Sleep Workshop for Professionals in the Community

6th February 2018 0 Comments

Millpond Children’s Sleep Clinic – CPD Certified Sleep Training Workshop for Health Professionals — 6 Hours Continuing Personal Development Training

Helping parents to solve their children’s sleep problems – Based on Expertise, Sound Research and Experience

We have been commissioned to run training for health professionals in the NHS since 2007 and our sleep workshops are now mandatory for staff in many NHS Trusts.

Our popular sleep training study day is CPD accredited and designed to be highly engaging, interactive. The workshop is relevant to all health professionals and community staff working directly with families with babies through to primary school age children.

Our Next Sleep Workshop – when and where:

Date: Wednesday 18^th April 2018

Time: Registration 9.30 am and finishes 5 pm

Venue: 235, Shaftsbury Avenue, London, WC2 8EP

Payment details:

£115, course fee includes a copy of Millpond’s book ‘Teach your child to Sleep’, course materials, lunch and an CPD accredited attendance certificate.

How to book your place:

Places on this study day are limited and subject to payment of course fees.

To secure your place if you are self funding, please make a booking by telephoning the Millpond office on 020 8444 0040.

What the workshop covers:

This workshop aims to provide a forum for the discussion and exploration of children’s sleep problems. Why sleep problems arise, commonly used techniques, assessing a problem and planning a sleep programme.

By the end of the workshop participants will be able to:

Understand children’s sleep cycles/sleep needs
Interpret sleep information questionnaires and diary
Plan a sleep programme
Evaluate intervention

Some feedback from our last workshop:

All of our sessions are evaluated and the feedback we have received has been extremely positive with 100% of participants saying they would have welcomed the session as part of their health visitor training.

‘Within my role as Infant Feeding Specialist – we have a large volume of mothers worried that their child is not sleeping, often equated to feeding concerns – this workshop has provided me with more in-depth strategies to support families with sleep issues. Lots of interesting research to follow-up and incorporate into my practice.’ D Wilson, Infant Feeding Specialist.

“I recently attended the Millpond sleep workshop and it was one of the best study days that I have ever attended. It has had a huge impact on my clinical practice, as I now have a better understanding of sleep cycles, preventing inappropriate sleep association and how to reset body clocks and feel more confident in supporting parents with children with sleep problems.” Nicki Murray Health Visitor.

“A very well structured programme and clearly presented.” A Gibson, Health Visitor

“After 19 years as a HV, I was quite sceptical about how much I would learn from the day, but was pleasantly surprised – a very valuable day.” M Meddings, Health Visitor.

“A very informative and useful day. Information gained is very relevant to my practice.” J Dann, Health Visitor

Millpond trainers:

There will be two trainers on the day, led by Mandy Gurney, founder of Millpond Children’s Sleep Clinic and co-author of the sleep bible “Teach Your Child to Sleep”, which to date has sold tens of thousands of copies worldwide. Mandy has had over 30 years’ experience as a registered general nurse, midwife and health visitor.

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See what parents' say about us

