Workshops
(see
latest Newsletter for more information)
On-Going
Groups
Self
Esteem for Women (click
here for schedule of topics)
Our self-esteem
develops and evolves throughout our lives as we build an image of
ourselves through our experiences with different people and activities.
Experiences during our childhood play a particularly large role in
the shaping of our basic self-esteem. When we were growing up, our
successes (and failures) and how we were treated by the members of
our immediate family, by our teachers, sports coaches, religious authorities,
and by our peers, all contributed to the creation of our basic self-esteem.
The course is designed to give women the opportunity to develop awareness
of how they live in the world, the influences on them and how they
have the ability and power to make changes in their lives.
Women will be given the opportunity to:
- Develop
skills to recognise the strengths in themselves
- Look
at the areas of self responsibility and self reflection
- Be encouraged
to develop awareness around how beliefs about self develop and grow
- Build
their emotional connection with themselves and develop a greater awareness
of their own feelings and emotions
- Feel
a sense of personal power and belonging
- Celebrate
positive aspects of being a woman
Friday morning 9.45am and Tuesday evening 6.30pm
Assertiveness
for Women
Assertiveness
is the ability to express yourself and your rights without violating
the rights of others. It is appropriately direct, open, and honest
communication which is self-enhancing and expressive. Acting assertively
will give you the opportunity to feel self-confident and will generally
gain you the respect of yourself and your peers and friends. It can
increase your chances for honest relationships, and help you to feel
better about yourself and your self in everyday situations.
Tutor:
Stephanie Brockman
Dates: 6 Weeks
Wednesday 28 March 2012
Time: 7-9pm
Cost: $40
Enrol: WEA 5692 292
Women
Who Love Too Much
Part One
(Co-dependency/Addiction/Losing yourself in Relationships)
Part one is an educational weekend. This weekend will give participants an opportunity to explore their own issues around co-dependency and process addiction, the origins of your behaviour and ways of changing and developing in yourself. Women Who Love Too Much , co-dependency, relationship addiction; all names which reflect different aspects of this issue that some women have in relationships. If you have difficulty with relationships; partners, children, parents, then this workshop may help you in understanding how to look at your behaviour in the relationship and where that behaviour comes from. This workshop will help women that want to look at the damaging or dysfunctional relationships they have been/or are in. Using the group work process and action methods we will begin the process of personal recovery.
Workshop
1 (Friday evening and two day weekend course)
This weekend will give participants an opportunity to explore their own issues around co-dependency and process addiction and the origins of behaviour and ways of changing and developing in yourself.
Facilitator: Ally Andersun
Dates:
9, 10 and 11 March 2012
Time: Friday 7-9:30, Saturday & Sunday 10-5pm
Venue: Women's Centre
Enrol: By payment or deposit to Women's Centre
Cost: Waged $40/Low or Unwaged $20
6 Minimum and 10 Maximum for course to commence
Note: Participants must be prepared to attend all of the workshop
Women Who Love Too Much
Part 2
Workshop 2 (Friday evening and two day weekend course)
This weekend is for women that have completed the first weekend. This weekend will be for women that want to work therapeutically with these co-dependency issues. The workshop will give participants an opportunity to explore their own issues around co-dependency and process addiction. We will also explore the origins of your behaviour and ways of changing and developing in yourself.
Dates: This workshop will run in the second part of 2012
Time: Friday 7-9.30pm Saturday & Sunday 10-5pm
Venue: Women's Centre
Enrol: Only by payment or deposit
Cost: Waged $62/Low or Unwaged $31
6 Minimum for course to commence and 10 Maximum
Participants are expected to attend the full course.
Opportunity for Healing from Sexual Abuse or Rape
These weekend workshops are designed for women that have in their life experienced sexual abuse or rape and are ready to use group work process to assist with this healing.
There are three weekend workshops. You may attend one, two or three. You need to register for each separately.
Interviews with the facilitator will be necessary before enrolment.
