The Generative Approach: Using the skills with men - Sydney, NSW
Date: 18-Aug-2010
Wesley Conference Centre, Sydney, NSW - Wednesday 18th August 2010 from 9.30am to 4.30pm.
Generativity has been extensively applied to understanding healthy ageing, drug and alcohol recovery, supporting carers and fathering. People’s lives are often better off when they impact on and mentor others, learn from them and are also influenced by them in positive ways. An important part of generative fathering is enlarging a ‘sense of self’ to include the next generation and committing to care for them. Generative fathering is consistent with healthy men’s development. Meeting the needs of the next generation is grounded in the ability of men to master their own family adjustment needs.
Program and presenters
How can we apply the generative approach? Joe Fleming – Department of Social Work, Monash University
Generativity: Working with refugee communities and child protection issues Mohamed Dukuly, STARTTS NSW
Using generativity with separated fathers Ross Fletcher, UnitingCare Burnside
Generative fathering: Discovering the child within Dr Jonathan Toussaint - Interrelate
Using generative exercises in action Andrew King, Groupwork Solutions
Where to from here for the generative approach? Andrew King, Groupwork Solutions
How can we apply the generative approach – Joe Fleming - Department of Social Work, Monash University
Generative fathering provides a strengths based framework for working with men and is crucial to men’s own sense of well-being and personal growth. Generativity has been applied to understand men’s motivation for fathering and can be used to build character and stronger parenting skills.
Generativity: Working with refugee communities and child protection issues - Mohamed Dukuly, STARTTS NSW
It is a common experience for many practitioners that discussions about parenting and child protection issues with newly arrived refugee communities can cause controversies. Attempts to effectively address these issues with these communities over the years have proven very difficult, as projects tended to use traditional psychoeducational models where experts provide refugee communities information about caring for and protecting children in Australia. This session outlines how the Families in Cultural Transition (FICT) program is making use of the concept of generativity to effectively address child protection issues within the refugee community with successful outcomes.
Using generativity with separated fathers – Ross Fletcher, UnitingCare Burnside
This session explores cooperative ways to engage and work with separated fathers and strengthen their family relationship connections. Generativity uses a child centred approach to work with men through various stages of their involvement as they access community welfare/health services or Family Relationship Centres. The stages men experience can include initial reactions that seem urgent, immediate, active, erratic, pushy, demanding, and power seeking. These behaviours can be channelled into either help seeking behaviour or power seeking behaviours. The session explores the shift that occurs for separated fathers, when they maintain their integrity through difficult times and their behaviours reflect their obligations, influence, responsibility, pride and adjustment to the changed situation.
Generative fathering: Discovering the child within – Dr Jonathan Toussaint, Interrelate
This presentation draws on the work of prominent scholar, Erik Erikson (1902 – 1994), whose ideas of inner child concepts and personality sub-selves are widely considered relevant to the understanding of adult development. Erikson’s childhood history suggests he was probably a grown wounded child, long before the concept became debated. His ideas focus on the powerful effect that the young child’s family nurturance level has on their development cycle. Erikson proposed that a child’s success or failure to master these stages is directly proportional to their caregiver’s mastery of these same stages. This presentation deals with the psychological meaning and consequences of identifying and integrating a male’s experience of being a boy in the course of his socialization to manhood.
Using generative exercises in action - Andrew King, Groupwork Solutions
This session demonstrates the use of a wide variety of generative exercises. These exercises focus men on active and practical ways of being in the world and having an influence and impact on others. Each participant receives a detailed copy of all exercises. The interventions are divided into three categories:
- Generative awareness exercises
- Generative relationship deepening exercises
- Generative impact expanding exercises
Location Green Room, Wesley Conference Centre, 220 Pitt Street, Sydney
Cost $165.00 (GST included) Morning tea and afternoon tea provided. Lunch is not provided.