Family Peace Initiative
Level 2 & 3
Description
This 3-day ONLINE workshop combines the most essential elements of Levels 2 and 3 of FPI’s Facilitator Training Series. The full training series explores FPI’s trauma-responsive approach to battering intervention and the essential tools and skills needed to incorporate FPI’s approach into any facilitator’s intervention practice.
Building on the internal-focused dialogue approach that is introduced in FPI’s Level 1: The Art of Facilitation, this experiential workshop strikes a balance between learning through experience, practice and theory. Participants will explore the advanced skills of effective emotional work and how to apply those skills in order to increase the impact of intervention efforts.
Specific skills and tools that will be explored in this workshop include:
● Continued application of the Shadow Message
● Expanding on the Golden Shadow Message
● The use of the Process Log
● Trust and Integrity in the group room
● The Funnel Process for transformational change
● Exploring Shame
● Defense systems and Doorways
● The Cover Story and beyond
● Accountability and Repair
● Healing from Betrayal
● Staging group conversations for maximum engagement
● Application of Battering Motive
● Mindfulness activities to access introspection
All participants will receive a FREE copy of the Family Peace Initiative’s Facilitator’s Tool Chest. This collection of tools used in the FPI approach is a valuable resource for facilitator’s looking for tools that can help to create transformational change among those served.
Facilitators
Steven M.S. Halley, LSCSW, is the co-founder of Halley Counseling Services, P.A. and co-director of the Family Peace Initiative (FPI). He has been visionary in the development of a trauma-focused approach for intervening with those who batter. He is nationally recognized for his expertise in using a trauma-focused approach to intervene with those who batter, and in training others in this approach. His development of the “River of Cruelty” model that describes how cruelty is passed from person to person and generation to generation has been groundbreaking in the field. He is the longest sitting member on the Kansas Governor’s Domestic Violence Fatality Review Board. Having received a bachelor degree in history, and master degrees in both outdoor administration and social work, Halley focused his career on working with individuals and families. For the past 30 years Halley has worked as a wilderness counselor, probation officer, therapist, and batterer intervention provider. Along with his wife, Dorthy, he has authored curricula for working with those who batter, justice-involved women, and justice-involved youth. They have also authored The River of Cruelty, and Halley’s Alley: Commentaries on marriage, family, healthy relationships, parenting, loss, grief, trauma, and
domestic violence. Steve writes a monthly blog to assist professionals working with those who batter. It can be accessed through www.familypeaceinitiative.com. Steve is an avid golfer and songwriter.