HarmóniumAt the School of Good Relationships

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Good family and personal relationships

A detailed description of the vocational background and the methodology of the training.

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Who is the program for?

All generations

The training is suitable for participants of any age.

For people who care about relationships at home, including partners, parents and adult children. For those who know something is not working and do not want to wait for it to get worse.

You do not need to have a problem to attend. Many participants come as a preventive step because their relationships are good and they want them to stay that way.

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Young people 15–24 years

The version for young people aged 15 to 24 applies the same skills to their circumstances, including talking with parents, friendships, first independent decisions and responsibility. Please mention this age group when enquiring.

Content and methodology of the training

Good family and personal relationships.

New approaches in education in the area of family and personal relations based on PCA and their benefits. (Person Centered Approach) (For man-centred approach) Description and content of PCA workshops in the field of new approaches in education in the field of family and personal relations

PCA skills

(Person Centered Approach)

PCA describes four relationship skills that can be developed in education and applied in human communication.

Why go through this education?

  • Because the basis of our lives is human relations and mutual understanding
  • because the quality of relationships affects the working, 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.

What will PCA bring you?

  • KNOWLEDGE of the four skills of PCA, their role in relations and the possibility of their application in practice.
  • 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 acquired skills in partner, parent, family and friendly conversations.

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

Training PCA is also appropriate if you want to develop communication and test relationship skills in practice.

Practical training is based on everyday relationship situations.

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 whole life (private and professional) is realized through relationships with other people.

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.

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 an agreement between two persons on the rules of the relationship agreed and mutually agreed 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 friends.

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

Methodology and sequence of skills acquisition PCA

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

Methodological training procedures:

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 personal relationship situations.

Training is carried out by the Slovak lecturer

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

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 the field of work in state institutions, companies and families.

The skills he teaches are used successfully in institutions, firms and families in 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 comprehensible interpretation of concepts and the teaching of their direct application in real personal relationships.

The opening workshop is aimed at getting acquainted with the content and benefits of this training. It takes place in small groups (10–20 persons) in the range of approximately 3 hours. The price of the opening workshop is 200 €. We will confirm the deadline and availability for demand. The workshop contributes to popularization and awareness-raising in the field of this education.

The programme is an educational workshop. It does not replace psychotherapy, diagnostics, or health care.

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