| Confidence-building
and assertiveness training courses in
Leeds
Speak up!  speak
up!
Sell yourself! sell
yourself!
Know yourself!
know
yourself!
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- Can you
fake confident body language, even if you are nervous?
- Do you
sell yourself with impact, or with an apology?
- Can you
give and take a compliment?
- Can you
treat the giving and receiving of criticism creatively, or is it a destructive
process in your life?
- Can you
speak up in a group?
- Can you
do things even though they feel risky?
- How do
you cope with embarrassment or anger?
- Do you
make the most out of your life?
- Can you
present yourself with impact?
These three
separate courses are designed to help you broaden your self-confidence
and ability to make an impact, know yourself better and take charge of
your own life in a creative and empowered way. The three courses complement
each other: you will get most benefit from doing all three, but you can
do just one or two of them if you wish.
Speak
up!
(two
Sundays)
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Assertiveness skills
> Body language
> Self expression
> Facing fears
> Making contact
These two days will help you improve your ability to:
.....handle criticism (giving and receiving)
creatively,
.....give and receive compliments in spite
of fears of embarrassment,
.....make requests of people,
.....say 'no',
.....negotiate,
.....handle a put-down,
.....handle stressful or ‘awkward’
moments,
.....talk to people in social situations,
and
.....combat shyness.
Details:
Contact me for up to date details
Dates: Two Sundays
Times: 11.00am – 5.00pm
Venue: Oakwood
House, Office 6, 637 Roundhay Rd, Oakwood, Leeds LS8 4BA
Cost: £TBA
Group size: Maximum 8
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Sell
yourself!
(two Sundays)
Contact
me for up to date details
> Presentations and selling yourself
.....(including making announcements,
presenting to a group, and being .....interviewed
for a job)
> Body language, further skills
> Making an impact
> Using your voice
> Expanding the comfort zone
> Structuring your message
Some research has shown that the impact we make depends on the following
elements in the following proportions:
......7% Content (what you say)
..... 55% Body language (your physical signals)
..... 38% Vocal style (how you say it)
Theses two days cover how to use and be aware of body language, vocal
delivery and verbal style, as you present yourself in a number of different
contexts. The course will help you make better impact in selling yourself
and getting your message across.
>
See yourself (on DVD) as others see you
Will you like
what you see?! You are offered the invaluable opportunity to watch yourself
on DVD-video and then learn from what you see, so that you present yourself
effectively. It will offer further opportunities to expand your 'comfort
zone'.
Details:
Contact me for up to date details
Two Sundays
Times: 11.00am – 5.00pm
Venue: Oakwood
House, Office 6, 637 Roundhay Rd, Oakwood, Leeds LS8 4BA
Cost: £TBA
Group size: Maximum 8
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Know
yourself!
- handle
stress better by developing deeper
self-awareness
(five days, over three weekends, autumn 2008)
> Knowing and uncovering your feelings
> Encountering your history
> Self-acceptance
> New perspectives on yourself
This two-weekend 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 two weekends
make extensive use of the co-counselling peer-based method for personal
growth, which has developed over the last 30 years. It makes use of some
of the techniques in Gestalt therapy, psychodrama and process-oriented
psychology
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)
Details:
Dates and times
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Autumn
2008, probably November but definitely October - December, dates to be
decided on 4th October 2008.
Days
1 and 2:
Saturday 11.00am – 6.00pm
Sunday 10.00am – 5.00pm
Day
3:
Saturday 11.00am – 6.00pm
Days
4 and 5:
Saturday 11.00am
– 6.00pm
Sunday
10.00am –
5.00pm
The five
days are non-residential.
Venue: Leeds
Trainer: Richard Mills.
Cost: £250
per person.
BOOKING
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Go to www.co-counselling.co.uk
and follow the instructions
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More about this 3-course programme...
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, group discussion,
and exercises such as role-play and group sculpt. You will have the opportunity
to see yourself on video and learn from what you see. I draw from my own
experience of teaching co-counselling and assertiveness skills, as a therapist
and workshop leader, as a participant in psychodrama and other groupwork,
and as an export sales representative.
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.
Some of the
skills involved are verbal, but we shall also pay close attention to body
language (posture and gait), vocal delivery and eye-contact.
We will also think about how our background and history informs how we
operate now.
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!
...........................Book
soon to avoid disappointment: places are limited.
Booking
Go
to www.confidence-building.net
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