Sibling Revelry
8 steps to improving adult sibling relationships
A weekend workshop celebrating your sibling relationships
Imagine you had the relationship that you really wanted with your brothers and sisters. You can!
(We are seeking venues to deliver our message about the importance of sibling relationships. Send us your ideas)
Attend the next workshop (check schedule for dates)
Our workshop provides the time and place to be with yourself and your siblings, to focus on this fundamental relationship.
This workshop will use powerful techniques including story telling, group and individual work, ceremony, meditation, dance, and yoga, to help you work with the sibling relationship as it is now.
Through our unique 8 step process you will begin to throw off the limitations of the past and feel new freedom in your peer relationships, especially with your siblings.This is a safe environment to explore the meaning of being a sister or brother and to discover the power of sibling love illuminating all your relationships. Take the time to laugh, cry, celebrate and spend quality time with a sister or a brother or just yourself. Experience the freedom and joy available as we explore and expand the power of your sibling relationships. You’ll notice the benefit in ALL your relationships as you join us in this groundbreaking work.
The
Workshop Format
Below
is an outline of the overall format of our three-day Sibling Revelry program. In
our shorter length workshops, we may focus only on Steps one, two, or three to
get the ball rolling.
Day
One - Sib Stories in the Round
Group Intentions for the weekend
Ground Rules
Step 1: Describe your Relationship
(as part of game, song, story, or
mime)
Homework: Either alone or with sibs,
discuss the following:
How was sibling rivalry
expressed/suppressed/acted upon within
your family of origin? Make notes in
journal to bring next day.
Day
Two - Group Explores Sibling Rivalry & Begins Healing Process
Step 2: Discern major elements sibling
rivalry/ compare notes within group
Birth Order Conversation in 3 separate
groups: olders, middles,
youngest children. Acknowledge
de-identification process
Step 3: Walking Meditation followed by
creation of a new vision
In small groups, compare notes on
vision, firm up
Homework: Step 4: Make Lists of types
of sibling contact: describe as is and
how you want it to be. Share with
siblings participating in course
OR: make one or two phone calls to
MAKE contact with siblings not
in course.
Afternoon: Journey of Healing: Guided
Meditation/Visualization/
letter
writing to complete Step 5
Dinner
hour: Brothers meet only with brothers/ Sisters only with sisters for informal
gab, comparing notes
Evening:
Talent Show/ Building a Bridge Together/ Artwork/Stories
Day
Three - Groups of Three explore Family legends: Step 6
Writing Process: Revamp Legend.
Compare notes with others.
Steps 7 and 8: How we're alike; how
we're different; create
lists for each sibling. Then add to
lists the talents, strengths,
and contributions each sibling has
made in your life.
Share with siblings present in room
OR: call one or more siblings
to let them know what you feel their
strengths, gifts are in your life.
Group Sharing/closing song/meditation
As
with our book, the workshop format includes the recounting of sibling memories
and important moments in family history, enjoying games, parody and skits,
exploring rivalry or wounding, restating family legends in a more positive vein,
and creating new images for the future. Thus the 8 Step format of this book
parallels the work of the weekend workshops with added material for home study.
Contact: JoAnn@sibling-revelry.net for additional information about joining one of our workshops or sponsoring our work for your group.