2010-10-09T17:00:00.000-07:00

This is a six-week workshop based on the award-winning book Siblings Without Rivalry by Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish.

The goal of the Siblings Without Rivalry workshop is to help you help your children learn to live together. During each session you will learn and practice specific skills that reduce friction and make harmony possible. You'll find out how to:

Help children express negative feelings without hurting each other.

Treat children unequally and still be fair.

Free your children from harmful roles such as "bully" or "victim."

Respond helpfully when children fight.

Promote an atmosphere of cooperation rather than competition.

Resolve conflicts peacefully.

What the Sessions Cover

1. Helping Siblings Deal With Their Feeling About Each Other

What happens to your children when their hostile feelings for each other are ignored or denied? Four specific methods for children expressing their negative feelings to each other without doing damage.

2. Keeping Children Separate and Unequal

How siblings react when compared to each other -- favorably or unfavorably. Effective alternatives to comparisons. How siblings feel about always being treated equally. Ways to treat children unequally and still be fair.

3. Siblings in Roles

Why your children are often cast, and cast each other, into different roles. A look at how powerfully these roles affect their relationships with each other. Skills that free each child to become his or her whole self.

4. When the Kids Fight

What can you do when fighting breaks out between children? An exploration of commonly used strategies that backfire. A chance to practice the skills that reduce rage and motivate children to work out their own solutions.

5. Problem Solving

A method for helping children with the problems they can't work out by themselves. A simple ten-step approach that enables adults to sit down with the young combatants who then move toward resolving their conflicts.

6. A Final Review

Time to review and consolidate your skills. Exercises give you practice in applying everything you learned to potentially explosive situations. Finally, an opportunity to take a second look at your own adult sibling relationships from your new perspective.

Details

When:
Six Saturdays: Next session will be available in fall 2011.

Sessions will begin at 10:00 a.m. and continue for 1 1/2 to 2 hours.

Where:
To Be Announced

Cost:

Option #1 -- $45
(Includes workbook and Siblings Without Rivalry book. Supplies will be distributed on the first day of the workshop.)

Option #2 -- $30
(Includes workbook only -- please choose this option if you already own the Siblings Without Rivalry book. Remember to bring your book to the workshop!)

Attachment Parenting International of Orange County members will receive a $5 discount.

Other discounts/scholarships (i.e. for significant others or hardship need) will be considered on a case-by-case basis. Please email Angela for consideration.

Facilitator:
Angela Adams

Minimum of 5, maximum of 8 participants.

**Next session will be available in fall 2011.**

For more information, please contact Angela at apioforangecounty@yahoo.com

Siblings Without Rivalry Workshop