One Family run ‘train the trainer’ courses in May – Positive Parenting and Family Communications – Coping with Teenagers

Posted on April 1, 2010 by comms No Comments

Positive Parenting, Dublin 10-12 May, is based on our manual Positive Parenting in One-Parent Families: building strong relationships and managing difficult behaviour. The course prepares workers to design and deliver parenting courses to groups or work one-to-one with families with an emphasis towards solo parents, sharing parenting and parenting through family change.

Family Communications – Coping With Teenagers, Dublin 24 – 26 May, is a project which One Family have developed in order to resource families with  practical skills and strategies to help them to build positive and resilient relationships amongst and between family members 

For more information contact Paula Lonergan Training Manager, Tel: 01- 6629212 training@onefamily.ie

Family Communications – Coping with Family Life and Communicating with Teenagers

Outline & Background

The Family Communications Coping with Family Life and Communicating with Teenagers is a project which One Family has developed in order to resource  families with  practical skills and strategies to help them to build positive and resilient relationships amongst and between family members. Where One Family’s,  Positive Parenting; building Strong Relationships with Children and Managing Difficult Behaviour (2005) focuses on parent education, Family Communications is concerned with building strengths in families, and evaluating and improving family patterns and processes. In particular there is a focus in this programme on clear and direct communication as one of the key skills that can be employed to accomplish these aims. The spotlight in this course is on creating a positive atmosphere in the family in which to practice positive parenting, by improving communication, encouraging democracy when making decisions in the family and understanding the connection between emotions, needs and choices of behaviour.

This course is about every member in the family learning how to state their needs and be committed to, where appropriate, meeting reasonable requests for meeting the needs of other family members. This programme has been formulated as a ten-week group work programme with a two-hour session per week. In the first five weeks parents participate in compulsory sessions which cover family strengths, communication styles, the connection between feelings and needs and how to do the four-step plan for clear and direct communication. In the remaining five weeks participants choose from a range of family life scenarios in which to test the skills they have learned. The range of sessions include: dealing with conflict; sharing-parenting; managing a crisis; parenting teenagers; sibling relationships; decision making & solving problems; managing family resources; family needs during divorce and separation & respecting differences.

Family Communications – Training for Trainers

One Family see the value in making Family Communications- Coping with Family Life and Communicating with Teenagers into a resource for facilitators who want to work with groups of parents in relation to strengthening their skills to help them manage the demands of family life. This training course is based on our Family Communications manual. The course prepares workers to design and deliver these courses to groups or to work one-to-one with families with an emphasis towards solo parents, shared parenting and parenting through family change.

After taking part in this training for trainers, participants will:

Be able to plan, design and deliver a 6 to 12 week Family Communications Programme

Understand the theory behind the Family Communications manual

Be familiar with the principles of clear and direct communication

Be able to support parents in implementing clear and direct communication in the home

Be able to support parents in parenting teenagers

Be able to support parents in creating a positive environment at home

Be aware of family diversity in Ireland today

Be able to support parents in parenting when they are: separating or divorcing, co-parenting, parenting in a multicultural society

Be able to support one-parent families to talk about their family situation

Dates:  24 – 26 May  Location : Dublin  Contact:  Paula Lonergan Training Manager,  Tel: 01- 6629212 training@onefamily.ie

All materials provided, including Family Communications Manual