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Confidence-building
and assertiveness training courses in
Leeds
Speak up!  speak
up!
Sell yourself! sell
yourself!
Know yourself!
know
yourself!
more...
- 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)
>
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
(Two weekends, November 2010)
> 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)
Dates
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Weekend 1: 5 - 7 November 2010
Weekend 2: 26 - 28 November 2010
(You have to attend both weekends.)
Three (optional) evening practice sessions:
Thursday 11 November 2010,
Tuesday
16 November 2010 and
Wednesday
24
November 2010.
It is recommended
that you attend these, but you don't have to do so.
MORE DETAILS
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Go
to www.co-counselling.co.uk
BOOKING
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Go
to www.co-counselling.co.uk and follow the instructions
FEEDBACK FROM PREVIOUS COURSES
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‘I always look forward to being in a workshop where Richard is present.’
- Stephen Gillingham, 2009
‘…sensitive observation, precise communication, warmth and humour.’
- Alan Carver, Leeds, 2009
‘…he also had us laughing and celebrating what's good about ourselves.’
- Tracy Shippey, York, 2009
‘…powerful, challenging and exciting… an excellent and inspirational
facilitator.' - Rosalind Ashling, Perth, February 2010
‘…a good balance of fun and deeper issues.’ - Nicky, Leeds, 2010
‘…perceptive facilitation’ - Fiona Larsen, Reading, 2009
‘Richard is a sensitive and aware facilitator.’ - Kathryn, Hamburg, 2009
‘…continued invitations, both spoken and implicit, to be and become more
fully myself.’ - Dom Hooper, 2009
'This weekend has changed my life'
'I appreciated the energy and authenticity the trainers brought to the
course'
'Inspiring and liberating. I also enjoyed the variety of activities and
teaching methods.'
'I appreciated the creation of such a safe atmosphere.'
'The course has given me hope that I can discover my potential.'
'I thought Elisabeth and Richard made a good team - skilled and sensitive
facilitation.'
'A well planned, well facilitated and balanced course - it was also great
fun.'
Feedback
from co-counsellors in Co-Counselling International
The feedback comments below are from co-counsellors who
mostly have done their initial co-counselling training with trainers
other than me.
- ''Having
done my 'Fundamentals of Co-Counselling' course, I've been able to share
myself with people, within the Co-Co community, many of whom have become
friends. My life is richer since I became a Co-Counsellor"
(Alan Carver)
- ''I attended
my first co-counselling fundamentals at a time when I was deeply unhappy
and seriously considering suicide. A friend said 'Try this instead,
you just might find it works'. I wasn't keen, but felt I had nothing
to lose --- two weekends aren't that huge a commitment. The course blew
me away. I had more fun than I'd had in the previous fifteen years.
It was also an emotional rollercoaster, there was joy terror anger fear
grief. I'd had no idea all this had been boiling inside me, and I dropped
out of co-counselling almost at once because I needed the space to suss
out what had happened to me and decide for myself what I wanted to do
with the rest of my life. So for starters the course DID mean there
would be a 'rest of my life' .... A year later the same co-co teacher
phoned me to say she was offering another course. It was just the right
moment. I joined the new course, and not that long after trained to
become a co-counselling teacher. I still teach co-counselling today,
with enthusiasm. The benefits to me personally have been and continue
to be huge. I am open to being contacted and will answer questions etc.''
( (Ms.) Bobby MacLaughlin, 33 Wellington Lane, Dublin 4, Ireland.
+353 1 668 0316 bobby@catalase.com)
- ''Co-counselling
gave me a whole new way of looking at myself, and the co-counselling
course itself had a huge impact: I realised that I have far more autonomy
than I had ever thought.''
(Kristal Clark, Leeds)
- "I
found co-counselling particularly helpful around the time of my mother's
death. It helped me to heal my relationship with her before she died,
and to deal with the feelings that came up at that time and later."
(Paul, Birmingham)
- ''Recently
a friend said to me: 'having a baby - it's the best thing I've ever
done', and I thought, is it the best thing I've ever done?... and the
answer was 'no', because it wasn't something I 'did', it was something
that was in my heart all my life. Was it moving to Unstone? No, because
others were involved and it was a process. It could well be doing a
Fundamentals of Co-Counselling course and all that has passed in my
Co-co life since then. All the growing and fun I've had in safe environments
to take risks.'
(Bobby - not the Bobby mentioned above)
- Co-co
has undoubtedly changed my life in a big, big way. It's made me self
confident, self aware, assertive, emotionally expressive, exuberantly
joyful, content, resilient, honest, given me more gorgeous friends than
anyone has a right to have in their lives and some of the best hours/days/weeks
of my life basking in their company, enabled me to tap into resources
I never dreamed were in me, shown me how loving, intimate and connecting
human beings can be, made me appreciate and celebrate my life and been
a fantastic tool and resource on my journey. Long, long may it continue.
(Jane McCardel, Glasgow)
- ''Co-counselling
has helped me cope with depression by helping me address
inner conflicts and become more at ease with myself. My confidence has
grown and I am more able to assert myself without losing my temper.
I cope better with difficult situations, and I am much more sociable.
Co-counselling has definitely helped me become more cheerful, more honest
with myself and better able to respond creatively to life's opportunities
and challenges.
(Nigel, Leeds UK.)"
- "Co-counselling
really helped me in several ways; it assisted me in making contact with
deeper, truer parts of me underneath my anxiety and fears; supported
me in coming to terms with losses in my life; gave me some really useful
skills in listening, communicating and relating to people; introduced
me to some wonderful "real" people."
(Dom, Edinburgh)
- The co-counselling
fundamentals course is an excellent introduction to the skills necessary
for personal development work. Its really FAB!
(Paul, Leeds)
- I have
met lots of new people through co-counselling and its a great network
to be part of.
( Tamsin, Leeds)
- ‘’Co-counselling
has been the most positive step in my personal development in the last
10 years: it has helped to enable me to live my life to the full.‘’
(Anne McWatt)
- ‘’Co-counselling
has helped me to become more open, confident, expressive, assertive,
loving and considerate.’’
(Pascoe Hooper, Edinburgh)
- ‘’Co-counselling
has provided me with a culture to which I am more suited, where I can
pursue my personal development.’’
(Paul Davenport)
- ‘’Co-counselling
is one of the things that underpins my life. It helped me enormously
on my personal journey and in understanding myself and other people.’’
(Jo, Sheffield)
Mailing
list
To get onto my mailing list please send
me an email. You would
then receive mailings (probably two or three a year) about courses on
co-counselling and/or assertiveness and confidence-building. I will not
pass on your details to others.
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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.
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