Personal Growth Workshops
Dean Counselling offers a variety of personal growth workshops. Your investment to attend a workshop is approximately 2 - 3 hours and $25.00. Please see the Upcoming Workshops page for scheduled dates and times. If you have any questions concerning workshop content or would like to pre-register please call (604) 908-6345 or Email Patricia@deancounselling.com.
How People Change
In this workshop, participants explore the nature of happiness and unhappiness. By completing written exercises and participating in group discussions, participants learn concrete strategies for making life changes and blocking the inevitable resistance they will experience.
Taking Care of Aging Parents
Through mini-lectures and group discussions, this workshop explores issues surrounding taking care of aging parents. Participants will learn about a variety of options to assist with the care of a parent and ways to reduce the stress that this situation can place on the immediate family.
How to Increase Your Emotional Intelligence
Based on Daniel Goleman's book Emotional Intelligence, this workshop helps participants learn to:
*Recognize how their emotions affect their behavior.
*Assess their own emotional strengths and limitations.
*Assess life experiences and identify areas where they wish to do things differently.
*Respond to challenging situations with appropriate empathy and listening skills.
*Negotiate and resolve disagreements.
Participants learn through a combination of lecture, case studies, and practice exercises.
I'm So Angry!
In this workshop, participants learn what anger is and how we learn the anger habit. Through written exercises and group discussion, participants will identify new responses to stress, how to recognize anger triggers, and when to seek help when angry behavior becomes excessive.
I Have Everything I've Ever Dreamed Of. Why Am I Not Happy?
In this workshop, participants explore why people become dissatisfied with their lives, even when they achieve their dreams and appear to be successful. Through written exercises and group discussion, participants begin to develop some personal strategies for making life changes that reflect their personal values and life goals.
What Depression Is and What To Do About It
This presentation teaches participants what depression is: how it feels, its many causes, and how to overcome it.
How To Be A More Self-Confident Person (Most popular workshop in 2008!)
Through mini-lectures, written exercises and group discussion, this workshop explores the nature of self-confidence and enables participants to identify ways to develop these qualities.
It's Time For A Midlife Checkup (Popular!)
This workshop is designed for participants between the ages of 45 and 55. The participants will explore the key issues people typically face at midlife, highlighting issues specific to members of the Baby Boomer generation. Through mini-lectures, group discussions and written exercises, participants will begin to identify their own concerns as part of a post-workshop assessment process.
Moving On: How To Recover From Loss
In this workshop, participants learn about the stages most people pass through in response to a major loss. Through mini-lectures, written exercises and group discussions, participants learn what to expect when they have a significant loss and how to respond productively.
What To Do About Guilt And Regret
In this workshop, through written exercises and group discussion, participants learn what regret is, what causes it, how it differs from guilt. The workshop concludes with an exploration of how regret can be a potentially positive force.
Chronic Pain
This is a workshop for those who suffer with chronic pain and also for those who have someone in their life suffering with chronic pain. Learn about the physical and emotional consequences of chronic pain along with an overview of a variety of coping techniques.