First Church in Jamaica Plain Unitarian Universalist, Parish Hall.
Presenting Dr. Beth Roy; author of “Parent’s Lives, Children’s Needs: Working Together for Everyone’s
The evening will feature an interactive workshop for parents by Dr. Beth Roy, noted psychologist and author of the new book “Parents’ Lives, Children’s Needs: Working Together for Everyone’s Well-Being.†Appropriate for all types of co-parents, coupled, divorcing or single, Dr. Roy’s cooperative approach helps with challenges from infancy to adolescence. We will learn of Dr. Roy’s principles, work in small groups, and discuss our own questions around parenting.
Parenting is an exhilarating, exhausting, confounding, confirming activity. To put principles of social justice into practice with a screaming two-year-old or a rebelling teen tests the most committed of activists. Advice to parents more often focuses on how to control kids rather than how to bring children up in ways that exemplify the justice we crave in society. Dr. Roy’s interactive workshop offers concrete problem solving grounded in understandings of culture, community, and identity.
Our Speaker
Dr. Beth Roy is a long-time mediator, counselor, teacher and researcher who draws on her own parenting experiences as well as the wisdom of her many clients to guide parents in ways of acting that yield resources, growth, help and joy. Her work in multiculturalism, as a mediator and as a co-founder of the Practitioners Research and Scholarship Institute, laces through her approach to the pleasures and pains of parenting.
Dr. Roy teaches conflict resolution at the University of California, Berkley, where she received her doctorate in Sociology in 1991. Using lenses of storytelling and oral history, she researches issues in social conflict. Her earlier books include Some Trouble with Cows; Making Sense of Social Conflict and Bitters in the Honey: Tales of Hope and Disappointment across the Divides of Race and Time. She has parented two sons, both living rich and rewarding lives.
Related Links:
Personhood Press: www.personhoodpress.com
Parents Lives, Children’s Needs: http://parentslives.blogspot.com
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