Workshops

Family Workshops

Our workshops are designed for both the parents and the students. We feel it is very important that the parents and their daughters are learning the same tools, language, concepts and principles so they can apply them when they get back home. We want this learning to be lasting and for the families to be able to take it back to the home environment. You will see that the first and second workshop mimic each other so parent and daughter are receiving the same experience, same tools, same language and is truly a parallel learning process.

It is recommended that the parents register for the first workshop within 90 days of their daughter’s enrollment at CCA. The next offering for the parents is the parent 1 workshop. It is recommended that parents sign up for this workshop while their daughter is at the beginning stages of their third level in the program. The final offering is the parent 2 workshop and it is recommended that parents attend that while their daughter has almost completed level 3 or started her level 4 in the program, with the idea that this workshop prepares the families for the level 4 home visits and eventually for the transition home after graduation from CCA. Workshops 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, prepare for the transition home 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 workshop 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- Arbinger “The Choice” (Parents/Students Separately): This is an interactive workshop that invites the attendees to look through their own experiences and see where they are at in all of their relationships. It teaches how to let go, forgive, and see others as people versus objects we use, blame, or don’t care about.

Level 3- Purpose (Students Only): This three-day workshop 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.