Skills for Life: The Power of Family Meetings Revealed: Interview with Alyson Schafer (Podcast Episode 8)

Family Meeting: a multi-modal tool packed with lifeskills. Alyson Schafer shares valuable wisdom and strategies about Family Meetings–the terrific way to give every child a platform to be able to solve their problems. 

This form of family meeting answers these questions:

  • How do we give voice to everyone in the family?
  • How do parents demonstrate leadership so everyone can hear each other and work harmoniously together?
  • If we want to move away from the hierarchy model, what replaces it? 

They key stance for this form of leadership:

  • We’re all working towards this shared goal. 
  • We all bring our insights and wisdom.
  • Mutual respect and social equality are our baseline.
  • Everyone has value. In this form of relationship, we solve problems instead of discipline people.

Leave energized and inspired to have a family meeting!

Host: 

Marjie Longshore, Executive Director of Family Leadership Center, co-host of the CircleUP Podcast

Guest:

Alyson Schafer,  a 3rd generation Adlerian and has earned the status of diplomate in Adlerian Psychology.  She is a family counsellor and parenting expert and teaches and speaks internationally.  At home in Canada, she is a media regular, hosts her own TV show as well as her podcast “Parenting The Adlerian Way”. Alyson has 3 parenting books with HarperCollins Canada:  Breaking the Good Mom Myth; Honey I Wrecked the Kids; and Ain’t Misbehavin’. 

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