A series of short courses aimed at boosting life skills. The courses provide knowledge and practical tips towards having a Positive Life. Courses cover wellbeing, health, relationship skills and work skills. Each course explains the main issues, provide 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. Sessions times: Mondays 7.30-9.30pm or Wednesdays 10am-12noon. Course descriptions are below, click here for upcoming course dates and times. |
The series of Positive Life Courses
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WELLBEING COURSES
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HEALTH COURSES
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Boosting the Benefits of Sleep
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Eating & Drinking for Health
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RELATIONSHIP SKILLS COURSES
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WORK SKILLS COURSES
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Professional Writing
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Presenting for High Impact
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Meeting Management
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One Minute Praising & Redirecting
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Deadline Management & Progress Tracking
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Register your interest for a course via the Church Office |
How to boost motivation & self-confidence, make effective decisions
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 & manage time
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get agreements, collaborate, listen.
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
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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gets agreements, collaborate, listen
Based on the book 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey.
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. |
#3 Boosting Relationship Skills: an introduction
How to understand people and establish a strong connection
How to boost top 20 skills needed to effectively relate with people, through:
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listening & fully engaging in conversations
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recognising & using body language
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mastering assertiveness skills.
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.
#4 Boosting Highly Effective Relationship Characteristics
How to be a highly effective relationship builder with all types of people
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
To find out more or join the course, ring or email the course organiser: Nick Waters, or contact the Church Office.
#5 Handling Conflict & Difficult People
How to cope with conflict & difficult people
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. |
#6 Boosting the Benefits of Sleep
How to get a good night's sleep every night
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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.
#7 Eating & Drinking for Health
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.
To be developed: 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. |
#8 Professional Writing
How to write clearly, concisely and precisely so we can:
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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.
#9 Presenting for High Impact
How to design & deliver effective presentations.
To be developed
#10 Meeting Management
How to organise, chair & participate in highly effective meetings.
To be developed
#11 One Minute Praising & Redirecting
Will be based on the book The New One Minute Manager by Ken Blanchard & Spencer Johnson
To be developed
#12 Deadline Management & Progress Tracking
Course aim: To explore tools & techniques in these two important project management areas.
To be developed |