Workshop
Juggling the Joys of Parenting - Workshop 2
Date 05-11-2026 Time 11:00 - 12:30Venue Virtual meeting
Registered members ONLY - E-Booking Required, please click link
Please familiarise yourself with our REVISED FEB 24 Zoom guidelines before joining sessions
Space for Self
Are you a parent of a child/adult with special needs or a disability on the LPCF membership?
Yes?
...then these workshops are a must for you!
This series is aimed at parent carers who wish to have fun, meet other parent carers that want to make life easier and learn new strategies that can make a very real difference.
As a parent of a child with additional needs, there may be many aspects and demands in your life that are often in conflict with each other, for example when you feel like you are juggling too many balls in the air at once?
This conflict can be damaging in terms of:
feeling guilty, divided loyalties and self neglect, available time, energy, focus and concentration, reduced levels of health,wellbeing and laughter.
This workshop is designed to enable you to...
- Identify your different roles
- Understand the value of the most important person
- Learn the value of being fully present
- Create space for yourself
- Recognise signs of burnout
- Remove the pain from those who create stress without even being in the room!
Our host Hil Gibb & LPCF will be running monthly virtual sessions - so why not join us.
Places are FREE to parents on the LPCF membership. Book your place above.
See flyer for more details.
Workshop
Working with schools to support your child's learning
Date 09-11-2026 Time 19:00 - 20:00Venue Virtual meeting
Registered members ONLY - E-Booking Required, please click link
Please familiarise yourself with our REVISED FEB 24 Zoom guidelines before joining sessions
Working with schools to support your child's learning.
Dyslexia Outreach and Specialist Teaching Team (Inclusion Service) have been invited to present a free, online workshop for parents and carers, to support your knowledge and understanding of how parents can work with mainstream schools to support their children with SEND.
They will be sharing recommendations for effective ways of working with school to ensure the best outcomes for your child.
If you are not already a member Click this link to sign up to LPCF
AND book your place on link above.
See poster below for more details.
Workshop
Hypnotherapy - Wellbeing
Date 12-11-2026 Time 19:30 - 21:00Venue Virtual meeting
Registered members ONLY - E-Booking Required, please click link
Please familiarise yourself with our REVISED FEB 24 Zoom guidelines before joining sessions
Topic - Letting the Day Go
Simple techniques to help you mentally park the day, stop replaying worries, and settle into the evening more peacefully.
For many parent carers, the end of the day doesnt always bring rest. It can be a time when thoughts replay conversations, worries, or unfinished tasks, making it difficult to properly relax or switch off.
This calming hypnotherapy wellbeing session, with Nicole from Hummingbird Hypnotherapy and LPCF, helps you understand why your brain can hold onto worries and introduces gentle techniques to help you mentally park the day and move into the evening feeling calmer and more settled.
During the session, you will:
The session focuses on realistic, practical approaches that work alongside real family life. Even small changes can help you feel calmer and more at ease.
These sessions are relaxed and supportive.
This session forms part of LPCFs wellbeing programme, supporting parent carers to feel calmer, more balanced, and better supported emotionally.
Free for LPCF members only.
Come exactly as you are tired, busy, or overwhelmed. You are very welcome.
If you are not already a member Click this link to sign up to LPCF AND book your place on link above
Workshop
LPCF Face to face Coffee Event - Parents Only
Date 25-11-2026 Time 11:30 - 12:30Venue The Showroom, Tritton Road, Lincoln, LN6 7QY
No Booking Required but we would ask you to register please. Parents - Professionals
Please familiarise yourself with our REVISED FEB 24 Zoom guidelines before joining sessions
Join us for a coffee and a chat in person!
Fancy a friendly face and a cuppa?
Need a listening ear, a quick question answered, or just a chance to talk things through?
Whether somethings been on your mind, youre feeling a bit unsure about next steps, or you'd simply like to connect with someone who gets it, you're very welcome.
