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SUMMARY:Navigating Grief and Loss
DESCRIPTION:A rich program on navigating the wilderness of sorrow\, loss and grief\, the many faces of grief\, the numerous ways we grieve throughout the world including rituals that honour the dead and what has been lost.  Working with befriending grief and complex grief with expressive arts\, mindfulness practices and more. Understanding how to be a Grief walker providing support and skills to help to meet the tasks in grieving. \nSupporting the Grief walker to navigate our own grief\, through self care rituals\, supervision\, and continuous improvement. \nWeek 1: The Wilderness of Grief \nWeek 2: The Faces of Grief \nWeek 3: Walking with the Grieving \nWeek 4: Caring for the Grief Walkers \nDates: 14\, 21\, 28 April and 12 May @ 6.30pm – 9.30pm Online
URL:https://awakening.com.au/event/navigating-grief-and-loss/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Holistic Counsellor Training,Seminar,Weekend Workshop
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SUMMARY:Navigating Attachment Styles in Family Constellations with Brenda Sutherland
DESCRIPTION:“Your body is the family story”\nThe way we speak\, the way we tell our story reveals our family story and the difficulties of moving towards or away in our interaction with others. Our attachment styles tell the story of our systemic loss and trauma. Meeting a client’s attachment style\, despite being fluid depending on who you are interacting with\, creates rapport quickly\, gives therapists access to how to soothe\, how to interact with the client\, what to look for\, as well as address the fundamentals issues in the family story.\n* How do you soothe attachment styles and begin to work with these attachment injuries to change the way we interact with others?\n* What story is your attachment style trying to tell?\n* Discover our biggest attachment injury that no one talks about and how it changes the brain and nervous system!\n\nPlease bring plasticine and a board.\nWORLD CONSTELLATION DAY
URL:https://awakening.com.au/event/navigating-attachment-styles-in-family-constellations-with-brenda-sutherland/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Brenda,Family Constellations,Seminar
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SUMMARY:Effective Communication: Advanced Communication Skills for All Relationship
DESCRIPTION:Effective Communication is an introduction to an extensive skills-based training that develops interpersonal communication and conflict resolution competencies.\nThrough Effective Communication\, a combination of Non-violent Communication skills and advanced communication skills. Learn through demonstrations\, practice via exercises and activities\, to understand when and how to apply a powerful set of tools that measurably influence peoples’ behaviours\, habits and beliefs. The result is more productive\, efficient and fulfilling workplaces\, families\, and relationships.\n\nFundamental skills to enhance your personal and professional effectiveness.\n* Active & Empathic Listening* Listening for Needs through Shifting Gears* Observation vs Interpretation* Advanced Problem Solving Skills* No Lose Method of Conflict Resolution* 12 Roadblocks to Communication* Common Listening Mistakes and Alternatives* Decode what others are trying to express* Expressing Yourself Effectively\n\nWant More?* Discover What Your Communication Style is and transform it with new skills* Cultivate a Listening Environment* Diffuse anger by finding the need that is trying to be expressed* Find out how to stand up for yourself\, without blaming and shaming* Who Owns the Problem and What Skills to use when* Learn the difference between Feelings\, Faux Feelings\, and Needs* What To Do When you Feel Stuck* Attain new levels of Personal Responsibility.* Gain others confidence in you when you communicate openly and directly.* Learn how to clean up your mistakes in a way that enhances and strengthens your relationships.* Learn how to confront in ways that enhances relationships\n\nDates19\, 26 May\, 2 & 9 June @ 6.30pm – 9.30pm QLD/VIC/NSW time\nvia Zoom Rooms\nFacilitator: Brenda Sutherland (Qualified Gordon Training instructor)
URL:https://awakening.com.au/event/effective-communication-advanced-communication-skills-for-all-relationship/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Brenda,Communication Training,Holistic Counsellor Training,Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Brisbane:20260922T183000
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SUMMARY:The Authentic Communicator: 10 Part Program (2026)
DESCRIPTION:Advanced communication skills to strengthen all relationships whilst enhancing each person’s self esteem and connectedness. These emotional intelligent techniques are designed to be used in workplaces\, as a parent\, teacher\, with a partner etc to enhance all relationships. \n10 part Series\, 30 hours of advanced communication skills training including: \nFundamental skills to enhance your personal and professional effectiveness. \n\nActive & Empathic Listening\nListening for Needs\nI Messages: Declarative\, Responsive\, Confrontative\, Preventative\nProblem Solving using Method III\nNo Lose Method of Conflict Resolution\n12 Roadblocks to Communication\nConsulting Skills\nConflict Resolution\nAssertiveness skills and role playing\nLeadership skills\nDealing with Different personalities\nValues Collisions and how to address them\nGetting Your Point Across\nEnhance and Increase Personal Effectiveness\n\nWant More? \n\nDiscover why both passive and aggressive behaviour invites intimidation.\nLearn how to deal with aggressive people.\nFind out how to stand up for yourself\, \, and enhance your credibility.\nManage situations better with people who are “difficult to get on with”.\nAvoid unnecessary aggravations and gain more support and cooperation.\nAttain new levels of self responsibility.\nOthers gain confidence in you when you communicate openly and directly.\nLearn how to clean up your mistakes in a way that enhances and strengthens your relationships.\n\nStarts: \n22 September 2026 Tuesday 6.30pm – 9.30pm  (10 part series\, 30 hours)
URL:https://awakening.com.au/event/the-authentic-communicator/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Brenda,Communication Training,Holistic Counsellor Training,Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Brisbane:20261010T090000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Brisbane:20261011T170000
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SUMMARY:Deepening Inquiry Based Stress Reduction (The Work of Byron Katie Part II)
DESCRIPTION:Inquiry Based Stress Reduction process (The Work of Byron Katie) works with enquiring into stressful beliefs that we have about ourself\, others\, situations\, our body etc.\nWe look forward to supporting your freedom through Byron Katie’s 4 Questions and turnarounds throughout these two days.\nThere is a lot of opportunity to do your own work throughout this weekend.\n\nPart II looks at:\n\nSaying “No” or “Yes” – Who is it I have difficulty saying “No” to or saying “Yes” to? What are my stressful thoughts?\nInquiry using The Worksheets\nDoing The Work of Byron on Myself – “I”\, personal stories of self\, body illness etc\nStressful Events – What were my motives? Why don’t I say “No” or “Yes” to myself?\nWants – Why I think I can’t get what I want? Practice asking\, beliefs that stop us….\nThe Gift of Criticism – Taking it deeper\, How to receive. What was it like? Beliefs appearing and enquiry.\nTurnarounds: Meeting life as it is\, my thinking\, shoulds\, how I drink in my thinking and much more\n\nFacilitators: \nCo-facilitated by Tammy Reid (Certified Facilitator of The Work) and Brenda Sutherland (Founding Director of The Awakening Group) \n  \nFor more information: \nThe Work of Byron Katie
URL:https://awakening.com.au/event/deepening-the-work-of-byron-katie-part-ii/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Seminar,Weekend Workshop
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