CPD POINTS: 4

This course focuses on developing specific skills to assist adolescents through what can be a very confusing, challenging and sometimes emotionally taxing stage of life. It is most relevant to teachers, educators, and lay counselors working with youth, for example in schools and religious institutions.

CPD POINTS : Pending

This course provides counsellors with knowledge and skills to work with clients who need anger management.

CPD POINTS
Social Auxiliary Workers – 25
Social Workers – 15

This course focuses on developing basic practical and theoretical knowledge of counselling skills.

Course contents includes:
Self-awareness, individual and family development through the life cycle, communication and conflict, problem management, marriage, divorce, single parenting, remarriage, and bereavement.

The Course is based on Egan's counselling model. This course is accredited with the Health and Welfare SETA

CPD POINTS: 6

This training course facilitates an understanding of the emotional process of divorce and enables the counsellor to work with clients who are struggling with the loss.

Areas that are covered on the first day include the stages of divorce and the scope of physical and emotional changes involved.

The second day covers aspects related to blended families and counselling strategies within this context.

CPD POINTS : 20

Mediation skills and strategies for family and divorce mediation. This is a 50 hour course for attorneys, advocates, social workers, psychologists, social and corporate counsellors, clergy, volunteers and lay counsellors, and allied professionals. The course includes the legal, cultural, psychological and financial implications of divorce as well as mediation skills, counselling and conflict resolution.

CPD POINTS: 5

The grief counselling training focuses on learning to understand one’s own experience of loss, the stages and process of mourning, and the role of the counsellor in enabling clients to work through the grief and mourning process

CPD POINTS
SOCIAL WORKERS – 4,
SOCIAL AUXILIARY WORKERS - 8

This course provides counsellors with updated information on HIV/AIDS, pre and post test counselling skills and insight that will help empower HIV positive clients to stay as healthful as possible.

CPD POINTS: 12

This course focuses on theoretical and practical skills for marital counselling as well as theory on marriage and marital breakdown, intervention strategies and specific skills for use when working with couples. It also covers the unconscious fit and stages of marriage.

CPD POINTS: 6

This training is for counsellors and clergy who work with premarital or married couples. Prepare/Enrich offers counsellors tools that facilitate the couple’s awareness of their relationship strengths and growth areas. The programme focuses on 12 relationship aspects and heightens the couple’s awareness and understanding of the relationship as a whole.

CPD POINTS: 6

This workshop will assist you in gaining skills that will enhance your emotional literacy and develop stronger interpersonal relationships.

CPD POINTS: Pending

Training skills and trainer development. This 3 day training equips new trainers with effective facilitation skills, provides necessary tools for training small or large groups and promotes an understanding of group dynamics.

CPD POINTS: 6

We use a combined model which assists the traumatised person to contain and mater a specific event so minimising contamination of their entire lives. (A specific training course is offered to Human Resource personnel in industry, which focuses on defusing the initial trauma. The course covers counselling and communication skills, development of self awareness and an understanding of trauma and the containment process.)