The Dasi-Ziyad Family Institute has developed several dynamic courses and projects to empower individuals, couples, and families with healthy relationship skills, as well as a progressive, wholesome paradigm to work from in any relationship. Contact us for details about how we can provide these courses/projects for your agency, group or family.
Better Together: A comprehensive, interactive Relationship Course created for urban couples. It is an 8-session, practical, activity-based training course for couples to develop the knowledge, skills and confidence to build healthy relationships, specifically designed for fragile families. (For married and unmarried couples, with or without children).
Course Session of the Dasi-Ziyad Family Institute
From Couple to Couple: A mentor couple training course – couples who have been married at least 8 years in a fairly healthy marriage are trained to work with other couples before and during marriage. Upon completion participants are certified and given assistance to begin their service of strengthening families. Topics covered include: communication, resolving conflict, win-win problem solving, financial management, values clarification, creating a mission statement, parenting, and tips for working with a variety of couples. Includes coaching, role plays, inventories, many interactive exercises, and support services after training. This 3 day course can be provided on 3 consecutive Saturdays or a Saturday each month.
Parenting for the 21st Century: Healthy parenting is an art, a skill, a mission. Our course covers the multifaceted job of being a parent in today’s hectic, often confusing world. A dynamic, interactive course designed to empower parents, grandparents, foster parents and other caregivers with skills, techniques, principles and tools to make them more effective with their children. Topics include preparing for parenting, building children with character, effective discipline, healthy family communication skills, financial management, special challenges of single parents and more.
The Phoenix Project: Interpersonal Relationship course for ex-offenders.
Premarital/Direct Relationship Skill-Building to Couples: 5 sessions of coaching and education in communication, conflict resolution, goal setting, financial planning, values clarification, creating a mission statement, principles as the foundation for healthy relationships and healthy marriages. For couples before and after marriage.
S.E.L.F. Healthy Relationship Course: (SELF = Singles Evaluating Life and Family). Participants in this interactive and dynamic 10 week class learn to identify and release some of the baggage that they carry into all relationships; acquire healthy communication, conflict resolution and other important relationship tools; learn what men want women to know and what women want men to know, learn how to avoid toxic, unhealthy relationships; set 3 goals (physical, emotional, spiritual) to be implemented during the course of the class and become stronger, more assertive participants in their own growth and development.
Strengthening the Bonds that Free Us: A 4-day Comprehensive Marriage and Family course.
The Spirituality Component: For ex-offenders, a course in the benefits and practicality of principled choices and actions.
Unifamily – Stepping Beyond Step-families into United Families: Developed by professionals from the Dasi-Ziyad Family Institute specifically for step-families to help these unique families combine their energies, hopes, finances, experiences and goals in ways that allow each member to grow in a healthy way.
Wellness at Work – Invest in Relationship Skill Building: For employers, corporations, agencies, institutions. Employees in failing relationships cost employers money. Productivity, health issues, increased stress and anxiety, absenteeism and substance abuse are increasing concerns. On the other hand, employees in healthy relationships increase profits. Bottom line – it pays to invest in the physical and relational well-being of your employees. These 8 sessions, including relationship skills inventories, empower employees with healthy relationship skills that translate from home to office. Good Sense for Employees = Lots More Cents for Employers!
The Young Pioneer Project: A multidisciplinary approach to academic improvement, behavioral change and self-confidence, utilizing art, music, leadership and character development. Implemented in 6 Cleveland Public schools and a neighborhood center.
