BUILDING A STEPFAMILY COMMUNITY

Stepping Stones Counseling Center
Workshops - Winter 1998

Stepfamilies are rapidly growing in number but are rarely seen as a cohesive force. Promoting a renewed sense of family, a desire to empower all members within the stepfamily, and a hope to increase the statistics on remarriage is a top priority of Stepping Stones Counseling Center. Articles in newspapers and magazines focusing on our lifestyle will promote the normalization of living in-step and overcome prejudices about stepfamilies. Educating teachers, mental health professionals, the clergy, and politicians will help to have our lifestyle better understood. Training workshops for parents, adolescents, and children will teach understanding within our ranks. Counseling services will build relationship skills, better understanding of differences, and help stepfamily members to map their new territory. We hope you will support our Center's goal of building a STEPFAMILY COMMUNITY.

NEW WORKSHOPS: WOMEN IN-STEP
Stepping Stones Counseling Center staff therapists Nancy O'Brien and Jill Blaney will present four one night workshops for women-in-step. Nancy and Jill specialize in working with women's and children's issues.

Workshop 1: Feb. 4, 1998
Emotional Baggage: How Heavy Is Yours?
Lighten your load by learning how past relationships impact your current family life.

Workshop 2: Feb. 11, 1998
Stepfamily Myths & You!
"Love me, Love my child."; "The step-monsters"; "real families"; "kids can never get over divorce", etc.

Workshop 3: Feb. 18, 1998
Through a child's eye: How do I fit in?
Loss of a parent; living in two homes; new siblings; sharing space; new birth order.
Workshop 4: Feb. 25, 1998
The Other Woman in your stepfamily
Competitive and jealous feelings, financial issues, value differences, communication issues with his current, his former, or your former's woman.

All of our workshops are FREE and meet from 7:30-9 P.M.
Space is limited. Call early to reserve your seat.

*** Making Your Stepfamily Work: A Workshop For Parents***

Our regularly over-subscribed workshop that presents information on adapting to stepfamily life, the child or adolescent in-step, and dealing with common concerns that cause everyone stress (i.e. discipline, loyalty conflicts, former partners, power struggles).
Thursday, Feb. 5, 12, 19, 1998

*** FATHERS' WORKSHOP

Equal time for dads and step-dads! Learn how to do it smarter. Take more control of this part of your stepfamily-life. Feel better when your stress level goes down. Talk to other men about their techniques.
Thursday, Mar. 5, 12, 19, 1998

Call for information or to register for all workshops:
(201) 444-3686
fax: (201) 670-5669

Or e-mail us at steppingstones@worldnet.att.net

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