Positive Life Courses - Unlocking Potential
A series of short courses aimed at boosting life skills. The courses provide knowledge and practical tips towards having a Positive Life. Courses cover well-being, health, relationship skills, and work skills. Each course explains: the main issues, provides lots of possible solutions, and helps you discover possibilities for change.
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A Positive Life is a life that is: uplifting, encouraging, wholesome, confident, optimistic, good, hopeful, upbeat, productive, useful, helpful, progressive, worthwhile, enthusiastic, supportive, pleasing, heartening, prudent and forward-looking. |
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Courses and course materials are free. Venue: Purley Baptist Church, Qube Training Room. Session times: Mondays 7.30-9.30pm or Wednesdays 10am-12noon. Course descriptions are below - click course title for summary. Upcoming course dates and times are here. |
The series of Positive Life Courses
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WELLBEING COURSES
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HEALTH COURSES
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RELATIONSHIP SKILLS COURSES
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WORK SKILLS COURSES
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Register your interest for a course via the Church Office |
How to boost motivation & self-confidence, make effective decisions
7 sessions
Course dates: Wednesdays 10am-12pm, 7 weeks: 2025 July: 30 Aug: 6, 13, 20, 27 Sept: 3, 10
How to:
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boost motivation & self-confidence, set & achieve goals
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cope with change, challenges, criticism & rejection
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make effective decisions.
Mainly based on books: Confidence Pocketbook, Gill Hasson; Personality Plus, Florence Littauer; Positive Personality Profiles, Robert Rohm; 365 Days of Positive Self-Talk, Shad Helmstetter; See You at the Top, Zig Ziglar
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.
#2 Boosting 7 Highly Effective Characteristics
How to be a highly effective person
Course dates: Mondays 7.30-9.30pm, 3 weeks: 2024 Feb: 12, 19, 26
Course dates: Wednesdays 10am-12pm, 3 weeks 2025 Jun: 18, 25, Jul: 2
How, in a highly effective way, to:
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approach problems
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check we're going in the right direction and manage time
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get agreements, collaborate, listen
Based on the book 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey.
More details are in the Course Syllabus to follow. To find out more or join the course, ring or email the course organiser: Nick Waters, or contact the Church Office. |
How to understand people and establish a strong connection
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
4 sessions
Course dates: Mondays 7.15-9.15pm: 2025 Sept: 29 Oct: 13, 20, 27
How to build all types of relationships 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
4 sessions
Course dates: Wednesdays 10am-12pm: 2025 Nov: 5, 12, 19, 26
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. |
How to get a good night's sleep every night
2-week course
WEDNESDAYS 10AM-12PM - Feb 2025 19th & 26th
MONDAYS 7.15-9.15PM - Mar 2025 10th & 17th
WEDNESDAYS 10AM-12PM - Dec 2025 3rd & 10th
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Good sleep ‘hygiene’ & sleep strategies.
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Tackling insomnia.
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The impact of not getting enough sleep.
Based on the books: Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker and Sleep – Harness the power of sleep for Optimal health & wellbeing by Petra Hawker.
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.
2-week course
WEDNESDAYS 10AM-12PM - Jan 8th & 15th 2025
MONDAYS 7.15-9.15PM - Jan 13th & 20th 2025
MONDAYS 7.15-9.15PM - Feb 3rd & 10th 2025
WEDNESDAYS 10AM-12PM - Feb 5th & 12th 2025
MONDAYS 7.15-9.15PM - Mar 3rd & Apr 7th 2025
From the latest research, we:
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de-mystify guidance on what food & drink will keep us healthy
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learn about losing weight & keeping it off.
Based on books: will be based on the books The Fast 800 by Dr Michael Mosley; The Diet Myth by Dr Tim Spector; Eat More, Live Well by Dr Megan Rossi
To find out more or join the course, ring or email the course organiser: Nick Waters, or contact the Church Office. |
How to write clearly, concisely and precisely so we can:
Course date: Wednesday 1 November 9.30am-1pm
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have our messages quickly and easily understood
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have a professional image
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have error-free writing.
The course includes material produced by Lois Lightfoot, Sally James, PEF Associates (Penni Fromm); as well as material from the following web sites: dictionary.cambridge.org, grammar-monster.com, Wikipedia.org, universalclass.com, examples.yourdictionary.com and plainlanguage.gov
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 design & deliver effective presentations.
To be developed
How to organise, chair & participate in highly effective meetings.
To be developed
Will be based on the book The New One Minute Manager by Ken Blanchard & Spencer Johnson
To be developed
Course aim: To explore tools & techniques in these two important project management areas.
To be developed |