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Family Wellness presents - Survival Skills for Healthy Families.
This Workshop is designed for your entire family to participate. This includes all parents-married or divorced-the children and extended family members. The program addresses adult parent education skills to improve communication within your family as well as a session that is specifically designed for children, to improve their listening and communication skills.
The survival skills we teach, bring families closer together, and include extended family members and or friends into a network of positive communication that builds balance between work, school, and family.
Survival Skills for Healthy Families is a series of seven sessions. Each session is organized around practical guidelines for healthy family interactions – building on the positive, healthy habits that exist within a family.
The Outcome:
Participants will learn:
- Three basic skills: speak, listen and cooperate.
- Six steps to resolve conflict.
- Six steps to solving problems.
- Three patterns that healthy families use.
Each family will learn:
- Three ways to encourage one another.
- How to build on the strengths in their family.
- Six rules for successful family meetings.
- Society’s rules about abuse and neglect.
Parents will learn:
- Three steps for effective discipline
- How to make rules that are positive and specific. Rewards and consequences help enforce rules.
- Adults have to agree on the rules and consequences and support each other in enforcing them.
- Actions that help parents stay in charge.
- Four alternatives to physical punishment.
- Three ways to develop self esteem in children.
- Ways to show love to their children.
- Ways to encourage and support their children.
Children will learn:
- To tell others about their skills and good qualities.
- What they do to contribute to their family.
- Three survival skills to get along at home and with friends.
- Six steps to resolve conflicts.
- Six steps to talk over rules with their parents and adults.
The Benefits:
A road map to health for families.
Effective prevention: skills and patterns which avoid the development of problems.
Parents and children who can talk and listen to each other and work out problems together.
Parents who have the skills to manage and nurture their children.
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Eighth Session in Kendall County:
When: Thursday Evenings
January 19, 26, February 2, 9, 16, 23, March 1
(Class meets once a week for 7 consecutive weeks)
Where: St. Mark Presbyterian Church - Family Life Building
208 W. Bandera Road
Boerne, TX 78006
Time: 6:30 until 8:30 pm
Workshop sponsored by Kendall County Child Services Board and St. Mark Presbyterian Church.
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Seventh Session in Kendall County:
When: Thursday Evenings
October 6, 13, 20, 27, November 3, 10, 17
(Class meets once a week for 7 consecutive weeks)
Where: St. Mark Presbyterian Church - Family Life Building
208 W. Bandera Road
Boerne, TX 78006
Time: 6:30 until 8:30 pm
Workshop sponsored by Kendall County Child Services Board and St. Mark Presbyterian Church.
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Family Wellness presents - A Map for Marriage: Before you say I DO!
A Map For Marriage: Before You Say I Do is a researched based 4 week premarital workshop which focuses on awareness and skills for communicating, building and maintaining commitment, barriers of family, culture, and how to foster and sustain intimacy. Through interactive group activities participants actively engage in skills that promote effective listening, and communication. Skills that encourage participants to know who they are, know their partner, know what they want in a marriage, and how to embrace each other’s world. Participants will learn additional skills that promote working together, solving problems, and how to keep the relationship alive and healthy.
The Outcome:
Know the two jobs of individuals
Know three patterns for healthy couples
Know three skills for healthy couples
Know three elements of commitment in a couple relationship
Know how to maintain a cooperative balance
Know and appreciate your individual and family culture
Know and appreciate your partner’s culture
Create your couple’s cultural statement
Recognize and discuss challenging areas for couples
Know three things you want to do to maintain who you are
Know three things you want to do as a couple
Know how to speak up and say what you want
Know how to negotiate to get what you and your partner want
Know how to ask for help to solve problems
Know the formula for solving problems
Know the cycles that couples go through
Learn at least three ways to build and maintain intimacy and closeness in your relationship
Identify at least one couple that you can call on for support
Schedule a set time to spend together as a couple
The Benefits:
Premarital education can reduce the divorce rate by 30 percent. Factors that may improve marital satisfaction are increased commitment and cooperation, open discussion of expectations, learning communication and conflict resolution skills, and developing a map for marriage.
For additional information, to schedule a Workshop, or to register, please contact us.
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