The City Council and Horizonte-Proyecto Hombre organize a new edition of the School for Families to address the emotional education of young people.

This free activity will be held at the Padre Manuel Cultural Center, and consists of ten sessions to be held from November 11 to February 17.

The Estepona City Council and the Horizonte-Proyecto Hombre association will start next November the fourteenth edition of the activity ‘School of Families’, an initiative coordinated by the municipal delegation of Youth aimed at fathers, mothers, relatives and educators interested in addressing common issues in the process of maturation and education of young people.

The program is completely free and is structured in 10 didactic sessions that will be held weekly, between November 11 and February 17, at the Padre Manuel Cultural Center, in the afternoon, and will address a wide variety of topics. The sessions will be given by Noemí de Diego, a psychologist specializing in prevention from the Horizonte-Proyecto Hombre association. The aim is to help families to manage their children’s emotional education and behavioral risks. Thus, the topics of the sessions will offer them tools to manage the difficulties that often arise when dealing with family rules, communication, conflict resolution, self-esteem and social skills, or emotional intelligence.

Thus, the first session will be held on November 11 and will focus on how we act in the face of problems or difficulties with our children; on November 18 the appointment will deal with how to reduce and control emotional tension; and on November 25, how to manage family rules. The sessions will continue on December 2 with the topic of communication in the family; and on December 16 we will learn how to resolve conflicts.

The program will resume on January 20 with self-esteem and social skills, and will continue on January 27 with the talk ‘Educating in Emotional Intelligence’. On February 3, the period of ‘Adolescence: family action guidelines’ will be dealt with, to continue on February 10 with ‘Healthy habits in the use of social networks and new technologies’. Finally, on February 17, the sessions will close with the topic ‘Getting informed about drugs and their effects on the body’.

Those interested in participating can register by telephone: 952775353 or 695192835. Also by e-mail: contacto@horizonteproyectohombre.org or at animacion@estepona.es.