Siblings Workshop: Emotions, Family & Disability
Posted: Wed Dec 18, 2024 8:36 am
From December 28 to December 31, at the Adecco Foundation, we are holding the Siblings Workshop. This workshop has brought together siblings under 18 years of age of beneficiaries of the Plan Familia program . The workshop has created, first of all, a space of trust where these adolescents feel comfortable and free when it comes to showing their feelings and emotions.
The siblings' workshop aims to provide tools for managing the malta phone number data emotions they have derived from their daily coexistence and relationship with a disabled sibling. In addition, it is very beneficial for these young people to have the opportunity to share and express emotions in a context other than the family, since they often do not have the opportunity to do so at home.
The structure of the workshops consists of two parts: the first presents the topic to be worked on and the second involves experiencing what was discussed in the first part by acquiring facilitating tools that young people can then use in their daily lives.
The three main themes of the workshop are: we receive and transmit information through the five senses and we must learn to interpret it and complement it with all of them; naming emotions is essential to get to know ourselves and thus transmit our needs and impressions; and lastly, empathy helps us connect with others.
Through a game with Lego blocks, participants have recreated scenes from their daily lives that connect directly with their feelings and emotions. LEGO is an external tool that, like many others, helps us to express our emotions and feelings about a specific situation.
On the second day, all siblings will be able to enjoy a psychomotor workshop that will improve their body expression and, in turn, their interaction with their siblings, so that the transmission of information, feelings and emotions is adjusted to the message they want to convey.
Afterwards, an empathy workshop will be held through art therapy, specifically through music. Often, the greatest burden of attention within the family falls on the disabled sibling. In this workshop, they will have the opportunity to understand their relative and behave in accordance with the responsibility that their emotions and feelings have. There are no good or bad emotions, but rather they must be learned to manage them and adapt them to the context in which they occur.
Finally, on the last day, the workshop participants will come together with their siblings with disabilities to share everything they have learned and put it into practice in a joint cooking workshop.
This is another initiative of the Plan Familia school, a knowledge centre that takes a holistic view of disability in the whole family context. That is why this workshop is preceded by the School for Parents or the School for Grandparents of the Plan
The siblings' workshop aims to provide tools for managing the malta phone number data emotions they have derived from their daily coexistence and relationship with a disabled sibling. In addition, it is very beneficial for these young people to have the opportunity to share and express emotions in a context other than the family, since they often do not have the opportunity to do so at home.
The structure of the workshops consists of two parts: the first presents the topic to be worked on and the second involves experiencing what was discussed in the first part by acquiring facilitating tools that young people can then use in their daily lives.
The three main themes of the workshop are: we receive and transmit information through the five senses and we must learn to interpret it and complement it with all of them; naming emotions is essential to get to know ourselves and thus transmit our needs and impressions; and lastly, empathy helps us connect with others.
Through a game with Lego blocks, participants have recreated scenes from their daily lives that connect directly with their feelings and emotions. LEGO is an external tool that, like many others, helps us to express our emotions and feelings about a specific situation.
On the second day, all siblings will be able to enjoy a psychomotor workshop that will improve their body expression and, in turn, their interaction with their siblings, so that the transmission of information, feelings and emotions is adjusted to the message they want to convey.
Afterwards, an empathy workshop will be held through art therapy, specifically through music. Often, the greatest burden of attention within the family falls on the disabled sibling. In this workshop, they will have the opportunity to understand their relative and behave in accordance with the responsibility that their emotions and feelings have. There are no good or bad emotions, but rather they must be learned to manage them and adapt them to the context in which they occur.
Finally, on the last day, the workshop participants will come together with their siblings with disabilities to share everything they have learned and put it into practice in a joint cooking workshop.
This is another initiative of the Plan Familia school, a knowledge centre that takes a holistic view of disability in the whole family context. That is why this workshop is preceded by the School for Parents or the School for Grandparents of the Plan