Resources and prompts to help start discussions about fatherhood
Discussion Starters
Discussion Starters
How to use the discussion starters
These discussion starters include a link to a short video and some questions you can talk through with your Connect Group, team or friends to help you as you grow in your fatherhood journey. You can use them in any order and choose from the questions that appeal to you.
Active, present fatherhood
This discussion starter explores what it means to be a present and active father. We use stories from real people about their own experiences of fatherhood to get the conversation going.
"There's a lot of undoing from our upbringing and culture we have to be aware of" – Asanda Sibanyoni. This is one of the statements we use as a conversation starter in this mini-guide for groups to explore.
Being a father can be very challenging. It's important that we celebrate all the small victories along the way. This discussion starter has prompts to help guide fathers in conversations about their own experiences of fatherhood.
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