These relaxed, informal meet-ups are a chance to:
No pressure, no agenda just a warm drink, friendly conversation, and the comfort of being around people who understand the ups and downs of parenting a child or young person with a disability or additional need.
Come along, take a breather, and touch base with LPCF.
Please book your place above before 21st November to guarantee we will be there.
Workshop
LPCF Face to face Coffee Event - Parents only
Date 25-11-2026 Time 11:30 - 12:30Venue The Showroom, Tritton Road, Lincoln, LN6 7QY
Registered members ONLY - E-Booking Required, please click link
Please familiarise yourself with our REVISED FEB 24 Zoom guidelines before joining sessions
Join us for a coffee and a chat � in person!
Fancy a friendly face and a cuppa?
Need a listening ear, a quick question answered, or just a chance to talk things through?
Whether something's been on your mind, you're feeling a bit unsure about next steps, or you'd simply like to connect with someone who gets it, you're very welcome.
These relaxed, informal meet-ups are a chance to:
No pressure, no agenda just a warm drink, friendly conversation, and the comfort of being around people who understand the ups and downs of parenting a child or young person with a disability or additional need.
Come along, take a breather, and touch base with LPCF.
Please book your place above before 3rd October to guarantee we will be there.
Workshop
LPCF What do we do?
Date 26-11-2026 Time 11:30 - 12:30Venue Virtual meeting
Registered members ONLY - E-Booking Required, please click link
Please familiarise yourself with our REVISED FEB 24 Zoom guidelines before joining sessions
Discover LPCF here to support SEND families
Are you a parent or carer of a child or young person with SEND, thinking of joining LPCF, new to LPCF, feeling unsure what support is available, or a professional working with SEND families?
This friendly, informal session is designed to help everyone better understand how LPCF works and how it can support families.
What is LPCF?
Lincolnshire Parent Carer Forum (LPCF) is a community of over 4,800 parents and carers and 1,700 professionals, working together to improve SEND services across Lincolnshire.
We bring parent voices together and work alongside education, health and care services to co-produce change that makes a real difference.
What will this session cover?
This session is practical, supportive and easy to follow. We will:
What parents and carers will get:
What professionals will get:
Why attend?
Whether you're a parent carer or professional, this session helps build shared understanding, stronger relationships and better outcomes for families of children with SEND
You don't need to prepare anything or speak unless you want to just come along and listen.
Book your place above we'd love to welcome you.
Workshop
Juggling the Joys of Parenting - Workshop 3
Date 03-12-2026 Time 11:00 - 12:30Venue Virtual meeting
Registered members ONLY - E-Booking Required, please click link
Please familiarise yourself with our REVISED FEB 24 Zoom guidelines before joining sessions
Effective Communication
Are you a parent of a child/adult with special needs or a disability on the LPCF membership?
Yes?
...then these workshops are a must for you!
This series is aimed at parent carers who wish to have fun, meet other parent carers that want to make life easier and learn new strategies that can make a very real difference.
As a parent of a child with additional needs, you may attend many meetings with various service providers and agencies. Whether these events run well, or otherwise, the experience and outcomes of any meeting can be greatly improved through effective communication.
Whether it's preparing for meetings, giving feedback, or handling difficult conversations, you'll develop confidence and practical skills.
These two sessions are designed to:-
- Help you to feel more confident in a range of situations
- Get your thoughts and feelings across effectively and more easily
- Handle potentially 'sticky' conversations well
- Understand human behaviour and apply this understanding practically
- Reduce stress and drains on time and energy
Our host Hil Gibb & LPCF will be running monthly virtual sessions - so why not join us.
Places are FREE to parents on the LPCF membership. Book your place above.
See flyer for more details.
