UGAT FORMATION PROGRAMS for Family Enrichment

US UT (Unang Sulyap, Unang Tibok)
(formation seminars for teenagers on sexuality, relationships and contemplating on building a family)
It is crucial for every teenager to have a deeper understanding of himself/herself before contemplating on a serious relationship. They need to be equipped with an understanding of love, sex, courtship and marriage to be able to reach mature and Godly decisions about themselves and their relationships.

TUGMAAN ( Tugon sa Magkatipan o May Sumpaan)
(seminar on deciding on marriage)
Marriage is a permanent relationship between a man, a woman and God. This pre-marital counseling is a one-day seminar, which envisions a thorough preparation for this lifetime bonding. It clarifies the values of married life and enriches the idea of commitment and responsibility, to allow participants to discover the possible areas of potential conflict and difficulties. It also gets the couple to discern about the areas that they may not have considered in depth in their relationship.

SUYUAN (Sariwain ang Ugnayang Yumabong Noong Una na Ating Napagkasunduan)
(an enrichment seminar for marries couples)
Suyuan Marriage Enrichment Seminar is a one day seminar conceived in response to the increasing problems brought about by changing norms and modern ideas which tend to undermine and weaken the foundation of Christian Marriage and Family Life.

HAKBANG (Haplos at Kalinga sa Buhay ng Anak at Magulang)
(an enrichment seminar for parents)
This seminar will allow the participants and their children to develop proper communication skills. It facilitates to identify the theories of parenting styles and the negative parenting traits, as long as its effect on children. It opens avenues to create favorable environment for children to grow freely and responsibly.

GROWING UP AS PARENTS
A follow-up to HAKBANG, Growing Up As Parents tackles more sensitive areas of Parenting such as the clash of values across generations, spirituality of parents nd parenting in this technologically advanced age.

TIPANAN NG MAG-ANAK
(Family Enrichment and Dialogue)
This is a family encounter where the participants are given the opportunity to see their family from a distance. Some family games, mapping abd floor planning are used to create a wholesome family atmosphere. Certain skills are taught to promote peace and harmony at home.

DEALING WITH MIDLIFE
A formation seminar for individuals who are in their midage. This seminar tackles individual changes that are to be expected in this life stage and how best to adjust to them. Included are discussions on physical changes, changes in life view, spirituality and needs.

SPOUSING AND PARENTING IN MID-YEARS
A formation seminar for couples and parents in their mid-age. This program tackles the impact of midlife on the marital relationship, a couple's sex life and relationship with children. It is not unusual for couples to be in conflict in this life stage, seek extramarital distractions and clash with their kids commonly in their teens at this time. Tips on how to adjust better in this age are discussed.

GRANDPARENTING
A formation seminar for senior citizens and individuals/couples approaching late adulthood. Special focus on the invaluable contribution of grandparents, especialy in this critical times when most parents are unavailable due to migration , marital difficulties or emotional abandonment.

GROWING OLD GRACEFULLY
A formation seminar for senior citizens who are now dealing with issues of facing death, declining health and loss of mobility. The workshop reinforces the purpose of life and allows older people to reconcile with the decisions that they have made in their lives and prepare what is to be passed to the next generation.

DEALING WITH THE IRRESPONSIBLE SPOUSE
A seminar workshop that aims to assist functional spouses in empowering their partners. The intervention focuses on what to do in the here and now and have a prospective orientation rather than going back to childhood. The systemic sources and reinforcers of irresponsibility are given to make the sposes aware of their contribution. Discussions and workshops on the different kinds of "irresponsible spouses" such as the pull down spouse, manipulative spouses and spouses with low intensity depressions are made and specific interventions for each kinds are taught. May also be conducted as a premarital orientation program.

REINVENTING RELATIONSHIPS: Sleeping with your spouse the stranger
A seminar workshop for couples designed to pinpoint which factors in a marriage are ingredients for success and which are love busters. There is a special emphasis on strategice living together. This means an increased responsiveness to needs that differ through the different developmental stages of couples. Examples include being able to consciously decide which issues are worth fighting over, which sacrifices are really helpful and how to negotiate changes.

COMMITMENT-RECOMMITMENT
A seminar-workshop designed for commitment-phobic singles, couples planning on marriage or marries couples with floundering commitment. There is special emphasis on the hurdles for a good commitment and the resolution of the commitment crisis.

INTERDEPENDENCY: How we live with each others compulsions
This seminar workshop on moving a couple from codepenency to interdependency. This seminar includes workshops on areas in a marriage sensitive to codependency and dealing with control in a marriage.

DEALING WITH LIFE COMPROMISES: Your probable key to Life Happiness
A seminar workshop on evaluating our decisions and the compromises we have made in our life. This contains guided workshops towards not just self-acceptance but self actualization at mid-age.

