Courses and Webinars
Practical learning experiences for parents, caregivers, teachers and organisations who want to protect children’s confidence while helping them grow.
Small Words. Big Minds. Brilliant Futures.
Reading Confidence Programme
A two-part programme connecting reading skill, emotional safety and the relationship between a child and the trusted adults supporting them.
The Child Behind the Reading Struggle
A practical teacher course for recognising where reading becomes difficult and responding without embarrassment or shame. Includes a 30-minute training class, case practice, a classroom method, participant worksheet and Q&A.
Help My Child Want to Read Again
A gentle parent course for understanding reading refusal, speaking with the teacher and using a simple ten-minute routine at home. Includes a 30-minute coaching class, seven-day reading reset and Q&A.
Gentle Words Coaching Courses
The Backpack We Inherited
Explore how childhood words, family roles and generational patterns travel with us. Participants move from guilt or defensiveness towards awareness, practical language and one achievable change.
Correction Without Crushing Confidence
Learn how to guide behaviour while protecting dignity, emotional safety and connection through the practical Connect, Correct and Reconnect method.
Parent Meetings
Your Words Become Their Inner Voice explores how reading, conversation and emotional safety shape confidence and learning. Connection Before Correction helps families understand behaviour, repair hurt and use discipline that teaches. Each interactive meeting runs for approximately one hour, including guided reflection and questions.
Author Webinar Series
The webinar collection includes The Invisible Questions Every Child Is Asking, The World Through a Child’s Eyes, The Invisible Backpack We Carry, Your Words Become Your Child’s Inner Voice, and Emotional Safety. A dedicated reading webinar, When Children Stop Reading, offers practical ways to rebuild confidence and connection one page at a time.
Training for Schools and Organisations
Train the Teacher, Grow the Reader is a practical teacher-development programme for schools, preschools, learning centres and education organisations. It equips educators with repeatable classroom routines that support reading development without damaging a learner’s confidence.
Churches and Community Groups
Gentle Words Studio offers warm, practical parent talks and interactive sessions for church communities, parent groups and family-support organisations. Sessions can introduce the power of everyday language, connection before correction, emotional safety, reading confidence or another topic suited to the group’s needs.
A session may be arranged for an in-person gathering or delivered virtually when bringing everyone together is difficult. Each presentation is designed to encourage reflection without blame and to give parents language they can use at home immediately.
Choose the Right Session for Your Group
Courses, webinars and parent meetings can be delivered virtually or arranged for schools, churches, community groups and organisations.