Understanding Adolescents - Looks at what is going on with teenagers and discusses ways for parents to deal with the powerful changes they work on the family.
Parenting Adult Children - Explores the phenomenon of children returning to the parental home as adults and discusses the roles, rules, and responsibilities for family members in this increasingly common situation.
Communication Issues in Families - Outlines major pitfalls in family communication drawing upon the work of Virginia Satir. Course helps to demonstrate how families rely heavily upon assumptions in order to relate to each other.
The Fabled Life - Teases out the foibles of family process through the story-telling technique of fables. Everyday issues confronting us, such as “How much responsibility do I take for another?” And “How do we stop the sins of the parents from visiting their children?” will be addressed through a collection of fables designed to engage our most basic concerns regarding family life.
Understanding Families - Helps family members understand the essential dynamics at work in the family system. A series of lectures based on a systemic approach covers issues like triangles in the family, transgenerational patterns and family projection processes.
The Family Life Cycle - Families have beginnings and endings. This course focuses on what happens between the “birth” and “death” of the family.
Problems in the Family Life Cycle - Focuses on those issues that create difficulty in the life of the family. (Part 2 of Family Life Cycle)
Hallmarks of the Healthy Family - Examines the characteristics of healthy family life and focuses on how to facilitate and maintain these healthy aspects of family life.
Becoming a Step Family - Provides a support group for people struggling with the complexities of becoming a step family. Combines biblical, theological and developmental insights to help educate participants regarding the uniqueness of living in a step family. Looks at step family’s expectations about life, and identifies methods for dealing with areas of conflict. Minimum six week commitment.
Strengthening the Family - Looks at meeting the needs of the family as a whole to create the best possible environment for raising children.
Quality Time - Looks at the meaning of quality time and discusses how parents can be sure to have this with their children.