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Courses & Training

COURSES AT THE COUNSELLING HOUSE.

BASIC CHRISTIAN COUNSELLING
Basic counselling skills, the counsellor as an instrument of healing, human development and interaction, basic model of problem solving.
Duration: 13 weeks
Date: Thursdays. 21 January - 22 April 2010.  This excludes 1 April 2010.
Time: 19:00 - 21:00
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Date: Fridays. 22 January - 23 April 2010. This excludes Friday 2 April 2010
Time: 09:00 -11:30
Cost: R300
HANDLING YOUR DEPRESSION
Duration: 4 weeks
Date: Thursdays from 4 March - 25 March 2010
Time: 10:00 to 12:00
Or
Date: Thursdays. 29 July - 19 August 2010.
Time: 10:00 - 12:00
Cost: R100
HANDLING YOUR ANGER
Duration: 5 weeks
Date: Wednesdays. 5 May - 2 June 2010.
Time: 19:00 - 21:00
Cost: R100
HEALTHY VS UNHEALTHY STRESS
Duration: 3 weeks
Date: Wednesdays. 1 September - 15 September 2010.
Time: 9:30 - 11:30
Cost: R120
SEARCH FOR SIGNIFICANCE
Seeing your true worth through Gods eyes. The  journey begins in a very private place… your thoughts: The course focuses on how our thoughts affect our emotional, relational and spiritual development.
Duration: 8 weeks
Date: Thursdays. 28 January - 18 March 2010
Time: 19:00 - 20:30
Or
Date: Thursdays. 15 April - 3 June 2010.
Time: 10:00 - 11:30
Cost: R100
SELF ESTEEM FOR WOMAN
The purpose of the woman's self esteem course is to create the sacred space for an introspective, guided journey in which the spiritual, physical, emotional and social parts of who we are can be explored. The different influences that determine our identity as well as our self – worth will be identified and challenged. The focus is on creative, “whole – brain” exercises, projection techniques, collages, letter writing and sensory work.
Duration: 5 weeks
Date: Thursdays. 6 May - 3 June 2010.
Time: 10:00 - 12:00
Cost: R200

Do you know someone who has a teenager using destructive ways to cope?
Recognizing symptoms and behaviours; skills and interventions by family and teachers.
Duration: 2 hour workshop
Date: Wednesday 14 April 2010
Time: 19:00 - 21:00
Cost: R40

Do you know someone who is coping with a family member who has depression?
Duration: 2 hour workshop
Date: Dates and times to be confirmed
Time: 19:00 - 21:00
Cost: R40

Do you know someone who keeps choosing the same partner?
Why we keep choosing the same type of person.
Duration: 2 hour workshop
Date: Wednesday 14 July 2010
Time: 9:30 - 11:30
Cost: R40

Do you know someone who is bullying or being bullied at school or work?
Understanding the bully and the bullied.
Duration: 2 hour workshop
Date: Tuesday 7 September 2010
Time: 19:00 - 21:00
Cost: R40

ATTUNEMENT TO INTIMACY
This course is based on the IMAGO approach and is a workshop for spouses and parents to improve the quality of relationships, using the relationship to heal childhood wounds and helping you to create a new way to love. The course is run over two days and includes DVD, manual, snacks, teas and lunch.
Duration: 1 weekend
Date: 5 February - 7 February 2010.
Time: 19:00 - 21:00 Friday; 8:00 - 17:00 Saturday; 8:00 - 12:00 Sunday

MARRIAGE COURSE
For couples who have been married for more than 2 years, wanting to enrich their marriages. Course includes manuals and 7 dinners.
Duration: 7 weeks
Date: Mondays. 12 April - 24 May 2010
Time: 18:30 - 21:00
Cost: R725

MARRIAGE PREPARATION COURSE
A new program available for engaged couples and newlyweds. Enjoy quality time together with a dinner, video led discussions and private time – no group sharing. Manuals included.
Duration: 5 weeks
Date: Wednesdays. 3 February - 5 March 2010.
Time: 18:30 - 21:00
Or
Date: Wednesdays from 8 September - 6 October 2010.
Time: 18:30 - 21:00
Cost: R575

DIVORCE CARE
A growth, support and renewal program for those experiencing pain, past and present around divorce.
Duration: 13 weeks
Date: Mondays. 1 February -  10 May 2010.
This excludes 22 March and 5 April 2010
Time: 18:00 to 20:00
Or
Date: Mondays. 16 August - 8 November 2010.
Time: 18:00 to 20:00
Cost: R120

DC4K
(Divorce Care for Kids)

A divorce recovery support group
to help your children, 6-12 years
of age, heal from the pain caused
by separation or divorce.
Duration: 13 weeks
Date: Mondays - 1 February - 10 May 2010.                            
This excludes 22 March and 5 April 2010
Time: 18:00 - 20:00 Or
Date: Mondays.  16 August - 8 November 2010.
Time: 18:00 - 20:00   Cost: R290

EMPTY NEST
This course helps you to rediscover love and success when children leave home, cope with children who immigrate, adult children who come to live back home again.
Duration: 5 weeks
Date: Wednesdays. 1 September - 29 September 2010
Time: 19:00 - 21:00
Cost: R100

GRIEF SHARE
A recovery program for those who have experienced loss.
Duration: 11 weeks
Date: Wednesdays. 24 February - 12 May 2010.
Time: 19:00 - 21:00
Or
Date: Fridays. 26 February - 14 May 2010.
Time: 9:30 - 11:00
Or
Date: Wednesdays. 8 September - 24 November 2010.
Time: 19:00 - 21:00
Or
Date: Fridays. 10 September - 26 November 2010.
Time: 9:30 - 11:00
Cost: R100
RECOVERY ANONYMOUS PROGRAM
RAP is a Christ-centred group of people who journey through the 12 steps of recovery, whether it be an eating disorder, an abusive relationship, an addiction, a destructive habit or simply a deep hurt that has not really been dealt with. A course filled with love and hope.
Duration: 11 weeks
Date: Mondays from 18 January - 29 March 2010
Time: 19:00 to 21:00
Or
Date: Mondays from 26 July - 4 October 2010
Time: 19:00 to 21:00
Cost: R200
MURAL
Duration: Every Second Thursday
Date: Starting 14 January
Time: 19:00 to 21:00
Cost: No Cost
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