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Parenting Facilitators' Training: A Bible-Based Professional Parenting Program Utilizing Principles of Schema Therapy
2-5 April 2013 | Columbia, South Carolina, USA |
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Would you like to help parents in your church and in your community using biblically based and professionally developed materials and resources? Would you like to learn great parenting skills for yourself? Would you like to be able to help older disciples who feel stuck spiritually? Would you like to become a facilitator of the "Good Enough Parenting" workshop which has the potential to help your church members as well as have an impact on your friends?
Then join our Parenting Facilitators' Training in Columbia, South Carolina from 2 - 5 April 2013.
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How it came about...John and Karen Louis feel blessed to have been located in Southeast Asia for almost a quarter century, and they are grateful for all their friends in the ICOC who have made that possible. They are especially thankful for their Southeast Asia Core Group, as well as the amazing staff and lay leadership of the Singapore church. For the past eleven years, the Louis and their staff have been trained in many aspects of counselling and communication, and have been integrating their skills into a unique toolbox of both biblical and therapeutic expertise. In order to meet the needs of their congregation in Singapore, John and Karen put together several workshops for marriage and family, which have profoundly helped their ministries in Asia. The "I Choose Us!" (ICU) marriage program and "Good Enough Parenting" (GEP) parenting program were originally conceived as strengthening programs for their members, but have now evolved into also being evangelistic in nature. As others have heard about the success of these workshops, the Louis have received numerous requests to equip other leaders in the ICOC to be able to replicate these programs.
How to sign up...
If you or anyone from your congregation would like to learn how to deliver the parenting program, John and Karen will be conducting training in Columbia, South Carolina, from 2-5 April 2013. Participants will be certified as Facilitators in "Good Enough Parenting".
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Fees: US $320 per participant
Participants will receive: Certification as facilitator for "Good Enough Parenting" program, a set of training DVDs including programme presentations, as well as notes and a book authored by John and Karen Louis. Important Note: In order to conduct the "Good Enough Parenting" program to your audience, you will need to have a set of about 55 Movie DVDs. The list of these 55 DVDs will be provided for you so that you can purchase them at your convenience before you conduct your own workshops.
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To register for the course:
Please note that space is limited. Register early to avoid disappointment!
- Participants from the following churches, please contact Paul Ramsey directly to register:
South Carolina: Columbia Church of Christ Charleston Church of Christ Greenville Church of Christ Clemson Foothills Church North Carolina: The Charlotte Church The Triangle Church The Fayetteville Church Piedmont Triad Church Coastal Carolina Church of Christ The Wilmington Church The Asheville Church Greenville Church of Christ (NC) Georgia: The Augusta Church Athens Church of Christ North River Church of Christ Marietta Christian Church Atlanta Metropolitan Christian Church Atlanta Church of Christ in Gwinnett Cornerstone Church Northview Church of Christ Middle Georgia Christian Church Savannah Church of Christ Greater Atlanta Church of Christ Midsouth group: Chattannoga Church of Christ The Knoxville Church The Memphis Church The Nashville Church Auburn/Tuskegee Christian Church The Birmingham Church The Jackson Church
You may contact Paul Ramsey at:
Email: disciple73@aol.com
Mobile: +1 (803) 772 6567
- All other ICOC participants not from the churches listed above and/or those outside US, please email your completed registration form(s) to:
Email: event@louiscts.comFor group arrangements, or other queries, please contact John Louis at Tel: +65 9830 5882 / Email: johnlouis@louiscts.com - Upon receipt of your registration, we will send you a confirmation and invoice within 3-5 working days. Payment can be made via telegraphic transfer or credit card.
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Synopsis of "Good Enough Parenting":
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"Good Enough Parenting"
Research has shown that when core emotional needs are not met during the formative years of a child, "Lifetraps" (schemas) will develop. These core emotional needs are:
Connection & Acceptance
Healthy Autonomy & Performance
Reasonable Limits
Realistic Expectations
And the "plus-one" need of
Spiritual Values & Community
While no one's parenting can ever be perfect, "Good Enough Parenting" offers a step-by-step guide on how parents can learn to meet these core emotional needs, and provide parenting that is "good-enough" to prevent Lifetraps from developing in their children. "Good Enough Parenting", a series of eight Christian parenting workshops, was developed by John and Karen Louis and is based on Schema Therapy founded by Dr. Jeffrey Young.
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"In a world of too much information, 'Good Enough Parenting' uses movies to teach parents how to MEET CORE NEEDS, and, at the same time, how to avoid passing down their own dysfunctional behaviors. Schema Therapy has been successful with adults, but I have always wanted to see someone do something on preventing schemas, or Lifetraps, in children, and here it is!"
~ Dr Jeffrey Young
Dept of Psychiatry, Columbia University, USA
Founder, Schema Therapy
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What people say about "Good Enough Parenting"...
If you want to raise your children to develop inner strength to become their best, come and get trained how to parent them good enough.
~ Henning Hamre, Norway
"Good Enough Parenting" has been a great eye-opener and a strong motivator to make every effort to meet all the core needs of my children, not only those that come as the most "natural" to me.
~ Ronny Yttrehus, Norway
Meets one of our greatest needs by training us to pass along to our children principles that will help them avoid lifetraps we have fallen into.
~ Paul Ramsey, Columbia, USA
This training not only helped me personally; but will be irreplaceable in redirecting our teen ministry. It will help us have healthier families.
~ Candy Ramsey, Columbia, USA
Very good class to learn how to meet the needs of children, develop close relationships in family settings and give them tools for living healthy lives.
~ JP Tynes, Orlando, USA
"Good Enough Parenting" is an intensively emotional experience that could help any parent learn about themselves as well as how to parent in a healthy way.
~ Patricia Tynes, Orlando, USA
I strongly value the emphasis on needs of kids rather than focus on problems of kids. I have a very proactive direction now as a parent.
~ David Bruce, Los Angeles, USA
Thanks for giving me an understanding of the importance of the core needs of children and equipping me with tools to meet them.
~ Beate Daae Rognli, Norway
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About the Speakers
Married for over 25 years with two adult children, John and Karen Louis have been in the full-time ministry with the International Churches of Christ since 1985. They both hold a Masters in Counselling from Monash University of Melbourne, Australia, and are members of professional counselling associations in America, Australia and Singapore. As founders of Movie Therapy in Singapore, John and Karen incorporate the use of multi-media in workshops for ICOC churches as well as for secular organizations and companies in Singapore. John is a certified Schema Therapist and member of the International Society for Schema Therapy (ISST), having been trained by Dr. Jeffrey Young, the founder of Schema Therapy, and Karen is a certified Solution-Focused Therapist.
John and Karen were interviewed by Mr Steven Chia and Ms Suzanne Jung of
Channel NewsAsia in Primetime Morning. Click here to watch >>
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We look forward to see you at the training!
John & Karen Louis
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