Father / Young Daughter Weekend

Get closer to your daughter.

Share a weekend adventure of fun and learning with your daughters (ages 5-12). Your daughters enjoy your undivided attention as you spend a few days in the beautiful woods of Wisconsin. You'll participate in activities that bring you and your daughters closer together and highlight ways you can create a MORE satisfying and effective experience of being a dad:

• Talk with your daughter openly and honestly
• Learn how to listen to your daughters (and have them listen to you)
• Share a time of just being with other dads and daughters

Both dads and daughters look forward to the Father-Young Daughter weekend every year as a special time they share together. Dads learn how to enter your daughter's world through a Friday night adventure based on a current or classic movie, games, work, and open communication. Daughter's have a blast while learning about their dads and themselves. You'll also enjoy the company of other dads who are working to improve their parenting in many similar ways.

On this weekend you will learn to:

• Raise expectations of your daughter and yourselves.
• Use discipline as a key tool in teaching your daughter.
• Create a MORE satisfying balance between what you want to do and what your daughter wants to do when you are together.
• Sort through the positive and negative ways you were parented.
• Build MORE intimacy between you and your daughters.

Invest in your relationship with your daughter. Invest in you.

What is a closer and more meaningful relationship with your daughter worth to you? Is it worth a weekend of incredible connection and contact with your daughter like you have never experienced before? Is it worth feeling satisfied and powerful as a father?

We promise that if, at the end of the weekend, you don't make transformative shifts in yourself and your relationship with your daughter, we will give you your money back. We are confident there is nothing better you could be doing this weekend.

Don't take our word for it. Hear what other fathers and daughters have to say!

"I like all the things where you have to tell the truth to get the keys and answer all the riddles, all the adventures we go through. I also like when we get to make breakfast. Also I like when we have our own time with each other."

-Morgan L. (age 7)

"I have really enjoyed the opportunity to get to know my daughter at a whole different level and enter her world. The weekend was the first time where she really got to talk about what she wanted to talk about and I just listened. We also have had some great times together going through the Friday night adventures and really supporting her to be brave and tell the truth and do her best."

-Rich L.

"My daughter and I have done these weekends since she was five. Now she's 16, and our ability to talk and listen to one another defies the teenage stereotypes as a result."

-Collin C.

"I learned a lesson on the Father-Young Daughter Weekend when I was six that has stayed with me ever since: It's better to work than to whine."

-Lilli C.

More Parenting Success

Sponsored by the Men's Guild and Wright Parenting, the Father-Young Daughter Adventure Weekend is one of a series of powerful parenting training weekends from the Wright Leadership Institute. Other weekends are designed for fathers and sons, mothers and sons, mothers and daughters, and families.

The bad news.

Being a dad is a challenging job, and no matter how hard you try, you can never do it "perfectly." You will continuously make mistakes, and you will always feel like there is more you "should" be doing.

The good news.

You are not alone! The Institute's parenting program is designed to bring parents together to co-voyage in the wild and complex adventure of parenting. Although it is true you cannot do it perfectly or be an expert, you can enjoy the immense richness that comes from learning and growing together with your child.

Join Bob Wright.

Bob Wright, founder of the Wright Leadership Institute, has over 25 years of experience supporting parents in living to their highest potential. Bob has developed cutting-edge programs for parents including ongoing Moms and Dad's groups, evening workshops for parents and the one-of-a-kind parent/child adventure weekends.

On the parenting weekends, Bob guides parents toward achieving their deepest satisfaction in the lifelong job of parenting. In a compassionate and caring forum, he teaches mothers how to learn and grow with their children. Being present in the moment with your children is a learnable skill and one that will bring richness to your parenting beyond anything you thought possible.

The weekend is especially suited for children from ages 5 to 12. Teens are also encouraged to attend and apply to be a part of the leadership team.