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Join Us
In our nurturing, five-day Parenting Journey Facilitator Training Workshop, participants learn how to use our experiential curriculum to facilitate Parenting Journey groups in your agency. Specifically, you will:
- Identify your strengths as individuals and facilitators;
- Develop self-awareness;
- Learn tools to explore life experiences: past present, and future;
- Help parents to increase self-respect and self-esteem;
- Help parents develop greater trust;
- Help parents develop forgiveness and empathy;
- Create an environment of parenting with love, safety, and teaching;
- Learn to create a sense of hope for parents.
We know that being parents, working with parents, and facilitating parenting groups is an important and challenging job.
Who Should Attend?
The Parenting Journey curriculum was designed to be facilitated by people who have some clinical training, or years of practical
experience as parents, and/or professional work with a parent population. Preference will be given to anyone planning to start a Parenting Journey
group in their agency.
Fees
The fee is $500 per person
for the Parenting Journey Facilitator Training Workshop. This includes registration, breakfast, lunch, the Parenting Journey Curriculum, and program
materials. To register or for more information, contact:
training@thefamilycenterinc.org
617-628-8815.
Free Information Session
Agency decision makers who are considering investing in the Parenting Journey should attend a free
information session, to learn about the goals and assumptions of the Parenting Journey, the many ways it benefits clients,
the value of adding the Parenting Journey to their service mix, and the on-going support given to agencies and facilitators after they have completed
the five-day training.
The information session is free, but please call to register.
The Parenting Journey™Program
The Parenting Journey is a 12-session curriculum designed for parents who want to be supported in learning more about themselves as
parents, about their relationships, their strengths, and the resources and skills they need to effectively parent their children. Over meals in a warm and
nurturing environment, parents are supported and encouraged to care for themselves, and each other, while participating in a series of experiential exercises
and activities.
Parenting styles are influenced by one's past; by one's whole family; and by the cultural, social, and economic circumstances in which families find themselves.
Building on the idea that adults must learn to nurture themselves before they can nurture their children, the Parenting Journey program emphasizes the
experience of the parent as a person, as opposed to the parent in a disciplinary relationship with their children. As parents come together and explore what
did or didn't work in their experience of being parented while they were growing up, they can begin to make conscious choices about the way they
want to successfully parent their children.
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