Courses for parents and families
We’re shaping our next series of MindMaps parent courses — designed with families, not for them. Tell us what topics would make the biggest difference in your home.
Parenting doesn’t come with a manual — but it can come with a map.
Every child sees the world differently, and these short, practical courses are designed to help you navigate the conversations, tools and frameworks that balance the practical use of technology with the safety
Each one offers simple, research-backed tools to bring more calm, confidence, and connection into daily life — turning routines into moments of growth, and challenges into conversations that strengthen understanding.
Because what happens at home shapes everything that happens in school.
01. Social Media, AI, and the Developing Mind
Focus:
Helping parents understand how social media and AI shape children’s attention, emotions, identity, and behaviour — and how to respond with clarity, confidence, and calm rather than fear or control.
Overview:
Children are growing up inside digital systems designed to capture attention, shape behaviour, and influence identity.
This course helps parents understand how those systems work — psychologically and emotionally — so they can guide their children with awareness rather than anxiety.
Using clear explanations, real-life examples, and practical conversation tools, parents explore how today’s most-used social media platforms and AI tools affect mood, self-image, focus, and belonging. Instead of banning or battling technology, the course focuses on digital resilience: building curiosity, open dialogue, and values-based boundaries that actually hold.
Parents leave with a clearer lens for interpreting online behaviour, stronger confidence in difficult conversations, and practical ways to turn everyday digital moments into teachable ones.
Platforms & Tools Covered (Under 16s)
This course focuses on the six most commonly used digital platforms and AI tools by children and young people, including:
Instagram – comparison, image-based identity, validation loops
TikTok – short-form attention, emotional amplification, trends & mimicry
Snapchat – private messaging, streaks, social pressure
WhatsApp – group dynamics, inclusion/exclusion, emotional spillover
YouTube – algorithmic influence, passive consumption vs curiosity
AI tools (e.g. ChatGPT, filters, generative AI) – thinking, creativity, dependency, and truth
Each is explored through the lens of development, emotion, and behaviour — not technical detail.
Outcomes:
Parents will be able to:
Understand how social media and AI influence mood, attention, and self-image
Recognise the emotional needs being met online (belonging, significance, certainty, escape)
Set realistic, values-led boundaries that don’t rely on constant enforcement
Have calmer, more open conversations about screens, content, and AI
Reduce digital conflict while increasing trust and emotional safety
Format:
Self-Paced Video Modules
Module 1: The Digital Landscape Kids Are Growing Up In
How social media and AI are designed, why they’re so compelling, and what this means for developing brains.
Module 2: Social Media & Emotion
Exploring Instagram, TikTok, Snapchat, WhatsApp, and YouTube through the lens of attention, comparison, belonging, and identity.
Module 3: AI, Thinking & the Developing Mind
How tools like ChatGPT, filters, and generative AI influence creativity, confidence, problem-solving, and independence.
Module 4: Digital Resilience at Home
How to build healthy habits, boundaries, and conversations that support growth rather than fear or avoidance.
02. 6 Human Needs at home and the science of calm
Focus:
Helping parents understand what drives children’s behaviour beneath the surface — and how to create calm, connection, and cooperation using the Six Human Needs and simple emotional regulation tools.
Overview:
Every action a child takes — from seeking attention to shutting down during stress — is driven by an underlying emotional need.
This course teaches parents the Six Human Needs model (certainty, variety, significance, love/connection, growth, contribution) and shows how these needs shape behaviour at home.
Alongside this, parents learn the science of calm: how stress, overstimulation, and emotional overload affect a child’s brain, and how adults can regulate both themselves and their children using simple evidence-based practices.
Through real-life examples, guided exercises, and practical routines, parents learn how to respond to behaviour with understanding rather than frustration — creating a calmer emotional climate and stronger family bonds.
Outcomes:
Understand the emotional needs driving your child’s behaviour
Learn how to meet needs in healthy, balanced ways at home
Reduce emotional overwhelm for both child and parent
Improve communication and reduce conflict
Build calmer routines around mornings, homework, and bedtime
Strengthen connection and cooperation through small daily shifts
Format:
Self-paced video modules
The 6 Human Needs: Why Kids Do What They Do
The Science of Calm: Stress, Co-Regulation & Nervous System Basics
Bringing It All Together: Daily Routines That Reduce Conflict
Guided audio practices (parent reset + parent–child co-regulation)
The Human Needs at Home Toolkit
Needs checklist
Behaviour reframing guide
Calm routines templates
Lifetime access + update
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