Family Meeting: Establishing Shared Agreements

Description

This activity gives you all the directions that you need for a fun, yet purposeful, family meeting. It is the perfect “first” meeting or one to revisit if there has been stress or conflict recently.  Family meetings are structured to be 45-60 minutes. The desired outcomes for this family meeting is to 1) begin to develop an environment for family members to share vulnerable thoughts and feelings in a valued way, 2) create shared agreements for family meetings, and 3) identify family strengths. The directions include a gathering activity, a fun adventure activity, a closing activity, family considerations to adapt activity, and therapeutic reasoning for the activity.