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
Menopause for Women
If you are starting Menopause, experienceing full on symptons, post menopausal or just curious about what lies ahead this course is for you. We will look at different aspects of menopause; physical, emotional, spiritual, social and psychological. We will have guest speakers and discussion.
Facilitator: Ally Andersun
Dates: Next course Feb 2009
Time: 7-9pm
Cost: $40
Enrol: WEA 5692 292
6 minimum for course to commence with 12 maximum participants.
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:
Ally Andersun
Dates: 6 Weeks March 2009
Time: 7-9pm
Cost: $45
Enrol: WEA 5692 292
Women
Who Love Too Much (Part One)
Workshop
1 (Friday evening and two day weekend course)
Facilitator: Ally Andersun
Dates: Friday 4, Saturday 5 and Sunday 6 July 2008
Time: Friday 7-9:30, Saturday & Sunday 10-5pm
Venue: Women's Centre
Enrol: By payment or deposit to Women's Centre
Cost: Waged $60/Low or Unwaged $30
6 Minimum and 10 Maximum for course to commence
Note: Participants must be prepared to attend all of the workshop
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.
Cultivating Spirituality
This is a course for women to explore spirituality and how it is embodied in ourselves and in our world. In our contemporary diverse society, many women don't feel comfortable in religious insitiutions or traditions, yet they still wish to explore and express their spirituality with others. This course provides an opportunity for women to share and learn with other women, and be inspired, informed and encouraged. It offers practical tools to develop a spiritual practice in our busy everyday lives and is for women from all spiritual backgrounds. It is not aligned to any one tradition and takes a broad view of spirituality.
Dates: 6 evening beginning Monday 12 May 2008
Time: 7-9pm
Cost: $40/$20 Waged/Low Waged/Unwaged
Enrol: By payment or deposit
This course is facilitated by Clare Mariskind who has been exploring her own spiritual journey for many years. She has a BA in Religious Studies and Education and a MEd focusing on adult learning and development. Clare has taught a number of courses on topics such as journal writing, creative writing, understanding dreams, lifeskills and human development, and is currently tutoring courses at Victoria University.
Women Who Love Too Much (Part Two) Co-dependency
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: Next workshop will be in 2009
Time: Friday 7-9.30pm Saturday & Sunday 10-5pm
Venue: Women's Centre
Enrol: Only by payment or deposit
Cost: Waged $60/Low or Unwaged $30
6 Minimum for course to commence and 10 Maximum
Participants are expected to attend the full course.
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 the relationship between sleep and health.
We will discuss specifically at what helps 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: 6 weeks beginning Wednesday 16 October 2008
Time: 7-9pm
Cost: $40
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 assertivness.
Tutor:
Ally Andersun
Date: 6
Weeks beginning Wednesday 24 September 2008
Time: 7-9pm
Enrol: WEA 5692 292
Cost: $45
Self
Development for Women
Using the Psychodramatic Method
Facilitator:
Ally Andersun
Two day weekend Course
Dates: Friday 21, Saturday 22 and Sunday 23 November 2008
Time: Friday 7-9:30, Saturday & Sunday 10-5pm
Enrol: By payment or deposit to
Cost: Waged $60 Low or Unwaged $30
6 Minimum and 10 Maximum for course to commence
Note: Participants must be prepared to attend all of the workshop
This
weekend will give participants an opportunity to explore personal
issues using the psychodramatic method. Women new to the psychodramatic
method are welcome.
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 Beginners - Dates not set as yet
Meditation
is a life skill - tool that can be used in many practical ways to
make life more peaceful and productive.
It’s
a healing tool - It reduces stress and anxiety, depression, insomnia,
helps in dealing with illness, pain management, learing to rest, relax,
refresh, and make a relationship with your body. It helps you take
time for yourself, find a better work/life balance, care for yourself,
understand yourself, to love yourself and others, have compassion
for your own and others’ difficulties. Meditation is something
you can do for yourself, taking control of your own growth and happiness.
Cost: $40 for entire course
Dido
Dunlop has trained in Tibetan Buddhism for thirty years. She loves
the creative endeavour of finding a path for meditation in the west.
Dido draws out the feminine in Buddhism, and relates it to her work
with women.
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.
Dates: Friday 22, Saturday 23 and Sunday 24 August 2008
Time: Friday 7-9.30pm, Saturday/Sunday 10-5pm
Cost: $60/$30
Venue: Lower Hutt Women's Centre
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 26 August 2008.
Facilitator:
Johanna Pibal
Time: 4pm - 6pm
Cost: $$35.00
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) and has completed Family Therapy training.Johanna has many
years of experience tutoring and facilitating learning groups for
young children, adolescents, and adults. She has been involved in
the Lower Hutt Women's Centre over the past 14 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: $10 for the one-day course / $15 for two-day course
Venue: Lower Hutt Women's Centre
Enrol: By payment or deposit
Course One: 12 July 2008 Konae
Course Two: 30 August 2008 Kono
Course Three: 11 and 12 October 2008 Whiri bottom kete
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.
Workshop One: 13 April 2008
Workshop Two: 25 May 2008
Workshop Three: 20 July 2008
Workshop Four: 28 September 2008
Workshop Five: 2nd November 2008
Facilitator: Linda Wood
All equipment
supplied
You can
attend one or all of the workshops.
Times: 10-4pm
Cost: $20 per workshop.
Enrolment by payment or deposit only.
Bookmaking Workshops for Women
Tutor: Jen Marchand
Dates:
Course One: Saturday 14 June 2008
Course Two: Sunday 13 July 2008
Each workshop is seperate. You can attend both or either one.
Cost: $10
Time: 10am to 4pm
Venue : Women's Centre
This workshop is for women to learn simple binding techniques and paper folding techniques.
Each workshop will be different; workshop one will include, Origami folding book and Envelope Notebook. Workshop two will include Accordian book and hand sewn book.
Other
Groups
Women's
Support Group (Wednesdays 1pm)
Stessed? 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.
Facilitor: Ally Andersun
Cost: No cost
Art/Mosaic
(Tuesdays - 10am till 2.30pm)
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.
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.
