Seminars

Family Workshops

Aspen Family 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, 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- Awareness (Students Only): This three-day workshop 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 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.

Parenting Skill Building Workshops

Level 1 Workshop: 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 Workshop: This is a three day workshop that is educationally based and gives the parent many new tools and parenting skills. The first two days you will be going through The Choice and The Choice in Intervention, which is from the Arbinger Institute. This material focuses you on your relationships and your part in all of your relationships. The emphasis of all the skills learned is that you will be starting to build back the relationships that have been damaged. A parent can learn all of the skills in the world, but if there is not a relationship established they will be very ineffective. The third day consists of learning tools and skills, your parenting style and your childs type, conflict resolution skills, what to expect when your daughter graduates CCA and much more. You will also be taught a plan that will help provide structure in the home for when your child returns. After completion of this workshop you will begin to be prepared for your home visits and eventually their return home.

Level 3 Workshop: This is a three day workshop that is all about practice, practice, practice. We will be practicing conflict resolution, beginning to gain trust and where to start with how to gain trust back, creating a positive peer support group, and reviewing your family plan (rules, structure, consequences, rewards). Our experience has taught us that your success will depend upon the trust in the relationship and the people your daughter begins to surround herself with. Your child will be in attendance all three days to practice and implement the tools you have learned in the first workshop.