Fwd: RE-SEND: Upcoming Child-Centered Play Therapy Workshop - April15-16, 2016


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Please forward this announcement to colleagues and any list serves you may be on.

Child-Centered Play Therapy Workshop

April 15-16, 2016

Workshop Leader: William Nordling, Ph.D., Member of NIRE's Training Faculty

Location: Bethesda, MD.

Workshop Description: The purpose of this two-day skills training workshop is to provide participants a comprehensive introduction to the Child-Centered Play Therapy Model and to teach participants the principles and techniques for conducting all aspects of Child-Centered Play Therapy with children, from intake through termination.

Intensive Supervised Skills Practice: The workshop emphasizes the building of participants' therapeutic skills through a process that combines lecture, demonstration and supervised practice via participant role-plays and mock play sessions. The number of participants is limited in order to ensure frequent individual supervision when participants practice aspects of the child-centered play therapy process.

Workshop Objectives: Participants will learn how to:

  • Identify the parameters for the appropriate use of play therapy
  • Quickly establish rapport and a strong therapeutic relationship with the child and create the recommended therapeutic atmosphere
  • Facilitate the child's mastery of thoughts and feelings to help eliminate immature and symptomatic behaviors
  • Set and enforce limits in an effective and therapeutic way
  • Identify the major stages of play therapy and accompanying themes
  • Communicate to parents about play therapy and their child's progress and help them and the child terminate therapy

Continuing Education: Upon completion, participants receive 13 CE credits for completing this workshop.

IDEALS/NIRE is approved by the Association for Play Therapy to offer continuing education programs specific to play therapy.  APT Preferred Provider 95-009.
IDEALS/NIRE is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists.  IDEALS maintains responsibility for the program and its content.
IDEALS/NIRE has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 5560. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. IDEALS/NIRE is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.
IDEALS/NIRE is approved by the Maryland State Board of Social Work Examiners to offer Category I continuing education programs for social workers.
IDEALS/NIRE maintains responsibility for the program and adhering to the appropriate guidelines required by the respective organizations.

Fee: $265 (includes packet of materials)

For further information, please visit our website at www.nire.org.

To register, please download a registration form at www.nire.org or call NIRE at 301-680-8977.



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Fwd: [New post] God's Google Map of Your Life

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Benjamin LaBadie posted: "Our first principle and foundation is to serve and delight in God. St. Ignatius of Loyola emphasizes this point in the beginning of his Spiritual Exercises in order that participants may know how uniquely God created them with their personality, talents, "
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God’s Google Map of Your Life

by Benjamin LaBadie

Google Maps EarthOur first principle and foundation is to serve and delight in God. St. Ignatius of Loyola emphasizes this point in the beginning of his Spiritual Exercises in order that participants may know how uniquely God created them with their personality, talents, and desires. Once this understanding is savored, Ignatius asks us to reflect on our sin. This reflection is not meant to condemn, but to motivate change. For once we acknowledge how we have not served and delighted as we were created to do, God's grace gives us the strength and joy to do so. In the spirit of these Exercises, let us take time to reflect on our current situation in life so that we may behold God’s loving gaze and mercy.

Mercy is why God became incarnate. Jesus entered into our history and shared our condition so that he can show us his faithful love despite our sins and struggles. God wants to be in kinship with us. As Father Greg Boyle emphasizes, God holds up a mirror to us and tells us that the person you see is exactly who God had in mind when God made you. You are meant to live in this specific time and place. God's love and mercy is revealed to you in your apartment, your commute, your neighbors, your grocery store, your friends, your parish, and your family. Just as Jesus entered a particular time and place, so are you called that you might serve and delight in God and neighbor.

Take time to reflect on how God's mercy has mapped your life within the world. In other words, Google Map your life with a little Ignatian imagination.

