How can the first steps be encouraged in children from 0 to 6 years of age and in children from 6 to 12 years of age in a context of integral human development?
“Mom, Dad, I need you!”
To all of you who have discovered our website and have appreciated it to the point of saying to yourselves: What rich reflections! We invite you to cross the threshold of the Virtual Campus of our site. This is where the self-training on The Integration of Love and Sexuality in Children 0 to 12 years of age begins.
This personalized training will allow you to discover and internalize the basis of an educational process that every child from 0 to 6 years of age and from 6 to 12 years of age has the need and the right to learn from his parents, supported by their faithful collaborators, and even from society as a whole, to become emotionally and sexually harmonious.
If you undertake this first distance self-training, whoever you are and wherever you are on the planet, our pedagogical tools will accompany you in your learning of the beautiful and dynamic process of integration of love and sexuality, the most important in the life of a human being.
This is why this training course on the integration of love and sexuality in children aged 0 to 12 years is the essential prerequisite for the following courses.
An overview of the parents' self-training program
The integration of love and sexuality in children 0-12 years of age
Professors in charge
Solange Lefebvre-Pageau and Rosette Badila
Clientele
This course is intended for everyone, but above all for parents and future parents, for educators and parent trainers in the teaching of an inner approach to the integration of love and sexuality in children from 0 to 6 and 6 to 12 years of age.
Suggested duration of your self-training
Everyone is free to proceed at their own pace, but two or three hours per week would allow you to finish within four months.
Objective
To provide parents with training that will help them educate their children from 0 to 6 years of age and those from 6 to 12 years of age about integrated love and sexuality, by promoting the discovery of the concept of emotional and sexual integration as well as the process of education of a child.
Content
In the light of Christian humanism, of the concept of integration (inspired by the humanities), and with the thread of human and spiritual maturity, this course aims to:
- recall the important mission of parents who have received the gift of a child with the divine mission to dedicate themselves to the service of love and life;
- discover the bases of a pedagogical approach integrating love and sexuality that every child has the need and the right to receive from his parents in order to assume, during his childhood, the task of his/her humanization.
Specifically, this course will address the what, the why and the how of becoming parents capable of initiating their child in the specific areas of emotional and sexual life.
This course will also demonstrate the importance and urgency, for every educator — indeed for the whole of society — to discover the concept of integrated love and sexuality and to engage resolutely in the promotion of a new culture.
Suggestion of a very useful learning activity
Holding regular sharing meetings with your loved ones would be an excellent source of motivation and learning for everyone.
Learning materials
Through our website, participants will obtain:
- The basic volume: Educating the Child to Love and Sexuality: Parental Responsibility…, 2nd edition
- A Framework Document introducing the ten course modules: The integration of love and sexuality in children 0-12 years of age
- Ten course modules
- Six brochures
- Eleven opinion articles
- Nine slide presentations
N.B. All are available for download.
Technological Information
This course requires access to the Internet and the use of Adobe Acrobat Reader and Microsoft PowerPoint.
Supervision
If you wish to take this self-training course by Internet, you may contact our CIREF by e-mail or telephone.
Cost
This self-training course is free of charge. However, a donation to show your appreciation would be greatly appreciated.
Access to the Virtual Campus
Obtain a username and password by writing to the following address: mayeul@ciref.ca
Volume to be internalized
Educating the Child to Love and Sexuality: Parental Responsibility…, 2nd edition
“In the field of human and Christian education, goodwill and love itself are not enough.” (Saint John Paul II)
There is a skill that parents have to acquire. The volume Educating the Child to Love and Sexuality: Parental Responsibility…, 2nd edition, in particular, is designed to teach this knowledge to parents, grandparents and relatives who would like to learn more about:
- how to better help the child from 0 to 6 years of age to open up to the mysteries of love, sexuality, and gender complementarity in an orderly way;
- how to take better advantage of the periods of "sexual silence" of the child from 6 to 11 or 12 years of age in order to bring him/her to grasp what it means to love and live according to the Divine plan.
