Alcoholism/Chemical Addiction as a Family Secret. An opportunity to learn the characteristics and stages of alcoholism/drug addiction in families with emphasis on limit-setting, safe disclosure, and self-healing.
Resources: A Ghost in the Closet by Dale Mitchell and Treating Chemically Dependent Families by John Edwards.
Length: Four 2-hour sessions
Size limit: 20
Facilitator: Marie Welsh Carter, MA
Breaking the Bonds of Family Alcoholism:
The Research and the Reality. A look at what current research tells us about treatment for chemical dependency and the treatment implications.
Length: 2 hours
Size Limit: 30
Facilitator: Marie Welsh Carter, MA
Support Group for Clergy Spouses
A clergy wife herself, Marie offers a confidential and safe setting to integrate the satisfactions and disappointments/losses involved in partnering for life with ministers. Assistance and support with discerning one’s own priorities, self realization, and call in relation to partner and community.
Length: 12 weeks (2 hours each)
Size Limit: 8
Facilitator: Marie Welsh Carter, MA
Parenting Successful Students
Making yourself a partner in your child’s education by clarifying expectations of school and student and teaming with teachers and staff to accomplish goals of your child. Learn negotiating skills to create at win-win situation for all.
Resource: School- Smart Parenting and Seven Strategies for Developing Capable Students by Mike Brock.
Length: 2 hours
Size Limit: unlimited
Facilitator: Marie Welsh Carter
Parenting Solo:
It’s Done All the Time! Strengthen strategies for discipline and consistency in parenting when you have to go it alone. Build some connections and ways to seek out support to lighten the load and make it fun!
Resource: How to Influence Children by Charles E. Schaefer and Between Parent and Child by Haim Ginott.
Length: 2 hours
Size Limit: 16
Facilitator: Marie Welsh Carter, MA
Solo Again:
Getting comfortable and learning to be alone again after children leave home, losing a spouse through death or divorce, or a broken relationship. How to address the losses or changes and move on with courage and company!
Length: 6 weeks (2 hours each)
Size Limit: 12
Facilitator: Marie Welsh Carter, MA
Building Families that Flourish
An historical perspective of families in US, consideration of the ties that bind families, transmiting family virtues and values, and how to support families that flourish. Opportunity to set some family priorities and goals with schedule for monitoring success.
Resource: Raising a Loving Family by Virginia Scott, George Doub, and Peggy Runnels and Sacred Dwelling by Wendy M. Wrighjt.
Length: 3 hours
Size Limit: 30
Facilitator: Marie Welsh Carter, MA
Developmental Assets of Successful Non-addictive Young People
Research based model of how to develop communities and schools that help prevent children from experimentation and addiction.
Resource: the Search Institute of Minneapolis
Length: 2 hours
Size Limit: unlimited
Facilitator: Marie Welsh Carter
Helping Children Grieve
An opportunity for a child and a significant adult to team to address the grief of an important loss of a family member or close friend. Joint exercises and experiences to facilitate healing wounds and putting loss in a manageable perspective.
Resource: On Children and Death by Elisabeth Kubler-Ross and Telling a Child about Death by Edgar N. Jackson.
Length: 6 weeks (1 ½ hours each)
Size Limit: 6 teams (Child and Adult)
Facilitator: Marie Welsh Carter, MA
Facing our Children’s Fears
A workshop on assessing and addressing anxiety in children, it’s sources and treatment with a focus on how parents can help.
Resource: What Children Can Tell Us by James Garbarino, Frances M. Stott, and Faculty of the Erikson Institute and Treating Fear and Anxiety in Children and Adolescents by Andrew R. Eisen and Christopher A. Kearney.
Length: 4 weeks (2 hours each)
Size Limit: 12
Facilitator: Marie Welsh Carter, MA