Family Collaboration

Families are similar to a team. Each family member individually possesses personality, skill, and role to the family team, simply as each sports player has a particular position on the team. Wholly the family has a history and ambitions, just as the team collaborates to win a game. One player may appear more important than others. Nevertheless, one individual cannot play the game alone. We need our families to assist us live through the joyful, pleasant, unpleasant, and painful times.

Providing time for learning, trying out things, or taking defeat is a vital role of the family. As a family team, the members can help each other gain through difficult time. Family collaboration or teamwork can balance one individual’s difficult time with other family member’s powers. To encourage the collaboration of your family try to focus on what the roles of each member are by describing or drawing the individual’s role in the family. Get all the family members together around a table or on the floor. Ensure each individual can write or draw on a piece of paper. Giving suggestions is okay like paying bills, controlling allowances, caring for the family, particular tasks, or other roles. Recognize as many as possible.

Motivate each member talk about the distinctive roles he heard about others and themselves. Share how the members feel the reactions and observations.

Discuss general themes in roles. Seek recurring themes and record them. Ask whether there were common or the same roles with more than one family member, whether most of all  members agreed or disagreed, why, and why not. The next is identify the trends and make inferences as well as stress the tenets applying to real life. Ask questions like how the roles pertain to one another in your family, how the role change over time, what vital things to recall. Eventually focus on how the new learning could be implemented in daily situations, discuss how this family activity can be useful in the future, evolve individual or family goals for behavior change, how the family members think their inference might be different few years from now.