THE F WORD! - BLOG HITS CHANNEL 4 T.V.

Submitted by carolewilliams on February 18, 2006 - 21:43.

The Unltd blog has reached researchers for Channel 4 t.v. They had found my bog in a search about eating round the dinner table as a family.  Imagine my surprise when an email dropped into my in box from a researcher.  Here is an excerpt from the email.  Can any of you out there help.

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"I am currently looking for groups of people to unite around the dinner table and in my search I found your blog!

The idea is to get various groups to re-unite around the dinner table. Maybe a family currently eat separately watching the TV, or a group of friends meet often but rarely have dinner together. Gordon would visit and help them cook a meal.

The reason that I have contacted you is because we are looking for all sorts of different types of people from all walks of life and I thought perhaps people who visit your blog may be interested in becoming involved. "

So, there you have it!  If you are interested please CLICK the ATTACHMENT BELOW and check out the document and then contact me and I can give you details straight away.  They are looking specifically for families who currently do not sit down for dinner together but would like to.  If that's you, email me or pick up the phone. They absolutely do not want people who just want an audience with a master chef!  So, what are you waiting for - Yummy!

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Anyone for cartoons?

Submitted by carolewilliams on February 15, 2006 - 00:04.

I have been considering recently, how I can impact young people and parents in a more effective way in our workshops and information and I got to thinking about using cartoons to get messages across.  Now most people don't think that they can draw and I used a great example in our Time for Me workshop recently to demonstrate how only three lines in a cartoon can tell a picture.  Three lines made a face, the same three lines made a sad face, happy face, confused face only dependant upon which way you draw the mouth.

Then I got to thinking about using cartoons for marketing and all sorts of things, like advertising workshops because they make people smile and leave them feeling happy usually. What a great marketing tool.  However, I want them to be my own. I leave you with my first piece of cartooning, I am leaving now to enrol on a cartooning workshop.Cartoon by Carole

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The LOVE verb

Submitted by carolewilliams on February 3, 2006 - 00:50.

Following on from yesterdays musings I was checking some research from NFPI about the Millennial Family, which is basically researching peoples views on parenting.  Rather alarmingly 1 in 3 parents who had children living with them would not know where to go for help if they had a family relationship problem.  Is it that we just don’t get the importance of maintenance in relationships in the UK or we think that we have them so worked out that we don’t need to bother working at them. Therefore we feel we have no need to know how to access help in that department.  In most of my coaching there is inevitably a broken down relationship somewhere which, comes to the surface when coaching adults to move forward. If we are in pain we go to the GP, if we are in financial pain, we go to a debt agency or to financial advisor, so doesn’t it make sense that if we have pain in our relationships that we know where to go? 
 
Which leads me to the fact that LOVE is a verb – a  doing word, not a feeling.  So if people are trying to fool themselves into thinking that love can be condensed into a feeling, maybe that is where things are going astray. The Bible is actually full of good advice on love if only we were to follow it’s teaching. 1 Cor 13:4 LOVE is patient, LOVE is kind, 13:8 LOVE never fails, 16:4 Do everything in LOVE. Pr 10:2 LOVE covers over all wrongs. Matthew 19:19 LOVE your neighbour as yourself. Eph 5:25 LOVE your wives etc. Let’s start DOING love instead of just expecting to experience the feeling and then the spiritual law of ‘what goes round comes around ‘ can truly be felt by all.  If you stretched YOUR love out across the world how far would it stretch? read more | add new comment

P.S. Blatant Advertising

Submitted by carolewilliams on February 1, 2006 - 22:03.

I wanted to alert everyone I know to our coaching teleclass for parents.  This is a four week teleclass which you can do from your own office or front room which teaches parents how to coach their teenagers.  It starts on Tuesday 21st February and you will receive a free workbook and a copy of Parent as Coach plus buddy support and email support and all for £95.  For details and information go to www.oceanpeopledevelopment.com

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Millenial Workplace - Home of the Family

Submitted by carolewilliams on February 1, 2006 - 21:57.

Now I am NOT a great supporter of McDonalds restaurants and my son has to really beg me to take him every now and again.  However, I have just been reading a report stating that Maccy D, as we calll them are beginning a new trend which allows families to cover each other's shift.  So, where you have two employees or more, from the same family working in the restaurant, they can swap or cover shifts, without prior warning or notice.  I have to take my hat off to them for their ingenuity and forward thinking and for reaching out to families.

Then I got in to random thinking mode and thought wouldn't it be great if, as a family coach, I could encourage employers to offer their employess access to family coaching as a way of increasing productivity and performance.  it's my belief that lots of hours at work are wasted as employees thoughts turn towards troubles at home in the family and particularly worries about their children.  So, that is an avenue of thought that I am praying about.  I am wondering how I can research the need withouut an exhuastive survey!

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