Two Week PD* Intensive Schools

* Personal Development (rapid) for individuals and Professional Development for Counsellors, Pastors, Teachers, Youth Workers, Chaplains or anyone who cares for people.

These schools are a fantastic way to have your own ‘check up from the neck up’ to identify any of your stinking thinking. Out of the heart flow all the issues of life and yet we rarely know what lies in the depths of our heart and sub conscious mind. In New Zealand over 2,000 students have attended from all walks of life. I will be your primary tutor, sometimes assisted by other Living Wisdom presenters and counsellors. I am very interested in the ongoing equipping, empowering and healing of people, both inside and outside the church. Life is difficult and brings many challenges which this school is designed to address, assist and thereby bring hope for a better future. This course is not a Recognised Training Organisation Course but does qualify as an excellent finish to those graduating various counselling or pastoral training or those entering formal training.

Schools run from Monday-Friday from 9am until 3pm for two conscecutive weeks at a cost of $760.00. Your own counselling session and manuals are included in this price. We run schools several times during the year from various locations around the country Dates and locations of upcoming schools are on this site (itinerary) as is an application form.

 

The Two Week Living Wisdom Counselling School Curriculum includes the following:-

Personal and Professional Development:

  • Introduction to Glossary – putting up the shelves.
  • Understanding how memory works – so we remember more of what we learn!
  • Surviving the ‘overloaded phenomena’ – tools to cope.
  • Fundamentals of Emotional/mental health – where and when is my thinking sick?
  • Checking Assumptions – the King Lies that pull the strings.
  • Introduction to Misbelief/Insight Therapy – how is it unique?
  • Formative Facts and Life Defining Moments – who are we really?
  • Introduction to Psycho-therapy – revisit, revise and relinquish the past.
  • Introduction to Pastoral Therapy – A four focused balance.
  • Family Mottoes – the earliest conditioning, the unspoken rules.
  • Unbearable Feelings – getting used to emotional allergies.
  • Emotional Echoes – when the heart remembers what the head has forgotten.
  • Welds – when the brain mis-associates.
  • Psychological Survival Kits – the arsenal of keeping safe.
  • Victim-hood – the powerless ploy.
  • Spot the Rescuer – loves closest counterfeit.
  • Understanding the Crazy-maker – a ‘spin’ on everything.

Counselling Topics:

  • Tools for Counsellors – includes understanding empowering questions, truth coaches.
  • Traps for Counsellors – for-warned is fore-armed!
  • Counselling Session Dynamics.
  • Supervision - is it necessary, when and why, and by whom?
  • The Counselling Craft – models of counselling.
  • The Mental Loop – Vicious cycle of emotional torment.

Relationships:

  • Anatomy of a Relationship Breakdown.
  • Negotiation Skills – achieving the win-win situation – recognising power games.
  • Marriage, Separation, Divorce – what makes it and what breaks it?
  • Soul Ties – transference/counter transference – the slippery slope to immorality.
  • Sexual Awakenings – sexual deviancy – when erotic desire goes wrong.
  • Training Children – Defensive Detachment – Development of Rebellion

Theology:

  • Recognising Toxic Religion – Legalism, control, fatalism etc.
  • Advocate Evangelism – finding the point of contact first.
  • Christ’s Vicarious Performance – the missing heart of the gospel.
  • Our Vulnerable God – the forgotten humanity of the Risen Lord.

Pastoral/People Care:

  • Forgiveness – leaving the past behind in a healthy way.
  • Anger – enemy or friend?
  • Unipolar Depression – causal analysis and diagnostic tools.
  • Grief – the painful process of letting go.
  • Fear – panic, anxiety, phobias.
  • Escaping Addictions Pit – climbing out of the canyons.
  • Goal-setting – turning dreams into reality

Have you been to one of our schools lately? If you have take a look at our recent class photos and see if you can see yourself.

FULL DAY FOR FREE

You are invited to spend a day with us during the school.  You need to arrive by 8:50am in the morning and you can either leave at lunch time or at 3pm.  We bring our own lunch along but there are plenty of eating places close by.  Bring a pen and notebook and an open mind!  It would be better if you didn't attend our first day and our last day finishes at 1pm. You don't need to contact me, just come along and bring as many people as you like.  Look forward to meeting you. Check the intinerary for venue and date details for the next school.

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