- Confidence Skills Workshops

These workshops are designed to offer disabled people the opportunity to explore barriers to developing their self confidence and determine practical methods of addressing these.

Self Advocacy

These workshops aim to:

  • Help you find out what Self Advocacy means
  • Help you find out what type of advocacy could be of most use to you

This course would suit Disabled People who want to speak out for themselves and find out the best way to do this.

I'm Ok!? (Self Esteem)

These workshops aim to:

  • Enable you to explore ways of feeling good about yourself
  • Identify some of the barriers which might prevent you

This course would suit Disabled People who would like to find out about what self esteem is, explore how our self esteem can be hurt by other people, or things that have happened, and look at ways of feeling better about ourselves.

Time to Decide(Being Assertive)

These workshops aim to:

  • Look at 'What is Assertiveness?'
  • Give you a chance to find out how assertive you are and look at ways you can make positive changes

This course would suit Disabled People who find it difficult to assert themselves and are interested in finding out about how to develop assertiveness skills.

Dealing with Niceness

These workshops aim to:

  • Explore ways of dealing with extreme 'concern' from people who want to 'help'
  • Enable you to explore and develop your own methods of dealing with these attitudes with the minimum of conflict.

This course would suit Disabled People who want to be able to assert themselves when faced with very 'helpful' people.

Managing Conflict

These workshops aim to:

  • Enable you to recognise potential conflict situations
  • Enable you to develop ways of dealing with potential conflict

This course would suit Disabled People who are/will be responsible for staff, or who just want to develop assertiveness skills in this area.

Making the Right Connections (Communication Skills)

These workshops aim to offer Disabled People the opportunity to:

  • Explore barriers to communication
  • Enhance existing communication skills
  • Explore alternative ways of getting your message across

This course would suit Disabled People who want to find out more about 'good' communication and explore some of the barriers.

These courses will be run at regular intervals, dependant on interest. Please check Events page for any upcoming courses.