Discover how Neuro-Linguistic Programming can transform your communication. Learn to act upon the principles employed by star communicators, lay the foundations of strong communication, short-circuit power games, reprogram responses to people who push your buttons, detect nonverbal clues which reveal someone’s unspoken message, make an unpalatable message easy to digest by catering to a listener’s preferences, and smoothly navigate your way through conflicts. Master practical techni... [More]

Cognitive Behaviour Therapy is based on the idea that feelings such as anxiety, depression, anger and frustration are largely caused by our own thoughts and beliefs, and that changing the way we think enables us to change the way we feel. Learn to identify the patterns of thinking that contribute to upsetting emotions, and learn strategies to help you challenge and change negative thoughts and self-defeating behaviours. An interactive program will describe the Cognitive Behavioural ... [More]

Some people appear to have a knack for influencing others. Their persuasive skills appear to flow naturally and unconsciously – but they actually stem from principles anyone can learn to apply. By understanding these principles, you can get others to listen to you, persuade people to change their mind, shift the direction of a conversation, communicate a message effectively. This course is suitable for anyone who needs to engage and inspire others at work – including managers, sales... [More]

This counselling training course is designed for a work setting, but is equally applicable for family and friends. Counselling is being increasingly sought as the pressures of work and personal life continue to increase. This reflects the rapidly changing world we live in and the increasing choices we face as individuals. This counselling training course introduces you to the concepts that underpin counselling so that you can offer this assistance to your work colleagues, employees,... [More]

If you want to learn how to say ‘no’, make your presence felt in a meeting or tell someone their behaviour is unsatisfactory (while keeping others onside), then this course is for you. You’ll learn how to handle people who ignore you, interrupt you, unduly criticise you, make unreasonable requests or vent their anger against you. A key tool you will explore and use is Yvonne Collier’s LAFFe to Success Behavioural Model to become more assertive. You will discover your dominant behavi... [More]

You’ve lived Adulthood I – you’ve built a career and perhaps raised a family. You’re in your mid-50s, 60s or 70s and you probably have another 20, 30 or 40+ years of good life ahead of you. So, what’s next? Human life expectancy at birth in industrialised countries has increased by some thirty years since the beginning of the twentieth century. Career and child rearing, by which we have defined ourselves, no longer occupy the majority of our time. We are in new territory. We need to... [More]

NLP provides a set of tools for achieving excellence. This course puts the power of those tools into your hands. Hear how to ‘program yourself to succeed’ by redesigning your patterns of thought and behaviour, and see how to create a compelling personal vision of success. Experience new ways of feeling resourceful and effective and learn how to reproduce others' success strategies. Motivate yourself at both conscious and unconscious levels. This course is about how techniques from N... [More]

Beginning with an historical context of drug use, participants will explore and understand how society’s use of drugs has become a social norm which is a costly burden causing significant health, social and economic harm. Theoretical constructs of drug use and drug dependence will be discussed in this drug education course and participants will be asked to examine their own values, morals and attitudes to drug use and drug users. This drug education course will also discuss current ... [More]

You might imagine that listening and speaking under pressure is a natural ability – you either have it or you don’t. In fact, with good preparation and a structured approach you can develop the confidence to be spontaneous and articulate when presenting a proposal, public speaking, strengthening your case or selling your ideas. This lively course will show you a four-step system for doing this, so that, even under pressure, you can speak accurately, fluently and flexibly. Course con... [More]

Writing thoughts on paper is one of the oldest and most widely practised forms of self-help through writing. Blank paper is the most patient and discreet of listeners and the physical act of handwriting is a meditative and soothing way of working through life’s challenges. You don’t have to be an expert writer to gain the benefits of writing as meditation, exploration, clarification and comfort. This course is for those who would like to use reflective and expressive writing to enha... [More]