Attendance required each day and a certificate is awarded by email upon completion, once verified, within two business days.

Registration includes the digital version of the 8-session Mother-Daughter Circle Heart of the Matter activity guide. Attendees will receive a coupon at the training for 15% off curricula, valid for 30 days beginning Day 2.

About the Mother-Daughter Circle Training

Learn to Facilitate Powerful Circles with Mothers and Daughters ages 11-18.
This training prepares facilitators to offer a Mother-Daughter Circle program for mothers or female caregivers and girls 11-18 in their communities, utilizing the curriculum Heart of the Matter. The purpose of the training is to prepare facilitators intellectually, emotionally, experientially, and logistically to provide a quality prevention or intervention family services program to strengthen bonds between girls/young women and their mothers or female caregivers.

The workshop follows the 8-Week curriculum which integrates the Girls Circle^® model and best practice parenting approaches. Participants will practice portions of the curriculum to understand the tasks and develop the fundamental skills needed to help mothers and female caregivers promote empathy and a positive female identity, develop healthy coping strategies for stressful times, utilize quality communication skills, and demonstrate effective parental limit setting. Participants prepare to utilize demonstrations and role plays, trust activities, discussions, reflective listening, affirmations, I-messages, open ended questions, and application of the 5 S.T.E.P.S.^™ for navigating the relationship through stressful interactions. The workshop incorporates a variety of learning methods including large group presentations and discussions, small group activities, trainer demonstrations, role play, and small group skills practice.

Credits Offered:

• Program approved by the National Assoc. of Social Workers, Prov. No. 886445495, Approval No. 886445495-1685: 7 Hrs.
• One Circle Foundation is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists to sponsor continuing education for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs and/or LEPs, Approved Provider #132313: 7 CE's

One Circle Foundation maintains responsibility for this program/course & its content.

Learning Objectives & Schedule:

Participants will be able to:

• Describe the primary purpose of the Mother-Daughter: Heart of the Matter Circle program
• Define the strengths-based approach as it applies to working with youth and families
• List two benefits that intergenerational storytelling can provide to the mother-daughter relationship
• Identify two communication tools that mothers can utilize to improve relationships with their daughters and how a facilitator can promote the use of them in a circle program
• Identify one communication tool that daughters can utilize to improve relationships with their mothers
• Name the 5 S.T.E.P.S.^™ to promote trust and clear expectations
• Explain the purpose of utilizing a “LifeMap” activity with mother-daughter dyads
• Describe two best practices that demonstrate cultural competence in working with diverse families

DAY 1

8:00am | Welcome, Introductions and Overview, Purpose of the Mother-Daughter Circle, Agenda

8:30am | Online Platform, Orientation, and Logistics

8:45am | Community Agreements, Role-Modeling How to Provide a Safe Space for Mothers and Daughters When Doing Groups

9:00am | Icebreaker, Discuss Different Family Topics and Positive and Challenging Aspects of Mother-Daughter Relationships

9:15am | Building Safety in the Circles, Review of Girls Circle^® Strengths-Based Approach, Theoretical Foundation, Review and Increase Understanding of Trauma Through ACES

9:35am | break

9:45am | Intergenerational Challenges, Barriers and Bonds, Mother-Daughter Circle Storytelling Activity, Identify Common Experiences

11:00am | Patterns of Communication and Healthy Communication Skills and Tools

11:25am | break

11:35am | Coaching Mother-Daughter Dyads in Role-Plays, Applying Tools

12:25pm | Summary and Closing

DAY 2

8:00am | Opening, Review of Day 1, Agenda

8:30am | Communication Under Stress, Conflict Skills, Breakout Group to Practice Tools and Techniques to Replace Unhealthy Patterns of Communication

9:15am | Promoting Trust, Small Group Experiential Activity, Participant Trust Practice

9:30am | break

9:40am | Meeting Expectations and Needs, the Five S.T.E.P.S.^™, Practice of the Five S.T.E.P.S.^™ Using Two Identified Family Conflict Scenarios

10:45am | Energizer, Utilizing an Energizer to Engage Mothers and Daughters

10:55am | Life Maps

11:25am | break

11:35am | Sessions 7 & 8 Review to Create a Future Forecast of Successful Healthy Mother-Daughter Relationships, Appreciation Ceremony

11:40am | Implementation Planning

11:45am | Debrief, Application Question and Culmination Activity

12:00pm | Evaluations & Certificates, Closing

Resources & Information:

• Course Outline (PDF)
• Instructors
• Full training policies, accreditation, cancellations, and disability accommodations
• For addressing grievances, please write to info@onecirclefoundation.org.