  1. Go to Google Maps, and in the bottom lefthand corner click the square that says “Earth.” Then in the right hand corner where you see a “minus” sign, keep clicking the minus sign until you zoom out as far as possible. Ponder the beauty of Earth, the sun, and the stars. What do you imagine that God finds beautiful and good? Feel free to rotate the earth and view it from all 360 degrees.
  2. Then click the “plus” sign once. Rotate the earth but stop and take a look at different regions and imagine the lives of various people in different regions. What joys do you imagine? What suffering? What is God directing you to see?
  3. In the upper left hand corner where the white rectangle says “Search Google Maps,” type in Israel and hit enter. Look at the land where Jesus became incarnate. Imagine him growing up in this area and what his life must have been like. Ponder how specific God’s love is and how he chooses particular locations and people to do God’s will. Feel free to zoom in and out in any other part of the world.
  4. In the upper left hand corner, type your home address, work address, parish address, or city. Ponder how God views your life in this location. How is God proud of you? Is God asking you to change in any way? Is God calling you to something new?

Carry this reflection in your heart and savor the joy and guidance you receive. Come back to the emotions you experience in this prayer—God is speaking to you through them. And know that you are part of God’s tangible salvation in the nitty-gritty of everyday life.

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Fwd: Marriage Foundation news


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Family breakdown: Let's concentrate on the data

This month, BBC2's Victoria Derbyshire show focused on the effects of breakdown on children. Our own Sir Paul Coleridge was invited to interview several families - parents and children - who had experienced  family breakdown. 

The programme is a great watch, not least because of Paul's gentle interview manner but also because of the way, again and again, he brings us back to the data. 

Watch it here - it's the first and last fifteen minutes of the programme.

Family breakdown is such an emotive topic because, as Paul says, 'everybody has a view on it because everybody nowadays has experience of family breakdown'.

The result tends to be that people express their concern about family breakdown but then shrug their shoulders as if it is inevitable and nothing can be done. 

Two of the contributors to the programme say of their respective divorces 'I'm glad it happened' and 'we just decided we needed to be kind to each other' so that the children wouldn't suffer. In other words, it wasn't good but everybody is better off now. 

On the flip side, one of the divorced couples also acknowledge that their daughters 'were used on both sides'. Their daughter then reluctantly admits that 'I still do have a little wish' that her parents were still together. Other contributors talk of still having 'nightmares after my parents divorce' years later and how a stand-off with an ex-partner now means 'I dread my children's future weddings'. 

So, who to believe in this emotive subject? 

'Anecdotes are fascinating,' says Paul. 'But let's concentrate on the data. Family breakdown has a devastating effect on children." 

We have to be compassionate about this subject. But when the data shows that half of our teenagers have experienced family breakdown, that picking up the pieces costs the taxpayer £48 billion and rising, and when children's life chances then become stacked against, we need to treat this subject as a serious public health issue. 

Here are just a few examples of how lone parents and their children are disadvantaged compared to equivalent couple parent families, based on data from the UK Families and Children's Survey (pdf download):

  • 7 times as likely to be in the lowest fifth income group (47% vs 7%)
  • 7 times as likely to be on housing benefit (42% vs 6%)
  • twice as likely to have children whose health is not good (4% vs 2%)
  • twice as likely to have their own health problems (13% vs 7%)
  • twice as likely to have children with behaviour problems (16% vs 8%)

Families will always want to downplay their own experience of family breakdown. And in some cases, that will be justified. But when it affects half of our children, how can that possibly be the case for all, or even most? 

We need to keep concentrating on the data. 

I hope our work encourages you. Don't forget our Key Facts pages are there to help. 

May your own marriage and those around you flourish!

Harry Benson, Marriage Foundation

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As well as Paul's starring role on TV, we put out a couple of fun pieces this month, both of which also have their serious message.

The first piece  - a short report - drew on the model I use for working out divorce rates. It's based on data from Office for National Statistics and looks at what happens to married couples who get married in any given year.

The Sunday Times asked us to put together a table on the odds of couples staying together, depending on how long they'd been married. 

If you download the report, you can check out your own odds!

They start at 1 in 2.6 for couples just married, dropping to 1 in 4 for those married for ten years, 1 in 8 after twenty years, 1 in 25 after thirty years, 1 in 148 after forty years and 1 in 1,479 after fifty years. 