EXTRAMARITAL FRIENDS
A seminar workshop on how to make friends a resource in marriage and family. Workshop also tackles sensitive bounderies between intrusions and interventions by friends.

UGAT FORMATION PROGRAMS for Social and Pastoral Workers

SASAMA (Sanggunian sa Maralita/Counseling for the Poor)
Counseling can happen at any unexpected time. Since problems of people are not scheduled , this seminar-workshop on basic counseling skills is an intensive training of basic helping skills , which will empower the helper to offer counseling services any time the need arises. It enables the participants to learn the basic skills and at the same time to get to know his/her real self. It offers audio and video workshop , which will open the doors to hear and see one's self and eventually give an awareness of healing and transformation.

ADVANCED COUNSELING FOR THE POOR
There are cases that basic skills cannot handle. This seminar-workshop aims to enhance the theory and practice of basic counseling by equipping the participants with new models of counseling using Bowen's Family Systems Therapy, Genogram Processing, Gestalt Therapy and Dreamworks.

FMS (FAMILY MINISTRY SEMINAR)
This seminar aims to impart the fundamentals of being a family minister. Included in the workshop are the family minister's role and functions and the skills one needs in assessing and intervening with families. A very important skill needed is the assessment of the relationship among each family member and how the task of pastoral services can be done given the situation. Assessment tools are also discussed.

CONTEMPORARY MARRIAGE COUNSELING
This seminar will define the authentic meaning of love in the different dimensions of life and stages of existence. It aims to enhance the marital relationship in the midst of losing the feeling of love. It enables the participants to transform the meaning of love according to Christian tradition as it deepens the partticipants' personal and conjugal relationship with God and with one another. Likewise, it will acquaint the participants with the rudiments of marriage counseling. Special emphasis will be given on the assessment of couple conflict and counseling models for problematic situations.

PASTORAL FAMILY COUNSELING
The Pastoral Family Counseling provides the participants with diagnostic tools that will help them acquire a workable understanding of family relational problems. It takes into account that the family is made up of different individual members with different personalities. An understanding of the family as a system will enable members to evoke the problems encountered and the suited interventions that would be most helpful in given situations. Family relations will be assessed using the Life Space Diagram, Mapping, and the Family Floor Plan Method. Basic intervention will be taught by means of input, demonstration and workshop.

GESTALT THERAPY TRAINING
Gestalt Therapy has become a comprehensive philosophy, theory and methodology of human healing. Out process-orientation, person-in-environment perspective and a focus on the expansion of awareness, wholeness and dialogue presents us with a new understanding of the evolution of humankind. This is a unique blend of existential, phenomenological (present focused) and process-experiential approaches developed by Fritz Perls and Dr. Laura Perls.

CRISIS COUNSELING
Crisis counseling is said to be an upset in a steady state, a critical turning point that leads to better or worse. When one experiences this state, negative feelings arise and often lead to mounting tensions and stress.

This one-day seminar will enable a person in crisis and his care-provider to identify the stress producing situations as well as the indicators that will distinguish families or organizations in acute crisis from those in chronic crisis and how to deal with them.

BRIEF INTENSIVE COUNSELING
Since clients can rarely commit to long term counseling, this advanced technique can help us assist individuals and families strategically by focusing on core issues that affect their lives.

CRITICAL INCIDENT STRESS DEBRIEFING
The seminar-workshop aims to impart basic knowledge and skills in dealing with survivors of calamities and disasters. Workshops for debriefing the disaster workers are also part of the seminar.

UGAT FORMATION PROGRAMS for Hurting Families

PALAD - [Pamilya Laban sa Alkohol at Droga)
(seminar for families of substance-dependents)
Some families are hurt because of drugs and alcoholism. This seminar will provide support systems for these families as it aims to provide practice and curative approaches. It is a multi seminar until the drug and alcohol dependents are rehabilitated.

DAMAYAN
[Damay sa Solong Magulang sa Pamayanan]
(seminar for single parents)
When both spouses were alive and living together, chores were shared as well as responsibilities, like providing for the family, budgeting, nurturance and upbringing of the children. After the death or abandonment of one’s spouse, all responsibilities fall on the surviving/remaining spouse including earning a living. The seminar-workshop is one way for children and the solo parent to learn and cooperate with each other in living their new life. This seminar-workshop aims to transform participants into new individuals who are stronger, more sensitive and sympathetic. DAMAYAN also provides care for the emotional well being of separated couples, widows and single parents.

MINA (Minang Minamahal)
MINA is a values clarification program for the children of the separated and the abandoned. The term MINA is used to connote the unearthing of the treasure within these hurting individuals. The seminar aims at providing an avenue for ventilation, emotional support, and assistance in order for these children to functionally cope with their situation. MINA can be given in formats suitable for young children, teenagers and young adults.

