Session One: Being Our Best…Focuses on gaining an overview of the qualities we can cultivate to move through our life journeys in the most authentic manner possible.

Session Two: Stories We Carry With Us… This is an opportunity to gain a greater understanding of personal control and responsibility – to explore how our stories influence how we judge the behaviours both of ourselves and others.

Session Three: The Effective Woman… This session looks at who is in control of our lives - personal control encompasses understanding ourselves, being willing to act responsibly and assertively, dealing effectively and sensitively with others, and planning and controlling our own lives.

Session Four: Speaking Our Truth… In this session we will look at how we put ourselves out into the world – the goal is clear, honest, authentic communication.

Session Five: Confronting Effectively… Confrontation is not the problem – how we confront can be. This session looks at how we can ask for what we want and need – let others know what is working for us and what isn’t – in an assertive, non-aggressive manner.

Session Six: Handling Anxiety… The purpose of this session is to gain an understanding of the nature of anxiety and how it can block assertive action.

Session Seven: Resolving Conflicts… This session allows us to gain a greater understand of the nature of conflict – what works and what doesn’t in resolving a problem.

Session Eight: The Nature of Values… Understanding the nature of values and the role they play in conflicts.

Session Nine: Pulling it all together… This session is meant as a review of where we are and where we have come from.

Note: These sessions can also be arranged as individual workshops or as a 3-hour overview session of the entire program.

This program is taught exclusively by Catherine Pelly, C.C.F.E.

Cathie is a Certified Canadian Family Educator and an authorized Effectiveness Training™ Facilitator. Some of Cathie’s diverse roles to date have included being a sister to 11 siblings, mother to three adult children, wife, business administrator, realtor and family educator. Cathie understands the challenges women face in maneuvering through their life journey while still building strong, supportive relationships which include honest, open communication. She brings her knowledge, support and encouragement as a means of supporting all women so that they move through their roles with awareness and knowledge.

Cathie Pelly, (403) 252-6513, cpelly@telus.net

www.professionalparenting.ca