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Premises: families exist in every age and culture be-cause they (usually) fill a set of adult and child needs better than other types of groups - e.g. the needs for security, ac-ceptance, support, recognition, love, shelter, healthy touch-ing, and companionship. Depending on the health, wisdom, and priorities of their leader/s and relatives, some families are more effective at filling their members' needs than others. To nurture means to fill the needs of some living thing. So depending on how often all members' needs are well-filled, any family can be judged as being somewhere be-tween "very low nurturance" and "very high nurturance." In this nonprofit stress-prevention Web site, this is called the family's nurturance level. Children raised in low-nurturance homes and families seem to develop up to six personality wounds which can significantly affect their lives until the wounds are acknowledged and reduced. Family Project 1 offers an effective framework for doing that over time. more detail / slides / related info / guidebook / close |
What is a Family