Building cooperative relationships with separated fathers - Brisbane, QLD
Date: 12-Nov-2010
Centacare Brisbane, Fortitude Valley QLD - Friday 12th November 2010 from 9.30am to 4.30pm.
This workshop explores cooperative ways to engage and work with separated fathers and strengthen their family relationship connections. A child focused approach is used to work with men through various stages of their involvement when accessing 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 workshop will emphasise respectful responses men can use when coping with new challenges and things they can do for themselves and their children. It will identify strategies for separated fathers to reach a new awareness of their true potential in supporting their children through challenging times.
The workshop will explore the shift that occurs for separated fathers, when they maintain their integrity through difficult times and their behaviours reflect their obligations, responsibility, integrity, pride, and adjustment to the changed situation.
When: Friday 12th November 2010 from 9.30am to 4.30pm
Where: The Conference Room, Centacare Brisbane, 58 Morgan Street, Fortitude Valley QLD - (in the St Patrick Church grounds)Cost: $165.00 (GST included). Refreshments and lunch are provided.
To register: Register and complete payment below. A Tax Invoice will be emailed to you. The payment needs to be completed before the workshop occurs, for the registration to be fully confirmed.
Facilitator: Andrew King
Andrew King is the Men’s Services Manager for MensLine Australia (Crisis Support Services). He is the Chairperson for the Institute of Group Leaders and a specialist trainer in group work and trains professionals throughout Australia in ‘working with men’. He is also an experienced practitioner and has published a range of professional articles.