DOUBLE HELIX: PARENT & CHILD PROGRAM
- Break The Ice: Play an icebreaker, get to know each other, or get some laughter going
- Listen Together
- Prepare testimonies from the child and parent perspective about overcoming difficult situations in the parent child relationship
- Reflect
- What is a current challenge my parents/my children and I are facing?
- What is blocking us from overcoming this difficulty?
- Share Together
- Listen to the other party share without interrupting
- Repeat back what was just shared, “So what I’m hearing is….”
- Confirm you heard correctly and allow for further clarification
- Make a plan to move forward together
- Do Together: Make a craft together that symbolizes the family
- Do a version of the painting at the top, but turn it into a 4 Position Foundation (Parents would love it!)
- End with a Bang:
- Share 3 Great Things about my Parents/Children with the group
- Share Best Practices: What is something we do that allows us to create a home we love?
- Have a Soul Train to the song “We are family”