MODERN PARENTING:
New Approaches to Today's Young
Sunday, 8th March 2009
(9.30am - 5.00pm)
Fawkner Park Community Centre
65 Toorak Road West
South Yarra, Victoria
Leader: Ken Mellor
The world of today puts very different demands on parents from those of previous generations. We encourage our children to become articulate, self-starting, creative, assertive and self-possessed. Parents usually applaud these qualities with good reason.
At the same time, these very qualities can create significant risks for the young, because of adult reluctance to offer guidance and council, a reluctance that is partly based on new parenting patterns and partly because parents are often ignorant of or unfamiliar with the wide range of opportunities and dangers facing their children. And parents hold back lest they make mistakes.
During the workshop, lots of discussion will focus on what sort of adults the participants want their children to become. Using this as the starting point, time will then be spent on creating a simple map – a parent map – to help parents and other caretakers to navigate their way towards desired outcomes. Creating this map is very straightforward and, once they have one, parents feel wonderful relief from the guidance it offers.
 The workshop will also address some fundamental shifts parents and adults need to make as they cater to and cater for the modern generations of children and teens. Children and young people go through predictable changes and knowing what these are can help parents enormously.
Questions covered will include:
+ Is there value in interfering?
+ What can be learnt from contributing to the family?
+ Do expectations and limits stunt or contribute to aliveness?
+ Who calls the shots at your place?
+ Would you break your heart for your children’s sakes?
Fees:
+ Students Pensioners Unwages: A$100.00
+ Early Bird (pre 8th February): A$135.00
+ Regular: A$150.00
+ Scholarhips: are available for this workshop, including one to cover the full fee. |
RELATIONSHIPS:
A Workshop for 18 to 30 Year-Olds
Sunday, 12th July 2009
(9.30am - 5.00pm)
Fawkner Park Community Centre
65 Toorak Road West
South Yarra, Victoria
Leader: Ken Mellor
Being in relationships is part of the human condition. From the moment of our conception, we are connected to someone else, and throughout our lives we have multiple relationships. Some are distant, some intense, some complex, some satisfying, some upsetting, some predictable and some are at times very confusing.
Perhaps, then, it is hardly surprising that learning to manage the many different demands and styles of the connections we have with others is a life-time project. Fortunately, however, taking advantage of other people’s learning can speed up the process enormously.
Come to this workshop and find out. It is for those who would like to know more, and those who want some “handy hints” about the relationship “jungle” out there.
Areas that may be covered include:
+ intimate relationships: connecting through intensity
+ breaking up: how to manage so everyone comes out ok
+ just being friends with the opposite sex: Is it possible?
+ living together: making the shift to sharing with another
+ managing demands of work and an intimate partner
+ sex and intimacy: are they the same or different?
+ arguing constructively
+ and more.
Fees:
+ Students Pensioners Unwages: A$100.00
+ Early Bird (pre 12th June): A$135.00
+ Regular: A$150.00
+ Scholarhips: are available for this workshop, including one to cover the full fee. |
ACHIEVING INNER STILLNESS AND CLARITY USING MEDITATION
Sunday, 25th October 2009
(9.30 am - 5.00 pm)
Fawkner Park Community Centre
65 Toorak Road West
South Yarra, Victoria
Leader: Ken Mellor
One of the keys to a happy satisfying life is to be tranquil within – to experience inner stillness and clarity. It doesn’t matter what we own, how much we earn, or how much people love us. If we are not peaceful on the inside, then we will not fully experience the benefits of anything “material”.
However, many of us are at a loss to know how to achieve this. We try to organise our external lives in an attempt to create the inner state we want, but often find that our efforts have only been partially successful. It is probably only then that many of us realise that we need to look within and to make changes there if we are truly to experience our lives as we want them to be.
Meditation is the key to achieving inner stillness and clarity. Meditation is simple and easy to learn. With practice, meditation can help us live “in the eye of the storm” where everything remains calm, stable, quiet and clear. As a seeming miracle, in this “eye”, we become tranquil and at peace, and we learn to deal more effectively with the demands of our daily lives as well.
This workshop will help you to promote this state of inner clarity and calm, no matter what stage they have already reached with meditation.
There will be plenty of time for questions and for practising a variety of meditations.
Fees
+ Students Pensioners Unwages: A$100.00
+ Early Bird (pre 25th September): A$135.00
+ Regular: A$150.00
+ Scholarhips: are available for this workshop, including one to cover the full fee. |
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