EAP: Mental Talks: Families And How To Survive Them

“It didn’t matter how big our house was; it mattered that there was love in it.” — Peter Buffett

Have you ever wondered how and why we fall in love, how we change form when we develop from babies to adolescents. Who are we as adults, how we are influenced by previous generations and what changes we would like to make in our family life. Do we continue to repeat behavioral and emotional models in our own families. This Mental Talk will be dedicated to the psychological aspect of  families behavior and functioning, what makes some work and others fail, and how families can move up to greater health and happiness.

In recent years many people claim to be in a form of a dysfunctional family. Sometimes they blame their current problems on the family they grew up into the extent that they don’t take responsibility for their actions. Other times, past experiences with dysfunctional families can affect their behavior today. How do we know whether family dysfunction is a serious problem? During this Mental Talk we will discuss this issue by learning more about how to communicate better in the families, which are the common mistakes we all make when we raise children, what are the things that keep us together and how to improve them. 

We will discuss the family traditions and how we spread them through generations, how do we celebrate and what the festive dinner symbolizes for each of us.