“Survivor Skills For Healthy Families” is a twelve-hour Family Wellness program presented to large groups of families and individuals in a series of six two-hour sessions. Each session is organized around practical guidelines for healthy family interactions which are demonstrated and then practiced with the participants.

The six sessions are titled:

• Parents in Healthy Families
• Children in Healthy Families
• Adults working Together in Families – Adult Relationships
• As Children Grow – Change in Health Families
• Solving Family Problems
• Sex, Drugs, and You: Passing on Your Values to your Children

When families learn together unity is strengthened.

Simple rules provide a road map for healthy behavior in a family.

Use of role playing to dramatize real life family problems and working through these problems makes the rules believable and applicable.

Coaching shows family members how to act

What Is Family Wellness?

IT IS A WAY OF THINKING

To teach, encourage and support families and those who work with them to promote healthy communities. We teach practical skills based upon proven principles that strengthen, support and empower families.

• The primary responsibility for the development and well-being of children lies within the family
• Families need new tools to handle the challenges in our present society, and to reclaim their primary role in providing for the healthy development of their members

• To em[power people to manage their families in health ways
• To provide quality products and services
• To focus on health and competence
• To provide for families, high caliber trainers from their own culture

• Families want to get along, and need skills to do so
• There are three patterns of how people relate to each other that ae seen over and over in healthy families
• Families can learn these skills and apply them in their families
• Families with skills stop problems before they start
• Learning together as a family builds family unity
• Learning together as a family builds community
• All healthy change is built on what already works

Participants will learn three basic skills:

• speak, listen and cooperate
• Six steps to resolving conflict
• Six steps to solving problems (Three patterns that family’s 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
• Make rules that are positive and specific
  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 encourage and support their children

WHO: The entire family (childcare provided for children 7 and under) (may be a single family attending with your child)

WHERE & WHEN:

Dates: 22-24 JUL 2011

COST: IT’S FREE!

AGENDA:

Friday Evening

• Dinner
• Welcome
• House Keeping Items
• Introduction to Family Wellness weekend.
• Ice Breaker

Saturday Morning

• Breakfast
• Session One (Parents in Healthy Families)
• Break
• Session Two (Children In Healthy Families)
• Lunch Break

Saturday Afternoon

• Session Three (Adults Working Together)
• Break
• Session Four (As Children Grow-Change in Healthy Families)
• Family Fun Time

Saturday Evening Dinner

• Family Fun Time

Sunday Morning

• Worship Service (Optional)
• Breakfast
• Session Five (Solving Family Problems)
• Break
• Room Check Out
• Session Six (Sex, Drugs and You)
• Wrap up
• AAR
• Travel Vouchers

ATTIRE: Business Casual

REGISTRATION: Closed

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