COUNSELLING

	Marriage & Relationship problems - For individuals, couples & families.
	Divorce counselling – To be empowered to re discover yourself after divorce, to survive the pain in a healthy way, guidance on how
	to support your children after divorce.
	Divorce mediation – To reach constructive compromises.
	Trauma debriefing – Helping individuals & groups experiencing trauma.
	Youth empowerment– Life skills, self development & discovery, life coaching, sexuality awareness, career guidance.
	Domestic violence- Counselling for people who are facing or have faced abuse.
	Marriage preparation - For guidance, coaching and counselling on the strengths and areas to work on in your relationship.
	Marriage enrichment - Rediscover and focus on the strengths and working areas in your relationship through counselling.
	HIV/AIDS - Counselling people affected and infected with HIV/Aids. We offer counselling services in 28 clinics and hospitals in the
	Breedevalley, Breederiver, Winelands and Witzenberg areas. People who have to undertake a HIV/Aids test will be guided and
	supported by a counsellor prior to and after testing. Counsellors offer continued support, information and advice to HIV positive
	people, their friends and family.

We offer all these services to anyone in need. Contact us for more detail on our counselling services and to make an appointment or refer someone in need. Remember you can also sponsor someone for a counselling session or give a gift certificate for a couple
who is planning to get married and wants to come for Marital preparation counselling.



TRAINING AND WORKSHOPS

All our courses are presented by professional, competent, qualified and experienced therapists. Courses will be presented by social workers, marriage and family counselling specialists, educational - and clinical psychologists.

Basic Counselling Skills:
This 55 hour introductory course, based on Gerard Egan’s model of counselling, is aimed at lay and professional people who have a commitment to counselling and passion for helping people. The Participant will:
experience what it is like to be counseled
experience being a counsellor
practice skills like listening, empathy, etc
develop self knowledge and be empowered to use counselling skills and support others in need

This course is presented in the mornings or evenings.

Effective Parenting & Parental Guidance
Effective Parenting is not just a course, but an experience teaching parents how to help their children develop into happy, healthy balanced people. Aspects that will be discussed include:
positive parenting
relationship building
developing children's potential
effective discipline
teaching moral values

In this course we tackle the real challenges of parenthood. This very practical hands-on course, runs regularly and is presented in the morning and evenings.

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Self Esteem Building
Have you discovered your true potential?
Are you living your best life?
Are you aware of your untapped potential, undiscovered skills and unreached successes?

This is a journey of self discovery and empowerment. Looking at self esteem, social skills, relationships and setting and discovering life goals.
We believe that by understanding ourselves and how we relate to others we can grow into wholeness and experience self actualization.

Marriage Enrichment
If you have a good marriage but are missing the spark you once had, this is for you! This course is an experience where married couples will be empowered to again demonstrate unconditional acceptance to each other, meaningful communication and romantic love!

Prepare and Enrich
Couples will be guided individually to know their partners, to understand the dynamics of a marriage relationship, to be aware of the pitfalls and be helped in experiencing unity in their marriage. Strengths and working areas are identified and couples work through a workbook with a therapist, addressing important aspects of their relationships. This course is presented over 5 sessions.

Marriage is one of the most important steps you take in life. This programme will support and guide you through this. This programme aim to enhance a couple’s relationship before and after marriage.

Couples will be guided individually to know their partners, to understand the dynamics of a marriage relationship, to be aware of the pitfalls and be helped in experiencing unity in their marriage. Strengths and working areas are identified and couples work through a workbook with a therapist, addressing important aspects of their relationships. This course is presented over 5 sessions.

The benefits of Prepare and Enrich
The first step to awareness what marriage is about and to understand more about each other
Creates a deep awareness of dynamics of relationships. A couple has to create their own family unit with own identity.
Learn how to resolve conflict
Learn assertiveness and active listening skills
Help with financial planning and budgeting
Focus on personal-couple and family goals.

Home Management
The aim of this course is to help everyone to develop practical home management skills and knowledge. These skills and knowledge encourage you to become a lifelong learner and can open up more job opportunities for you. The goal is to help you develop your full potential so that you will:

Work well
Get job satisfaction
Use all opportunities that come your way
Live a healthy life and have satisfactory relationships

COURSE OUTLINE - MODULES
Basic Life Skills
Personal Health and well- being
Cleaning Skills
Laundry Skills
Basic kitchen and cooking skills
Personal money management skills ( an introduction ton how to start your own business)

Anyone (employed or unemployed) can enroll for this course. Employers can also enroll their employees.

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Skills for Receptionists
This Professional Receptionist / Secretary refining Course focuses on:

Learning to make a good, lasting impression on people.
Learn how to welcome visitors and clients in a professional way.
Develop effective listening skills and focus on customer care.
Develop skills on how to deal with challenging clients and situations.
Learn efficient telephone etiquette
Learn to stay motivated and work as part of a team.
Mastering efficiency in diary, filing, petty cash and staff functions.

Discovering the essence of womanhood
If you want to discover your essence as a woman this is for you!

What is your potential as a woman?
Identifying your desires and needs as a woman.
Exploring and developing self dignity.
A woman's place and how to feel valued in all her roles.

HIV/Aids Awareness
HIV is a pandemic affecting everyone that's infected or not infected. It disables households and also the work place to a great extend.
This course included information on:

The ways of HIV transmission
What happens to the body when HIV enters it.
The importance of knowing your status
How to take care of your body when you are HIV positive to prevent getting ill quicker (including ARV's)
Managing HIV in the workplace
Legal, ethical and policy issues.

The goal of the course is to empower people with knowledge, to motivate people to know their status, to equip people with skills to protect themselves from being infected, and if they are already infected to follow a healthy lifestyles to prevent the virus from weakening the body. This course runs over three days.

Contact us for more information on course dates and content



COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT



Our aim is to empower all people within communities facing:
Family, relationships, communication breakdown
Community violence & trauma
HIV/AIDS (non medical sites, voluntary counselling and testing, awareness talks, support group)
Abusive relationships

We offer:
	Education and Skills training (opportunities for the unskilled & unemployed)
	Talks and workshops are offered in schools, churches, and various community settings and include: Life skills for teens, Aids
	awareness and prevention, parenting, marriage and family enrichment, sexuality (we offer talks on request and according the specific need) .
	School programmes, learning support and homework assistance, life skills programs, sexuality awareness programmes. We aim to
	address the needs of normal childhood and adolescent development and run preventative programmes that aim to promote
	healthy relationships. We also offer adventure therapy programmes to youth groups and leaderships groups.

Support Groups:
	For people suffering from depression and anxiety (weekly get-togethers are facilitated). You are invited to join us for great
	camaraderie, socials, interesting discussions and unconditional support
	HIV/AIDS suffers (informative talks and support in various ways)
	Soup kitchens & providing food for the disadvantaged communities

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