Family Enrichment Workshop

Target Participants: Families. It is ideal for all members of the family to participate. The youngest member of the family should be able to
express oneself during the affirmation, forgiveness and the family prayer session.
The materials can be provided by the participant family or provided by the organizers.

SCHEDULE AND ACTIVITIES

Topic
1. Our family
9:00
10:30am

Materials Needed
1 cartolina per
to family
Crayons, pentel
pens

2. We are special, Pens and paper

you are special
10:45 12:00

Activity
Family poster the family, preferably with the ideas from the
younger ones will create a poster of the family using symbols
on who, what, where, and when of each member of the family.
Assign a younger member of the family to share about the
family poster

Each member of the family completes the following sentences:

- My family is special because
- My father is special because
- My mother is special because
- My sister is special because ..
- My brother is special because ..
(Write a special sentence for every member of the
family.
Each member will share what was written to the whole family.
If possible, end the sharing of each family with a hug or a kiss.

Mentality
How do you like your
family to be known to
others? How do you relate
with one another as a
family? What are your
usual activities, hobbies,
interests, general
perceptions of each
member of the family and
the family as a whole.
This is an affirmation
activity. Focus on the
positive side of the family
and every member of the
family

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3. Our family
cooperation and
communication
1:00 2:00pm

4.

5.

6.

7.

Play dough for Build the highest tower. Using the play dough and the match
How do you communicate
each family
sticks, the family builds a tower in 10 minutes. The challenge is and cooperate as a family.
Box of matches
how to communicate and work together using non-verbal
communications (verbal communication is not allowed).
The family with the highest tower wins.
Process as a group on their thoughts and feelings during the
exercise
I am sorry .
Pens and paper
Each member of the family completes the following sentences: This is a family healing
2:00-3:30pm
- Family, I am sorry because
and reconciliation activity.
- Father, I am sorry because
- Mother, I am sorry because
- Sister, I am sorry because ..
- Brother, I am sorry because ..
(Write a I am sorry sentence for every member of the
family.
Each member will share what was written to the whole family.
If possible, end the sharing of each family with a hug or a kiss,
and say I love you. I forgive you.
I see Jesus in Candles
Each member of the family openly says his/her prayer at the The family that prays
you, I see Jesus
center of a circle (Thanksgiving and supplication) . Each together stays together
in our family
member would then say a short prayer and wishes for the
3:45 4:30
member at the center
Our family
1 cartolina per
The family creates a shield or coat of arms which shows the
Our family into the future
shield
family
new family identity, family values, the new traditions, the
4:30 5:30pm
Crayons, pentel
vision/mission as a family.
pens
Open sharing per family
It is ideal to end the Family Enrichment Workshop with a Mass with families offering their output (family identification and shield,
during the mass

Please contact Roy and Malee San Buenaventura, for any questions, comments, suggestions regarding this Family
Enrichment Workshop. Email: sanbuenaventura.roy@gmail.com, Mobile: 0918-9302060

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FAMILY ENRICHMENT WORKSHOP SAMPLE SCRIPT

I.

OUR FAMILY

Welcome to the Family Enrichment Workshop. Our program will run for around 6 hours, (and we will have a Mass at the end of the day).
We have six activities which will take from 30mins. to 1 & 1/2 hours to do. We will not have too many talks, but a lot of things to do to
help us discover our life lessons. We are the facilitators, and we have our Family Sharers who will introduce themselves later. There will
be snack breaks and a lunch break. This will be very light, and we hope that you will have fun and discover the joy of being a true family.

Importance of families.
We build the future of our world in our families.
Families are the foundation of our community, our country, our civilization.
For an adult man and woman, family contributes to our sense of who we are.
Our family is a place where we will always find acceptance and security.
Our family gives us support, a sense of being whole, a place where we belong.
One of our greatest fears is to lose any one member of the family.
If our family is vey important to us,
It is very important that every family opens itself to THE TRUE SENSE OF BEING A FAMILY. This is the reason for our
workshop.
Oftentimes we take for granted that we are there for one another, but are we really?
As a family what are we really like? How do we spend our time, apart and together? How do we regard one another?
As parents and children, what do we want our family to be?
What can we do to have a truer sense of being a family?
But before we go there, we will first introduce our families. We will do this through a Family Identification Poster. The GARCIA family will
show us how to do it. After they introduce themselves, we will give you time to make your own Family ID Poster and we will introduce
one another.

