MARRIAGE EDUCATION PRACTICES AT RECONCILIATION SCHOOLS
Abstrak
This paper aims to explore community-based marriage/family education practices conducted by the Reconciliation School. The Reconciliation School is an effort to help individuals achieve a better, happier, and more peaceful life by addressing emotional wounds caused by dysfunctional families. In its training sessions, the Reconciliation School adopts therapeutic methods developed by John Bradshaw and Virginia Satir. Interviews conducted by the author with several participants reveal positive impacts on their relationships with their spouses, children, parents, and themselves after undergoing therapy and training. As a conclusion, this paper suggests that community-based family education initiatives like the Reconciliation School should be expanded and potentially adopted to strengthen the family system in Indonesia, where the divorce rate currently hovers around 12-15 percent.
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