DEALING WITH THE IRRESPONSIBLE SPOUSE
A seminar workshop designed to assist functional spouses in empowering their partners. The interventions focus on what to do in the here and now and have a prospective orientation rather than going back to childhood. The systemic sources and reinforcers of irresponsibility are also given to make the spouses aware of their contribution. Discussions and workshops on the different kinds of “irresponsible” spouses such as the pull down spouses, insecure spouses, manipulative spouses and spouses with low intensity depressions are made and specific intervention per kind are taught. May also be conducted as a premarital –orientation/awareness program.

BANIG - [Banig ng Karamdaman]
(for families and careproviders of the chronically ill and dying)
“There is dignity in dying… there is life after life… there may be miracle.” Banig is a program that enriches the skills and knowledge of the community health workers and hospice caregivers in psycho-emotional care of oneself, of the chronically ill and dying patients, and their families. It is also a medical mission program. It is also given to families of the chronically ill and dying.

KAISA – [Kasama sa Pag-iisa]
(support for spouses of expatriates)
A formation seminar for spouses of overseas Filipinos to help them deal with their adjustment and concerns during temporary separation from spouses.

KAPILAS – [Kasama sa mga Pinahahalagahan sa Laot ng Sumpaan]
(support for spouses of seafarers)
A formation seminar for wives and families of seafarers, dealing with loneliness from separation, fears commonly associated with being a spouse of a seafarer and the long-term impact of the cycle of leaving and returning home.

ANAK (support for children of expatriates)
A values formation seminar for the children of overseas workers who are directly affected by the migration of their parent/s. This seminar deals with the feelings associated with being a child of a migrant as well their coping mechanism. This may be given in a format suitable for young children, teenagers or young adults.

UGAT Formation Programs for Schools

PSYCHO-SPIRITUAL INTEGRATION FOR TEACHERS:
This seminar is offered to teachers who deal with students of different personalities and levels of learning motivation. It enhances common integrating experiences such as reliving parts of one's biographical life, releasing strong oent up emotions, and understanding teaching as a mission of Christ.

BASIC COUNSELING FOR TEACHERS:
Teaching is not just confined to the goal of imparting knowledge to the students in the head level, but more of allowing students to enjoy learning by having a positive attitude towards school. Since teachers are the second parents to the students, they carry a grave responsibility--- to bring up their students according to the plan of their Creator. Basic counseling skills can help facilitate helping and forming of students handled.

NAVIGATING MIDLIFE FOR TEACHERS:
Developmental Transitions can sometimes become overwhelming and affect both personla and professioional lives of teachers. This seminar helps to assist teachers in midlife and gain insight to how their developmental needs can clash with their students.

FAMILY INTERVENTIONS FOR GUIDANCE COUNSELORS AND CLASS MODERATORS:
The family is oftena neglected resource in assisting children and teens with problems in academics and behavior. However, a family can maintain a problem. This seminar assists guidance counselors and class moderatorshow they can include the family in assisting their students.

VALUES AND HOPE RECOVERY IN THIS POST CRITICAL TIMES
A formation seminar geared for high school students with the goal of reiterating the need for character-building most especially in these days of local economic and political crisis. There is special stress on optimism and hope and the capacity to individuals to start changes.

US, UT- [Unang Sulyap, Unang Tibok]
(formation seminar for teenagers on sexuality, relationships and contemplating on building a family)
It is crucial for every teenager to have a deeper understanding of himself/herself before s/he gets involved in a serious sexual relationship. They have to be equipped with an understanding of life in order to reach a mature decision about themselves and their relationship. A seminar is given to teenagers to enlighten them in the area of love, courtship and marriage.

HAKBANG [Haplos at Kalinga sa Buhay ng Anak at Magulang]
(A Parenting Seminar)
Parenting is partnership with God, model of Trinitarian Love, life giving, freedom seeking and truth proclaiming. It is a celebration of life and love.
This seminar will allow the participants and their children to develop proper communication skills. It facilitates to identify the theories of parenting styles and the negative parenting traits, as well as the effects on the children. It opens the avenues to create favorable environment for children to grow freely and responsibly.

GROWING UP AS PARENTS
A follow-up to HAKBANG, Growing Up As Parents tackles more sensitive areas of parenting such as the clash of values across generations, spirituality of parents and parenting in this technologically-advanced age.

MINA (Minang Minamahal)
MINA is a values clarification program for the children of the separated and the abandoned. The term MINA is used to connote the unearthing of the treasure within these hurting individuals. The seminar aims at providing an avenue for ventilation, emotional support, and assistance in order for these children to functionally cope with their situation. MINA can be given in formats suitable for young children, teenagers and young adults.

