Course

FIFO Parenting

Evidence-Based Insights and Tips to Support the FIFO Lifestyle

Although FIFO life has many positives, there can also be challenges that come with regularly being away for work. Being away from the people you care for, supporting children or dependents through emotional ups and downs, feeling disconnected from your social network, and managing your own mental and physical wellbeing can all be part of the experience.

This program is designed to support FIFO workers with parenting responsibilities, whether you're new to FIFO, new to parenting, or have been doing both for years.

The aim is to help you make the most of your FIFO lifestyle for yourself and for the people in your care.

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What you'll gain

Understand the FIFO Family Dynamic: Recognise how the lifestyle shapes emotions, behaviours, and relationships across the family unit.
Respond to Your Child’s Needs with Confidence: Support you child or children in ways that build connection and trust.
Create Consistency Across Home and FIFO: Align parenting approaches, routines, and expectations to reduce stress and tension.
Strengthen Connection: Even from a distance, maintain meaningful relationships through intentional communication and shared practices.
Practical Tools You Can Apply Immediately: Walk away with strategies you can use individually or with your co-parent to strengthen the family unit.

Understand the FIFO Family Dynamic: Recognise how the lifestyle shapes emotions, behaviours, and relationships across the family unit.
Respond to Your Child’s Needs with Confidence: Support you child or children in ways that build connection and trust.
Create Consistency Across Home and FIFO: Align parenting approaches, routines, and expectations to reduce stress and tension.
Strengthen Connection: Even from a distance, maintain meaningful relationships through intentional communication and shared practices.
Practical Tools You Can Apply Immediately: Walk away with strategies you can use individually or with your co-parent to strengthen the family unit.

Help your family thrive while you’re at work, and also when you’re at home.

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Course Structure

Module 1: FIFO Lifestyle and Family Challenges

This module provides an overview of the unique demands of FIFO life and how they impact day to day family functioning, roles, and relationships.

Module 2: The FIFO Emotional Cycle

Module 2 provides an understanding around the predictable emotional phases families experience before, during, and after each swing cycle.

Module 3: Child Needs

In this module you will be given a practical look at children’s emotional and developmental needs at different life stages.

Module 4: Parenting Style Alignment

Explore and understand parenting styles, and align approaches on swing and during R&R.

Module 5: The FIFO Focus RAISE Model

Module 5 provides a simple and structured model to help you stay intentional and responsive in your parenting.

Module 6: Successful R&Rs

Consider how to make home time meaningful, balanced and supportive for the whole family unit.

Module 7: Bringing it All Together

Module 7 consists of a final reflection on the content and additional resources to use if needed.

About FIFO Focus

FIFO Focus works to create psychologically healthier workplaces for FIFO workers. Our education and psychological support services are designed to help organisations manage psychosocial risks and develop mental resilience and wellbeing in the FIFO sector.

We design and support proactive interventions to limit psychosocial harm in remote work environments. We partner with employers to build internal capacity to build psychologically healthy workplaces and develop a more resilient workforce. We also offer education and support directly to individuals, including FIFO workers and their partners.

Developing mental resilience is one of the key mitigative factors for FIFO workers and their families. For FIFO employees, learning better ways to deal with day to day stresses and challenges or remote work can lead a more fulfilling and rewarding life.

Our registered psychologists and behavioural specialists use the latest research to create practical solutions and systems for happier, healthier FIFO workplaces and workers.

Course Fee

AUD$138

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