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QUALIFICATIONS & TRAINING

Work & Experience

"Legacy is not leaving something for people. It is leaving something in people" 
Peter Strople

QUALIFICATIONS

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  • Diploma: OneSpirit Interfaith Foundation – Interfaith Minister & Spiritual Counsellor
                    

  • Diploma: Institute of Management & Production - Principles and Practices of Supervision
     

  • Diploma: National College for Teaching & Leadership (NNEB)
    (Early Years Childcare & Education Teacher)
     

  • Diploma: Tune-In-Institute for Time Therapy: Theoretical and Practical Knowledge of Time Therapy and its use in Individual and Group Therapy

TRAINING

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Counselling
 

  • Healing The Mother Wound, course by Bethany Webster
                                                   

  • Addiction, Eating Disorders Recovery training – 12 Step Programmes
                                                

  • Compassionate Inquiry: CI Circle
                                                                                                  

  • One Spirit Interfaith Foundation: Spiritual Counselling Refresher
                                                                                

  • The Bridge Retreat: Worthy - Recognising a Woman's Worth training
                                                        

  • Path of Love: seven-day intensive retreat programme
                                                                      

  • Awakening of Love: group facilitator training
                                                                                    

  • Deepening of Love: self-worth & self-love training
                                                                          

  • Working with People: Authentic Leadership parts 1 & 2 training
                                                                 

  • NSPCC/ChildLine: Anger Management; Phobias & Anxiety
     

  • NSPC/ChildLine: Advance Counselling Skills
                                                                                             

  • NSPCC/ChildLine: Professional Development: Disability; Bullying; Muslim Youth; Suicide Intervention
     

  • NSPCC/ChildLine: Counselling Training
                                                                                          

  • Camden Council: Women’s Sexuality Training
                                                                                                

  • Louise Hay (personally trained): Living Well: You Can Heal Your Life - Leadership training
                       

  • Religious Science International (Jamaica): First Year Religious Science Practioner Unit One
                          

  • Middlesex Polytechnic:  Psychology of the Growing Child & Adolescent

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Coaching
 

  • SPEAKup:                                                                                                                             
    -      Accredited Practitioner of Coaching
    -      Accredited Practitioner of Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP)
    -      Accredited Practitioner of Timelines

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Mindfulness
 

  • The Mindfulness Network /Bangor University: Teacher Training, Level 1
                                

  • Sounds True: Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR)

                                                                 

Public Speaking
 

  • SPEAKup, Certified Public Speaker

                                                                                           

Continued Professional Development
 

  • BAATN (The Black, African & Asian Therapy Network):
    -      Asian Practitioner Meetings

       -     Journeying: Indian Indenture
       -      Growth Through Adversity: COVID-19, Racism & Resilience
       -      BLM and COVID: Sustaining Self-Care and Action

       -     Impact of Current World Events on Us & Our Clients

       -     Women Practitioner Meetings

 

  • University of Brighton: Privilege & Otherness, Developing Language for Practitioners
     

  • Radical Therapist Network (RTN): Resting in Grief & Creatively Processing Shame
    Just What We Need: Skills for Therapists & Group Facilitators
     

  • Certified Grief Educator
    Trained by world renowned grief expert, David Kessler

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It's okay if you fall down and lose your spark. Just make sure that when you get back up, you rise as the whole damn fire.

Colette Werden

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