Identity and Relationships in the Family Context (IRF)
For whom:
- Open for homemakers – men and women from all walks of life
Objectives:
- To gain deeper awareness and understanding of self and one’s relatedness with others in a family context
- To examine and accept underlying beliefs of one’s identity as a homemaker and how these influence the well-being of self and others
- To understand how tensions between traditional role descriptions, and how one wishes to be, impact one’s sense of fulfilment
- To experiment with new behaviours / expression of one’s contribution as a homemaker to the family context
How does this happen:
- Learning is facilitated by encounters within the group
- Facilitator creating safe conditions to promote self disclosure, dignity and mutual respect
- Working with the ‘here and now’ data, individual and group patterns as they emerge
- Facilitator supports the participant in exploring and defining new ways to integrate expectations from oneself and others
Expectations from the participant:
- A willingness / readiness to inquire, question, explore and act
- Willingness to share feelings, thoughts and experiences
- Listening without making quick judgments
- A willingness to challenge one’s own and others views and actions
Some possible take aways for participants:
- Understand one’s existing notions and discover new meanings of Home, Homemaker, contributions of various members in creating the Family Context
- For women – understand how to integrate expressions, aspirations and assertion with traditional expectations of being a care-giver, supporter and nurturer
- For men – understand how to integrate sensitivity, vulnerability and caring along with traditional expectations of being the strong, powerful provider and protector
- A recalibration of roles, space and expectations. A sense of aliveness, anticipation and owning up of resources necessary for dialogue