Workshops for Multi-cultural Families
Carers and other relatives, as well as professionals who are linked with, related to, concerned about, and want to celebrate the diversity and differences of multi-cultural families, whilst exploring the complexity and special challenges.Parents and carers will be better able to understand some of the particular frustrations and tensions of the children they love and look after. They will be offered some theory and lots of practice in how to communicate effectively and assertively with children, teenagers and young adults who are still struggling with unresolved issues about their past and limiting beliefs about their identity, their relationships and futures.
Parents and carers might also regain self-esteem and a sense of purpose that helps them deal with the challenges and frustrations of being expected to get everything right, with little appreciation, and being blamed for everything that goes wrong!
Black and multiracial adopted and looked after children have the additional developmental tasks of integrating issues of race, culture, attachment, adoption.
WHO WILL BENEFIT
Parents and carers and youngsters in Multicultural adoptive and foster families, and professionals who work with child, adult and adolescent members of multi-cultural families. Families who, on top of all the other issues that adoptive and foster families have to contend with, also need to be able and ready to accept that the children need help and guidance to prepare or cultural issues outside the family home
IT WILL COVER
- How attachment, identity and race are linked to self-esteem
- Erikson <> Mallows - healing responses to attachment difficulties
- Parents’ messages - how carers’ and parents' messages can be misunderstood!
- Children’s messages - how children and teenagers are all too easily misunderstood!
- Positive Parenting - what do your children need from you?
- Crafty Listening - Curiosity. Respect. Attentiveness. Fascination. Thoughtfulness. YES!
- The Essence of positive self esteem in same race and trans-racial adoptions
- Loss, rejection, integration…
- Links between low self esteem and dysfunctional behaviour
- Seven parental tasks for multi-cultural families