The speed and complexity of modern life continues to increase, as does people’s expectation of life. Coping well requires autonomous thinking, flexibility and access to a toolbox of support. Counselling skills will help people to change as they learn to think things through, process life’s situations objectively and make their own qualified decisions, free of the effects of past conditioning.

This course is particularly beneficial to all therapists, healers, teachers and community workers

• Introduction to counselling and communications course and the ’Feeling Check’
• The ‘Feeling Check’, Emotional Intelligence and Emotional Competence
• Observation skills and Authenticity
• Listening skills, the importance of feelings and emotions
• Questioning technique and exploration
• Developing empathy, dealing with guilt, reinforcing personal accountability
• Confrontation VS Conflict – behavioural patterns and coping mechanisms
• Setting boundaries, setting goals and problem solving
• The crisis quadrant and the victim triangle
• Loss and grief

Courses will run once a week for 10 weeks in modules of 2 hours each

Trauma counselling and life skills coaching is also available ‘one on one’ at the academy