The Family Centre in association with the Mayo Education Centre is happy to present a workshop, exploring the interactions between adolescents and adults both in the family and in school. This workshop will be of particular interest to parents and to teachers. It helps adults to understand the inherent conflict in the interactions. It suggests useful and practical tips for managing the interactions through awareness. The workshop makes use of the facilitator’s experience of 27 years working with adolescents and their families in a variety of settings including schools, addiction centres, and eating disorders units as well as in private counselling practice.
Thursday 11th Nov. 2004
Venue: Mayo Education Centre
Time: 6.00 – 7.30 Teachers
8.00 – 9.30 Parents
Presenter: Gerry Farrell is a counsellor with the Probation and Welfare services’ treatment centre at Harristown House Castlerea. He is a tutor at Trinity College Dublin on the Diploma in Counselling course and lectures on an occasional/part-time basis at the Institute of Technology Sligo in Applied Social Care on the Social Studies course. A qualified psychiatric nurse, a qualified counsellor and a graduate of TCD he has over twenty-seven years clinical, counselling and lecturing experience. He is currently involved in facilitation of teachers’ groups nation-wide for the delivery of the new SPHE programme in second level schools.
Bookings for this workshop can be made by contacting the Family Centre at 094 9025900 or the Mayo Education Centre at 094 9020700.
