TRAINING & EDUCATION

Courses:

RIDING THE STORM (Skills for Parents of Teenagers)
MOVING FORWARD (for divorced/separated people)
COUNSELLING SKILLS / FOR NON COUNSELLORS
TAKING CHARGE OF YOUR LIFE (Assertiveness)

RIDING THE STORM
(Skills for Parents of Teenagers)

This course is designed to help parents of teenagers re-build their relationships.
The course offers knowledge and research as well as lots of practical exercises to show learning.


The course has been designed to offer a comfortable learning environment,
plus the opportunity to talk openly and share with others your experiences and problems of dealing with teenagers. Participants will not be judged,
they will however be offered support and practical help.


We select our trainers for their interpersonal skills as well as their training ability.
Our trainers create an environment where they encourage and enable course participants to join in group discussions and activities. The students are
actively involved in the learning process and have full opportunity to raise
concerns and practise skills.

The aim of the course is to:

  • Understand the pressures of being a teenager
  • Help break bad parental habits
  • Identify their skills as a parent
  • Managing conflict between parent and teenager
  • Negotiating boundaries
  • Raise awareness of support networks
  • Help with re-building relationships between parent and teenager
  • Spotting the signs, drugs awareness

Relate provide a Certificate of Attendance on completion of the course.


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MOVING FORWARD

(for divorced/separated people)


This is a personal development course for people who have divorced or separated
from their partner. It is informal, friendly and supportive
and led by a professional Relate Trainer.

It offers a chance to meet people going through a similar life stage and is
designed to help you come to terms with the break up of a relationship. Participants have the opportunity to learn about themselves and develop new skills
to enable them to move forward.

We select our trainers for their interpersonal skills as well as their training ability.
Our trainers create an environment where they encourage and enable course
participants to join in group discussions and activities. The students are actively involved in the learning process and have full opportunity to raise concerns
and practise skills.

Course Content:

  • Exploring why relationships go wrong
  • Rebuilding after a relationship ends
  • Relating to other people
  • The impact on children, family and friends
  • Dealing with change
  • Learning about yourself
  • Building relationship skills


Relate provide a Certificate of Attendance on completion of the course.

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COUNSELLING SKILLS
FOR NON COUNSELLORS

This is a course for those engaged in a helping or supporting role privately or professionally. The purpose of the course is to offer a framework and some of the skills necessary in helping others - this course does not provide a qualification in counselling.


With 60 years experience in couple counselling Relate is in a prime position to be able to offer Basic Counselling Skills Training to those who wish to use these skills in their work.


We select our trainers for their interpersonal skills as well as their training ability. Our trainers create an environment where they encourage and enable course participants to join in group discussions and activities. The students are actively involved in the learning process and have full opportunity to raise concerns and practise skills.


Course Content:

  • What are counselling skills? The core conditions, a three stage model based on Carkhuff and Egan, fundamentals of the counselling process and use of skills
  • The skills associated with the three stage model
  • Interview management and time keeping
  • The need for clear boundaries and structure
  • Ethical issues, the limitations of the use of counselling skills and the need for support
  • Self-awareness
  • Enabling change


Relate provide a Certificate of Attendance on completion of the course.

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TAKING CHARGE OF YOUR LIFE
(ASSERTIVENESS)


This is a course for individuals who would like to increase their confidence,
feel more assertive, cope more effectively with stress and manage
their time more efficiently.


The course contains:

  • Communication skills
  • Understanding passive, aggressive and assertive behaviour
  • Dealing with conflict
  • Combating stress
  • Time management


We select our trainers for their interpersonal skills as well as their training
ability. Our trainers create an environment where they encourage and
enable course participants to join in group discussions and activities. The
students are actively involved in the learning process and have full
opportunity to raise concerns and practise skills.


Relate provide a Certificate of Attendance on completion of the course.

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