Past Courses

Protecting Your Peace

Saturdays 18:30 - 20:00 (6 weeks)

This programme provides you with tools to help you effectively deal with feelings and emotions, helping you to build mental resilience and supporting you to find peace and purpose in daily living. You can expect supportive tools, practical exercises, helpful knowledge, and a safe space for you to open up on your own journey to mental wellbeing.

Facilitator: You will be headed by an experienced facilitator Joyce Ghiraw, life coach & therapist, and explore effective wellbeing techniques in a safe & supportive group setting.

Topics: Practicing mindfulness, sourcing gratitude, dealing with anxiety & self-doubt, coping with difficult emotions, purpose & vitality, and centring (protecting your own energy).

Positive Psychology

Course is designed to increase psychological stability, positive outlook on life and learn better self regulation

SESSION PLAN:

* Topic of the day introduction

*Practical Exercise

*Group Discussion

*Sharing and Questions

Sessions are FREE to attend but you are welcome to donate using "Donate Button" at the top of the page to support our on going projects and activities

Dealing With Worry (3 weeks)

Saturdays 10:00 - 12:00 for 3 weeks

Do you notice that sometimes you feel anxious and worry too much? Are you sometimes not able to stop or control worrying? If so, we invite you to an online CBT course so you can learn new ways of managing worries.

About Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
In these sessions we will be using techniques from CBT to help you learn how to manage your worry. CBT looks at how your thoughts (including worries), emotions, behaviours and physical sensations are all interlinked and interact with each other. Sometimes, this interaction can develop into a negative cycle.

It aims to:

· Understand more about your feelings of worry and ways of managing these symptoms.

· To learn about the Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy (CBT) approach to understanding worry and anxiety.

· To better understand your worries.

· To identify the triggers that make you feel worried and anxious.

· To develop ways of coping and managing your worries, so that your worries feel more proportionate and you feel more in control.

· To recognise that you are not alone.

Group Counselling

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Mondays 18:00 - 19:30

SESSION INCLUDES:

*Topic of the day *Practical exercises *Group counselling

*Advise for home practise *Email with Tools Summary

Release Chronic Stress and Live Your Best Life (7 weeks)

Mondays 18:30 - 20:00 for 6 weeks

The S.T.R.E.S.S Model is designed to neutralise your accumulated stress, kick out your stress-related physical symptoms, and position your life for happiness, peace, productivity and personal fulfilment.

6 STEP RECOVERY PROGRAMME

S - Settle with the Past and the Present

T - Terminate Tension with Relaxation

R - Regain Control with your Worry Instinct's Wellbeing Energy

E - Eliminate Doubts and Expect the Positive

S - Set and See your Targets

S - Sail the Ship

** Conducted via Zoom - recordings available

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy

MONDAYS 18:30 - 20:00 for 6 weeks

The programme is designed to increase psychological flexibility and based on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) methodology. It provides action-based tools to effectively deal with anxiety.

Each session follows a certain topic and follow the 6 core processes of ACT: (1) Being Present (Be Here Now), (2) Cognitive Diffusion (Watch Your Thinking), (3) Acceptance (Open Up), (4) Self as Context (Pure Awareness), (5) Values (Know What Matters), (6) Committed Action (Do What It Takes)

SESSION INCLUDES:

*Topic of the day *Practical exercises *Group counselling

*Advise for home practise *Email with Tools Summary

Dates: 25 April, 2, 9, 26, 23, 30 May 2022

Kundalini Yoga & Meditation * Therapeutic on-line group*

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SUNDAYS 16:00 - 17:00

SESSION PLAN:

* Intro to the Class (Topics can include stress release, improve your energy, disease resistance, enhance your sleep, calm anxiety, setting goals and intentions, anger release & more)

*Kriya (set of exercises) relevant to the topic

*Relaxation

*Meditation relevant to the topic 3 - 11 min

Sessions are FREE to attend but you are welcome to donate using "Donate Button" at the top of the page to support our on going projects and activities

Healing and Harmony in Relationships (10 weeks)

MONDAYS 18:30 - 20:00

Start 3rd of October 2022

The goal of the programme is to build back better relationships with self and others.
Format: check-in; topic introduction including practical exercise and group discussion
The programme will include topics such as: attachment theory; setting healthy boundaries; introversion/extraversion; values in relationships; parenting the inner child (relationship to self); power dynamics and equality; control and anger management; beginnings and endings (how do we deal with new beginnings and endings in a relationship); open communication; and uprooting relational expectations (what do we need? what do we expect?).

Recovering your Authentic Core (Online Course)

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Mondays 18:30 - 20:00 for 10 weeks

Programme honouring the theme of authenticity (interweaving purpose). It includes: purpose; introjects (unconsciously adopted messages from others) and social conditioning; and authentic being vs belonging and group identity.

SESSION PLAN:

*Topic of the day introduction

*Practical Exercise

*Group Discussion

*Sharing and Questions

Wellbeing Support Course for Late-Identified Females with Autism

FEMALE AUTISM IDENTIFIED IN ADULTHOOD

The entire generation of Females of 30+, missed out on their diagnosis of Autism just because the diagnostic criterion used to be very much aligned with male autistic traits, until recently. Little was known decades ago that female traits can present themselves quite differently and tend to be a lot more subtle and inwards, especially in high-functioning cases. Additionally, recent scientific evidence shows that females tend to camouflage their condition and learn to copy others in order to fit in. However, without knowing the reason for difficulties or receiving a diagnosis, feeling odd/bad/not fitting becomes internalised as trauma inside. Autistic females are also more prone to falling into a toxic relationship or becoming abuse victims.

Are you a female and have ever wondered why nothing can quite explain your life that you are struggling to keep together? Come and join the course. You don't have to be officially diagnosed in order to sign up and I am happy to have an informal chat to help you assess suitability. The course will further help to explore the possibility of being autistic, help to process the information, and talk to others in a similar position and receive support. There are also loads of quiz tests online you can take as guidance prior to the course.

Something to keep in mind, autistic people can appear quite different to one another and no autistic person is the same. For example: a common area is sensory issues but they can be completely different in nature or some might not even have them. Also, Autism is like a scale of 0 to 10 and challenges can greatly vary.

Thursdays 18:00 - 20:00 for 10 weeks

Course is devoted to learning about female autism, masking, divising strategies, processings traumas and diagnosis, abtaining support network and improving mental health of females who been identified with autism in adulthood.

SESSION PLAN:

*Weekly check-in

*Topic of the day introduction

*Group Discussion

*Sharing and Questions