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Couple Communication (A path of growth for couples)
Category: Community Issues
Description: The key points of couple communication are explored and practiced as each couple prepares for their sharing, which takes place in a private setting. By experiencing the method first hand, persons are enabled to live more authenticity and to understand the conditions necessary for in-depth communication. Communication is a most important tool to create intimacy.
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Couples Communication
Category: Community Issues
Description: October 1 – December 3, 2009 (ten Thursday evenings) from 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm at St. Andrew’s Centre (12720 – 111 Avenue in the Northwest Room).
Do you want to reconnect with your partner? Learn practical and effective communication techniques to make your relationship the formula for success. Explore your differences and learn to support each others’ dreams and goals. Find out if you are truly “listening” to “hear” what your partner has to say and vice versa. Lots of issues and areas of concern are covered in this ten week program including strengthening and/or developing new skills in communicating, different communication styles, problem solving, negotiating, intimacy and learning how to “turn toward each other instead of away”. Included is “The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work” by John M. Gottman for you to start reconnecting with your partner!
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Discovering the Core of My Identity
Category: Community Issues
Description: This workshop aims at helping participants to become aware of their self-image, to discover the core elements of their identity and to gain a better grasp of how to progress, in order to give importance to what is most essential in them.
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Fostering My Self-Esteem
Category: Community Issues
Description: Global Approach starting from the title of the workshop
– Part One: FROM WHERE DO I SITUATE MY SELF-ESTEEM?
In this part we analyze how it is possible to situate self-esteem in: possessions, what things look like or the being:
• My History from this Angle
• My Present Reality
– Part Two: WHAT DETERIORATES OR CANCELS MY SELF-ESTEEM?
• Others’ Negative Reactions
• My Failures and what is not going well in me.
– Part Three: WAYS TO PROGRESS IN ORDER TO HAVE AN ADJUSTED SELF-ESTEEM
• Attitudes to live
• Means to use
– Inventory
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Growing in Personal Solidity
Category: Community Issues
Description: This workshop enables you to uncover what in yourself is still hidden and yet positive.
Get to understand why you think one way, feel one way and act another way.
Discover how to take charge of your life.
Harness your strengths and make constructive decisions.
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Handling Anger Level One
Category: Community Issues
Description: September 23 – December 9, 2009 (ten Wednesday evenings) from 6:30 pm – 9:00 pm at Catholic Social Services East Office (8212 – 118 Avenue in Room 035). Please note: There is NO class on Wednesday, October 21 and NO class on Wednesday, November 11 for Remembrance Day.
This workshop is designed to help you learn how to handle your anger effectively. The goal is to learn to express anger in a healthy way without hurting others, yourself or your relationships. By the end of the program, you will have practised and begun to integrate new behaviours in communication and personal problem solving and become aware of the underlying “triggers” for your anger. Topics included are: anger and its uses, sources of anger, understanding the anger cycle, becoming familiar with what makes us angry, learning alternative ways of expressing anger and dealing with rage, and learning how to use anger appropriately to enhance your relationships at work and in your personal life.
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Handling Anger Level One
Category: Community Issues
Description: August 13 – October 15, 2009 (ten Thursday evenings) from 6:30 pm – 9:00 pm at Catholic Social Services East Office (8212 – 118 Avenue in Room 035).
This workshop is designed to help you learn how to handle your anger effectively. The goal is to learn to express anger in a healthy way without hurting others, yourself or your relationships. By the end of the program, you will have practised and begun to integrate new behaviours in communication and personal problem solving and become aware of the underlying “triggers” for your anger. Topics included are: anger and its uses, sources of anger, understanding the anger cycle, becoming familiar with what makes us angry, learning alternative ways of expressing anger and dealing with rage, and learning how to use anger appropriately to enhance your relationships at work and in your personal life.
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Handling Anger Level Two
Category: Community Issues
Description: September 29 – December 1, 2009 (ten Tuesday evenings) from 6:30 pm – 9:00 pm at Catholic Social Services East Office (8212 – 118 Avenue in Room 035).
Prerequisite: Handling Anger Level One. This is an opportunity to review and continue to incorporate the skills learned in Handling Anger Level One. This workshop is designed to help you understand that anger is a secondary emotion and to identify the incident or behaviour that triggered your anger. You will also understand what this behaviour means and the skills that you can use to work through the emotion and resolve the anger.
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HIV 101: The Basics
Category: Community Issues
Description: This presentation provides basic information about HIV transmission, prevention, treatment, harm reduction, and hepatitis C co-infection.
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Life Management Skills
Category: Community Issues
Description: The course objective is to assist the student in learning and applying new skills, which support positive changes in life.
Life Management Skills invites students to identify ineffective behaviors in five target areas; self, family, job, community, and leisure.
Each five week course, based on the Saskatchewan New Start Model, covers approximately 18 core Life Skills lessons involving the five above mentioned target areas. Some examples of these lessons are as follows: Developing communication skills, facing your fears, describing feelings, giving and receiving feedback, recognizing assumptions, practicing problem solving and developing self-esteem.
This course is offered free of charge. Please see our website (www.ourhouseedmonton.com) for dates.
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