2nd Edition
Framework Document
The Framework Document (course outline) — a global reflection of the training program The Integration of Love and Sexuality in Children 0 to 12 years of age — will introduce you to the 10 course modules closely linked to the volume: Educating the Child to Love and Sexuality: Parental Responsibility…, 2nd edition.
This Framework Document, intended for everyone but above all for parents, aims to help you discover the fundamental basis that our CIREF recognizes as essential to promote the harmonious development of every child from 0 to 6 years of age and from 6 to 12 years of age as a sexual person called to the vocation of love.
Please study this Framework Document in depth, as it will show you the important task that the child from 0 to 6 and from 6 to 12 years of age already has to achieve, with your support.
10 Course Modules
This is the presentation of the content of The Integration of Love and Sexuality in Children 0 to 12 years of Age, which is divided into these 10 modules:
- A fivefold problem related to sex education in schools
- A culture of integrated love and sexuality: an imperative, an emergency!
- The decisive stage of early childhood
- The child's concrete and fundamental education facing the mysteries of life
- The latency period of childhood: Shhh! The child sleeps sexually! Let's not wake him/her up!
- The crucial stage of the development of the senses and of the heart of the child
- The development of intimate privacy in the child
- Help your child get ready for a double battle: for purity and for the discipline of love
- Preparing your child for puberty
- For the advent of a culture of integrated love and sexuality
Quiz
Knowing that the evaluation of acquired knowledge is a valuable learning tool, following each of the 10 important modules of the volume Educating the Child to Love and Sexuality: Parental Responsibility…, 2nd edition — a Quiz consisting of a few objective questions will be presented to you. The answers will follow immediately...
Self-training is therefore followed by self-assessment and self-correction.
Don't overlook the Preliminary Quiz!
How to encourage self-education to integrated love and sexuality in a context of integral development?
Training for parents and young people
This is the training for the integration of love and sexuality in adolescents. It is crucial to help teenagers understand and internalise the fundamental truth that their sexual body and soul love truth.
Through this in-depth study, fathers and mothers will better understand their important role as educators of their teens about integrated love and sexuality. This will lead them to let go of their fear of addressing these two vital dimensions of their personhood — love and sexuality — with their teens, and to develop their faith in their teens' ability to take on the totality of their bio-psycho-social and spiritual being with God's strength.
Will this training, intended for all, not promote the culture of love and integrated sexuality that our teenagers of today need so much to fully humanize themselves?
An overview of the self-training program for all
Professors in charge
Solange Lefebvre-Pageau and Rosette Badila
Clientele
This self-training is intended for everyone, but above all for parents and educators of parents and their faithful collaborators. It presents a pedagogy of the inner process of the integration of love and sexuality in adolescents from 12 to 18 years of age.
Suggested length of your self-training
Everyone may work at their own pace, but three or four hours per week should allow one to finish within four months.
Objective
To develop the capacity of parents, supported by their collaborators and even by society as a whole, to accompany their teenagers who have to educate themselves to integrated love and sexuality. These will be able to come to understand the meaning of their fertile sexual being in order to welcome themselves in truth and to move towards the maturity of love. This will enable them, as adults, to embrace a couple and family project.
Content
In the light of Judeo-Christian philosophy, of the concept of integration (inspired by the humanities), and following the thread of human and spiritual maturity, this self-training, focused on parents, will allow them to better understand what the new being of their teenagers is becoming. This knowledge will allow them to effectively accompany them — throughout their adolescence — in the beautiful and demanding task of accepting their sexual identity, welcoming their new sexual being (called to be at the service of life and love), and integrating their sexual being. This is a true educational training of teenagers that allows them to develop the strength of heterosexuality (which will enable them to love in the complementarity of man and woman and, as a corollary, to commit themselves resolutely to a couple and family project).
Suggestion of a very useful learning activity
Throughout this training, you could hold regular sharing meetings with one, two, three, or four people to discuss your new knowledge.
