Date: TBA. Year 2007
(Last Registration-TBA)
Time: 9am - 5pm
Place: TBA
Fee: S$500 (2 tea breaks included)
This was developed to help social workers, counselors, clergy and religious leaders work more effectively with premarital and married couples.
It is designed to assist counselors and couples in focusing objectively on critical relationship issues. The workshop will train you on how to properly use the PREPARE/ ENRICH Programme with couples. You will learn how to administer and interpret the couple inventories and give feedback to couples using the six couple exercises.
Each inventory is intended to assess areas in which relationships need to grow and strengths that will enable them to progress in a positive direction.
The PREPARE/ENRICH Programme
The PREPARE/ENRICH program is scientifically developed based on more than a decade of research by Dr David H Olson and colleagues at the University of Minnesota.
The program is designed to assist Counsellors in working with premarital or married couples.
Clergy and Professional Counsellors attend a day long seminar to learn how to use the program more effectively with couples.
The inventories are comprehensive, diagnostically valuable and designed to generate a meaningful dialogue between the counselor and the couple.
The PREPARE/ENRICH inventories have been scientifically developed to have high levels of reliability, validity and clinical utility.
Six Goals of the Programme
- Explore couple strength & growth areas
- Strengthen couple communication skills
- Learn Ten Steps for Resolving Couple Conflict
- Explore family-of-origin issues
- Develop financial budget & plans
- Develop personal, couple & family goals
Inventories Assess Relationship
Each Inventory is a 165-item Questionnaire assessing relationship strength and growth areas for each category listed:
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Communication
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Conflict Resolution
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Personality Issues
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Marriage Expectations
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Financial Management
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Leisure Activities
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Sexual Relationship
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Children/ Parenting
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Family/ Friends
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Role Partnership
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Spiritual Beliefs
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Couple Closeness
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Family Closeness
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Couple Flexibility
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Family Flexibility
Seminar Objectives
The PREPARE/ENRICH Initial Training Workshop teaches and certifies participants to administer, interpret and counsel using PREPARE, PREPARE-MC and ENRICH. The workshop qualifies participants to start using all four Inventories with couples.
1-Day Accreditation Training Workshop for counsellor & clergy/religious leaders
During the training, participants will receive the following materials:
- Counsellor's Manual
- V2000 Training VCD
- 1 complimentary scoring coupon worth S$30
- Certification of Completion to all accredited PROGRAM/ ENRICH users
Eligibility Criteria:
- Bachelor Degree in Social Work, Counselling, Psychology or related discipline, or
- Minimum one year working experience in family or marriage counselling services
Note:
- Registration is subject to acceptance
- Relevant documents are required to be submitted upon registration
- Registrants with less than one year working experience shall be referred for interview
David Kan is the Executive Director and Co-Founder of Family Life Centre (FLC), a non-profit Voluntary Welfare Organisation (VWO) set up since 1997, providing family life education cum counselling services and marital enrichment programmes to the community-at-large.
David has been overseeing the Community and Programme Development unit of FLC in administering welfare concerns, counselling services, training and networking projects with national authorities for the past seven years.
He is a qualified and licensed practitioner of the widely used psychometric tool, Myers-Briggs Type IndicatorŪ (MBTIŪ), and a certified Master Trainer and Counsellor of PREPARE/ENRICH programme for both premarital and married couples.
As a seminar leader and life skills trainer, he frequently conducts public workshops and various training programmes such as specialized skills training in counselling, self-development and leadership, relationship building and family enrichment and effective parent-child relationship.
David has been a regular guest speaker on NewsRadio 93.8FM talk programmes and at many parenting seminars. He is also the Deputy Registrar/ Licensed Solemnizer with Registry of Marriages Singapore.
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