Workshop One
Dates: Friday evening, Saturday and Sunday 1, 2 and 3 April 2012
Time: Friday 7-9.30pm, Saturday 10-5pm and Sunday 10-4.30pm
Cost: $40/$20 Waged/Unwaged/Low Waged
Workshop Two
Dates: Friday evening, Saturday and Sunday 8, 9 and 10 June 2012
Time: Friday 7-9.30pm, Saturday 10-5pm and Sunday 10-4.30pm
Cost: $40/$20 Waged/Unwaged/Low Waged
Workshop Three
Dates: Friday evening, Saturday and Sunday 24, 25 and 26 August 2012
Time: Friday 7-9.30pm, Saturday 10-5pm and Sunday 10-4.30pm
Cost: $40/$20 Waged/Unwaged/Low Waged
Facilitator: Ally Andersun
Phone 5692711 to register your interest, leave a message for Ally Andersun and she will phone you back.
Sleep Well For Women
In a world where "time is money", just about everything in life can seem more important than sleep.
Yet, our sleep and health are very closely linked. Parenting demands, caring for an elderly parent, or a restless partner can interrupt our sleep.
Pain, worries, fears or our fluctuating hormones may keep us awake.
Whilst sleeping problems are as widespread as they are diverse, this course aims to help participants to understand basic facts and to discover practical and workable solutions toward improved sleep and well-being.
We will look at physiological aspects of sleep, including sleep stages and rhythms, the relationship between daytime busyness and quality of sleep as well as the relationship between sleep and health.
We will discuss specifically what helps and what gets in the way of sleep including;
- stress
- worries and anxiety
- food and other habits
- parenting and other caring roles
- hormonal changes
- illness and changing patterns as we age.
Building on their learning, participants are helped to discover simple and workable answers to common concerns.
Facilitator: Veronika Gabel
Dates: Beginning Thursday 1 March 2012
Time: 7-9pm
Cost: Waged $30/ Low or Unwaged $15
Enrolment to Women's Centre only by deposit or payment.
Anger
as a Strength
Anger is a misunderstood emotion and energy. This training is skill based on providing opportunities and techniques to express anger using tools of assertiveness. Anger is necessary for survival, but through the ways many women have learned to express anger or not express anger issues have been created. This course will be an opportunity to explore the use and mis-use of anger.
Tutor:
Ally Andersun
Date: Wednesday 15 February 2012
Time: 7-9pm
Enrol: WEA 5692 292
Cost: $40
Self
Development for Women
Using the Psychodramatic Method
This weekend will give participants opportunity to explore personal issues using the psychodramatic method. This workshop will be useful for women wanting to expand and develop their experience of life and the issues that hold them back. Women new to the psychodramatic method are welcome.
Facilitator:
Ally Andersun
Friday evening and two-day weekend Course
Dates:
27, 28 and 30 April 2012
Time: Friday 7-9:30pm, Saturday 10am-5pm& Sunday 10am-4:30pm
Venue: Lower Hutt Women's Centre
Enrol: Only by payment or deposit
Cost: Waged $40 Low or Unwaged $20
6 Minimum and 10 Maximum for course to commence
Note: Participants must be prepared to attend all of the workshop
Ally Andersun is the Counsellor/Trainer/Supervisor
at the Lower Hutt Women's Centre. Ally has a Bachellor of Counselling,
Certificate in Social Studies and is an advanced trainee in Psychodrama.
She is a member of NZAC and ANZPA. Ally has been a counsellor for
15 years and has run groups for over 20 years.
Meditation for Women
Stone and Stream
A 6-week Meditation Course with Ruth Pink
Meditation is an ancient art with many possibilities for modern application. Using simple techniques of watching and being with the breath, it is designed to help people to calm the mind and to live well. In this respect it is one of the cheapest, most portable kinds of healthcare and self help around. Meditation can be used to manage stress, pain, anxiety and depression. It is also a way to connect more deeply with the richness and beauty that we are.
Taking inspiration from the qualities of stone and stream and the natural world, Ruth will tailor the course to the needs and aspirations of the women who attend. During the six weeks we will also:
- learn some basic meditation techniques,
- explore ways to manage our thoughts and feelings ( instead of letting them
manage us!)
- discuss ways of living more easefully and more mindfully.
- explore some basic Buddhist principles that support meditation.
The course will include meditation practice, art work, gentle body movements, discussion and sharing.
The course will include meditation practice, art work, gentle body movements, discussion and sharing. It is suitable for people who are new to meditation and those who are looking to revitalise their practice..
Please wear warm loose clothing.
