Rocky Mountain Mediation Bulletin Board

Family Training

Rocky Mountain Mediation can provide seminars on a variety of focused topics. Below are a sampling for your review. If you would like to have Rocky Mountain Mediation provide a seminar for your group please contact us for details. Periodically we hold these seminars open to the general public for you as an individual to attend. If you are interested in scheduled seminars please email us requesting notification describing the topic of interest.

Individual coaching is available upon request.

Titles of Workshops

1. Effective strategies for managing parent / Teen differences
2. Effective Communication Skills for your business and personal life
3. Long distance parenting strategies - includes same city scenarios
4. Life Skill Parenting
5. Step family communication strategies

 

Effective strategies for managing Parent / Teen differences

FAMILY MEETINGS

FORMAT: ONE-HALF DAY (min. 3 Hrs.)

CONTENT:

•  Rationale for Family Meetings

•  Overview of Family Meeting Process

•  Strategies between meetings

•  Role Play Practice and Debrief

FOLLOW-UP: 1-2 Hr. follow-up for the purpose of discussion what works/challenges of Family Meetings. Includes ½ hour phone consultation available for each participant over the course of the following six months.

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Tired of conflict in your personal or business life? Learn & choose effective strategies to improve outcomes.

Effective Communication Skills for your business and personal life

•  The financial and emotional cost of conflict in the business or family environment is enormous.

•  Approximately half of marriages end in divorce, the individuals left to deal with financial, emotional and legal consequences.

•  Children's experience of conflict in the family is carried over to their future personal relationships.

•  Interpersonal conflict is the most frequent reason for decreased business efficiencies and employees leaving a firm.

FORMAT: FULL-DAY

CONTENT:

•  Nature of Conflict

•  Conflict Management Styles

•  Communication for Cooperation

•  Developing Agreements

•  Joint Problem-Solving Strategies

•  Practice

•  Personal action plans

Includes group video presentation, individual worksheet handouts and possible power-point presentation. Includes ½ hr phone follow up with each participant over the following six months. Individual soft cover resource books and bound workbooks are optional at additional expense.

Participants will gain:

•  An increased awareness of the nature of conflict and its impact on family and organizations

•  Knowledge, skills and strategies for preventing and managing conflict.

•  Knowledge on how to leverage differences to increase intimacy in personal relationships

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Long distance parenting strategies - includes same city scenarios

After divorce you no longer see your children every day.

FORMAT: ONE-HALF DAY (min. 3 Hrs.)

CONTENT:

•  What we want for and from our children

•  Our roles and responsibilities as parents

•  Limitations and challenges we face (real and fear based)

•  Effective strategies to maximize our involvement and connection with our children

Participants will gain:

•  Effective strategies on staying connected and strengthen the bonds with your children.

•  How to parent given the real limitations and challenges.

FOLLOW-UP: Includes ½ hour phone consultation available for each participant over the course of the following six months.

Includes: workbook

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Life Skill Parenting

Yes your children can learn how to earn a living, but how will they learn to communicate effectively with others from different backgrounds? Can your children problem solve effectively? Can your children think creatively to expand options? Do your children think about the consequences before they act? What is the connection between these skills and material & social success in life?

FORMAT: ONE-HALF DAY (min. 3 Hrs.)

CONTENT:

•  What life skills are important to promote in our children?

•  How our children learn these life skills

•  How as parents can we develop these life skills in our children?

•  What can we expect from these efforts internally and externally of the family?

Participants will gain:

•  An vision of what is important to "succeed in life"

•  A clarity and recommitment to their roles as parents

•  Strategies to develop these life skills in their children.

Includes workbook

Step family communication strategies

If you are having trouble getting along with your ex, your ex's new partner, or even your new partner, then this workshop is for you.  Do you want to improve your communication with your ex or your ex's new partner? This workshop will show you how to resolve conflict without losing yourself.

FORMAT: ONE-HALF DAY (min. 3 Hrs.)

CONTENT:

•  What were the expectations?

•  What would you like the relationship to be?

•  What strategies have been attempted?

•  What are the problematic issues that are the most challenging?

•  What strategies can be employed to resolve these issues while strengthening the relationship?

Participants will gain:

•  A reality check of their expectations

•  A clarity and recommitment to their roles as parents

•  Appreciation for a common predicament

•  A range of effective strategies to address common issues

•  An increased ability to head off future problems

Includes workbook

Includes ½ hour phone consultation available for each participant over the course of the following six months.

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