The 7 Habits of Successful Families workshop is an engaging, family-strengthening program based on Stephen R. Covey's bestsellers The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People and The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Families. Workshop participants are introduced to principles that enable family members to communicate their challenges and overcome them successfully together.
Workshop participants learn to:
- Take Initiative
- React less, take responsibility for their actions, and make better choices based on their values.
- Set family standards together
- Create a family motto or mission statement that gives the family direction
- Identify their family priorities
- Honor the commitments they have made to their family members
- Think in terms of mutual benefit
- Think interdependently and develop Win-Win Agreements
- Seek first to listen with the intent to understand the thoughts and feelings of others
- Then, seek to effectively communicate their thoughts and feelings.
- Appreciate and celebrate the differences in family members
- Creatively cooperate with each other
- Build traditions that nurture the family physically, socially, mentally, and spiritually
About the workshop:
The 7 Habits of Successful Families workshop series consists of 12-14 hours of curriculum that can be taught in a two-day, facilitator-led workshop or in two-hour modules over a one- to two-month period. Certification is available for educators and parents wanting to implement this program in their school or church.