Then we finished the month with an article I wrote for our own Modern marriage blog and also for Huffington Post on why it's not a great idea for a woman to propose on leap day - 29th February. 

This is no unfortunate relic of patriarchy that is best consigned to the bin of history. It's a tradition that gently reminds of our human nature, namely that men's commitment is particularly dependent on buying in for themselves. 

The number one thing I ask my own daughters about boyfriends is "does he fight for you?" This is because if he just 'slides' into the relationship rather than 'decides', then he's probably not that committed and it's likely to end in tears. 

So should a woman propose on leap day?

Only if she is 100% sure that he's really committed and not just going along for the ride. 

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Marriage Foundation in the news
 
The month started with a bit of fun and our model for predicting your odds of divorce, depending on when you got married, It was covered initially by the Sunday Times, and followed by the Sun, Star, Mail, and Telegraph 

Paul appearance in BBC2's Victoria Derbyshire programme prompted follow up in the Sun and Mail.

We also had mentions in Glamour magazine, the Mail, and my piece on leap day weddings for Huffington Post

Since our launch in May 2012, we have appeared on BBC News, BBC Newsnight, Channel 4 and 5 News, ITV This Morning, BBC Radio 4 Today programme and You & Yours, BBC Radio 2 Jeremy Vine, and many other stations. 

Most of our newspaper coverage in the major national newspapers can be found here
 
 
Our latest research papers
 
Our aim is to rebuild confidence in marriage. And there's nothing quite like good solid data and top notch research to dispel myths and help create the conditions for change. Here are a few of our findings, all of which made headlines: 

Vanishing Divorce 
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Celebrity Divorce 
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Happy Families: Men Behaving Better 
Blog Report - Sunday Times - Mail - Guardian - Sun

The Marriage Gap 
Blog - Report 1 - Report 2Sunday Telegraph - Times 
Telegraph 
Daily Mail - Church Times - Libby Purves

The cost to Britain's children of the trend away from marriage 
Blog Report Times 
Telegraph Daily Mail - Guardian

Get married BEFORE you have children 
Blog Report - Sunday TimesTimes - Telegraph - Daily Mail - Herald

One in three children won't spend Christmas with both parents 
Blog Report Times

Better and better off apart 
Blog Report Telegraph 
Daily Mail 

UK lone parent capital of Western Europe 
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The odds of getting married 
Blog Daily Mail - Telegraph

Early marriages stronger for 8th year running 
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Unmarried parents account for one fifth of couples but half of all family breakdown
Press release - Sunday Times front page

The myth of 'long term stable relationships outside marriage
Press release - Telegraph

A summary of all our findings
can be found here 
 
 
The Times 

'Beating Poverty' (£)
19th August 2014

'Marriage Material' (£)
30th April 2014

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Fwd: My 1,800th column: "Committed Couples - Not Counselors - Save Marriages in Crisis


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Editors,

 

This is my 1,800th weekly Ethics & Religion column.  It offers a proven answer to the toughest problem in America – disintegrating marriages.  A column on this answer in 1990 sparked 1,500 requests for more information. 

 

Note I am asking readers to respond to 5 questions if their marriage was ever in crisis.  This is the first time I have taken this step.  I want to quote readers in future columns and in my newest book, which will also be titled: Committed Couples – Not Counselors – Save Crisis Marriages. 

 

Blessings,

Mike McManus

 

Ethics & Religion
February 24, 2016
Column #1,800
Committed Couples - Not Counselors - Save Crisis Marriages
By Mike McManus

 

Has your marriage ever been so troubled that you or your spouse considered divorce? I'm writing a book on how to save marriages in crisis, and would like to quote readers willing to answer the following questions by writing me at Mike@MarriageSavers.org. If you do not want your name used, make up one.

 

1.     What was your marriage crisis? Did you save it?

2.     What did you do, or what did God do, to help?

3.     Did you see a professional counselor? If so, did he/she recommend divorce?

4.     Did you divorce?

5.     If so, are you glad you did? How about your kids?

 

This column will offer a proven solution to the most daunting problem in America - the disintegration of marriage. In 2014 there were 2.26 million marriages, but 1.08 million divorces. This 48% divorce rate is triple that of Britain or France. Further, there's been a 57% decline in the U.S. marriage rate since 1970.

