The laboratory...
We call it FamilyLab - a "laboratory" because this is not a school with set guidelines, techniques or "how-to-do" manuals. It is rather a laboratory where you can discover, rediscover, invent and experiment with your own perspective of family development.
Together we need to find new ways to transform emotional love and commitment into loving behaviour. At FamilyLab we embrace these four key values:
Together we need to find new ways to transform emotional love and commitment into loving behaviour. At FamilyLab we embrace these four key values:
- Equal Dignity
- Authenticity
- Integrity
- Self-Responsibility
The neuroscience...
FamilyLab is based on practical and lived experiences. Then most of the theories are backed by research and neuroscience. Below you will find a 6 series interview:
Howard Gardner's Multiple Intelligences Theory
How does Multiple Intelligence fit in with the values of FamilyLab? Click on the link below to find out:
Contemporary family values
During the past couple of decades things have changed dramatically. There has been a shift in the parents' gender roles and parents can no longer do what their parents did - neither would they want to. What does this mean for modern parents? Click below and find out:
Our vision:
It applies to every family that the presence of love is not enough to guarantee the well-being and personal growth of the family members. We need to learn how to convert our loving feelings into loving behaviour, and this has to be learned from, and with, each other. FamilyLab provides some well tried principles and values that can function within family life. This, however, has to be intertwined with the personal values and goals held by the parents in order to create a warm and meaningful wholeness to all family members.
The FamilyLab vision is twofold and ambitious:
1: Through seminars, workshops, symposiums, websites, books, articles and films for parents as well as professional educators we aim to improve the psycho-social health and wellbeing of today’s and tomorrow’s parents and children – i.e. the rich variety of families concerned with creating healthy relationships without violence and abuse of neither adults nor children and youth.
2: Through public education, dialogue, formulation of values and information about relevant scientific findings we want to influence not only the way men and women think about and construct families but also the values and behavior of professionals within nurseries, kindergartens and schools in order to create optimal environments for mutual social, emotional, creative and academic learning.
The FamilyLab vision is twofold and ambitious:
1: Through seminars, workshops, symposiums, websites, books, articles and films for parents as well as professional educators we aim to improve the psycho-social health and wellbeing of today’s and tomorrow’s parents and children – i.e. the rich variety of families concerned with creating healthy relationships without violence and abuse of neither adults nor children and youth.
2: Through public education, dialogue, formulation of values and information about relevant scientific findings we want to influence not only the way men and women think about and construct families but also the values and behavior of professionals within nurseries, kindergartens and schools in order to create optimal environments for mutual social, emotional, creative and academic learning.
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