As you journey through the critical years of adolescence, one of the most difficult things to do as a parent is to stay connected with your teens. The Family Insights process is designed to open the lines of communication and strengthen the family.

Each family member, whether parent or teen, should complete the appropriate Family Insights Profile and share their results, using the Family Insights Process Guide free download. This simple process will allow you to discover the unique differences in your family and equip you with the understanding to value those differences, increasing communication and building closer relationships during this crucial time in your family's life.

The Parent Insights Profile is an enlightening and comprehensive report on your unique approach to parenting. Through a quick and simple online process that produces the report immediately, this profile will reveal your God-given strengths and how you apply them in your family relationships. It will not only provide insights on your parenting style, but will offer practical keys to the other members of your family on communicating effectively with you. Don’t hesitate to take this opportunity to learn more about yourself as a parent and allow your teen to understand you like never before.

The Teen Insights Profile will provide significant insights into your teen in an amazingly accurate, clear and concise report. Results are produced immediately from a quick and simple online assessment. Designed specifically for adolescents, the statements are written in the first person, and will read as if your son or daughter had opened the window into their deepest wants, needs and desires. It will challenge your teen to assess their decision-making style, discover the most effective way they accomplish tasks and handle conflict. This profile will be liberating and encouraging for them, and will give them an objective platform to share information and understanding with you. With useful information on ways to effectively communicate, you’ll have the ability to speak each other’s language like never before.

Both the Parent Insights and Teen Insights profiles are packed full of information to improve communication in your family. They each include the following sections:

• Introduction – Brief overview of the report contents, explanation of the meanings of the letters in Your Style Analysis Graph and brief description of the basic character traits.
• Your Style Analysis Graph – graphical depiction of your “core” style.
• General Statements – statements to provide a broad understanding of your strengths and behavior. The Teen version is written in the first person, as if your teen wrote a list to describe who they are.
• Checklist for Communicating – provides practical methods for communicating with you.
• Don’ts on Communicating – describes what NOT to do when communicating with you.
• One-Word Descriptors – words that may describe you.
• Communicating with Others – suggestions on methods to improve communication with others.
• Perceptions – provides additional information on your self-perception and how others may perceive your actions.
• Action Plan – guide for preparing a plan to improve communication.
• Additional Insights – introduction and explanation of how much you feel you may need to “adapt” your “core” style to match the needs or requirements of your home environment and to fit your unique family relationships.
• Style Analysis Graphs – graphical depiction of your “core” style and your “adapted” style.
• How Are You Having to “Adapt”? – list of descriptions of how you may feel you need to respond to the current home environment to be successful as a parent or accepted by your parents as a teen.
• The Ministry Insights Wheel – explanation and graphical depiction to analyze and compare with your family members.

Video Tour - Purchasing and Completing the Family Insights Profiles

This short video will walk you through the process of ordering and completing profiles.