Seminars

Family Seminars

Aspen Family Seminars for parents and students were developed to enhance self-esteem, take accountability for one's choices, promote integrity and trust, emphasize the importance of keeping agreements, improve communication skills, repair relationships, and bring hope back into the participants' lives. Participants are immersed in a combination of educational and experiential activities which promote the opportunity to evaluate the negative results of past choices and begin making effective new ones.

Level 1- Awakening (Parents/Students Separately): This is a three-day seminar emphasizing the power of beliefs, trust, importance of agreements, personality types, what is working and what is not working, accountability, choices, and building healthy, loving relationships. Participants gain a powerful feeling of pride and often see a new hope for the future and especially the reality of having a healthy functional family.

Level 2- Awareness (Parent/Students Separately): This three-day seminar uses the lessons learned in the Level 1 Seminar as building blocks. Participants learn to risk, move on in their life, let go of choices that are keeping them stuck, gain self-worth, develop greater self-discovery, and discover unlimited choices for strength to rebuild family relationships.

Level 3- Purpose (Students Only): This three-day seminar is focused on the student purpose and what she wants out of her life. She learns how to bring her image into full conscious awareness as she is given tools that teach her how to throw away her old image and find what will work for her. Most importantly, she is taken through steps of healing which leave her with an increased sense of self and love.

Parenting Skill Building Workshops

Workshop 1: This two-day workshop is educationally based and designed to give the parent new tools and parenting skills. The emphasis of all the skills learned is on starting to build back the relationships that have been damaged. A parent can learn all the skills in the world, but if there is not a relationship established, they will be very ineffective. Some of the topics that are covered are: goal-setting with your teen, communication skills, issues of control, setting limits and boundaries, what to do and expect on the return of your child from CCA, parenting styles and child types (do they conflict or mesh and what to do with them), relationship skills, how to offer choices, using thinking words and not fighting words, self-esteem, and things to do while your child is at CCA. These are just a few of the topics that will be covered. This workshop will prepare you for your home visits and when she returns home from CCA.

Workshop 2: This is a two day workshop that is all about practice, practice, practice. The first part of the workshop will be about your experience of your home visits and what worked and didn't work for you. You will then experience role plays using real life scenarios from your home visits. Your child will be in attendance for part of the second day and you will have the opportunity to practice with her. You will be videotaped during these role plays and then will receive feedback as to what you did well and how you could more effectively incorporate the skills and tools that you have been taught.

*You must register for Parent Seminars and Workshops

**For Additional Information, dates, or scheduling visit www.aspenseminars.com or contact Summer Bullard at 928-567-1322 ext. 144.