Workshop
Hypnotherapy - Wellbeing
Date 03-12-2026 Time 19:30 - 21:00Venue Virtual meeting
Registered members ONLY - E-Booking Required, please click link
Please familiarise yourself with our REVISED FEB 24 Zoom guidelines before joining sessions
Topic - Christmas as a SEND Parent
A gentle, supportive session to help you manage routines, expectations, and overwhelm during the festive period without pressure to make things perfect.
Christmas can be a joyful time, but for many parent carers it can also bring added pressure, disrupted routines, and emotional overwhelm. Expectations both from yourself and others can make the festive period feel more stressful than supportive.
This hypnotherapy wellbeing session, Christmas as a SEND Parent, is designed to help you approach the festive season with greater calm, confidence, and self-compassion.
During the session, you will:
This is a safe, supportive space where there is no judgement and no expectation to share. You are welcome to simply listen and take away what feels helpful.
This session is not about creating a perfect Christmas. It's about helping you feel calmer, more in control, and able to do Christmas in a way that feels right for you and your family.
This session forms part of LPCF's wellbeing programme, supporting parent carers emotional wellbeing throughout the year.
Free for LPCF members only.
Come exactly as you are tired, busy, or overwhelmed. You are very welcome.
If you are not already a member Click this link to sign up to LPCF AND book your place on link above
Workshop
Juggling the Joys of Parenting -Workshop 4
Date 07-01-2027 Time 11:00 - 12:30Venue Virtual meeting
Registered members ONLY - E-Booking Required, please click link
Please familiarise yourself with our REVISED FEB 24 Zoom guidelines before joining sessions
Effective Communication- session 2
Are you a parent of a child/adult with special needs or a disability on the LPCF membership?
Yes?
...then these workshops are a must for you!
This series is aimed at parent carers who wish to have fun, meet other parent carers that want to make life easier and learn new strategies that can make a very real difference.
As a parent of a child with additional needs, you may attend many meetings with various service providers and agencies. Whether these events run well, or otherwise, the experience and outcomes of any meeting can be greatly improved through effective communication.
Whether it's preparing for meetings, giving feedback, or handling difficult conversations, you'll develop confidence and practical skills.
These two sessions are designed to:-
-> Help you to feel more confident in a range of situations
-> Get your thoughts and feelings across effectively and more easily
-> Handle potentially 'sticky' conversations well
-> Understand human behaviour and apply this understanding practically
-> Reduce stress and drains on time and energy
Session 2 builds on Session 1 with different content but the same empowering objectives.
Our host Hil Gibb & LPCF will be running monthly virtual sessions - so why not join us.
Places are FREE to parents on the LPCF membership. Book your place above.
See flyer for more details.
Workshop
Study Skills & Revision Strategies
Date 13-01-2027 Time 19:00 - 20:00Venue Virtual meeting
Registered members ONLY - E-Booking Required, please click link
Please familiarise yourself with our REVISED FEB 24 Zoom guidelines before joining sessions
Presented for LPCF by LCC Specialist Teaching team, Special Educational Needs and Disability Service(SENDs), Dyslexia Outreach.
A free online workshop for secondary aged students with SEND and their parents, who are registered with LPCF.
Siblings with or without SEND are also welcome to attend.
Aimed at young people with SEND preparing for GCSE's or A-Levels/secondary students who would like ideas on how to retain and organise learning.
If you are not already a member Click this link to sign up to LPCF
AND book your place on link above.
See poster below for more details.
Workshop
LPCF What do we do?
Date 19-01-2027 Time 13:00 - 14:00Venue Virtual meeting
Registered members ONLY - E-Booking Required, please click link
Please familiarise yourself with our REVISED FEB 24 Zoom guidelines before joining sessions
Discover LPCF here to support SEND families
Are you a parent or carer of a child or young person with SEND,thinking of joining LPCF, new to LPCF, feeling unsure what support is available, or a professional working with SEND families?
This friendly, informal session is designed to help everyone better understand how LPCF works and how it can support families.
What is LPCF?
