GETTING TO KNOW EACH OTHER Leyte Normal University Eastern Visayas State University.
Meeting 1: Getting to know each other and what the program ......GETTING TO KNOW EACH OTHER AND WHAT...
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Meeting 1: Getting to know each other and what the program is all about
Table Of Contents
5 Slides and activity sheets
11 Taking the program home
13 Tips & tools
19 Home Practice sheet
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WelcomeMeeting 1: Getting to Know Each Other and What the Program Is All About
Slides and activity sheets
WELCOME!
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• Two ways the program helps:1. Support you provide each other2. Family-care and self-care tools that
you’ll learn and practice at home• Group guidelines
03 mins
Welcome
• Introductions • Sharing about the death• Self-care • Changes for parents and children• Overview of how the program helps• Personal Goals
02 mins
Today’s GroupGetting to Know Each Other and What the Program Is All About
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• Your name• Name of person who
died and relationship• Children’s names
and ages
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IntroductionsGroup Family Tree
Tell us • About the death• One thing that has been difficult for you
following the death • One thing that has helped
25 mins
Share
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To take care of your family, you need to take care of yourself.
• Find comfort• Have compassion for yourself• Take care of your feelings• Do things you want or need to do
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Self-care
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Self-careComforting Activities
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• What gives you comfort?
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ShareComforting Activities
1.5 mins
Changes in Your World and Your Children’s World After the Death
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• Increased distance between parents and children• Instability• Children unhappy • Parent unhappy• Not as much fun to be a parent• Tension, fights, chaos• Less tolerant of children’s misbehaviors• Unrealistic expectations for children and parents
Changes in Relationships Between Parents and Children
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Changes in Children’s World Changes in Parent’s World
Children’s Emotions and Behaviors
Parent’s Emotions and Behaviors
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Bereavement Stories of Children and Parents
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How the Program Can Help
Helping Children Cope
Rules
Listening
Strong Family Bonds
Self-care
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Five Building Blocks of Resilient Parenting
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What You Practice Grows StrongerHome Practice: Self-care
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Home Practice: Self-careWhat You Practice Grows Stronger
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Personal Goals: Things you want or need to do for yourself, but have been difficult to make happen.
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Personal Goals and Small Steps
Online Resources02 mins
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Next meeting• You’ll learn a self-care tool for having self-
compassion.• You’ll learn a family-care tool to strengthen
family bonds.
Closing ritual
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Wrap-up
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; Home Practice sheet
Taking the program home
1. Look through Tips And Tools
2. Do a comforting activity at least once or as often as you want
3. Write down your Personal Goal and one small step
Complete
and bring to
Meeting 2:
Remember… Home Practice IS
the program!
How did it go?
Home Practice Sheet
Comforting Activities
Personal Goal - Things you want or need to do for YOURSELF.
What is your personal goal? Why is this important to you? What might make it challenging to do? What is one small step you could take?
Write down anything that other parents said during the meeting that you found helpful for your own self-care or family care.
(turn in at Meeting 2)
Meeting 1 Name
Awful Bad Okay Good Great Did not do
How did it feel to set a personal goal?
Awful Bad GoodOkay Great Did not do
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List each Comforting Activity you did since we met last and tell us how well it worked for you.
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Ideas for Personal Goals and small steps
Personal Goals: Things you feel you want or need to do for yourself but have been difficult to make happen.
Personal Goals Small steps
Take care of financial issues Identify someone to help
Get involved in an activity you enjoy such as a hobby, hiking, listening to music
Identify a time you could do this
Start an exercise plan Identify exercises you have done in the past
Plan a way to remember the person who died
Make a list of several ways you and your children could consider
Tips and Tools
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Ideas for comforting activities
Listen to your favorite music
Take a walk or hike
Watch a movie
Enjoy your favorite tea
Take a bubble bath
Read a chapter in a book
Call a friend
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Home Practice
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How did it go?
Home Practice Sheet
Comforting Activities
Personal Goal - Things you want or need to do for YOURSELF.
What is your personal goal? Why is this important to you? What might make it challenging to do? What is one small step you could take?
Write down anything that other parents said during the meeting that you found helpful for your own self-care or family-care activities.
(turn in at Meeting 2)
Meeting 1 Name
Awful Bad Okay Good Great Did not do
How did it feel to set a personal goal?
Awful Bad GoodOkay Great Did not do
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List each Comforting Activity you did since we met last and tell us how well it worked for you.
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