Positive Life Courses - Unlocking Potential
Our Positive Life courses are a series of short, supportive sessions designed to help you build confidence and strengthen everyday life skills. Each course offers practical tools and helpful insights around well-being, health, relationships, and work. It’s a safe, welcoming space to explore real-life challenges, discover new possibilities, and take steps toward positive change at your own pace.
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Course dates: Mondays 7.15-9.15pm, 7 weeks: 2025 April: 14,28 May: 12 June: 2, 23, 30 July: 7
This course covers how to boost the top 20 interpersonal skills needed to effectively relate with people. Topics include how to:
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listen really well, fully engage in conversations, recognise & use body language
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how to de-escalate conflict and handle 'Difficult People'
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identify Personality Styles and relate better with those different to ourselves
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avoid comparisons with other people
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use Values to effectively engage with others
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improve self-confidence about dealing with others
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associate with 'positive' people - and avoid negative people
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earn respect and gain from helping others
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ask for what we want
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develop friendships and network effectively
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master assertiveness skills.
After attending the course, you should be better equipped to build strong relationships of all kinds (friendships, work & family relationships, as well as romantic relationships).
Good interpersonal skills and strong relationships are an important part of looking after our wellbeing and mental health.
Mainly based on books: How to Start a Conversation & Make Friends, Don Gabor; How to be People-Smart, Les Giblin; The Definitive Book of Body Language, Allan & Barbara Pease; Assertiveness at Work, Ken & Kate Back; and a talk by Rick Warren entitled 10 Steps to De-escalate Conflict
More details are in the Course Syllabus. To find out more or join the course, ring or email the course organiser: Nick Waters, or contact the Church Office.
How to be a highly effective relationship builder with all types of people
Course dates: Mondays 7:15 -9:15pm | Sept: 29, Oct 13, 20, 27, 27 ( 4 sessions)
How to build all types of relationship by:
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boosting characteristics key to all relationships
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advancing listening skills
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working with personality style differences.
Mainly based on books: Love As A Way of Life, Gary Chapman; The Five Love Languages, Gary Chapman; The Marriage Book – How to build a lasting relationship, Nicky & Sila Lee; Personality Plus, Florence Littauer; Positive Personality Profiles, Robert A. Rohm
More details are in the Course Syllabus. To find out more or join the course, ring or email the course organiser: Nick Waters, or contact the Church Office.
How to cope with conflict & difficult people
Course dates: Wednesdays 10am-12pm: 2025 Nov: 5, 12, 19, 26 (4 sessions)
How to:
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de-escalate conflict
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restore relationships
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better handle anger & 21 types of ‘difficult people’.
Mainly based on the book Powerful Phrases for Dealing with Difficult People, Renée Evenson; a Fred Pryor seminar entitled How to Handle Difficult People and a series of talks by Rick Warren entitled De-escalating and resolving conflict
More details are in the Course Syllabus. To find out more or join the course, ring or email the course organiser: Nick Waters, or contact the Church Office. |