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Relate courses for Business, and Voluntary and Community Organisations

Relate Nottinghamshire delivers courses on site for staff and volunteers who work with people. We offer one day introductions to basic counselling skills for everyone, a one day courses on counselling and listening skill specifically for Managers as well as days on stress management. We also offer a range of 22 hour OCN accredited courses working in partnership with Broxtowe College, examples of which are listed below. All of our courses can be tailor made for individual clients and if you would like to discuss how Relate might work with your organisation, or find out about costs, please contact our Training Manager on 0115 9504105 or email us at info@relate-nottingham.org.uk.

Courses for staff whose work involves people and their problems

Counselling Skills for Non Counsellors

Ideal for those who may be required to offer emotional support to others. It covers:

Listening skills
Managing boundaries
Ethical issues
Helping people through change

Further Counselling Skills for Non Counsellors

This course is ideal for those who want to further develop their counselling skills and looks in more detail at the topics covered in Counselling Skills for Non Counsellors.

Looking Beyond the Problem

Offers specialist skills to people who work with families and couples and explores:

The use of family trees to understand problems
How relationships are affected by their context
The meanings behind problems
Problem solving techniques

Understanding Relationships

Provides skills and knowledge for those required to help others with relationship issues.

The range of relationship issues which may affect a family
Effective communication skills which they can put into practice
The effects of loss and bereavement
The role of sex and sexuality in a relationship

First Impressions

Designed for those who deal with customers on the telephone covers:

Building a rapport with the caller
Giving clear and concise explanations
The importance of getting it right
Difficult calls
Ending on a positive note

Supporting Families

Communication skills and problem solving
Prejudices, stereotyping and discrimination
Assertiveness
Helping people through loss and change
Personal safety and confidentiality

Courses For Schools

Be A Buddy

Purpose - To teach older pupils how to be a buddy to younger pupils especially those coming to the school from the reception class in the new academic year.
Client Group - Schools and their 8-10 year-old pupils

Older Pupils Key Stage 3+

First Relationships the nature of intimate relationships
Getting Close Sex and Sexuality
Introduction to Developing relationships Taking relationships further
Picking up the pieces Family break-up
Stand up for me Managing conflict
Room to be me Enhancing self-esteem

Courses For Prisons

Inside Out - Relationships on Release -(OCN Accredited Level 1)

A day-long relationship workshop for prisoners and their partners.

The aim of the workshop is to equip the couples to have a stronger, healthier and more responsible relationship when the prisoner returns home. Relationships are under greater stress when there has been a period of enforced separation and many couple relationships break up on the prisoners return home. However, the benefits of an intact couple relationship are evident to all. The workshop will help relationships stay intact, decrease conflict and develop ways of making more responsible choices together about lifestyle and family.

Prisoners and their Children

A 2 1/2 hour workshop for primary carers whilst a child's parent is in prison.

The workshop deals with the following areas:

How to help make life better for prisoners and their children.
How to help the Primary Carer to feel more confident and to have increased self esteem.
Increase contact between child and prisoner (where appropriate)
Preparation for home-coming

Reconnect

A 2 1/2 hour workshop for partners of prisoners who have returned home.

This workshop is for the partners of prisoners who have returned home. This is a crucial period in the life of a relationship where issues of long term separation and issues of trust make having a normal relationship difficult. This short workshop supports partners as they discover that they are not alone in their experience. They learn how to meet their own and their partner's needs and they gain an understanding of some of the difficulties common to couples at this time.

Together Apart - Relationships on the Inside - (OCN Accredited Level 1)

A day-long relationship workshop for prisoners serving life sentences and their partners.

The aim of the course is to develop relationship skills and emotional intelligence for their couple relationship. These skills will equip prisoners and their partners to maintain a relationship in spite of long term separation and the constraints of the prison system.

Prisoners and their partners will spend the day together, discussing issues that they face in maintaining their relationship and developing understanding of how they behave in relationships.