Lincolnshire Parent Carer Forum (LPCF) is a community of over 4,800 parents and carers and 1,700 professionals, working together to improve SEND services across Lincolnshire.
We bring parent voices together and work alongside education, health and care services to co-produce change that makes a real difference.
What will this session cover?
This session is practical, supportive and easy to follow. We will:
What parents and carers will get:
What professionals will get:
Why attend?
Whether you're a parent carer or professional, this session helps build shared understanding, stronger relationships and better outcomes for families of children with SEND
You don't need to prepare anything or speak unless you want to just come along and listen.
Book your place above we'd love to welcome you.
Workshop
Hypnotherapy - Wellbeing
Date 21-01-2027 Time 19:30 - 21:00Venue Virtual meeting
Registered members ONLY - E-Booking Required, please click link
Please familiarise yourself with our REVISED FEB 24 Zoom guidelines before joining sessions
Topic -January Resetting After an Intense Season
A gentle space to recover from Christmas, school transitions, and winter exhaustion helping you regain a sense of steadiness without pressure to start fresh.
January can feel like a difficult month for many parent carers. After the intensity of Christmas, changes in routine, school returns, and winter fatigue, it's common to feel emotionally and physically drained. There can also be pressure to reset orstart fresh, which may feel unrealistic when you're already exhausted.
This hypnotherapy wellbeing session, with Nicole from Hummingbird Hypnotherapy and LPCF, offers a calm, supportive space to slow down, recover, and gently regain your sense of balance.
During the session, you will:
This session is not about making resolutions or forcing change. It's about helping you feel supported as you recover and rebuild your energy gradually.
The session is relaxed and supportive. You won't be expected to share personal experiences unless you wish to you are welcome to simply listen and take what feels helpful.
This session forms part of LPCF's wellbeing programme, supporting parent carers wellbeing throughout every season of the year.
Free for LPCF members only.
Come exactly as you are tired, busy, or overwhelmed. You are very welcome.
If you are not already a member Click this link to sign up to LPCF AND book your place on link above
Workshop
Juggling the Joys of Parenting - Workshop 5
Date 04-02-2027 Time 11:00 - 12:30Venue Virtual meeting
Registered members ONLY - E-Booking Required, please click link
Please familiarise yourself with our REVISED FEB 24 Zoom guidelines before joining sessions
Understanding Strategies
Are you a parent of a child/adult with special needs or a disability on the LPCF membership?
Yes?
...then these workshops are a must for you!
This series is aimed at parent carers who wish to have fun, meet other parent carers that want to make life easier and learn new strategies that can make a very real difference.
How come, if you were to pick up your toothbrush with the 'wrong' hand, you'd find it difficult to brush your teeth. Well, every one of us has strategies for everything we do, and when that strategy is interrupted, it's really tricky for it to continue. Some of our strategies are positive and help us move forward. Others are destructive and hold us back.
As a carer of someone with additional needs, you may experience a range of behaviours and strategies that are inadvertently unhelpful to your child's progress or flexibility in an ever-changing world.
This workshop is designed to enable you to:
-> Feel more confident when supporting your loved one
-> Explore the power of strategies over our behaviours
-> Reflect on your strategies and those of your loved one
-> Generate an 'action plan' for more positive outcomes
-> Reduce stress and drains on time and energy
Our host Hil Gibb & LPCF will be running monthly virtual sessions - so why not join us.
Places are FREE to parents on the LPCF membership. Book your place above.
See flyer for more details.
Workshop
Hypnotherapy - Wellbeing
Date 25-02-2027 Time 19:30 - 21:00Venue Virtual meeting
Registered members ONLY - E-Booking Required, please click link
Please familiarise yourself with our REVISED FEB 24 Zoom guidelines before joining sessions
Topic - Protecting Your Energy
Learning how to spot energy drains and set boundaries that are realistic and sustainable for SEND families.
Parent carers often give so much of their time, energy, and emotional support to others that their own needs can come last. Over time, this can lead to exhaustion, overwhelm, and feeling stretched too thin.