Learning materials
Through our website, participants will obtain:
- The basic volume: Welcoming My Gendered Self — A Process of Integration, 2nd Edition
- A Framework Document: Introduction to the 25 modules of the course The Integration of Love and Sexuality in Adolescence
- 25 course modules
- Three brochures
- Numerous opinion articles from the News/Archives section
- Three pamphlets published in the Publications/Pamphlets section
N.B. Everything can be downloaded.
Technological information
The course requires access to the Internet and the use of Adobe Acrobat Reader and Microsoft PowerPoint.
Supervision
Those who wish to take this self-training course on the Internet can contact our CIREF by e-mail or telephone.
Cost
This self-training is free. However, a donation to show your appreciation would be greatly welcomed.
Access to the Virtual Campus
Obtain a username and password by writing to the following address: mayeul@ciref.ca
The self-learning volume: Welcoming my gendered being
“No one can enter into marriage with a deep sense of the gift of what it entails, if he does not have a mature knowledge of his body!” (St. John Paul II)
The self-study volume Accomplishing My Gendered Self — A Process of Integration, 2nd edition, is intended for teenagers.
All of you, parents and other participants in this training, will recognize that, in a concrete way, this micro-graduated teaching book aims at teaching teens to know themselves well as sexual beings, being called to the service of life and love. Great mysteries of human life!
How important it is for all of us to take the time to internalize the depth of this teaching, which will facilitate high quality exchanges with your teenagers in search of truth to better live emotionally and sexually according to the plan and will of the Creator.
2nd Edition
Framework document
The framework document (course outline) is the prerequisite for the training The integration of love and sexuality in adolescents — Self-education.
First, it will propose a reflection on the importance and urgency of:
- reclaiming the role of parents;
- training them well in the pedagogy of the process of integration of love and sexuality, in order to encourage their teens to accept to work on fulfilling themselves by integrating these two essential elements of humanity: love and sexuality.
In the second part, it will present the main orientations proposed by CIREF for a process of integration of love and sexuality that fosters the integral development of teenagers.
In the third part, it will present the proposed objectives to everyone, but especially to parents, and it will propose an approach that will help them resolve problems related to emotional and sexual issues.
Many will be pleased with the richness of the glossary presented.
25 Course Modules
It is true, many course modules are in parallel to each of the 25 chapters of the volume intended for your teenagers: Welcoming my gendered being — An integration process, 2nd edition! Surprising?
No, not really for girls and boys who have reached puberty and who suddenly discover that they are new beings. These teenagers, whose body, heart, mind, and soul are calling them to prepare with dignity for a beautiful future of emotional and sexual maturity, will take up the challenge of the micro-graduated volume.
These modules — following the example of an educator — will enlighten and guide you, parents, in your continued mission to help and support your girls and boys in the specific human and spiritual tasks of adolescence:
- to accept their sexual orientation,
- to welcome one's sexual being,
- to integrate it.
Evaluation
The evaluation of the knowledge acquired during the course The Integration of Love and Sexuality in Adolescents will be done by taking a quiz after each of the 25 modules. Once you have completed the quiz, you will find the grades automatically managed in the last section.
Self-education is therefore followed by self-assessment and self-correction.
How to encourage self-education in our young adults in a context of integral development of the human being?
Self-Training for Young Adults Supported by Their Parents
The Integration of Love and Sexuality in Young Adults course offers young adults, enlightened and gently guided by their parents, self-training for married life rooted in the Christian and Catholic faith. This teaching is developed in the light of the integral vision of the person (a bio-psycho-social and spiritual being). This vision is crucial for all young men and women who wish, with all their heart, to build a beautiful love according to God's wisdom.
As a result of this in-depth study, young adults will gain a better understanding of the mysterious realities of love, sexuality, the human couple, marriage and the family. This will enable them to respond serenely to the inner call to marriage, if that is their vocation.
Whatever his or her vocation is, every human being — called to learn to become a loving person — will have received during their youth a precious tool to build a solid life project based on love.
An overview of the self-training program for all
Professors in charge
Solange Lefebvre-Pageau and Rosette Badila
Clients
The Integration of Love and Sexuality in Young Adults, developed for young people and also intended for their parents, is not just for these.
