A Personal Wellness Course By Daniel Keeran, MSW
A Personal Wellness Course course description and requirements College of Mental Health Counselling
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The journey of a thousand miles sometimes begins with a stumble. Register by March 1, 2018 To Register, email collegemhc@gmail.com and provide your full name to be printed on the course Certificate and your full regular mailing address where your Certificate should be sent. Please provide your tuition through secure paypal at this link. All personal information is known only to the instructor and is never shared with other parties. Regretfully, only the first ten Registrations can be accepted per start date.
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Prerequisites: As a successful student, you possess excellent reading comprehension skills, writing composition skills, email skills, and psychological-mindedness. Ideally, you also have a trusted friend or family member or someone you can talk to about the course as you proceed. Course Objective: To help you experience the exploration of your personal life, thoughts and emotions, and your relationships with others and to increase your self-awareness and mindfulness. You Will Learn: 1. How to identify and express your difficult emotions in healthy ways, for example, fear, anger, guilt, sadness, emptiness, low self-worth, and despair. 2. How to listen empathically to others’ needs and be assertive in communicating your own needs, feelings, and thoughts. 3. How to give and receive negative feedback or criticism respectfully. 4. How to identify and help anxiety, depression, and suicidal thoughts. 5. How to solve problems and make decisions. 6. How to identify and positively understand different influences on your life, for example, relationships with parents and peers. 7. How to feel OK again after a loss or breakup. Course Materials (provided with tuition and available at the following links): 1. Essential Effective Communication Skills 2. Effective Counselling Skills text (sent as PDF email attached file) 3. Fifteen Principles of Feedback and Criticism 4. Anger Self-Assessment 5. Life Story Questionnaire (an editable Word .doc file is sent as an email attached file)
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Course Assignments: 1. Create and design a minimum of 100 to 120 long and short-answer questions reflecting the scope and depth of the text and other course materials with page numbers where answers are found. 2. Complete and submit the Life Story Questionnaire. 3. Complete the Anger Self-Assessment and write a short paper (less than 1000 words) on what you learned. 4. (Optional) Read A_Technology_of_Words_Five_Steps_for_Creating_Solutions_and_Agreements, try it with your class or group or family, and write a one to five page report or less than 1,000 words on your experience (extra credit). Tuition: The $40 tuition can be provided through paypal at this link, or in Canada through your online banking using interac etransfer directed to collegemhc@gmail.com Course Certificate: The Course Certificate of Development in Personal Wellness will be issued by regular mail when we have received your tuition and completed assignments. Professional support from your instructor is available daily. Time for Completion: Depending on your learning style and pace, the course may require about four weeks, allowing two hours per weekday to complete all assignments. Time extensions to complete assignments are approved on request. To Register, email collegemhc@gmail.com and provide your age, your full name to be printed on the course Certificate, and your full regular mailing address where your Certificate should be sent. All personal information is known only to the instructor and is never shared with other parties unless harm is threatened. Remember to pay your tuition through paypal at this link. Regretfully, only the first ten Registrations can be accepted per start date. Your instructor is Daniel Keeran, MSW, a professional counsellor and trainer having over 30 years’ experience. He is author of numerous books and articles on counselling, personal development, spirituality, philosophy, mindfulness, anger, grief, and more. Professional support from your instructor is available daily.
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