Aim of course: To enable women to take control of their life, using strategies which breakdown the cycle of learned helplessness. (What I call the “Skinners Rat Syndrome”).
First Session: Explores aspects of power
Teaching Method: Lecture and group work
What is power?
Identify whom you would say is powerful in society?
Look at yourself and identify what power you have?
Second Session: Explores ways in which we give up our power
Teaching Method: Lecture and group work
Use of example – Your boss informs you without discussion that you are to be moved to another area to work. What would you do about this?
Make a list identifying how you think this matter should be handled
Where do you think the balance of power lies in this situation?
Identify what happens when we give up our power in different situations
In the family
At work
In the community
In relationships
Third Session: Explores reclaiming your power
Teaching Method: Lecture and group work
A look at personal and human rights
A look at how to assert yourself without being aggressive
When to say no
When to say yes
What to do when people are afraid of your power
Exploration of how this makes you feel
How you think this makes them feel?
Whose problem is it?
How to deal with this
Restoration of the Black (Afrikan) Family
Aim of course: To explore what needs to be done to heal relationships in the Afrikan (Black) family, following the tragedy of the Maafa, which interrupted our culture and destroyed our identity.
Session one: Will look at what we mean by restoration of the Black (Afrikan) family
Teaching Method: Lecture, group work, case studies and role-play
What exactly happened to the Black family?
A look at capture and enslavement
Loss of names, loss of cultural norms, loss of our religion and spirituality
Loss of our family structures
Loss of our sense of belonging
Session two: What has been the impact and consequences of this experience on people of Afrikan origin?
Teaching Method: Lecture and group work
Break-up of Afrikan family life
Divisions between Afrikan’s from different parts of the world
Confusion about selfhood, identity and belongingness
Effects of this on our mental health
Session three: What steps must be taken to restore the Black family structure?
Teaching method: Lecture and group work
Undoing the damage, changing long held beliefs and behaviour to create wholeness
Changing patterns of unhealthy behaviour for our women & our men and restoring balance
What part must parents play to produce healthy, well-adjusted children?
Sankofa and the importance of Black History events each year
Building on the legacy left to us by our ancestors
Healing through self and spiritual awareness
Financial Management
[Heng yu hat weh yu can reach it – Jamaican Language]
[Learn to live within your means]
Session One: What causes people to get into debt?
Teaching Method: Lecture and group work
What does society have to say about what we need to have to live good?
How does this affect people within society?
Should people buy into this way of thinking
Session Two: Money Management
Teaching Method: Lecture, group work and case studies
How may of us can afford to live like “flash Harry”
Budgeting – written and referred to
“Cutting ones coat according to ones cloth”
How to take control of and manage ones money
Session Three: How and why people get into debt?
Teaching Method: Lecture and group work
What kind of spender are you? Are you self-aware?
Who taught you how to manage your finances? Do you exercise self-control?
Do we really need to buy everything we see? What role does self-discipline play?
Do you honestly use most of the things that you buy?
Session Four: Saving money and how to get out of debt
Teaching Method: Lecture and group work
Can you afford to save, if not why not?
How much should you save?
What would you say about saving 25% of your salary?
If you cannot afford to save, what happens if there is a rainy day?
Setting targets to pay off all unnecessary debt
How to stop buying what you don’t need
Identifying ways to live within ones means
Control your self and your money and you will never be in debt
