Who was FIB developed for?
FIB – FAMILY IN BALANCE was developed for everyone supporting parents during their first years as a family:
- Pregnancy counsellors
- Midwives
- Courses instructors in couples and parental education (e.g. leaders of parent-child groups)
- Marriage counsellors
- Relationship and family therapists
- Educational advisors
- Psychotherapists working with children and young adults
- Work with parents in migration services and binational marriage counselling
- Work with parents within the context of occupational therapy and speech therapy
- Work with parents in child and youth psychiatry and in therapeutic institutions
- Family mediators
- Professional academies for social professions (offering training in childcare, remedial teaching)
- Schools
FIB – FAMILY IN BALANCE is for parents who want to find out more about each other and look after their family balance independently.
- Parents welcoming their first child
- Parents extending their family
- Parents who want to live joyfully as a family
- Parents who want to create family balance following a separation
- Parents starting a patchwork family
FIB – in therapy and counselling
The systemic educational game FIB – FAMILY IN BALANCE offers a colourful, resource-packed way to start parental counselling and couples therapy. It engages parents on the level of their actions, from which their deeper emotional processes easily emerge. Guided by a therapist, couples play and discover their family system, developing solutions with which to create their own personal family balance. Single clients, whether they live with a partner or alone, are able to construct their family situation, resources and ideas for solutions in exactly the same way. FIB – FAMILY IN BALANCE facilitates work with parents within the context of child and young adult therapy.
FIB – in parental education
The educational game, in which individuals can “play” their own lives, supports all forms of work with parents. Course participants construct their own family model using FIB – FAMILY IN BALANCE.
Game sets made of paper are available for work in seminars. When using the seminar set, we recommend studying the game FIB – FAMILY IN BALANCE and/or the textbook “Starting a family – a balancing act” as the theoretical background. FIB seminar materials are currently only available in German. Please contact us if you require seminar materials.
FIB – FAMILY IN BALANCE is suitable for
- Antenatal classes and courses preparing couples for family life: supporting couples in their transition to parenthood.
- Marriage preparation courses: preparing couples for starting a family.
- Workplace training for parents: supporting cooperation between working parents.
- Parent evenings for parent-child groups: exploring parents’ own family systems with them.
- Single parent meetings: strengthening the parents’ resources and social networks.
- Seminars for young patchwork families: unlocking multifaceted relationship management skills.
FIB – in supervision
FIB – FAMILY IN BALANCE extends the Regensburg Family Development Model developed by Eva Tillmetz. This model’s structured, multi-generational composition facilitates the formation of hypotheses. How do the family members in the various sub-systems affect one another? Both in contact with clients as well as in peer supervision contexts, hypotheses can thus be formed that structure the complexity of the problems presented and thus render them more straightforward, making it easier for them to be seen within a fresh overall context. When the source of a problem is revealed, therapeutic interventions are able to support the persons affected in finding a solution to their current issue.
FIB – advanced training with Eva Tillmetz
Parent teamwork right from the start!
Supporting young parents using the Regensburg Family Development Model
Advanced training for therapists and counsellors
A playful approach to relationship crises
FIB – FAMILY IN BALANCE in couples therapy
Advanced training for therapists and counsellors
Creative counselling and therapy work with parents
Systemic solutions with FIB – FAMILY IN BALANCE
Advanced training for therapists and counsellors
How does a family actually work?
FIB – FAMILY IN BALANCE in lessons
Advanced training for teachers
Contact: www.eva-tillmetz.de