Workshops

One Day Personal and Professional Development Opportunities

For all people serious about rapid personal growth, people caring professions and those who take up-skilling seriously!

Many people feel they can’t afford counselling so workshops are a wonderful alternative. The workshops are intense and packed with insights, skills and wisdom for every day living. They are also a great way to get a ‘taste’ of Living Wisdom and see whether it fits into your values, goals, programs and future direction. Why not gather together 12 people or more and provide a venue we are happy to come to you. Below is an example of some of the workshops we run:-

Developing Emotional Resilience in Children

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Have you ever wished that children came with instruction manuals or that healthy children just grew on trees?!  No one ever said being responsible for a child is easy, but haven't you ever dreamed of a simple, sure-fire way to guarantee healthy, well-adjusted and secure children? Unfortunately, just one faulty, destructive belief can wreak havoc when it goes unidentified for years.  It is well known that early childhood years are the formative years for our most foundational beliefs. This makes them incredibly powerful.  Why then do we leave 'counselling' or 'training the mind' until later in life when we are in so much pain and trouble, usually because of mistaken deep (unidentified) assumptions?   The principles taught here can be grasped by children of all ages, cultures and aptitudes and it is having amazing results in clinical, home and school trials.  Using the verbal, visual and auditory media included this is encapsulated common sense at its best; simple, comprehensive and profound.  Also see www.myliferulz.com.au

Exploring Moods and Emotions Workshop 

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In this workshop Jo explores what drives our moods and explains unstable emotions as essentially the product of the subconscious mind. Tranquilizers are not a satisfactory solution for long term treatment of most mood or behaviour disorders – instead there are certain profound insights which can automatically return volatile moods and emotions to a place of stability and moderation, once they are grasped by the mind. Depression can also be described as the ‘common cold’ of the western world. Why is that when we are amongst the most affluent people in the world? There are 6 likely causes of endogenous depression, once we have diagnosed the type of depression we are dealing with it is more easily fixed than most believe. Does yours feel like stuck and frustrated, or empty and sad, or tired and exhausted, or lonely and abandoned? If you would like a copy of these 6 likely causes click here to download this information. Anger can sometimes be called ‘disappointment energy’. Anger is neural energy and we can either use it for destructive or constructive outcomes. Living Wisdom explores 15 likely causes of anger, remember anger is always a symptom of something else. Trying harder, gritting your teeth and using will power to stop being angry won’t be sustainable. Finding the root causes, giving the needed insight and instruction and replacing that old survival kit are sustainable. If you would like a copy of these 15 likely causes then click here to down this information.

Getting the Reins of Your Life Workshop

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In this workshop, Jo teaches on concepts and skills necessary to literally make the most of your life. They include a fresh focus on personal goal-setting, relationship and emotional health skills, obstacle identification and removal. Getting beyond victim-hood, blame-shifting and any associated sense of powerlessness or despair is the aim. So, whether you are already ‘going for it’, or struggling, or just wanting to help family with their own difficulties, there’s something in here for you! Do you feel as if your body goes in one direction (e.g. to work) but your heart is going in another? If you aren’t enthusiastic about what you are doing something is wrong – its time to STOP and figure out what is happening. If you lose your enthusiasm you are in danger of burnout and exhaustion. Learn how to guard your enthusiasm (click here to download this information), get control of where you are headed and overcome the obstacles you struggle with.

Sexuality and Brokenness Workshop (Staying Pure in a Sex-Crazed World)

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We are sexual beings but learning to keep our erotic desires within the boundaries of ‘safe’ is the challenge we face in this sex-soaked society of the 21st Century. Sexual identity, sexual brokenness, loss of libido (click here to download information), gender orientation, same sex attraction, pornography and masturbation are all topics discussed and presented in this workshop. Where there is addiction linked to sexuality that needs to be explored also. Are we born with a certain sexual orientation or not? The debate goes on. Living Wisdom has the ability to explore sexual awakenings that may have awoken sexual erotica too early and in a destructive context – this will still be impacting your life today. This workshop is a fascinating topic which will bring many answers to people’s deepest and most private questions. It has the ability to bring libido levels back to a satisfying level without the use of any medications or destructive aids. It teaches how you can enjoy one partner for the rest of your life and be more than satisfied with what you once may have considered ‘boring’. If you are in pain in any area of your sexual life (thoughts, relationship, orientation, beliefs, habits, singleness etc) then take what we offer here seriously.