Start Date: 12 April 2012
Time: 7:00-9:00pm
Cost: $30 Waged/$15 Unwaged or low waged
Enrol by payment to Lower Hutt Women's Centre
Ruth Pink is a writer, poet, counsellor and celebrant. She has been meditating and studying meditation for more than 17 years. A stressful job brought her to meditation and a serious illness helped her really practice it. Ruth is connected to the Wangapeka Study and Retreat Centre in Nelson, and has studied with the Venerable Tarchin Hearn, the Venerable Namgyal Rinpoche, Leander Kane and many other teachers whose wisdom has enriched her life. Ruth weaves together teachings from the Buddha and other spiritual traditions with art, science, ecology and poetry. While seeking to inspire others to change their lives and change their minds, she is also open-hearted, and down to earth.
My Mother My Self
The inspiration to run the Workshop “My Mother My Self” has grown out of Women Who Love Too Much workshops. Guilt was one of the emotions that women identified, through these workshops, as influencing them today.
The workshop will look at the issues of guilt including; mother guilt, our mother’s guilt – how much did we inherit from her, and how we are controlled through guilt.
Other issues include; looking at concepts of what stops us from living our own authentic lives,
our relationship with our mother, how our relationship with our mother influences how we are today.
- "Understanding what we have with out Mothers is the beginning of understanding ourselves."
- "Our mothers had not raised us to feel comfortable with autonomy, sexuality, a life different from theirs".
Both quotes from Nancy Friday in My Mother My Self.
This is an experiential workshop and participants need to have a commitment to their own development and to attend all parts of the weekend including Friday evening.
Friday evening and two-day weekend course
Facilitator: Ally Andersun
Dates: 18th, 19th and 20th May 2012
Time: Friday 7-9:30pm, Saturday 10am-5pm& Sunday 10am-4:30pm
Venue: Lower Hutt Women's Centre
Enrol: By payment or deposit to Women's Centre
Cost: Waged $40/Low or Unwaged $20
6 Minimum and 10 Maximum for course to commence
Note: Participants must be prepared to attend all of the workshop
Inner Child Workshop
Through the use of action and art learn the techniques to develop a deeper understandingof yourself and your processes. It is said that the child holds the key to our own healing and recovery, and this is an individual journey for each person.This workshop is for women that have done previious self development workshops or groups.
All participants need to be interviewed by Ally Andersun before registration. You can phone and put your name down to be contacted for an interview.
Friday evening and two-day weekend course
Dates : 22, 23 and 24 June 2012
Time: Fri 7-9.30pm, Saturday 10am-5pm, Sunday 10am-4:30pm
Cost: Waged $40 Low or Unwaged $20
Venue: Lower Hutt Women's Centre
Menopause for Women
If you are starting menopause, experienceing full on symptons, post-menopausal or just curious about what lies ahead this course if for you. We will look at different aspects of menopause, physical, emotional, spiritual, social and psychological. We will have guest speakers and discussion.
What is Menopause? Menopause literally means cessation of menstruation or last period. It marks the end of a woman’s fertile years when the ovaries produce lower levels of the reproductive hormones oestrogen and progesterone.
The average age for menopause in New Zealand is 51.5 years. ‘Perimenopause’ is the official term used to describe the average of five or so years up to the last period.
When periods have stopped for a year it can be assumed that a woman is post-menopause. After menopause the body achieves a new hormonal balance by producing hormones from the adrenal glands, the brain, muscles, and hair follicles as well as continuing to produce lesser amounts of hormones from the ovaries.
Dates: Six weeks beginning 9 May 2012
Time : 7-9pm
Facilitator: Ally Andersun
Venue: Lower Hutt Women's Centre
Enrol: WEA 5692292
Cost: $40
6 Minimum and 12 Maximum for course to commence.
Self
Esteem for Teens [Girls only 13 - 19 years]
A workshop
for girls to learn about yourself, to have fun, to learn self respect
and to be more confident and to accept yourself and others. A 10-week
program beginning
6 March 2012.
Facilitator:
Johanna Pibal and Clare Caffery
Time: 4pm - 6pm
Cost: $40
Johanna Pibal has a Playcentre Federation Certificate, a BA in Education and Psychology, a BA HONS in Psychology with a counselling paper in Education, a Postgraduate Certificate in Health Sciences (Child Mental Health), a MA in Psychology and has completed Family Therapy training and Group work training.
