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01904 639767A week in the life of Lynden...
As the couple worker for FMY, my work is very varied and interesting. Some weeks are hectic; others leisurely in comparison. Last week was a hectic one...
Monday: a visit to London on Monday working with When2Pray: a group who send out weekly e-prayers from the W2P web site to encourage Christian couples to keep on praying together. We were planning our contribution for National Marriage Week 2012 (February- look out for links on our website nearer the time).
Tuesday: FMY had a very significant partnership meeting with agencies around the city for our new course Building Family Bridges. Philippa, our development manager, successfully secured lottery funding to train 12 facilitators and run 3 pilot courses. Tuesdays’ meeting generated a lot of interest and anticipation. Simon Pellew inspired us with the facts, figures and research behind the new course and it was my responsibility to deliver a couple of sessions to illustrate the course content. (Simon is C.E.O for Time for Families: the charity who both designed and who deliver the course in many prisons across the UK and have now adapted it for community delivery.)
Watch our web site for more news about this new course.
Wednesday: - I had chance to catch my breath and follow up enquiries on the web site for couples in crisis.
Thursday: Travelled to Lowdham Grange prison (Nottingham) to deliver day 4 of the Building Stronger Families Course for Time for Families. (I work as a trainer for them alongside my husband Rob who works full time as their Regional Manager in North Yorkshire). There were 7 couples, some partners had travelled 3 hours to get there and they will complete 6 full days by the end of the course - that’s real commitment!
Friday: Travelled to Durham to deliver the same course at Durham prison for 6 couples.
Saturday: Family Matters York helped deliver 'Walking in Another’s Shoes'- a day conference in partnership with St Michael le Belfry Church: This was a relationship skills day designed to cover all aspects of relationships whether in work, between friends or in the wider family. I was delivering 3 workshops and other FMY colleagues were delivering another 3 to contribute to about 12 different workshops delivered throughout the day. A resources pack was made available to enable people to use the content of sessions and use them in other contexts.
Sunday: FamilyTime: a family lunch with both grandchildren and great grandma in attendance. Great fun was had with a step ladder in the afternoon harvesting the apple tree in the garden after lunch- a bumper crop.
Family is important to us all and the fun moments with our own family are treasured.
Written by:
Philippa Beardmore
Thursday, 06 October 2011
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