KAPILAS – [Kasama sa mga Pinahahalagahan sa Laot ng Sumpaan]
(support for spouses of seafarers)
A formation seminar for wives and families of seafarers, dealing with loneliness from separation, fears commonly associated with being a spouse of a seafarer and the long-term impact of the cycle of leaving and returning home.

ANAK (support for children of expatriates)
A values formation seminar for the children of overseas workers who are directly affected by the migration of their parent/s. This seminar deals with the feelings associated with being a child of a migrant as well their coping mechanism. This may be given in a format suitable for young children, teenagers or young adults.

DAMAYAN
[Damay sa Solong Magulang sa Pamayanan]
(seminar for single parents)
When both spouses were alive and living together, chores were shared as well as responsibilities, like providing for the family, budgeting, nurturance and upbringing of the children. After the death or abandonment of one’s spouse, all responsibilities fall on the surviving/remaining spouse including earning a living. The seminar-workshop is one way for children and the solo parent to learn and cooperate with each other in living their new life. This seminar-workshop aims to transform participants into new individuals who are stronger, more sensitive and sympathetic. DAMAYAN also provides care for the emotional well being of separated couples, widows and single parents.

UGAT FORMATION PROGRAMS for Overseas Filipinos and their families

A. On the HomeFront


KAISA (KASAMA SA PAG-IISA)
(support for spouses of overseas Filipinos)
A formation seminar for spouses of overseas Filipinos to help them deal with their adjustments and concerns during temporary separation from spouses.

KAPILAS (KASAMA SA PINAHAHALAGAHAN SA LAOT NG SUMPAAN)
(support for spouses of seafarers)
A formation seminar for wives and families of seafarers, dealing with loneliness from separation, fears commonly associated with being a spouse of a seafarrer and long-term impact of the cycle of leaving and returning home.

ANAK (ANAK NG NANGIBANG-BANSA ARUGA AT KAAGAPAY)
(support for children of overseas Filipinos)
A values formation seminar for children of overseas workers who are directly affected by the migration of their parent(s). This seminar deals with the feelings assocaited with being a child of a migrant as well as their coping mechanism. This may be given in a format suitable for young children , teenager or adults.

PLDT (PAMILYA LAGING MAGDAMAYAN TAYO)
(to promote interdependence among families of expatriates)
A follow-up seminar-workshop to ANAK and KAISA, this seminar is geared towards addressing the issue of dependency among families of expatriates.

KALASAG
(support for guardians of children of expatriates)
A values clarification for guardians of children of overseas Filipinos. From UGAT's ANAK seminars , it was noted that support should also be given to guardians (usually grandparents or siblings of migrants) of children of overseas workers. Among issues addressed are their feelings about the situation, their relationship with their ward and definition of responsibilities and limitations are guardians.

KAPMU (KAPILING MULI)
(seminar on effective and progressive reintegration of overseas workers with their families)
A formation seminar taht offers assistance in order to identify adjustment problems caused by long-term separation. It looks for opportunities for full family reconcillation after such separation.

PANATAG (Pamilya ng Nangibang-bansa Tulong at Gabay)
(values clarification for those planning to migrate)
A seminar for that seeks to help those intending to work abroad and their families through values clarification and effective decision-making. Intending to clarify ideas, feelings and motivation in becoming a migrant worker.


B. On the Worksite

PEER COUNSELING FOR MIGRANTS
This provides basic helping skills for migrants so that they can look for help from one another with their emotional distress while they are away from home. The value of peer support while abroad is stressed.

BASIC COUNSELING SKILLS FOR MIGRANT CARE PROVIDERS
This provides basic helping skills for NGOs, chaplains, missionaries, agencies and the like working with migrant workers. A 2 day workshop on the dynamics of migration and crisis counseling.

ADVANCED COUNSELING SKILLS FOR MIGRANT CARE PROVIDERS
This provides a more in-depth workshop on helping skills for agencies and the like woring with migrant workers. A 2 day workshop on marital counseling, dynamics of employer-employee relations and other relationships. Special stress on conflict resolution techniques for group conflicts aiming to enhance intervention skills among expatriates.


RAISING FUNCTIONAL FAMILIES WHILE ABROAD:
This seminar-workshop provides support on how to raise a family even from overseas. To be tackled are characteristics of well and troubled families separated by migration, with special stress on the issue of dependency.

BASIC SOCIAL COUNSELING:
(for careproviders of families of overseas Filipinos)
In times of economic unrest, sensistivity to social relations becomes an issue thus social problems arise. This seminar-workshop enables the participants to help their clients identify the origins and troubles and guide in the goal of self-recovery. It promotes the fact that the heart must be given attention first before the head can operate. It works on emotional relief before problem solving.