This hypnotherapy wellbeing session, with Nicole from Hummingbird Hypnotherapy and LPCF, helps you recognise what drains your energy and introduces gentle, realistic ways to protect your wellbeing without guilt or pressure.
During the session, you will:
This session is not about doing more or getting everything right.It's about helping you feel more in control of your energy and making choices that support your long-term wellbeing.
The session is relaxed, supportive, and practical. You won't be expected to share personal experiences unless you wish to you are welcome to simply listen and take what feels helpful.
This session forms part of LPCF's wellbeing programme, supporting parent carers to feel calmer, stronger, and more emotionally supported.
Free for LPCF members only.
Come exactly as you are tired, busy, or overwhelmed. You are very welcome.
If you are not already a member Click this link to sign up to LPCF AND book your place on link above.
Workshop
Supporting your child's learning at home
Date 01-03-2027 Time 19:00 - 20:00Venue Virtual meeting
Registered members ONLY - E-Booking Required, please click link
Please familiarise yourself with our REVISED FEB 24 Zoom guidelines before joining sessions
Supporting your child's learning at home
A free, online workshop,with the Specialist Teaching Team sharing strategies to support learning.
Open to all parents who would like ideas on supporting their child(ren) with reading, spelling, maths, memory and organisation.
The workshop is aimed at supporting children from Reception to Key Stage 3 who have cognition and learning difficulties, although parents/carers of older children may wish to attend.
Open to LPCF members only - sign up on the sign up page of the website.
If you are not already a member Click this link to sign up to LPCF
AND book your place on link above.
See poster below for more details.
Workshop
Juggling the Joys of Parenting -Workshop 6
Date 04-03-2027 Time 11:00 - 12:30Venue Virtual meeting
Registered members ONLY - E-Booking Required, please click link
Please familiarise yourself with our REVISED FEB 24 Zoom guidelines before joining sessions
What makes us tick?
Are you a parent, grandparent, Carer, relative or friend of a child/adult with special needs or a disability?
Yes?
...then these workshops are a must for you!
This series is aimed at parent carers who wish to have fun, meet other parent carers that want to make life easier and learn new strategies that can make a very real difference.
Have you ever wondered what your beliefs and values are and how they support you and your family?
This What Makes Us Tick workshop will enable us to:
-> Look more closely at how our beliefs affect the decisions we make
-> Explore where our boundaries lie
-> Give us tips and strategies to help reinforce them
-> Understand how our values shape our parenting choices
Our host Hil Gibb & LPCF will be running monthly virtual sessions - so why not join us. Places are FREE to parents on the LPCF membership. See flyer for more details. Book your place by emailing :admin@lincspcf.org.uk
Workshop
LPCF What do we do?
Date 09-03-2027 Time 13:00 - 14:00Venue Virtual meeting
Registered members ONLY - E-Booking Required, please click link
Please familiarise yourself with our REVISED FEB 24 Zoom guidelines before joining sessions
Discover LPCF here to support SEND families
Are you a parent or carer of a child or young person with SEND,thinking of joining LPCF, new to LPCF, feeling unsure what support is available, or a professional working with SEND families?
This friendly, informal session is designed to help everyone better understand how LPCF works and how it can support families.
What is LPCF?
Lincolnshire Parent Carer Forum (LPCF) is a community of over 4,800 parents and carers and 1,700 professionals, working together to improve SEND services across Lincolnshire.
We bring parent voices together and work alongside education, health and care services to co-produce change that makes a real difference.
What will this session cover?
This session is practical, supportive and easy to follow. We will:
What parents and carers will get:
What professionals will get:
Why attend?
Whether you're a parent carer or professional, this session helps build shared understanding, stronger relationships and better outcomes for families of children with SEND
You don't need to prepare anything or speak unless you want to just come along and listen.