Most pastors refer marriages in crisis to counselors. However, "Covenant Marriage," a book researching 300 troubled marriages who saw a counselor came to a startling conclusion: "Couples who receive marital counseling (during marriage) are substantially more likely to divorce than couples who forego this option...Marital counseling is associated with at least three times higher odds of separation and divorce."

In 1990 I wrote a column about a better answer developed by Rev. Dick McGinnis, an Episcopal priest who asked a question your pastor could ask: "Are there couples here whose marriages have been on the rocks, but who have successfully come off of them - couples who have been in extreme difficulty and have threatened divorce - but who are in recovery? If so, I'd like to meet with you after the service."

To his surprise, out of 180 people in church 10 couples showed up. He confessed to them, "I have more work than I can handle in marriage counseling. There is no way to keep up with it. I prayed about it. What came to me was that I was not to look at the problem, but at the solution."

"That triggered in my mind how Alcoholics Anonymous got started. There were not only two people trying to help each other stay sober, but there were two clergy who got involved - a Catholic and an Episcopalian. Out of it came the 12 steps of AA that have helped millions stay sober.

"I want to meet with you over a period of time to see if there is anything of a common nature you had to do for your marriage to be restored. You'll have to share openly and deeply. It may be embarrassing. But I want to see if God has a way of re-establishing marriages."

The group wrote a foundational principle: "Through other Christians' testimony and personal example, we found hope for our marriage." Susan Smitha explained: "It is the sharing of what is going on in your life with people who have been there and can understand. It makes you feel less like a freak. It takes away the loneliness where you feel you are the only one going through this."

Over the next 18 months they wrote down 16 other M&Ms or "Marriage Ministry" principles common to the recovery of their marriages. Equally important, they began working with other couples in crisis and found the M&Ms transplantable.

What are some other M&Ms? Three are related to a "Commitment to God:"

1.     I experienced God's love and forgiveness.

2.     I made a decision/commitment to love Christ, mate and self.

3.     Once obedient to God we were able to love my His standards, not ours.

 

Lowell Weddington and his wife were not Christians and had enormous problems communicating. "We tried humanistic answers: `I'm Ok. You're OK.' Nothing worked. So we said, why not try God? We went to church and were born again. We realized the Lord really loved us and we began to love ourselves."

Other M&Ms involve a "Commitment to Partner:"

4.     We/I made a decision to stay together.

5.     We/I accepted my mate as he/she is.

 

The most important others were:

6.     I realized the problem was with myself.

7.     I became aware I needed to change, became willing to change, learned what and how to change, and began to change with God's help.

 

Over 5 years, the seven couples met with 40 marriages in crisis and saved 38 of them! I wrote a column about this innovation, sparking 1,500 letters to Rev. McGinnis.

A rewarding response!

Please write your reactions to my questions above and I'll send you all 17 M&Ms.

 

Copyright (c) 2016 Michael J. McManus is President of Marriage Savers and a syndicated columnist.

 

 

 

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Fwd: FFF: Religion, Relationships & Health

February 19, 2016
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Dear Friends,

Our research this week shows a clear trend: Religion improves relationships, stable relationships are more prone to result in marriage, and marriage improves long-term health. The combined power of religious practice and intact marriages surpass any social program our government could create!


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Sharon Sassler of Cornell University and her coauthors show that sexual relationships among young adults in the U.S. are frequently short-lived. Check out Marripedia to find out how the family structure in which these young adults were raised affects these transitory relationships.




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Fwd: SO much happening. Don't Miss. Take a Fast Glance


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NMW header

So much happening this week!  
PLEASE take a quick glance!

Hi friends!
 
There are SO many individuals, groups, and churches celebrating National Marriage Week this week, and using Feb 7 to 14th to stir up hope and help for couples, singles, and families!  Be sure to search the activities in your state on our National Calendar-
and always post for free any marriage event all year long!

