For years, families have struggled to solve their problems and needed simple, useful tools to help them work better. Taking from the best of social science and psychological research, Family Wellness has put together our ideas of the skills and patterns that consistently show up in healthy families. The goal was to create a program that could be understood by families of various cultures, including those who might never seek family therapy.

To schedule this Program, select the button below and the option you prefer. In the "special instructions" field, please include date(s) and location(s) preferred for the workshop and the Facilitator will contact you to confirm.

8-Hour Workshop Options

One Full Day ($500) Two 4-Hour Sessions ($500) Four 2-Hour Sessions ($500)

Survival Skills for Healthy Families

This basic 12-hour Family Wellness program is presented to large groups of families and individuals in a series of six two-hour sessions:

• Parents in Healthy Families
• Children in Healthy Families
• Adult Relationships-Couples in Healthy Families
• As Children Grow-Change in Healthy Families
• Solving Family Problems
• Sex, Drugs, and You...Passing on Your Values to Your Children

Benefits
The Family Wellness Program has specific benefits for a variety of settings:

1. A Structure that provides focus and skills for counselors and agency personnel.
2. Effective Prevention: Stops problems before they start.
3. Provides supportive structure for families with the additional stresses of drugs and of violence in the community.
4. Packaged and easily implemented program for targeted populations.
5. Focus on management of children and stronger couple’s relationships.
6. Meets legal and program requirements for court ordered abuse cases (spousal, child, and drug/alcohol abuse).
7. Gives parents skills and support for managing their children.
8. Provides a supportive program for family members to acquire skills for managing their lives and building health in their families.
9. Trains counselors, teachers, clergy, and support personnel who have the credibility in their particular community or setting to provide the skills on site.
10. Provides a framework and skills for interactive teaching through the use of role-play.
11. Gives counselors, clergy, agency staff, and school personnel the skills and practice to work effectively with difficult youth and family situations.
12. Additionally, local Law Enforcement benefit (as indicated in San Jose) from lower truancy and burglary in gang neighborhoods resulting from stronger families where kids are managed by their parents.

The cost of this program is $500 plus travel, tax and incidentals which will be collected prior to the start of the training.