Counselling Programs
Fundamental Skills for Success
Imagine you are driving down the road and your car breaks down. You go to get a tool from your toolbox but there is only a hammer. You are going to be limited in how you can fix it. The same can be said with our mental health. If we are driving down the road of life and we get hit with depression, anxiety, or stress, we need the appropriate tools to effectively deal with it.
Fundamental Skills for Success provides skills that help you in a quickly changing world. Everyone benefits from having these skills. The program addresses mental health including stress, anxiety, and depression, but the program goes much further to also include goal setting, behaviour activation, effective communication tools, and relapse prevention. Each week presents a new tool to add to your toolbox.
They can help you to get a job, progress at your current job, develop and maintain relationships, become a better communicator, and to be more assertive in having your needs addressed. The skills also help you become an active member of your community and succeed in life.
The program includes skills that are foundational for building other skills and knowledge and are important for effective social interaction. These skills overlap and interact with each other and with other technical and life skills. They are inclusive and can be adapted to different contexts.
The outline for the Fundamental Skills for Success Program is as follows:
Module 1 – Stress, Anxiety or Depression, or a combination of all 3?
Module 2 – Dealing with Stress
Module 3 – Cognitive Strategies – Automatic Negative Thoughts & Thinking Traps
Module 4 – Cognitive Strategies for Managing Thinking
Module 5 – Core Beliefs
Module 6 – Effective Communication Skills
Module 7 – Facing Your Fears
Module 8 – Relapse Prevention
Fostering Respectful Relationships
Fostering Respectful Relationships is important for promoting and modelling respect in intimate relationships. It provides the opportunity to examine the underlying values, beliefs, and behaviours that form the basis for a respectful relationship, using the cognitive behavioural therapy approach. It provides a blueprint for teaching participants to how to build healthy relationships, resilience, and confidence.
The Outline for the Fostering Respectful Relationships Program is as follows:
Module 1 – What is a Respectful Relationship and What Gets in the Way?
Module 2 – What is Abuse? Physical, Sexual, Verbal, Psychological
Module 3 – Feelings and Emotions
Module 4 – Dealing with Anger
Module 5 – Impact of Violence and Abuse
Module 6 – Power & Control vs. Equality, Assertiveness, I-Statements
Module 7 – Breaking the Intergenerational Cycle of Abuse
Module 8 – Respectful Communication 1 – Paraphrasing, Non-Verbal Communication, Active Listening
Module 9 – Respectful Communication 2 – Empathy and Respect, Clarifying Questions, Fair Conflict
Module 10 – Maintenance – Time for Change
Anger Management
Feelings of anger are a normal and healthy part of being human. Learning to avoid all anger would be an impossible goal. Instead, in anger management, you will learn to avoid negative reactions to anger (such as aggression), while learning new healthy habits. The first step in anger management is to begin learning about your own anger.
The Outline for the Anger Management Program is as follows:
Module 1 – What is Anger
Module 2 – Anger, Time-Outs, Relaxation
Module 3 – Triggers, Stress and Lifestyle Management
Module 4 – Cognitive Strategies, Thinking Errors
Module 6 – Respectful Communication 1 – Paraphrasing, Non-Verbal Communication, Active Listening
Module 7 – Respectful Communication 2 – Empathy and Respect
Module 8 – Relapse Prevention
Frank can be contacted at 250-600-7598 or via email at frankmorven@gmail.com and he would be happy to answer any questions.