Family Enrichment Paths - 2025 edition
Being a parent is an experience that can also enrich one's professional reality (and vice versa): in fact, we believe in an integrated model of the person where family and professional identity are in dialogue and do not oppose each other in a dichotomous and conflictual perspective. Dealing with parenting in one's work environment is therefore not an anomaly or a distraction from professional commitment, but a form of enhancement and enhancement of an important part of people's identity.
Aware of this, the University, among the actions envisaged in the Strategic Plan headed by the table on Equal Opportunities, proposes Family Enrichment Paths with limited places aimed at teaching staff, technical-administrative staff, research fellows and doctoral students of Università Cattolica with children aged between 7 and 18 years.
After the first year of experimentation on the Milan campus with very positive feedback, the Pathways also arrive at the Piacenza-Cremona and Brescia campuses, where they will start with two presentation events:
- Piacenza-Cremona: 3 February from 12.00 to 13.00 in room 16
- Brescia: 4 February from 2.00 p.m. to 3.00 p.m. in Sala della Gloria in Via Trieste, with remote connection in room 3 of the Via della Garzetta campus
The courses will be divided into four meetings, each of 3 hours, from February to April 2025.
The working method includes experiential and theoretical activities in small groups, led by two trainers who are experts in relational and family issues
PEFs are a method of preventive and promotional intervention in small groups that aims not only to respond to the needs of parents, but also to help them identify the resources (individual, relational, family and social) to draw on, regaining possession of the importance of their parental role on the one hand and on the other refining tools and skills to exercise their parenting with greater incisiveness and awareness.
The activation of the small group will allow participants to confront each other and help them to reread their experience in a different perspective.