It is yet another event of this kind at our school. An open lecture on the basis of Gary Chapman’s bestseller was held on 1 February, at 7 p.m.

As Gary Chapman said – there are no two persons, who would express and feel love the same way. This is also true for parent and child relationships.

Awareness of how I express my feelings, how I receive them and what matters to my child, may help strengthen that relationship. To express love well and give the child what it needs, it is first worth to get to know yourself and your love language.

• What is a love language?
• What are the 5 love languages (quality time, touch, little acts of service, receiving gifts and words of affirmation) and how are they different?
• How does your love language translate to relationships you form with children and the way your children build relationships?
• What are the needs of children and how to address them?
• How do children develop their love language?
• What happens when two people do not understand each other’s love language

We hope that after the lecture our audience will be better able to understand their love language and consciously contribute to show their children the correct ways to operate and identify love languages in others.

About Gary Chapman

Gary Chapman (born in 1938) – an American psychotherapist, writer, anthropologist and linguist. World class specialist dealing with family, marriage and engagement period issues. He became famous after publishing the book The 5 Love Languages: The Secret to Love That Lasts.

Gary Chapman’s book quickly appeared on bestsellers list of the New York Times. It has been translated into more than 36 languages and sold in over 8 million copies globally.

After the publication of his first book, he has written new editions of The 5 Love Languages, also from the perspective of relationships developed by adolescents and children. (Source: Esprit Publishing House)

The lecture was presented by Marta Wiercińska – a psychologist, certified psychotherapist, clinical psychologist with first degree specialization. A graduate from Maria Curie Skłodowska University in Lublin and Collegium Medicum at Jagiellonian University in Krakow. Founder of Psychotherapy Institute Instytut Psychoterapii MindMed.

Over the last 25 years she has helped thousands of people. She deals with diagnosing, providing psychological counseling, crisis interventions and psychotherapy  integrative psychotherapy consisting in combining different psychotherapeutic approaches to adapt the working method to the needs of another person.