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II. WE ARE SPECIAL, YOU ARE SPECIAL

Thank you for honestly and sincerely revealing to us your family characteristics. We hope you had fun doing the family poster together.
There are many ways that we are proud of being part of our family. Perhaps it is because of the way we inspire and encourage one
another; perhaps it is the way we care for and support one another in times of trials and help one another when we encounter problems.
It is very important that we have a sense of why our family is special to us, and how each member becomes special to each member. No
two family member are alike. Each of us has uniquely good qualities that make us special to one another.
The PANGILINAN family will share with us and show us how their family and each member of their family are special.
After the sharing: Thank you Pangilinan family. Now we will give you pieces of paper to write your own thoughts and feelings on How
Special to you are your families and every member of your family is.

What we have just done is to give each member of the family his/ her Emotional Supplies which are the 5As. These are:
ACCEPTANCE, AFFECTION, AFFIRMATION, ADMIRATION & APPRECIATION, ATTENTION. Every member of the family needs the
five As to see them through the tough times.
III. OUR FAMILY COOPERATION AND COMMUNICATION
Our next activity is a race to build the strongest and tallest tower. Every will be given a piece of play dough and matchsticks to build their
tower.
We will try to see whether we can build a tower when we do not open our mouth and communicate with each other only through gestures
and signs.
IV. FORGIVING EACH OTHER
There are times when we are not happy about our relationship in the family because things might have gone wrong. Maybe somebody
was not so loving or did something that hurt another member of the family.
There are many ways familymembers hurt one another and these are called BLOCKS to a LOVING FAMILY.
CRITICISM
HOSTILITY
DISRESPECT
TRYING TO BE THE BOSS
SUSPICION
FIGHTING
INDIFFERENCE
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SELFISHNESS
When these happen, what do we do? We become sad and angry because we feel a sense of unfairness. Most of us demand that
FAIRNESS be served. However, when somebody hurts another member of the family, this person feels just as hurt and needs to be
restored to the loving embrace fo the family. We need to reach out to the one who was hurt and to the one who has hurt.
We do this by FORGIVING ONE ANOTHER. We will have the RAMOS family share with us their love letter on how they forgive one
another in times when someone has doen something to hurt the family.
After the sharing.
Thank you RAMOS Family. Now each family will write each other a Forgive Me letter, and share this to the family afterwards.
After the Family Sharing: When we ask forgiveness and forgive one another, we feel a stronger bond to one another. Thus we feel that
we have made friends anew with each member of the family. We will learn this song to remind us that as family, we are each others best
friend and we can always count on each other.
Youre My Best Friend Song
V. I SEE JESUS IN YOU, I SEE JESUS IN OUR FAMILY
We will now thank one another and pray for one another at this point. Now that we have seen how special and how much we love one
another, we will pray to God for ourselves and for our family members.
We will give you time to gather around and pray as a family.
The PUYAT Family will share with us their family prayer.

VI. OUR FAMILY SHIELD/ CREST

In olden times noble families had a Family Crest that they displayed in their homes.
The family crest is the symbol of our family, our best qualities, what we stand for.
The GARCIA Family will share with us their Family Shield.

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WORKSHEETS (To be distributed to each member of the family)

WE ARE SPECIAL, YOU ARE SPECIAL

My family is special because

My father is special because

My mother is special because

My sister is special because

My brother is special because

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I AM SORRY, PLEASE FORGIVE ME

Family, I am sorry because

Father , I am sorry because

Mother, I am sorry because

Sister, I am sorry because

Brother, I am sorry because

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MY WISHES , MY PRAYERS
Family, my wishes and prayers
for us are
Father , my wishes and prayers
for you are
Mother, my wishes and prayers
for you are
Sister, my wishes and prayers
for you are
Brother, my wishes and prayers
for you are

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