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"Open Door" for parents, educators and social workers

Educo Center opened doors for free visits of parents, educators and social workers. They will be able to share their problems, to receive advice and to be directed to specific organizations and institutions, if needed.

The Center will carry out seminars on different topics connected with raising and educating children and teenagers. On the seminars participants will be introduced to the basic methods and approaches used by Educo during the courses and to the results of the post course work.

 

Adventure for Adults

Training program

Educo Bulgaria and “EON” Center for Human Potential Development offer “Adventure for Adults” training program.

You are looking for a way to:

  • Stimulate the creative potential of your children;

  • Stimulate your own creativeness;

  • Harmonize the family relations.

The program offers the opportunity of acquiring basic skills that have wholesome effect on your relations with other people. Using simulations of real life moments, game techniques and solution-directed strategies, we add to our lives:

  • Trust;

  • Spontaneous intercourse;

  • Experience of connectedness.

As a result of that:

  •  We take decisions with ease;

  • We settle conflicts positively;

  • We react wisely in crisis situations.

Thus we support our children’s achievements acquired during their Educo adventure and facilitate the integration of their new positive experience in the family environment.
The courses are organized in 12 subject modules – each lasting one day – that take about six months.
The number of participants is limited to 20-25.

Price – 35 BGN per day
20% discount when both parents participate

Schedule

˛. Opening
We introduce ourselves, meet one another and the instructors. Get to know the program, the general ideas and the way of work. The meeting is aimed at creating an atmosphere of trust and comfort. 

˛˛. Intercourse
We all know how to talk. But do we know how to converse? And to converse in such a way that we could achieve our goals?
Here we reconsider our skills to converse and our reactions to the words of others (children, partners, etc.). We acquire specific dialogue skills that would bring us nearer to fulfilling our wishes, without getting on our nerves.

˛˛˛. Feedback
That day we pay attention to one very special part of our ability to converse. Understanding and applying this part in the daily round is closely connected with our personal development, the successful sense of the direction of a dialogue and our relations with other people.

˛V. Confidence and Responsibility
Touching on the idea of confidence in oneself and in other people - confidence in one’s own potentialities and in the support of other people.
Thus we develop our ability to delegate and allocate responsibilities to ensure peace and spare time for ourselves.

V. The Family Orchestra
The module is focused on fine tuning the relations within the family - the feeling of belonging, connectedness and harmony.
We would try to answer the question how when setting the common goals to show consideration for the personal ones. How to allocate our roles and tasks, that after all everyone is contented.

VI. The Tango of RelationsLead and Follow
Sometimes we have to take the helm and sometimes we have to follow the other person, if do not want to fight between. The accent that day is to become aware of which attitude works better at a moment.

V˛I. Living as in a Movie - Games and Roles
In our lives we play different rolesof a parent, wife/husband, professional, good man, boss, subordinate, etc. Moreover each role involves certain playing. That day we deal with identifying the personal roles and the games we play, their effectiveness, use and possible harms; we deal with experimenting new roles.

V˛˛I. ParentAdultChild
That day is devoted to finding which of our parentsupbringing methods we have carried into our families. We reconsider which of them we want to keep and which not. How to use our experience so far, that now with the minds and skills of adults, to make the change possible – this is the time for the adults in ourselves. How much time in our lives do we leave for joy, spontaneity and playfulness – qualities that are characteristic of every child, and of what we have been. We will spend some time for the children in us.

˛Ő. Taking Decisions
That day we will focus on how:

  • We make our personal choices;

  • We take decision within a group;

  •  Follow the decisions we have taken;

  • To achieve our goals.

Ő. Settling Conflicts
There is no development without conflict. The question is how to use these conflicts as a source of personal strength and chance for growth without ruining our relations. We will analyze effectively the reasons for the occurrence of conflicts and the strategies for their settlement.

ŐI. Weekend in the Mountain
Meeting a real Educo challenge. Probably we may find out what makes ascending a mountain, keeping family relations and bringing up children resemble each other.

Ő˛˛. Closing and Summary of the Experience
Finally we will direct our attention to the future – how to apply our new experience in the daily round, what difficulties we might met and how to overcome them.

 

 

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