Book your place above we'd love to welcome you.
Workshop
Hypnotherapy - Wellbeing
Date 25-03-2027 Time 19:30 - 21:00Venue Virtual meeting
Registered members ONLY - E-Booking Required, please click link
Please familiarise yourself with our REVISED FEB 24 Zoom guidelines before joining sessions
Topic - Giving Yourself Permission to Pause
Exploring rest, boundaries, and letting go of the pressure to always keep going.
Parent carers are often used to being constantly on There is always something to organise, support, or respond to, and it can feel difficult or even uncomfortable to slow down or rest. Many parents carry an internal pressure to keep going, even when they are exhausted.
This gentle hypnotherapy wellbeing session, by Nicole from Hummingbird Hypnotherapy and LPCF, helps you understand why rest can feel challenging and introduces simple ways to allow yourself space to pause without guilt.
During the session, you will:
This session is not about asking you to do less for your family. It's about helping you protect your wellbeing so you can continue in a more sustainable and supported way.
The session is relaxed and supportive.
This session forms part of LPCF's wellbeing programme, supporting parent carers to feel calmer, more balanced, and emotionally supported.
Free for LPCF members only.
Come exactly as you are tired, busy, or overwhelmed. You are very welcome.
If you are not already a member Click this link to sign up to LPCF AND book your place on link above.
Workshop
Juggling the Joys of Parenting -Workshop 7
Date 15-04-2027 Time 11:00 - 12:30Venue Virtual meeting
Registered members ONLY - E-Booking Required, please click link
Please familiarise yourself with our REVISED FEB 24 Zoom guidelines before joining sessions
Resilience
Are you a parent, grandparent, Carer, relative or friend of a child/adult with special needs or a disability? Yes?
...then these workshops are a must for you!
This series is aimed at parent carers who wish to have fun, meet other parent carers that want to make life easier and learn new strategies that can make a very real difference.
The word 'resilience' has become very widely used over the last few years. And yet, as a parent or carer, you'll have been "doing" resilience, to varying degrees, over a long period. The thing is, we never really know how resilient we are until we are really tested.
This Resilience workshop is designed to enable you to:
-> Explore what is really meant by resilience
-> Increase our self-awareness around how we respond to those unexpected, challenging moments
-> Explore traits and strategies for high resilience
-> Understand how a permanent state of resilience isn't necessarily good for us
-> Look at the human response to change
-> Consider how we grow resilience in our children
Our host Hil Gibb & LPCF will be running monthly virtual sessions - so why not join us.
Places are FREE to parents on the LPCF membership. Book your place above.
See flyer for more details.
Workshop
Hypnotherapy - Wellbeing
Date 22-04-2027 Time 19:30 - 21:00Venue Virtual meeting
Registered members ONLY - E-Booking Required, please click link
Please familiarise yourself with our REVISED FEB 24 Zoom guidelines before joining sessions
Topic -Stopping the Spiral
Learn how to notice when your thoughts are going downhill and use easy techniques to pause, reset, and steady yourself.
Many parent carers describe how quickly worries can build one thought leads to another, and before you know it, everything can feel overwhelming. This is sometimes called a spiral, and it's a very normal response when you're under ongoing stress and responsibility.
Our hypnotherapy wellbeing session with Nicole from Hummingbird Hypnotherapy and LPCF, is designed to help you recognise these moments earlier and learn simple, gentle ways to pause and regain a sense of calm and control.
During the session, you will:
These sessions are relaxed, supportive, and practical. The focus is on giving you tools you can use in everyday life, especially during challenging moments.
Even small changes in how you respond to your thoughts can make a big difference to your wellbeing.
This session is part of LPCF's ongoing commitment to supporting the emotional wellbeing and resilience of parent carers.
Free for LPCF members only.
Come exactly as you are tired, busy, or overwhelmed. You are very welcome.
If you are not already a member Click this link to sign up to LPCF AND book your place on link above.