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I am passionate about parenting and have worked with parents for over 30 years. I first discovered parenting support when I was finding raising two children on my own extremely lonely and challenging: my life began to change after attending a parenting course when they were at primary school, and since then I have tried to get those helpful ideas and strategies out into the community.  In 2000, in my role as Parenting Officer for the Youth Offending Team, I set up the Oxfordshire Parent-Talk programme for parents and carers of at-risk teenagers and I wrote the original Take 3 material to meet the needs of that project.

I managed the project for Oxfordshire County Council for 10 years. My team of 20 or so parenting practitioners and I provided groups and 1-2-1 support for parents and carers of some of the most challenging and vulnerable young people in Oxfordshire.  Before that I had worked in Community Education, running parenting groups for parents of children of all ages.

ROSIE HILL : MANAGER, TRAINER AND CREATOR OF THE PROGRAMME

In 2016 I handed over management of all Take 3 facilitator training to my long-term colleague Nicky Xandora (see below). I continue to manage development of the programme and the publication and distribution of the Take 3 materials. I also supervise parenting practitioners and have a private practice seeing individual parents, in person and on-line.

My book Raising Confident Teenagers: The Take 3 approach to parenting calmly in a stressful world was published by Karnac Books in 2025 (see more here: https://www.karnacbooks.com/product/raising-confident-teenagers-the-take-3-approach-toparenting-calmly-in-a-stressful-world/98068). Essentially this is the Take 3 programme in a paperback, set out so that parents can work their way through the course on their own, with a friend or partner or with a parenting practitioner. It is also an invaluable resource for any professional working with parents of teenagers, or for those previously trained to run Take 3 groups who are wanting a convenient handbook to use for supporting parents in 1-2-1 settings.

Apart from being a parenting consultant, mother and now a grandmother, I have been a reflexologist, a training officer for the CAB, a china restorer, lived on a small-holding and have a degree in anthropology.  In 1998 I co-edited the book Cross-Cultural Marriage: Identity and Choice.

NICKY XANDORA : TRAINER AND GROUP FACILITATOR

Nicky has been working with parents in a supportive capacity for over 27 years and has considerable experience of working as a parent educator and as a trainer of parenting support professionals. She has been closely involved with the Take 3 Programme since its inception, and has particular expertise in early intervention and work with troubled families.

Nicky manages all practitioner training for Take 3. For training enquiries and information, contact cbtandtraining@gmail.com, and see www.cbtandtraining.com.

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