HOME: Can be summed up as a base which provides protection. Where everyone feels comfortable and safe. Nobody needs to abide to the demands of others to be loved. The family is the place where you can be yourself. The family is not isolated but is in direct contact with the outside world and it exchanges information with the 'outside'. It is a place where every person is stimulated and challenged to grow into an emotional, relational and financially independent adult. It is the place where you learn the difference between mine and thine and where you learn to find the balance between taking care of oneself and taking care of others.
Information
You need a qualification for everything, except for getting married and having children, and they are the most complicated of the lot! You start to wonder if you are the only one. You would actually like to talk to someone else and reflect upon your marriage and your family. You may also be trying to prevent problems.
These and other wishes and needs can be met by organising one or more evenings/mornings to discuss the appropriate topic. The outline below shows what options are available.
TOPICS RELATED TO RAISING CHILDREN
a. Wehebbenallemaalwat.nl (see publications)
- Genuineness, the foundation of raising children
- Good building material
- Your family, a place to grow or to hang out?
- When things don't go your way
- Multimedia, the other educator
- Informed or conned?
- The place of religion in the upbringing
b. Individuals topics
- The place of emotions in a child's life
- Bullying
- Children need boundaries, and so do parents
- Attachment issues
- Father by heart and deed
- Father and daughter
- Father and son
c. Aimed at teenagers
- Necessary or superfluous
- Youths believe it
- Hidden grief in young people
- Respect for oneself and others (sexuality in the life of adolescents)
TOPICS RELATED TO MARRIAGE
a. Preparing for marriage
- The start sets the tone
- Harmonising
- That's not what I meant
- The role of sexuality
- What place does religion have in your relationship?
b. Make it work. (See publications)
- Marriage from a biblical perspective
- Communication in a marriage
- Lack of satisfaction!
- Time is money; money and time in a marriage
VARIOUS PASTORAL TOPICS
- Can you afford to be vulnerable?
- Communication in relationships
- Loneliness
- The art of living
- The coaching side of leadership
- Can the 'real' Sunday school teacher please stand up?
- Children and youth pastoral care (7 evenings in which theory is combined with practice)
- Domestic violence
- Called or driven
- They go off to missions, what about us?
- What are we doing?
These are just a few of the options available. Customised programmes can of course be drawn up in consultation.
Tel.: +31(0)38 444 59 03
bertreinds@meandmyhouse.nl
