confidence-building
course November 2010

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About the course
Know yourself! - The Fundamentals of Co-Counselling
Develop deeper self-awareness: handle stress better and grow your confidence (Two weekends November 2010)

> Knowing and uncovering your feelings
> Encountering your history
> Self-acceptance and self-esteem
> New perspectives on yourself
> Develop skills in anger management and stress management

This course is about helping you find out more about yourself and your feelings. It allows you to explore who you are and what you do with your life, and assess whether you need to change anything.

Why does self-knowledge increase confidence? I think that to have control over my life, and therefore myself, I have to know what I am dealing with inside of myself, ie what makes me tick. This especially means finding out about the things I do that get me into scrapes, or that hold me back, or risk making me disliked. So in order to unlock my own power and potential, I have to find out why I do what I do.

The course make extensive use of the co-counselling peer-based method for personal growth, which has developed over the last 40 years. It makes use of some of the techniques in Gestalt therapy, psychodrama and process-oriented psychology. Go to www.co-counselling.co.uk to find out more detail about this. See the videos on YouTube:

Successful completion of this course gives you the choice of accessing the CCI (Co-Counselling International) network and its workshops: it's an option open to you, if you want. CCI residential workshops have for over 20 years provided its participants with a unique and liberating space to grow, play, and to challenge themselves.

> Do you hold back?

If you believe that you are shy, or simply that you find it difficult in groups or with strangers, then the network of CCI residential workshops provides an excellent and unique environment to work on your shyness or holding back over a longer period of time. The beauty of it is that you can choose to do this at your own pace without feeling that you are pushed into anything you are not ready for. I have used this network of events over the last 15 years to challenge myself, and have become more able to 'put myself out there' in a confident way. It's been an indespensible element in my personal development, complementing the other courses, training and individual and group therapy I have done. (CCI residential workshops)

This course is for anyone who wants to increase their sense of self-confidence, whether in the workplace, socially or at home: it is for people who want to learn skills of assertive, direct engagement with others, make more of an impact on the world, and be held back less by their fears.

Staying in your 'comfort zone' is easy - you simply operate within the confidence level that you have already developed. As the saying goes: 'if you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always got'. But, as soon as you want to get involved more actively and creatively with the world and the people in it, you have to face the challenges of relating to others in a more direct way. This means taking risks - at whatever level. The less you can do this, the more difficult it is to handle these situations.

The course is largely experiential, which means that the emphasis is on doing things rather that sitting listening to lectures . You will have the opportunity to do specific exercises that will involve practising skills and addressing the blocks that stop you facing challenges. There is no written work required, though I may ask you to jot down some ideas, and I supply handouts so that there is no need to write anything down during the session. There will be pairwork, work in three's, groupwork, and exercises.

The group provides the opportunity to face the challenge of taking a risk (eg of talking to a group) in spite of one's fear (eg fear of looking silly). It is when in contact with others that you can best develop yourself and work on how you operate: this course offers a supportive group where you can work on your interpersonal skills and further your self-knowledge.

I hope you're not put off when I say it is necessary to take risks - I think that a useful course for personal development has to allow people to do things at their own pace. I think that such a group or course has to feel safe, so if you choose to do the course you will not be pushed into doing anything you don't want to do. On the other hand, if you sit back and do nothing but watch or go through the motions, you won't get much benefit. Ideally the course will feel both exciting and managable to you. It should also be fun!

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