Habits and Addictions Workshop

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We all have them! The question that must be answered at a deep sub conscious level before there can be real success over any type of habit or addiction is, “Is my life better with or without this?” Addictions numb our pain, the trouble is we have often forgotten what that pain was in the first place. We are self-medicating but that medicine could now be killing us. Whatever we can’t master we become a slave to and slowly that ‘master’ will swallow up who we are and then what will be left of us? Remember, a physical solution is never the answer to an emotional problem. Weak willpower is the secondary issue – never the primary one. Breaking free from an addiction is all about increasing one’s motivation and learning how to overcome a deep and abiding double-mindedness. Addicts need powerful help and persuasive insights to endure the inevitable short term pain to get long term gain. In this seminar Jo teaches how to escape the pit of addiction and there is help in here for all those trapped within its painful grasp – either directly or indirectly. Don’t keep trying to do this alone, it’s ridiculous to think that you can do your own open heart surgery so why do you believe you can do the deep sub-conscious re-programming that needs to take place? Click here to download information on addictions.

Parenting With Purpose or Help For Blended Families Workshop

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Even though this whole subject is huge in itself there are some very basic principles which in general will hold true for every situation. We explore at least 7 of these in this seminars as well as a few ‘self tests’ for parents. We look at 5 principles by which to train a child and we learn to recognise when we are parenting out of our own fears. If you have an ‘oppositional’ child this seminar will give some possible causes for this so that you have somewhere to begin. We look at tracing the development of rebellion and a concept called defensive detachment. Do you feel as if your children are allowing you to parent them or are you in a constant power struggle with them? When a child ‘detaches’ peace is lost in the home. Click here to download information on Defensive Detachment. Blended or Step-families are now making up a large proportion of our society so this issue cannot go unaddressed when we are talking about parenting our children today. Once again Jo teaches from first hand experience as well as from the invaluable concepts of the Living Wisdom Manual for Life.

Knowing Ourselves Through A Christ-Centered Psychology

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Do you really know what makes you 'tick' and why you do what you do?  Until we discover our invisible masters we never will.  This workshop unlocks our most 'allergic feelings', the ones our subconscious avoids at all costs.  Discover the overlays of the heart - the neurological welds that cause so much confusion in our lives.  What is your 'Default Emotion' (click here to download information) and how can locating it revolutionize your mental/spiritual health? When faith and psychology are willing to talk to each other, both benefit.  Faith grows beyond Christian cliche's and easy answers, and psychology learns that truth, and not merely techniques, sets people free.  In this workshop the interface is examined and REAL ANSWERS are found for lives and relationships.

Teaching Your Mind to be Your Friend

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In our early years, our lives shaped our attitudes.  In later life however, our attitudes will determine the quality of our life.  Ultimately, your destiny is determined by the choices you make.  You must accept the final responsibility for your predicament or at least your response to it.  Your choices in a large measure got you there and only your choices can get you out or at least enable you to benefit as you go through it.  Your choices however, can only be as good as your insights into life.

Today, the battle is, and always has been, for the mind.  ‘Good thinking’ results in ‘good feelings’ and ‘good actions’.  Obviously therefore, if you are feeling terrible, or you are in a terrible predicament, it is reasonable to assume that somewhere in your thinking you are wrong, i.e. you are believing lies. The measure of lies (false beliefs) you adhere to is a measure of just how crippled you will be, spiritually, socially, mentally, physically and financially and will therefore be the measure of pain you are currently in.

The good news is that the needed skills and insights are available. The truth is “you are unique”.  You have only one life.  Truly, we are transformed only by the renewing of our minds until our minds are eventually persuaded to become our friends.

Escaping Toxic Religion

In counselling I find that many of my clients problems have been increased due to teachings and experiences after conversion and that many people with strong faith have more to 'untangle' than those without it.  The beliefs we are interested in are the 'toxic' ones, in so far as once they are taken on board, their effect is to confuse, paralyze, render dogmatic, or superstitious.  This seminar covers Legalism, Fatalism, Christian 'quick-fixes', Veneration of Man, Blue-print Guidance, behaviorism etc.  It points to a need to think clearly and carefully about what might be in the way of such religious baggage, without jeopardizing genuine faith. Click here to download information about Our Vulnerable God.