Services

Neufeld Aotearoa offers attachment based parenting and professional development in New Zealand, supporting both families and the professionals who work with children and young people.

On this page, you’ll find our range of services, including parenting courses, caregiver workshops, and professional development for educators, counselors and other practitioners. Each service is grounded in the Neufeld attachment-based approach, with a focus on strengthening adult–child relationships and supporting healthy development.

Attachment informed support for parents

For Parents

Attachment Informed Support and Education for Parents

At Neufeld Aotearoa, we walk alongside parents, caregivers, and whānau so children can grow in
the safest place of all: a trusted relationship. Grounded in the Neufeld Institute’s attachment-based,
developmental approach, our support helps you lead with warmth and confidence—so you can be
the answer your child is looking for.
We offer two key services for parents:
Parent Workshops & Education and Parent Consultations.

  • Formats that fit your life: in-person gatherings across Aotearoa, live online sessions, and immersive weekend retreats.
  • Relational focus: we prioritise “collect before you direct,” soft eyes, and restoring the parent-child connection as the context for growth.
  • Actionable insight: leave with clear next steps that bring more rest, resilience, and warmth to daily family life.

1. Parent Workshops We Offer

Popular Series Include:

  • Power to Parent I: The Vital Connection
  • Power to Parent II: Helping Children Grow Up
  • Power to Parent III: Common Childhood Challenges
  • Making Sense of Preschoolers
  • Making Sense of Adolescence: Seven Rites of Passage
  • Making Sense of Anxiety
  • Making Sense of Attention Problems
  • Making Sense of Aggression
  • Making Sense of Counterwill
  • The Alarm Spectrum
  • Alpha Children
  • Reaching Troubled Kids
  • Play & Attachment
  • Play & Emotion
  • Science of Emotion

Upcoming workshops are promoted by our team through their own online presence and via neufeld aotearoa's website and social media.

2. Parent Consultations (One-to-One)

Individual sessions with a Neufeld Parent Consultant designed to help you with specific situations—sleep, school struggles, anxiety, sibling dynamics, big emotions, and more.

  • Attachment-led, neuroscience-informed: we look beneath behaviour to the needs and developmental processes driving it.
  • Personalised guidance: gentle, practical strategies that strengthen your leadership and your child’s sense of safety and belonging.
  • Pace with grace: we work at your speed, helping you reclaim the caring alpha role without coercion or shame.

 

Consultations are offered directly by members of our team and promoted both through their individual channels and through Neufeld Aotearoa’s website and social media pages. Consultations are available both ONLINE and IN-PERSON.

How to Get Started

Explore workshops to find a format and topic that suits your season.

If you’re not sure which option is right for you, reach out—we’re happy to help you find the best next step for your whānau.
Neufeld Aotearoa—supporting parents to lead with connection, so children can rest in relationship and grow as nature intended.

For Professionals

Empowering those who care for tamariki, rangatahi, and whānau.
At Neufeld Aotearoa, we partner with teachers, counsellors, social workers, health professionals,
and leaders who want evidence-based neuroscience and attachment practices at the heart of their
work. Our approach is grounded in the Neufeld Institute’s developmental, relationship-centred
framework—supporting adults to lead with connection so children can rest, grow, and learn.

1. Professional Development Training

Professional Development Training

Tailor-made learning for your context—or choose from our ready-to-deliver series. All training is
attachment-led, neuroscience-informed, and immediately applicable.
Delivery options: in-person workshops, online sessions (live or blended), or immersive retreats.
Popular series include:

Professional Development Training

Tailor-made learning for your context—or choose from our ready-to-deliver series. All training is
attachment-led, neuroscience-informed, and immediately applicable.
Delivery options: in-person workshops, online sessions (live or blended), or immersive retreats.
Popular series include:

  • The Power to Teach — restoring the teacher-student relationship as the context for learning.
  • Making Sense of Anxiety — understanding roots, not just managing symptoms.
  • Reaching Troubled Kids — working from connection, not coercion.
  • The Power of Emotion — helping feelings move so development can proceed.
  • Making Sense of Aggression — seeing through the behaviour to the unmet needs
  • Making Sense of Attention Problems — developmental pathways beyond reward and punishment.
  • Bullies: Their Making and Unmaking — cultivating cultures of caring leadership.

Other courses include:

  • The Power of Emotion / Science of Emotion.
  • Play & Attachment.
  • The Attachment Puzzle
  • The Natural Roots of Empathy.
  • Neufeld’s Five-Step Model of Emotional Maturation.

(Additional series available; we’ll shape content, duration, and format to fit your team, timetable,
and goals.)

Attachment informed professional development

2. Intensive Courses (Facilitator Licensing)

Deepen your practice and become licensed to facilitate Neufeld courses within your organisation orcommunity

  • Structured learning pathway with mentored study and practicum
  • Prerequisites apply to ensure readiness and fidelity to the model.
  • Ongoing supervision supports quality delivery and growth.
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3. Consulting (In Person or Online)

One-to-one or team-based consulting to embed an attachment-rich, developmentally savvy culture
across your setting.

  • Case consultation & reflective supervision
  • Programme and policy design (behaviour, wellbeing, transitions, attendance)
  • Classroom culture & leadership coaching (“collect before you direct,” soft eyes, caring alpha)
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Why Neufeld Aotearoa?

  • Attachment before agenda: relationship is the change agent.
  • Neuroscience you can use: practical translation of brain science to daily practice.
  • Contextualised for Aotearoa: honouring whānau, culture, and community in the work.
  • Sustainable change: from quick fixes to durable developmental outcomes.

How to Get Started

  • Request professional development: ask for a proposal tailored to your organisation—or select a ready series.

  • Apply for an Intensive Course: we’ll guide you through prerequisites and pathways to licensing.

  • Book consulting: get in touch to schedule in-person or online support.

  • Contact us via the Contact Us form or connect with a consultant through the Our People page.
    We also announce opportunities through the Neufeld Aotearoa website and social media.

    Neufeld Aotearoa—equipping professionals to lead with connection so development can unfold as
    nature intended.

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