Family Life Education
Family Life Education offers training and skill building resources and guidance for prevention and intervention in regard to relationship issues for general family and marriage life, parent and child interaction and understanding developmental child behaviors. Also included are Family Advocacy and Faith Formation, which explore the dynamics of the papal term "domestic church" which understands the family and parish relationship and recognizes both as valuable and growing changing systems.
Any or all of these topics can be presented as a workshop training or office visit can be arranged for counseling or consultation:
Some Parenting Training Topics
Prepare and Enrich A marriage preparation tool for evaluating the strengths and weaknesses in the relationship of couples seeking marriage. Included are counseling sessions to increase awareness of both areas and tools to nurture strengths and provide necessary skills for growth.
Basic Relationship Skills Tools and practice for better understanding of realistic expectations, communication and appreciation between individuals.
Family Advocacy Training Topics
"...we familied people who inhabit homes, who live among and with people who give us identity, whom we serve, by whom we are served, need to turn to our homes and them around just as we would turn over and admire a handcrafted piece of pottery that has been given us to appreciate... (In so doing) we will come upon the ways in which family members sense the presence of the indwelling God and the ways in which they respond to the passionate call of God truly to become transfigured people." (Wendy Wright, Sacred Dwelling)
Catholic Community Matters
A bimonthly publication insert found in the Diocesan newsletter "Ministering." These articles includes a variety of children and family topics and ideas for building and strengthening more positive family life and relationships. "Ministering" and "Catholic Community Matters" are available online or regular mail.
Any or all of these topics can be presented as a workshop training or office visit can be arranged for counseling or consultation:
Some Parenting Training Topics
- Why Parents Behave the Way They Do.
- Why Children Behave the Way They Do.
- Effective techniques for dealing with behaviors.
- Dealing with difficult behaviors.
Prepare and Enrich A marriage preparation tool for evaluating the strengths and weaknesses in the relationship of couples seeking marriage. Included are counseling sessions to increase awareness of both areas and tools to nurture strengths and provide necessary skills for growth.
Basic Relationship Skills Tools and practice for better understanding of realistic expectations, communication and appreciation between individuals.
Family Advocacy Training Topics
- The Christian Vision of Family Life
- Family Spirituality
- Process of Change and Family Systems
- Introduction to Family Systems Theory
- Family Systems Theory: Its Relationship to the Ministering Person
- Parish As A System
- Family Life Cycle
- Partnership between Family and Parish
- Living Out of Possibility: Creating the Future
"...we familied people who inhabit homes, who live among and with people who give us identity, whom we serve, by whom we are served, need to turn to our homes and them around just as we would turn over and admire a handcrafted piece of pottery that has been given us to appreciate... (In so doing) we will come upon the ways in which family members sense the presence of the indwelling God and the ways in which they respond to the passionate call of God truly to become transfigured people." (Wendy Wright, Sacred Dwelling)
Catholic Community Matters
A bimonthly publication insert found in the Diocesan newsletter "Ministering." These articles includes a variety of children and family topics and ideas for building and strengthening more positive family life and relationships. "Ministering" and "Catholic Community Matters" are available online or regular mail.
Catholic Bishop of Northern Alaska
Madeline Nance
Director, Children and Family Life Center
1316 Peger Road
Fairbanks, AK 99709-5199
907-374-9551 907-374-9580 (Fax)