After Nurturing Fathers, a year out, not a 14th week.

Your 13 weeks end with a graduation, and the publisher's own follow-up finds a minority losing ground after that date. Our reunion sessions are for that year, and none of them is session 14.

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From the publisher's 1991 follow-up

Further inquiry into this reversal revealed difficult life circumstances and little support for positive parenting.

A reunion session is support for positive parenting, delivered into that window.

Repeats from Nurturing Fathers0Of its 12 topics

Topics we leave alone6 of 12Two of them on purpose

Instrument on fileAAPI-2.1Your facilitator is trained on it

Who comesYour graduatesThe same men, a year later

How our reunion course connects back to Nurturing Fathers

1 A year out, not a 14th week Nurturing Fathers ends with a graduation. The only two follow-ups anybody has run, 34 years apart, both find a minority losing ground after that date. Neither study is large, and we'd rather you heard that from us.

2 Your facilitator already measures He was trained on the AAPI-2.1 in the same three days he was trained on the curriculum. Of the sites we've looked at, this is the only one that arrives with an instrument and the habit of using it.

3 Nothing here is run twice Nine sessions, each landing nearest a topic he's already met. Six of the 12 topics get nothing, among them the violence session and the father wound, which a single session is the wrong container for.

Content continuity

Nine sessions, and the ground each one is nearest.

Where a man will recognize the territory, so a facilitator can say so out loud, and a director can see what's new. Three of the nine land nearest the two self-nurturing sessions and the feelings session, the half of the curriculum aimed at the man rather than the child.

Our session	Lane	Nearest ground in Nurturing Fathers
Half the Time, Twice the Parent	Responsible parenting	A Time and Place for Fathering.
They're Always Watching	Responsible parenting	The Roots of Fathering, which is where a man first looks at what he is passing on.
Do It Again	Responsible parenting	A Time and Place for Fathering. Playshop, for what he is protecting the time for.
Have We Met?	Personal development	Self-Nurturing Skills I, and its Little Boy Within.
Just Say No	Personal development	Self-Nurturing Skills II, The Power To Meet My Own Needs.
The Empty House	Personal development	Overcoming Barriers to Nurturing Fathering, on the stress side rather than the substances side.
Say the Good Thing	Healthy relationships	The World of Feelings and Male Nurturance.
Stop Keeping Score	Healthy relationships	Nurturing Relationships II, Teamwork between Father and Spouse or Co-parent.
The End of Mind-Reading	Healthy relationships	Nurturing Relationships II, Teamwork between Father and Spouse or Co-parent, on the planning side.

And the ground we don't go near

Fathering without Violence or Fear Alcohol and other substances Discipline Playshop with his children Fathering Sons and Daughters Healing the Father Wound

Two of these are deliberate: Fathering without Violence or Fear and Healing the Father Wound are the two we'd least want to open in a room we don't have back next week. A reunion session is one idea in one sitting. It isn't a shorter version of the thing he already finished.

Session structure

Your 13 weeks build on each other. Ours don't, on purpose.

Nurturing Fathers: 13 weeks, same room, same menOne session, or as many as nine

Nurturing Fathers: 2½ hours60, 90 or 120 minutes

Nurturing Fathers: Sequence that buildsEach session stands aloneThe graft point

This is where the two are least alike. Nothing in our sessions assumes he was at the last one, and nothing assumes there's a next one, which is what lets a cohort that graduated and dispersed come back for one session. What carries across runs in our direction: A man who has already done 13 weeks arrives knowing how to be in the room.

Anticipated outcome

You already have an instrument. This has one number.

Your facilitator was trained to give the Adult-Adolescent Parenting Inventory, which reports on five constructs. A reunion session doesn't move a construct, and we don't claim it does. It produces one figure: the men who leave with one thing they want to start doing, in their own words, and the day they'll begin, out of the men in the room. Your site already holds the AAPI from before and after 13 weeks, which makes it the place to test one against the other.

The one figure, during the session

6 in 10 Our target floor: men who leave with one thing to start doing and the day they'll begin. Nothing quoted above it until pilots report.

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