Life Skills & Training
Relate Leicestershire offers courses to statutory and voluntary agencies, businesses and the general public. Courses can be ‘tailor-made’ to suit the needs of individual groups or organisations or arranged from our portfolio of accredited courses.
 
Details of courses we are currently offering are available below. Where dates have been organised details are given below.

For further information about any of the courses listed below, or to discuss any aspect of Relate’s training and education service, please contact:

Life Skills Coordinator
Relate
83 Aylestone Road
Leicester LE2 7LL

Telephone: 0116 254 3011
Email: training@relateleics.org



Some of the courses offered by Relate Leicestershire include:

Moving Forward & Taking Charge of your Life:
  • An informal, friendly and supportive personal development course
  • Offers a chance to meet people with similar issues
  • Designed to help participants come to terms with loss
  • Learn more about themselves
  • Develop new skills
  • For individuals who would like to increase their confidence
    • Feel more assertive
    • Cope more effectively with stress
    • Manage their time more effectively
    • Stress management
Evenings; 10 weekly sessions, each lasting 2 hours; a group of around 12 people; offered every term; a social meeting will be arranged 3 months after the course ends.
Dates for the next courses are:
Tuesdays starting 5th October 2010 at 7pm
The cost is £65
Please phone or email to ask for an application form



Counselling Skills  (OCN accredited)
  • For those engaged in a helping or supporting role privately or professionally
  • Offers a framework & some skills (does not provide a qualification in counselling)
  • Covers counselling skills, three stage model, interview management, time-keeping, boundaries ethical issues & self-awareness
10 week evening course (2.25 hours) or 3 days; a group of up to 12
 
Please contact us on 0116 2543011 or email training@relateleics.org for details



Further Counselling Skills (OCN)
  • For those who would like to build on skills attained on the Basic Counselling Skills course
  • Covers personal constructs, life stages, defence mechanisms, supervision & systems model
10 week evening course (2.25 hours) or 3 days; a group of up to 12



From Partners to Parents
  • The key to parenting young children is the bond of the adult couple relationship
  • Designed to help parents with young children re-build their adult couple relationship
  • Offers a comfortable learning environment
  • Opportunity to talk openly
  • Share with others your experiences & problems
Evenings; 8 weeks, 2.75 hours



Couples
  • For couples about to get married or enter a committed relationship
  • Learning about how relationships work & fail
  • Learn new relationship skills
  • Find out about each other in aspects of life together
  • Group discussions, couple work & individual reflection
  • Covers commitment, expectations, communication, intimacy & what if things go wrong?
Saturdays 10am – 4pm; 6 hour course




Parents Apart

  • For parents about to or already separated
  • Looks at impact of separation on children & their parents
  • Offers an opportunity to share concerns
  • Offers strategies for helping children cope with the change
  • Parents learn how to develop a new & different relationship with their ex-partner
Saturdays 10am – 4pm; 6 hour course

Braunstone Project
We are offering a selection of FREE courses to help young people and parents:
For young people -
Dealing with emotions
Building Confidence
Telling your Story
Getting Close
 
For Parents
Tantrums, tears and teenagers
Dealing with negative emotions
Moving Forward

 

These courses run in September - November 2010. For more details please phone 0116 2543011



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