Adolescent Family and Personal Relations

Adolescent Family and Personal Relations

New approaches to education in the area of family and personal relationships of adolescents based on PCA and their benefits (Person Centered Approach) (A man-centred approach) Description and content of workshops PCA for family and personal relationships of adolescents (for young people of age). 15–24 (years)

PCA skills

(Person Centered Approach)

PCA describes four relationship skills that can be developed in both family and personal relationships.

Why go through this education?

• Because the basis of our lives is human relations and mutual understanding in families
• because the quality of relationships affects the social and family interactions of each individual
• Because good relationships with the closest ones, especially family and friends, are the basis for personal satisfaction and achievement of life's goals and values for us all

In education, learn about communication skills and people-to-people relationships and develop them and practice them in practical situations.

“Respect one another and live together despite our differences.” (Guy Laliberté)

What will PCA bring you?

• KNOWLEDGE of the four relationship skills of PCA and their application in family and personal situations.
• CONNECTION in relations with your immediate family and friends. You don't have to change them to understand them better. Thanks to your open approach, they will also understand you better. Your approach to them will be more open and honest, and they will certainly notice a change for the better.
• DELEGATION and division of responsibilities and tasks within the family are manifested by the use of acquired skills PCA in day-to-day activities, e.g. understanding mutual requirements, objective assessment of tasks and results, increasing personal responsibility, etc.

You will learn the four skills of PCA and you will try to apply them in model interviews.

You can practice the acquired skills in family, parenting and friendly conversations.

PCA education is also appropriate if you want to develop communication and test relationship skills in everyday situations.

Practical training is based on topics close to young people and their family relationship.

Interpretation and training will give you the opportunity to test acquired skills in normal situations.

Each decision will be your own. Accepting a different or contradictory view while maintaining your own integrity and opinions will become a natural part of normal communication for you.

You will learn that you need not merely give direction to others, but you can also help them to find the right decisions that they themselves will make and will gladly fulfill. In addition, you will discover ways to motivate them positively to higher performance.

What do you need to be aware of in relationships?

Our family life is realized through relationships with the closest ones.

Relationships arise between unique beings.

Everyone needs to have good relationships.

Why Are Relationship Problems?

Every man is a unique, sovereign being

• ... which we will not change unless it decides to change itself.
• ... who wants well above all for himself, his values and goals.
• ...that can get rid of responsibility if we allow it.

What's a relationship?

• It's a person's decision to have a relationship with another person.
• It is the responsibility of the person who has taken the decision for each of his relationships.
• It is a two-person agreement on the rules of the relationship agreed and respected by both parties.

Communication skills also play a role in creating and maintaining good relations.

However, these abilities are gradually lost to culture and the social environment.

The definition of skills helps to understand their role in communication and how to develop them.

PCA describes four skills applied also in the area of family and personal relationships:

• Honesty, openness, authenticity, consensus
• Listening - empathetic, active, understanding
• Acceptance of a positive acceptance - conditional acceptance
• Empathy aid in personal growth

The aim of education is to acquire practical knowledge in the use of skills, especially in the area of creating effective family and personal relationships, as our lives are realized through relationships.

Learning participants will acquire skills in the following basic relationship activities and processes:

• How to communicate painlessly with others regardless of their level of skills
• How to manage interactions successfully and satisfactorily for all involved
• How to identify behaviour that is inefficient and replace it with behaviour that is effective
• How to exchange blame for responsibility
• How to interpret nonverbal communication performances correctly
• How to effectively delegate tasks and requirements (administrative content, means of verification and understanding)
• How to motivate family members and friends to achieve common goals and values
• How to meet the demands of others and align them with their own values and objectives.
• How to correctly and objectively evaluate the results of their family members.
• How to conduct a personal evaluation interview with family members and educators.

Good personal relationships are a prerequisite for achieving the desired values and goals, thus making a significant contribution to personal satisfaction.

Methodology for acquiring skills PCA

Training in real family and personal situations provides an opportunity to learn skills and to test them in daily communication.

Acquiring Conscious Imcompetence

familiarity with the skills of PCA , their description, monitoring and recognition of the skills of their family members in mutual conversations

Acquiring Conscious Competence

conscious testing of the use of skills in model interviews, recording and subsequent evaluation

Acquiring unknowing competence

frequent conscious use of skills leads to their natural adoption in relationships

Training is carried out in the form of workshops. Conscious use of skills takes place on specific solutions to family and personal relationships situations.

Training is carried out by the Slovak lecturer

Dr. Peter ŠVEC , PhD., who has been trained by Ernesto Meadows (CAMELOT , La Jolla , California)

More detailed information on the curriculum and the lecturer:

You can see the program Managing relationships at work in the Media section.

Ernest Meadows was a colleague and follower of the Carl Rogers , which individual skills PCA described and created the basics of humanist psychology.

Meadows discovered that PCA releases energy, and modified PCA for family relationships.

The skills he teaches are successfully used in the countries of North America and Europe.

The Slovak lecturer Dr. Peter ŠVEC , PhD. applied the relevant education to the conditions of European culture. Its important added value is the clear interpretation of concepts and the teaching of their application in real family and personal relationships.

PCA Workshop is focused on learning about the skills of PCA and their development and practical training. It takes place in small groups (8–12 persons) within two days.