PRINCETON FAMILY CENTER FOR EDUCATION PRESENTS
Dr. Jenny Brown
Thursday, April 27, 2023
Princeton Family Center for Education is excited to host international speaker and best-selling author, Jenny Brown, Ph.D., for two seminars:
A 90-minute Parent seminar titled “Confident Parenting: A Fresh Approach to Nurturing Resilient Children”
This seminar would be useful for parents, grandparents, and any individual supporting the growth and development of a child or children.
10:00 AM to 11:30 AM Eastern
1:00 PM to 4:00 PM Eastern
A Professional seminar titled “Introducing the Parent Hope Project and the Theory and Research Behind Its Development”
Attending the professional seminar will satisfy the prerequisite requirements for individuals interested in taking the Parent Hope Project training. The cost of attending this seminar can be applied to the Parent Hope Project tuition.
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Virtual attendance via Zoom.
In-person attendance at The Nassau Club, Princeton, NJ. Get Directions
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Morning Session, 90-minute Parent Seminar $35
Afternoon Session, 3-hour Professional Seminar $95
For more information contact Lee Gardner at info@princetonfamilycenter.org or call 609.203.0162.
Meet the Speaker
Dr. Jenny Brown has more than 35 years of clinical experience in child, couple, and family health in Australia, the USA, and the UK. Her primary clinical and research interest has been in child and adolescent mental health and parents’ involvement in treatment. This has been reflected in her publications, conference and workshop presentations, and her Ph.D. research on parents’ experience of their child’s mental health treatment. The Parent Hope project has been developed from this critical research. Dr. Brown founded the Family Systems Institute in Sydney, Australia in 2004. She is the author of a best-selling book: Growing Yourself Up: How to Bring Your Best to All of Life’s Relationships. She has also authored: Confident Parenting: Restoring Your Confidence as a Parent by Making Yourself the Project and Not Trying to Change Your Child. Dr. Brown has presented at conferences in Australia and the USA and published several papers in peer-reviewed journals.
What Attendees Are Saying
I am taking this training for the opportunity to become a better resource to parents and grandparents. The heart of Jenny Brown’s Parent Hope Project, “making a project out of yourself,” embodies the concept of differentiation of self, the cornerstone of Bowen family systems theory.
Differentiation deals with working on one’s own self, with controlling self, with becoming a more responsible person, and permitting others to be themselves.
~ Murray Bowen, M.D. (“An Interview with Murray Bowen” (1976) in Family Therapy in Clinical Practice, Northvale, NJ: Jason Aronson, 1978.)
This training is a tool for clinicians, trainers, parents, and grandparents to direct the focus toward changing one’s self, away from trying to change the other. As a parent, grandparent, and a Bowen family systems clinician for forty years, I am interested in the challenges facing family systems in the struggle to become better parents and grandparents. This training provides a thoughtful approach to interrupt the process of projecting one’s own worries and concerns onto others, in this case, our children and grandchildren. Indeed, by “making a project of ourselves” we are making efforts to contribute to better overall family functioning.
