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Why an “In Between” series?
I would like to introduce my upcoming workshops focused on preteen and teen girls and explain my motivation for designing this series. My name is Stephanie Lowe-Sagebiel, LCSW and I have 17 years of social work experience within the Indianapolis community. Nearly half of those years have been spent in direct clinical practice. I have never felt more passionate and concerned about what it means to be a young girl in our community than I feel now. Girls today have to navigate their natural physical, emotional and social development all while managing an array of social media, technology and intense academic and sports expectations. These phenomena have left them little time or ability to fully process and problem solve some of life’s most challenging issues.
In her book, Adolescent Girls in Crisis, Martha B. Straus states that “preteen and teen girls today are feeling unsafe, unknown and unloved. Their experience isn’t like anything we can imagine from our own teen years; the risks are far greater than ever before.” Her words validate the experiences I have witnessed in the growing number of preteen and teenage girls I have seen in my practice over the past several years.
It is my hope that this new workshop series will give girls the space to develop new skills, and the time to gain a better understanding of the current adolescent landscape. I look forward to offering this “In Between” experience in a fun, creative, and safe environment. Please view the brochure below and share with anyone you feel my benefit from this summer series. Also, feel free to contact me with any questions you may have via email, SLoweSagebiel@CenterPointCounseling.org or phone, 317-252-5518 ext 2.
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In Between-Summer Workshop Series
In Between- brochure and registration form
A workshop series for girls, women and parents of girls
between the ages of eight and eighteen!
Sundays at Second Presbyterian Church
10:30 – Noon
June 10, 2012- Healthy Relationships for Pre-Teen Girls
June 24, 2012- Express Yourself for Girls and Women
July 15, 2012- Deepening Father-Daughter Relationships
July 22, 2012- Deepening Mother-Daughter Relationships
July 29, 2012- Healthy Relationships for Teen Girls
August 12, 2012- Girls Through the Ages
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Put Some Spring in Your Relationship!
by Sandy Berry
Thank goodness, Spring is here. The air is fresh, we are able to go outside and play, and the sun actually exists! It is a time of renewal. So copy Spring and renew the energy in your love relationship!
One way to increase the energy in your relationship is to do something fun together. Usually each person has their own idea of fun (which doesn’t always match their partner’s idea). Ask your partner to do your fun this week, and then you will do their fun next week. Take the time to have fun, play and laugh together. And like Spring, it will brighten your relationship.
The Platinum Rule of Relationship
by Sandy Berry
Many of us learned how to treat others when we were children practicing the Golden Rule: Do Unto Others As You Would Have Done Unto You. It is a great standard. Here is another great idea; it is the Platinum Rule that you can add to your standard rules that enhance your relationships.
The Platinum Rule states: Do Unto Others As They Want You To Do Unto Them.
Every person has a unique way to see the world, and we would fair better in relationship if we learn what our partner wants or needs. Would they prefer an act of service, a gift, words of affirmation, time spent together, or physical touch (suggestions from Gary Chapman’s book, The Five Love languages).
Many times we give them what we think they would like or what we ourselves would like and assume they are like us. Becoming observant to what people say they want, and to be curious about them, will help ensure that the loving gesture you desire to give them has the positive impact you intend.
Imago — A New Way to Love
by Sandy Berry
Imago Relationship Therapy is a theory that believes couples choose each other so that each person can grown into their full aliveness – full aliveness is that wonderful feeling you felt in the beginning of your relationship. At some point in relationship, feeling fully alive begins to fade. We find our relationship to be a place of conflict and lost hope. Imago believes that this phase of all love relationships is a normal. Our culture tells us to leave if a relationship gets too difficult. But don’t leave! Imago theory believes that the conflict in your relationship is an indicator that you are with the perfect person to help you grow into your full aliveness permanently. In other words, conflict is a natural part of any relationship and is personal growth trying to happen. It is through your own personal growth that you achieve your full aliveness.
In Imago Therapy, you are taught tools that help you and your partner understand the purpose of relationship. It focuses on the connection between you and our partner, how you interrupt your connection and how to restore your connection. It may be that communication gets distorted or arguments begin around differing beliefs about what to spend money on, how to raise the children, or who does the most work around the house. There are many ways couples disconnect. Imago relationship therapy is a way to understand these differences and how to resolve the conflict.