Counselling
Professional Supervision
Staff Development
Employee Assistance Programmes
Spiritual Direction
Personal and Spiritual Growth Programmes
Retreats

Counselling

Counselling can help you to mobilise your inner resources to find solutions to problems and new ways to cope. It provides you with a supportive environment in which personal growth can occur.

Explore who you are and find direction and meaning in life.

Some of the issues you may wish to discuss in counselling are:

• Loss, grief, trauma and bereavement
• Difficulties in handling life transitions
• Relationship difficulties
• Separation and divorce
• Self esteem issues
• Living with a disability
• Unresolved conflict
• Child and adolescent problems
• Anger management
• Stress, anxiety and depression
• Sexuality and sexual orientation
• Drug and alcohol problems
• Sexual abuse (past and present)
• Domestic violence (physical, emotional, psychological, economic and sexual)

Professional Supervision

Professional supervision is available for counsellors, therapists, spiritual directors and others with pastoral care responsibilities.

Supervision promotes good practice. It focuses on supervisees' work with their clients.

Staff Development

Find the spirit in your organsiation and unlock your team's potential. Explore ways to work with organisations, leaders and individuals and respond more effectively to obstacles and challenges. Create broad new possibilities and unleash the life of your group in a safe environment. Your team can experience being their real and best selves in a group, and work cooperatively as a team.

Staff development provides groups and their members with a greater ability to engage and surmount the challenges they face, and to do so with integrity and compassion.

The Centre provides a comprehensive range of workshops that can be adapted to an organisation's needs.

Employee Assistance Programmes

Are your staff having difficulties in or outside of work? Do you want to improve their productivity and wellbeing?

An Employee Assistance Programme is a worksite-focused programme that assists employees identify and resolve concerns that affect their performance.

Organisations can contract the Centre to provide confidential counselling for their personnel.

Spiritual Direction

Many people today have a growing desire to explore their spirituality. This desire emerges and develops in rich and varied ways.

For some people this desire occurs within their personal life experiences, through reflection upon their inner-self, through meditation or the search for deeper meaning in their lives.

For others this desire is discovered within their relationships, through their yearning to develop or deepen the quality of these relationships, whether with individuals, within groups or within the wider global community.

There are some whose desire is born out of their commitment to bring about justice within the social systems in which they live and work. While others in their passion for the natural world desire to ground their deep concern for the well-being of the environment in a spiritual context.

In a spiritual direction session, a director helps people to explore their human experience to encounter their spirituality within their lives.

For example they do this by:

• Helping people to develop a contemplative stance to enable them so as to be present to the spiritual within all things.
  
• Assisting men and women to experience their spirituality amidst the joys and struggles of their personal relationships.
  
• Standing alongside people so that they find a liberating spiritual energy as source of empowerment in the justice work to which they are called
  
• Helping people to experience their spirituality within nature as a way of grounding their deep concern for the well-being of the natural environment.

Spiritual direction can be provided in one-to-one, group or corporate contexts.

Personal and Spiritual Growth Programmes

Join us at one of our workshops to discover your own personal and spiritual potential.

Explore the challenges in your life and become focused on your life direction.

The Centre provides a comprehensive range of personal and spiritual growth workshops that can be tailored to meet the needs of individuals and organisations.

Click on the link below to view the courses, retreats and workshops available in 2010

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Retreats

Bring about significant life change and learn to listen deeply to your own spiritual experience in an environment of prayerful solitude. Your retreat director will help you to listen to and recognise what God is saying in your life and where you are being called.

A retreat is an opportunity for people to take time out to listen to and respond to how their spirituality is working in their life. Retreats can be conducted both in the midst of daily life or in residential retreat centres.

Click on the link below to view the courses, retreats and workshops available in 2010

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