It is also intended for any adult who wants to study the process of integrating love and sexuality in order to promote it among the young adults who will be tomorrow's spouses and parents. These have the duty to fully humanize themselves and solidly prepare to live their couple-and-family project.
Suggested length of your self-training
Everyone is free to progress at their own pace, but 3 or 4 hours a week should enable you to finish within 2 months. However, it would not be surprising to find that many young and not-so-young people who are very interested in the offered themes will be able to advance much more quickly and deeply in the study of The Integration of Love and Sexuality in Young Adults.
Objective
To encourage in young adults:
- the development of the ability to maintain rich communications with their parents, helping them to consolidate the teaching they have been given and to live it well;
- the improvement of their personalities by integrating their affective and sexual dimensions;
- a deeper understanding of the great mystery of marriage, which is the normal place for adult development;
- the acquisition of a solid knowledge base in preparation for building a loving marriage that is generously open to welcoming a child.
To encourage parents to:
- develop the ability to maintain rich communications with their young adults, helping them to consolidate the teaching they have been given so that they can live it well.
Content
In the light of Judeo-Christian philosophy, of the concept of integration (inspired by the human sciences), and of the guiding thread of human and spiritual maturity, as it was in the two previous courses, this self-training course will help young people discover the authentic meaning of love, of the prerequisites for a commitment to love, of the love that calls for marriage, and of the loving marriage that calls for the transmission of life to children.
A Very Useful Suggested Learning Activity
Throughout this training, you could hold regular sharing meetings with one, two, three, or four people your age to exchange ideas on your new knowledge.
Training Materials
On our website, participants will obtain:
- The digital volume: The Integration of Love and Sexuality in Young Adults — How to Foster It for the Success of a Couple and Family Project?
- A framework document: Introduction to the 25 modules of the course The Integration of Love and Sexuality in Young Adults — How to Promote Self-Training in Young Adults in the Context of Integral Human Development?
- 25 course modules
- Three videos
- Two articles and an open letter
All this is available for download.
Technological information
The course requires access to the Internet and the use of Adobe Reader and Microsoft PowerPoint.
Supervision
If you wish to take this self-training course via the Internet, you can contact CIREF by e-mail or by telephone.
Cost
This self-study is free of charge. However, a donation to show your appreciation would be greatly appreciated.
Access to the Virtual Campus
Open an account by clicking here.
A Digital Book to Be Internalized:
The Integration of Love and Sexuality in Young Adults — How to Foster It for the Success of a Couple and Family Project?
This 25-chapter self-study volume will introduce all participants to the vast knowledge that the couple-and-family project demands of every young adult determined to remain faithful to the God of Jesus Christ, who instituted the sacrament of marriage. The noble project of married life requires careful preparation. That's why this training course proposes four main themes:
- A better understanding of love, to learn how to live it better.
- The prerequisites for a commitment to love.
- True love calls for marriage.
- Be fruitful throughout the ages.
Framework document
The Framework Document (a course outline) is prerequisite for the training course The Integration of Love and Sexuality in Young Adults. In its introduction, it reminds young adults — indeed all readers — of the very great importance of the young adulthood stage, which must be put to good use in order to discover and take on the training task that is theirs and to clarify the reasons for it.
You'll no doubt notice that the ten topics mentioned in the third formation, under the theme Major Orientations, are in continuity with the other two formations. This will enable each participant to see the importance of continuity from one age of life to the next, in order to foster a genuine process of integration of love and sexuality.
It's true that everyone will be happy to receive this important overview of the course modules that will help them discover that young men and women have their work cut out for them.
Modular Teaching
May you enjoy the modular teaching offered in this training course: The Integration of Love and Sexuality in Young Adults in a Context of Integral Human Development.
Let's not forget that it is a need and a right for Christian youth to receive an education in love and sexuality that respects their identity.
Quiz
You can check your ongoing understanding of the 25 chapters of The Integration of Love and Sexuality in Young Adults course by taking the quiz attached to each course module. The answers follow... So self-training is followed by self-assessment and by self-correction.
Don't overlook the Preliminary Quiz!
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