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Personal Development Workshops

Exploring areas of and approaches to personal development where you can discover more about yourself and how you can get more out of your life and relationships. Learn how to be more effective in your communications and deal more successfully with conflict and stress. Establish what really matters to you and how you can find ways to live your life in a way that is more aligned to those things.

Introduction to Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP)
Saturdays 10am - 4pm, May 1st and October 2nd Presenter - Mike Shillabeer

You enjoy learning most when you are having fun, don't you? This is an exciting opportunity to have an enjoyable day exploring why NLP has been such an important development in learning and self- growth. Become curious about why NLP can help us see infinite possibilities in what we can achieve and how it can help us understand others and ourselves better.

NLP provides a lot of great tools to help you see, hear and feel differently about the world and our place in it but more than anything else it helps you to develop an inquisitive attitude and way of looking at the world. This means you can let go of restrictions on what you believe you can do and achieve as well as increasing your enjoyment of what you do and what you experience.

Maybe you lack self-confidence or you over indulge (e.g. food, tobacco, alcohol). Maybe you just need to find ways of setting personal direction and committing yourself to action. NLP can help you develop new strategies to deal with issues of this kind.

During the day you will have an opportunity to discover the:

-- NLP model of the world and the possibilities it unfolds

-- NLP communication model helping you understand what goes on for yourself and others in your interactions

-- Ways to develop rapport - matching, mirroring and pacing both words and non verbal communication

-- Representational systems and submodalities - preferences for visual, auditory, kinesthetic or audio digital language

-- Strategies you use in your everyday lives for everything you do

There will be lots of time for practicing new skills and ideas as well as observing demonstrations of how NLP can make change truly happen.

NLP can help you perform better in your work, aid your own personal growth and development or just increase your own health and well-being. If you are someone who works in a team or cares for others it will also assist you to help them deal with situations in a more resourceful way. Come and find out more.

Cost - £90 + VAT (includes lunch) - Reserve your place

Thriving in Change - Saturday July 10th and Sunday November 21st, 9:30am - 4:30pm
Presenters - Lilian Kershaw and Penny Jones

An opportunity to:
-- gain a greater understanding of the inevitability of change, uncertainty and ambiguity and of the impact of lifecycles and life-stages

-- reflect up on how we all experience change differently and the implications this has for our relationships

-- use a variety of models of change to help you to consider how you are experiencing changes in your life and how you could thrive in that change rather than just survive it

Cost - £90 + VAT (includes lunch) - Reserve your place

Psychology of Human Relationships using Transactional Analysis (TA)
  - Saturday Aug 14th 10am - 4pm, Presenter - Jude Goddard

This one-day course introduces you to one of the most successful and influential models of psychology used for personal growth and business today. It is both a practical and well-researched model that can be used at a host of levels.

-- Do you want to know what really makes you tick?

-- Would you like to learn more about and the way you communicate?

-- Is being more assertive and connected in the world attractive to you?

Transactional Analysis (TA) is a way of understanding ourselves and provides a perfect model for personal growth and change. It can answer the questions posed above as well as many others.

What Will We Learn?

-- The Ego state model (the basic framework of TA)
-- Psychological drivers for change
-- The reasons why we behave the way we do
-- Different ways to change how we behave
-- Your communication strategies and how you relate to others

How Will We Learn?

You will be facilitated through participative day and you will explore the ideas above in a practical manner.

What Can You Do With TA?

-- Employ it to help with business
-- Assist our clients to deal with situations
-- Aid your personal growth and development
-- Use it for health and well being

Cost - £90 + VAT (includes lunch) - Reserve your place

MBTI & Effective Communications - Saturday 10am - 4pm, September 11th
Presenters - Lilian Kershaw and Penny Jones

This workshop will help you to improve your communications by understanding and making the most of difference. It includes an introduction to Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) and the influence of type on communication styles.

The MBTI is a personality type indicator which has been developed over decades and is supported by considerable research. It is based on Carl G. Jung's theory of psychological type and provides a helpful approach to understanding your own and other personality types, how the different preferences influence behaviours and why.

Cost - £90 + VAT (includes lunch) - Reserve your place

Using Coaching Skills in your Relationships - Saturday 10am - 4pm, October 9th
Presenters - Lilian Kershaw and Penny Jones

Active listening, effective questioning and successfully giving and receiving feedback are key skills that are integral to taking a coaching approach in your interactions with family, friends and colleagues. In this session we will discuss and practice using these coaching techniques to help you to support others through challenges and empower their decision-making.

Cost - £90 + VAT(includes lunch) - Reserve your place

Responding Assertively under Stress - Saturday 10am - 4:30pm November 6th
Presenter - Philippa Mooney

Do you sometimes find it difficult to voice your opinions in an appropriate way, particularly when you are feeling stressed? This one day programme aims to inoculate delegates against day to day stress by controlling attention and acting more assertively. It is a highly effective programme which can make a real difference to our experience of life.

During the day we will be:
-- Understanding and defining stress
-- Learning a new and effective approach to stress management
-- Defining assertiveness (and what is not assertiveness)
-- Communicating assertively
-- Setting goals to take away

Cost - £90 + VAT (includes lunch) - Reserve your place

Living a Life with Meaning - Sunday October 10th, 9:30am - 4:30pm
Presenters - Lilian Kershaw and Penny Jones

An opportunity to:
-- reflect on your life and the aspects you want to change

-- establish what really matters to you and how you can find ways to live your life in a way that is more aligned to those things

-- consider the obstacles that you might be faced with and how to overcome them

-- find the support you need to make the changes you have identified

Cost - £90 + VAT (includes lunch) - Reserve your place

Handling Conflict and Difficult Situations - Saturday 10am - 4pm, November 20th
Presenters - Lilian Kershaw and Penny Jones

A workshop that will draw on the participants experiences with the aims of:
-- developing ways of improving challenging relationships
-- dealing more successfully with conflict
-- becoming more effective when faced with difficult behaviours

Cost - £90 + VAT (includes lunch) - Reserve your place