Coping with Work Travel

Staying Close When You’re Apart

Date: Monday, Feb. 13
Time: 6:30 – 8:00pm
Instructor: James Barber, LPCC
Cost: $10/family

Registration Required: register here!
Child Care: Available on site, must be requested at least one week before class; no charge.

Refreshments will be served

Travel for work presents exciting opportunities for career and personal development – and creates challenges at home. Shift work presents many of the same challenges – s/he may be in town, but it feels like s/he is gone. In this workshop, we will discuss issues between spouses such as:

• Staying connected while living different lives
• Dueling needs: catching up at work vs. the “honey-do” list vs. date night
• Shifting decision-making responsibility
• Maintaining fidelity and trust

When children are involved, challenges multiply. We will discuss:

• Staying connected to the kids
• Reassuring children who are missing the traveling spouse
• Co-parenting: keeping a united front

Mr. Barber has worked as an Employee Assistance Program Counselor at LANL for 27 years. Before coming to LANL, he ran the in-patient unit at Children’s Psychiatric Hospital in Albuquerque and ran a group home for delinquent children.