When feeling overwhelmed by tiredness and in need of real sleep help, Millpond’s ‘Teach Your Child to Sleep’ is a much welcomed, well researched resource. This is an easy read with a practical nurturing approach that walks you and your child through to a good night sleep.
Rozanne Hay, UK Representative and Director for Continuing Education IACSC International Association Of Child Sleep consultants
The Millpond approach is non-prescriptive and [their] book offers lots of choices for parents to match their own goals and parenting styles. I would heartily recommend it for anyone already experiencing problems with sleep or to set up good sleep habits proactively.
Melissa Hood, founder of The Parent Practice
This baby and child sleep guide is the perfect combination of accessible science, Mandy’s years of experience and a mother’s warmth. I love the way things fall into place with Mandy’s clear and thorough explanations!
Diana Hill, co founder of Essential Parent
Millpond’s brilliant blend of commonsense, encouragement and understanding – plus a highly logical strategy that is easy to implement – changed hell into heaven literally overnight. My entire family is thus indebted to Mandy and her team.
Freya North, Author
I am a GP and would recommend Millpond to any sleep deprived parents; you cannot put a price on sleep. Thank you so much. I only wish I hadn’t waited 19 months.
Vanessa, GP
We are so happy that we put our trust in you to help us with what has been a huge problem for our family for almost 2 years. We are finding time to relax and time for each other and I did not realise how much we missed this time.
Ben
As a family, we were sleep deprived. The tailored plan for our son made it personal. I am really pleased with what we’ve achieved during the programme and I am thankful to Juliet and Millpond.
Evrim.
We were at rock bottom. Our son has a neurological condition, so I was nervous and and wanted a sleep clinic who had experience of this and would adapt to the needs of our son. Our lives literally changed overnight!
Shurron
Within weeks our son was waking only once a night. The investment we made into Millpond was one of the best we’ve ever made. It gave my son a solid night sleep and consistency. It gave me and my husband our sanity back.
Shurron
I am delighted. I was aiming to go from 6+ wakes at night and feeding to sleep 100% of the time to 1-2 wake ups and some ability to self-settle. After doing the plan for less than 6 weeks my daughter started sleeping through the night.
Katie
My daughter is now having quite a bit more than the average sleep for her age and it’s lovely to see her waking up naturally. I’m also waking up naturally and feeling much more refreshed for having a regular sleep routine myself!
Louise
We are so happy we could jump for joy, we wish we had spoken to you ages ago. Using Millpond has built our confidence and made us feel on top of it at last. You really gave us some life back!
Sarah
I live in Switzerland so it is really quite remarkable that Millpond was able to help me over the phone and by email. When you have slept you can deal with anything!!
Melanie
We still can’t believe that such small changes have made such a difference to us and Alice. She has even slept through while on holiday in a travel cot.
Louise
We are just so sorry we did not get in touch sooner as we went through 18 months of no sleep.
Ann Marie
Thank you, thank you, thank you!! We never thought life could be improved so greatly. You showed us the light. Luka is much happier and loving his sleep now.!
Diane
Alex is sleeping beautifully again and is now quite happy to lay in his cot singing until 7.30/745 am ( Godsend!) and sleeps very happily through the night again. Thank you so much!
Sandy
Very happy to say that Joshua, who you helped us with, is now sleeping a regular 11 hours a night uninterrupted. In fact, getting him up some mornings is a real challenge!
John
Mandy has been an absolute saviour at a time which was starting to feel quite bleak in terms of our little one’s sleep. The personalised advice and guidance has been invaluable.
Mary
“My husband and I reached out to the Millpond Sleep Clinic when our son was 10 months old. We had spent months in vain trying a variety of sleep training tips that we had picked up online, in a desperate attempt to get our son to sleep for more than 2 hour stretches! Nothing seemed to work. I remember crying whilst breastfeeding for the 5th time one evening, desperately begging my little one to sleep. We felt like we had been failing for a long time, as my circle of mum friends had all got their babies sleeping through so much earlier. I needed to get more sleep, with the return to work looming ever closer.

When we called Millpond, we were quickly introduced to Juliet who immediately took the pressure off us by providing a detailed “plan of action” based on what she had heard about our son’s sleep routine. After just a few nights, we already started to see big sleep improvements, and we worked confidently towards reducing our son’s night wakings and the duration of his night feeds. After a couple of weeks we had gone from 4-5 night wakings to just 1… and a few weeks later, our son started to sleep through! The biggest relief ever.

Throughout the whole process Juliet had been knowledgeable, kind, reassuring and made herself available to answer our questions over email between our sessions. Her experience as a mother herself, and highly trained sleep professional shone through. We can’t thank you enough for helping us through a rough time – and seeing us through to better days (and importantly, nights!!)
Cheryl