GREAT Media Coverage and Partnerships THIS WEEK!

National TV on EWTN Network News--2.5 minute on-camera interview which lays out the goals of our campaign! https://gloria.tv/media/BiH3LrzPUTv

The Eric Metaxas Show! My lively & candid conversation with him about marriage & dating! Listen from 6:30 minute mark https://soundcloud.com/the-eric-metaxas-show/sheila-weber

My FOX NEWS Commentary--What Presidential Candidates Could & Should Be Saying About Marriage! http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2016/02/10/presidential-candidates-its-national-marriage-week-so-lets-talk-about-marriage.

"How Marriage Helps Kids" Commentary at  http://dailysignal.com/2016/02/10/how-marriage-helps-kids/

U.S Catholic Bishops Encourage Joining NATIONAL MARRIAGE WEEK FEBRUARY 7-14 http://www.usccb.org/news/2016/16-018.cfm 

National Association of Evangelicals gave a big, color promotion on their NAE calendar in their mailed magazine to encourage all churches to celebrate this week!

Someone started an INSTAGRAM CAMPAIGNfor National Marriage Week! Join the hashtag! http://www.fridaywereinlove.com/2016/02/national-marriage-week-on-instagram.html 

Featured in a Health Journal-Marriage is good for your health! http://www.lifezette.com/healthzette/rejecting-divorce-for-the-healthiest-reasons/ 


STATEWIDE Radio Public Service Announcement throughout Wisconsin! http://wifamilycouncil.org/national-marriage-week-celebrate-gods-plan-for-marriagefamily/ 

Even In Bermuda!  Several days of activities.... http://www.royalgazette.com/article/20160206/ISLAND08/160209760&source=RSS 

Lots of BLOGS like this one!  Four Promises that Lead to a Happier Marriage http://www.patheos.com/blogs/faithonthecouch/2016/02/do-you-have-what-it-takes-4-promises-that-lead-to-a-happier-marriage/ 

PLUS I gave presentations last week in Washington, DC to groups of policy leaders, including in the U.S. Senate offices.

P.S.  
Please CONTINUE TO POST ANY marriage event for
free ALL YEAR LONG on our NATIONAL MARRIAGE CALENDAR at http://www.nmwusa-calendar.org/

Thank you so much for joining with us and others....together we can make a difference.

Yours for strengthening marriage,
Sheila Weber
Executive Director, National Marriage Week USA (Feb. 7-14)


 

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Candidates for Friday Five

1. Giving Up Options Before Making a Choice--a 24 Minute Audio on The Risks of Sliding






2. Love and marriage in medieval England

Emma Mason






3.The Subversive Power of the Kiss







5. 
Family Meals
Love to eat? Try family style
Regardless of the menu for your meal, eating with your family is good for you. Research has shown that family meals are an important opportunity to develop strong parent-child relationships and family connectedness. Children in families with lower incomes, and those whose parents have less education, are more likely to share meals.
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Healthy Relationships
Addressing teen dating violence
We're working with the U.S. Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation to describe youth-serving healthy marriage and relationship education programs. This work will help identify promising approaches for promoting positive relationships. Healthy relationship skills can help prevent dating violence among youth. About one in eight high school girls reported having been a victim of dating violence in the past year, based on 2013 survey data.
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       Two important “clips” from Marriage Foundation

Looking for really useful clips that illustrate the devastating impact of family breakdown on everyone concerned? Well Marriage Foundation have come up with two really good ones:

·          The first, from Radio4, talks about “Splitting the Assets”

·          The second is a series of interviews by Sir Paul Coleridge of people caught up in the breakdown of relationships and familiesscreened as part of the Victoria Derbyshire show on BBC2 today!


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7. Marital Status May Be Risk Factor For Early- And Late-Onset Dementia






8. Positive 'Parents in Dispute' Programme Results Announced






9. The Clinton's Marriage Matters




10. DON’T FALL IN LOVE ON OKCUPID






11. The secret to a long-lasting marriage
Christina Breda Antoniades





Thanks Anna