Prerequisites:

The successful student possesses excellent reading comprehension skills, writing composition skills, email skills, and psychological-mindedness. The student should also have a supportive teacher (and parent(s) if under age 18) or someone he or she can talk to about the course.

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.

8. How to identify and distinguish healthy from unhealthy thinking.

Course Materials (provided with tuition and available at the following links):

1. Essential Effective Communication Skills

2. Effective Counselling Skills text (sent as a PDF email attached file)

3. Fifteen Principles of Feedback and Criticism

4. Anger Self-Assessment

5. Life Story Questionnaire (sent as an editable Word .doc email attached file)

Course Assignments:

1. Create and design a minimum of 100 to 120 long and short-answer questions and answers reflecting the scope and depth of the text and the articles “Essential Effective Communication Skills” and “Fifteen Principles of Feedback and Criticism,” with page numbers where answers are found in the text.

2. Complete and submit the Life Story Questionnaire.

3. Complete the Anger Self-Assessment and write a short report on your conclusions.

4. Read A_Technology_of_Words_Five_Steps_for_Creating_Solutions_and_Agreements,

try it with a group, and write a one-page report on your experience (extra credit).

Tuition:

The $40 tuition can be provided through paypal at this secure link, or in Canada through your online banking using interac etransfer directed to [email protected] Ask about financial assistance if needed, approved on request.

Course Certificate:

The Course Certificate of Development in Self-Awareness 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 [email protected] 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. 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 secure link, but if you are under age 18, ask your parents if it’s OK to enroll. I