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Want to feel more confident supporting your child and family?
When your child receives a diagnosis, no one gives you a handbook. As the journey unfolds, parents are faced with big decisions, endless information, and the pressure to ‘get it right.’ It can feel overwhelming to know where to turn.
Belongside Workshops create a safe and supportive space for parents and carers to learn, reflect, and connect. Each session blends evidence-informed approaches with the lived experience of trained parent facilitators, offering trusted guidance that speaks to real family life.
Workshops are interactive and practical, with short presentations, reflective activities, and open discussion. You’ll walk away with strategies you can use straight away, and the reassurance that you’re not navigating this journey alone.
Throughout the year, we offer a rotating program of eight workshops, each designed to meet families’ needs at different stages. All are free to attend and delivered online, making them flexible and accessible no matter how busy life gets.
Upcoming Workshops
See the workshops currently open for registration. These sessions are running soon, so you can book your spot and get the support you need right now.
Other Workshops we offer
Belongside Families offers a range of workshops throughout the year. Some take place at key times, such as when children are starting school. Explore our workshops and register your interest to be notified when new dates are announced.
What parents are saying
Belongside Familiess' workshops have been practical and specific. The fact that the team are all parents with a disabled child themselves makes them a unique organisation. They create a culture of acceptance and acknowledgement, by sharing their experience with disability and valuing ours. It’s this sense of community that has helped me normalise and acknowledge the challenges. They are knowledgeable and connected and have helped connect me with other services.
Parent
Belongside Families' ‘All about me’ course and made a document for my son’s new class teacher. Before the course I did not have the confidence to send the school anything other than therapists reports as I didn’t want to be seen as underestimating their skills. He has had the best start to the school year he has ever had, right from day 1 the teacher has known his triggers and the strategies that work for him and even the principal commented how he is flourishing this year.
Parent
The advocacy workshop was helpful for to me to shift my view of myself as the expert on my child’s abilities and to embrace the pressure that comes with advocating for my son.
Parent