Training Programme

Mission

The Family Life Centre aims to promote and maintain mutually satisfying relationships for individuals, families, marriages and communities for all people by:

  • providing preventive and therapeutic services by professional personnel, and
  • endeavouring to influence social policy, the development of programmes and the mobilisation of resources.

Through workshops, counselling and training, Family Life Centre provides the necessary knowledge and skills required by the community to assist in coping with life and relationship issues.

 

The Family Life Centre’s Training courses have been allocated CPD Points for Auxiliary and Social Workers. Psychologists will have to enquire with their governing body as to whether they will include the CPD Points for Psychologists. We have received the CPD points for our Training courses, there are still 2 outstanding.

 

Training and Educational Services

Training courses are offered throughout the year at Family Life Centre to professionals and para-professionals who wish to increase their skills.

 

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ADOLESCENT COUNSELING:

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.

 

Duration:

8 hours (2 half days)

Time:

08h30 – 12h30

Dates:

Intake 1: May 17 & 18 (Thurs & Fri)

Intake 2: November 1 & 2 (Thurs & Fri)

Cost:

R 600.00

 

 

ANGER MANAGEMENT

CPD POINTS : Pending

 

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

 

Duration:

8 hours (2 consecutive half days)

Time:

08h30 – 12h30

Dates:

July 26 & 27 (Thurs & Fri)

Cost:

R 550.00

 

 

BASIC COUNSELLING

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

 

Saturday courses:

40 hours (8 x 5-hour sessions, once a week)

Dates:

Intake 1:
February 4, 11, 18, 25 March 3, 10, 17, 24

Dates:

Intake 2:
(note: 11 August has been omitted due to the long weekend)
21, 28 July; 4, 18, 25 August; 1, 8, 15 September

Weekday courses:

40 hours (9 x 4 ½ hour sessions, once a week)

Dates:

Intake 1:
April 16th, 23rd, Wednesday 2nd May this is due to the public holiday, 7th, 14th, 21st, 28th, June 4th, 11th.

Dates:

Intake 2:
18, 25 July; 1, 8, 15, 22, 29 August; 5, 12 September.

Time:

08h30 – 13h00

Cost:

R 2 400.00

 

 

DIVORCE AND RE - MARRIAGE COUNSELLING:

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.

 

Duration:

12 hours (1 and a half days)

Time:

08h30 – 16h30 (1st day) & 08h30 – 12h30 (2nd day)

Dates:

Intake 1: June 6 & 7(Thurs & Fri)
Intake 2: October 25 & 26 (Thurs & Fri)

Cost:

R 1 050.00

 

 

DIVORCE AND FAMILY MEDIATION:

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.

 

Duration:

50 hours

Time:

08h30 – 17h30

Dates:

Intake 1: February 9, 10, 16, 17, 23, 24 (Thursdays and Fridays)

Intake 2: September 20, 21, 22, 27, 28, 29 (Thursday, Friday, Saturday)

Cost:

R 3 750.00

 

 

GRIEF COUNSELLING TRAINING:

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

 

Duration:

10 hours (2 consecutive half days)

Time:

08h30 – 13h30

Dates:

Intake 1: April 12 & 13 (Thursday & Friday)
Intake 2: October 11 & 12 (Thursday & Friday)

Cost:

R 600.00

 

 

HIV/AIDS:

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.

 

Duration:

16 hours (2 consecutive full days)

Time:

08h30 – 16h30

Dates:

August 30 & 31 (Thursday & Friday)

Cost:

R960.00

 

 

MARRIAGE COUNSELLING:

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.

 

Duration:

20 hours (2½ consecutive days)

Time:

08h30 – 16h30 (first two days) and
08h30 – 12h30 (last day)

Dates:

Intake 1: March 14, 15, 16 (Wed, Thurs, Fri)
Intake 2: October 3, 4, 5 (Wed, Thurs, Fri)

Cost:

R 1045.00

 

 

PREPARE / ENRICH:

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.

 

Duration:

12 hours (2 half days)

Time:

08h30 – 13h30

Dates:

Intake 1: January 31 & February 1 (Tuesday & Wednesday)
Intake 2: March 27 & 28 (Tuesday & Wednesday)
Intake 3: May 29 & 30 (Tuesday & Wednesday)
Intake 4: July 16 & 17 (Monday & Tuesday)
Intake 5: October 16 & 17 (Tuesday & Wednesday)
Intake 6: November 28 & 29 (Wednesday & Thursday)

Cost:

R 825.00

 

 

SOCIAL & EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE :

CPD POINTS: 6

 

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

 

Duration:

16 hours (2 consecutive full days)

Time:

08h30 – 16h30

Dates:

July 19 & 20 (Thursday & Friday)

Cost:

R1050.00

 

 

TRAIN THE TRAINER & GROUP FACILITATION:

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.

 

Duration:

20 hours (3 consecutive days)

Time:

08h30 - 16h00

Dates:

June 20, 21, 22

Cost:

R1045.00

 

 

TRAUMA CONTAINMENT:

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.)

 

Duration:

16 hours (2 consecutive full days)

Time:

08h30 – 16h30

Dates:

Intake 1: June 14 & 15 (Thursday & Friday)
Intake 2: October 18 & 19 (Thursday & Friday)

Cost:

R1045.00

 

 

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