MWI offers customized on-site Family Communication Workshops to groups of families wanting to improve their communication and conflict resolution skills.

MWI’s Family Communication Workshop facilitators (Josh Hoch and Yvette Thomas) work with family members in role-playing exercises, small group discussions, and exercises highlighting different ways to constructively handle conflict and communicate more effectively between family members.

Would your families benefit from a Family Communication Workshop?

If so, have a staff member contact MWI’s Director of Mediation Services, Josh Hoch, to discuss having MWI come to your site to facilitate a workshop. Family Services Organizations will be asked to provide at least 6 families for MWI to run a workshop. Please contact Josh to discuss available dates and times as well as for helpful marketing tools and strategies. For each Family Communication Workshop, MWI provides: two facilitators, marketing assistance and all training materials.

MWI has conducted Family Communication Workshops for:

• Bay State Community Services
• Children Services of Roxbury
• Germaine Lawrence
• Project Connect
• South Shore Mental Health Center

Here are some comments from past participants who attended the program:

What parts of the training did you enjoy most?

• “Talking to my mom” - Teenager
• “Interacting with my daughter” – Joan, mother
• “Hearing from other families” - Father
• “Role plays – parents were teens, teens were parents” – Michelle, teenager
• “When I became the adult” – Teenager
• “Being my mom” – Teenager
• “Being a teenager” – Mother

Additional comments from participants:

• The trainers were “excellent, connected to the audience” – Mother
• “It’s nice to know that other families have similar conflicts and at the workshop we learned skills to make things better at home.” – Single Mother
• “Josh was a great speaker – got the audience’s attention and engaged” – Mother
• “Excellent… this is an icebreaker for teens and their families to openly communicate” – Kay, mother
   

Please contact Josh Hoch, Director of Mediation Services at 800-348-4888 x23 or jhoch@mwi.org for more information.

Mediation Works Incorporated
4 Faneuil Hall - Fourth Floor
Boston, MA 02109

Phone:   617-973-9739 x23 / 800-348-4888
Fax:       617-973-9532
E-mail:   jhoch@mwi.org 
Web:     www.mwi.org