in emails or facebook page posts or other digital information.  The link will look like this; www.peacefulparent.com/yourname/

No.  You can bring as many of your questions and challenges into the training as you like, including questions relating to clients you begin working with during the training.  We ask that you are honest with anyone you offer peaceful parenting support to that you're still in training.  The 4 supervision appointments are for your support and continued learning during your first year of working with clients post gaining instructor certification

Yes, the finer details of how all that works will be explained as you get close to completing requirements.  When you become a qualified instructor, you'll be given a package of resources that you can use including summary sheets relating to the different tools, pre-made power point presentation files relating to some of the most common seminars / workshops that Genevieve currently offers.  You can look on the seminars page to see what those topics are; https://www.peacefulparent.com/peaceful-parenting-seminars/
You can also take individuals or groups through one or more of the eCourses that you yourself will be learning from during the training.

It means that you can promote yourself as a Peaceful Parenting Instructor and Educator who has been trained and certified by Genevieve Simperingham and the Peaceful Parent Institute.  It means that you will have the ongoing support during the training and beyond of PPI as you develop your business.  It's very important that the strong and consistently positive reputation of PPI be maintained as PPI certified instructors share what they've learned through the training and ongoing learning and support.  When someone puts themselves out there in their community as an Instructor and educator certified by PPI they benefit from the weight of this reputation, brand and following that has developed over 25 years of Genevieve and her husband Dan plus in the last decade the PPI team offering consistently good quality information and support to families in need around the globe.

No, to gain ongoing therapeutic holding and support you will need to work with a therapist or set up a listening partnership with another trainee or village member. However, you will gain a lot of support as you journey through the training. You will likely find that the training brings you in touch with your own emotional patterns and will likely find yourself revisiting your own childhood quite a lot as you learn and change patterns from childhood. The support we offer can be very healing and therapeutic, yet we need to be very clear that online therapy is not the intention of the Village.

Genevieve, Tabitha, Meg and Gauri, Julie, Michelle, Debra and the other administrators each bring a huge richness of experience and passion to this community.  We each have different skills that we bring and all share a passion for reaching as many families and schools as possible with these connection based approaches.  Between us we have a lot of experience in counselling, family therapy, teaching, special needs, sensory issues, mindfulness, occupational therapy, the healing of trauma and childhood wounds.  And yet none of us are offering to be a primary support person to a trainee.  We can support people to reach out and gain the support they need in their world and gain extra support in the Village.

We understand that this happens at times, especially at parents who can never control life to the full and need to prioritize the needs of the family.  In this situation, just chat with Genevieve and negotiate for your learning and hence your payments to be paused until you are again in a situation where you can continue.

You can gain a full refund in the first 30 days.  The only conditions that apply is that we’ll first send you a couple of questions to make sure that you’re not leaving because you didn’t access the help you needed finding the materials that most relate to your situation.

As a safeguard, we also check at our end that a member hasn’t already downloaded lots of the material. This is for our protection knowing how valuable the content is and not wanting it to be misused or repackaged.  But if you’ve downloaded 3 or 4 items to see if it’s a good fit for you and you decide to leave, we absolutely respect that and will be happy to give you a refund!

Please also read the response to the question above this relating to accessing PPI content to share with clients or workshop participants.  When you first join and start the training, we'll guide you to register as a PPI (Peaceful Parent Institute) affiliate.  As a trainee, you'll receive a commission of 15% on any products or membership someone avails of.  When you become a qualified Peaceful Parenting Instructor that commission goes up to 30%.  You'll have login details and be able to track any sales and commission amounts through your dashboard.

As an affiliate, you'll be able to offer links to this website in your emails, website, social media pages/ posts which has an affiliate code associated with it.  If that person then becomes a Peaceful Parent Village member or buys one of the individual eCourses or other digital products through our products for sale page, whether it happens on that day that they first link through from your link or even many months later, you'll receive a commission for that.

If you're already a Village Member, the first step is to visit My Account and choose the option to Downgrade to free subscriber.  Then go back to the PP Instructor information page and sign up with the option of 12 monthly payments or the upfront one payment for the year.  If you live in New Zealand, read the answer to the question "I live in New Zealand, can I pay in NZ$ and is GST included?"

The NZD fee is:

Option 1: $475 per month x 12 (incl. GST)
Option 2: $330 per month x 18 months (Incl. GST)
Option 3: A once off payment of $4,350 (including GST) for the full year if paid upfront.

Further detail and instructions on payment is available on the registration page.

Rather than participants completing assignments every six weeks or so, the courses have reflection questions throughout the units.  We believe this is a more effective approach as the participant gets to think and type out how they would put the theory into practice when the learning relating to that particular unit is very fresh on their mind.

Before gaining certification, you will need to submit to Genevieve at least one case study following the format, questions and guidelines given.  This will greatly help you think through the work you do in supporting at least one parent during one or a series of parent coaching appointments.  I do encourage participants to share their case studies for other participants to benefit from.  Some of the conversations in the zoom meetings relate to participants talking through the work they're doing with parents they're supporting. The real life assignments come when working with a parent and that’s when you’re learning will really escalate when you have the pressure of really helping that parent in the best way that you can.  Many of the participants reflect that they find the suggested questions for case studies to give them a good structure as they work to help that parent.