Johanna has many years of experience tutoring and facilitating learning groups for young children, adolescents, and adults, and practices as a Child and Family therapist. She has been involved in the Lower Hutt Women’s Centre over the past 18 years.
Weaving with Harakeke -Attend one or more of the workshops
Learn how make a konae and a kono, and how to prepare the harakeke using correct protocol, e.g. with cutting harakeke and the significance of karakia. We will also sing waiata.
Tutor:
Makere Love
Time: 10-4pm
Cost: $12 for the one-day course / $24 for two-day course
Venue: Lower Hutt Women's Centre
Enrol: By payment or deposit
Dates will be set in the new year once funding has been approved.
Course One:
Course Two:
Course Three:
For course three you need to have attended course one or two at some stage previously.
Painting
Workshops (Attend one or more)
Workshops
for women, you can be experienced or complete beginners. The workshops
will be based on you expressing yourself through painting and learning
techniques at the same time. Techniques (one for each workshop),
will be taught. Come along and have a creative and relaxing time in
a supportive environment. You can work on new projects each workshop or
carry on with your work from the previous workshop. Linda is an experienced
art tutor - who will guide you as you want.
Dates will be set in the new year once funding has been approved.
Workshop One:
Workshop Two:
Workshop Three:
Workshop Four:
Workshop Five:
Facilitator: Linda Wood
All equipment
supplied
You can
attend one or all of the workshops.
Times: 10-4pm
Cost: $22 per workshop
Enrolment by payment or deposit only.
Other
Groups
Lower Hutt Women's Centre
SPIRITUAL GROUP
(Mondays 10:15am to 12:15pm)
Something missing? Do you ask yourself “Why am I here?” “What is my purpose?” Your heart and soul are urging you awaken to your true self. We are all spiritual beings made up of energy to create the human experience on earth in a physical body. Come and experience something new.
This group is open to all women irrespective of religion, culture, age, class, background, experience, because we connect through our heart centre.
WHAT DO WE DO?
This group is facilitated by Stephanie Parashar who has been involved with the LHWC for twenty years. She holds a Bachelor of Social Work and has spent ten years living, working and studying in India.
Stephanie has always had an interest in things spiritual and has spent the last seven years developing her healing abilities, whilst studying many forms of meditation and spiritual ideas.
Stephanie creates a sacred space inviting the energy of the Goddess to join us, we have a group discussion on any spiritual matters that are present on the day, we take a break for tea/coffee, then a specific spiritual topic is introduced, finishing off with a guided meditation and prayer. From time to time we may have a guest speaker.
This group runs continuously. Trust your heart and come and join us!
Now is the time! Heal your soul!
When: Mondays 10.15am – 12.15pm
Cost: Koha
Please note:
This group will stop running for 2011 in December and will begin again around about the end of March.
Please phone 5692711 to register interest.
Art/Mosaic
(Tuesdays - 10am till 2pm)
Learn how to mosaic and make a paving stone for our garden, and then continue on to make your own projects. A fun, creative time with other women.
Women's Support Group
(Wednesdays 1pm)
Stressed? Tired? Lonely? Sad?
Do you want and need to unload, are you getting stressed out?
If you are feeling out of touch with yourself and other people or feeling isolated then the group is a time to get support in a caring environment while you work on looking at yourself, your feelings and how you are in life.
The group is open to all women and you can join the group by turning up to the Women's Centre on Wednesdays from 1 til 2.30pm. No booking necessary. Just turn up or phone to see if the group is for you.
Facilitator: Julie Smart
Cost: No cost
Friendship
Group
(Thursdays - 10am to 12noon)
Friendships
are a vital source of emotional sustenance. As well as providing the
pleasure of companionship, your friendship network offers you a sense
of support and belonging. They can also be challenging, frustrating,
unsatisfying and confusing. Our ability to make and sustain friendships
is influenced by our ability to develop and maintain a nurturing relationship
with ourselves.
We have
facilitated discussions on:
- Being a good listener
- Respect your friend's point of view
- Never betray a trust
- Support and praise your friends
- Never resent a friend's success
Facilitator:
Yvonne Broadley
Yvonne
Broadley is a committed and active mother of 5 children and grandmother
of 5 children. Yvonne is a keen hiker and has a wide variety of life
experiences and gained a lot of wisdom, which she brings to the group.
Note:
The first Thursday of the month we bring our own lunch and stay behind.
For more information phone 5692711.
