Training and Workshops
We run a range of courses throughout Hong Kong for practitioners, educators, parents and students. Please contact us to discuss your individual requirements and professional development needs, all of our training can be adapted to suit your requirements.
The following is a list of training we have delivered this last year:-
Educators and Practitioners
- Motivational Interviewing techniques to increase student motivation and decrease procrastination
- Learning to Protect L2P ( NSPCC) training to train school staff in recognising and responding to child abuse
- Communication skills for performance management
- Beyond Blue – mental health training aimed at raising awareness of mental health issues in young people and how to intervene supportively
- Brief counselling for young people
- Developing emotional literacy in children
Parents
- Cyber savvy Parents – what parents need to know in order to protect
- How to talk so kids will listen and listen so kids will talk ( 6 week program)
- Surviving adolescence from the parents perspective
- Dealing with transition
Students
P2P our peer to peer support training program, flexibility of program from one day to 10 weeks. By the end of the training, students emerge with confidence and new found skills to develop a support service in school which addresses emotional and educational needs.
- Leadership training for student leaders
- Stress management workshops – Taming the Invisible Tiger
- Sleep and well being workshops
- Relationship Training
- Survival Skills for University – Street wise & Street Smart
Peer Support Training – P2P Peer to Peer
We are very proud of P2P a very successful peer support training programme that lasts between 8 – 10 weeks and trains young people to be effective helpers and psycho – educators leading workshops on topical issues for adolescents. This compliments the pastoral ethos of your school and fits with the requirements of CAS for the IB. Jackie Greenwood has trained over 200 young people in Peer Support since 2004.
What young people say!
The peer support training we did at LPC was just...Amazing. When I started, I thought it would be quite a science, learning what to say to people in certain situations, which I suppose there was elements of, but it was far more about developing peoples natural ability to listen and to be empathetic. i certainly learned far more about myself than I expected to, and gained a confidence in situations that would have made me cry and stick my head in the sand before. The course is one of the most rewarding things i've ever done with my life. I would heartily recomend it to anyone interested in being a good listener, and helping out their friends.
(Alex, Li Po Chun United World College)
Peer support. Two simple words given to something that's not simple at all. Starting all of the training, the first thing that hit me was the big book i was given (figuratively, and literally!). Wow, is it really that thick you think? Well it might seem so, but reading it, it's like a cookie - looks hard, but it's full of sweet sugary goodness, which is something very true about peer support. Thinking of all the things i've gained makes the course seem more than worthwhile because now, i can finally understand people (for a workaholic who associates with books, this is one major leap forward!). As fun as the training can be, there's also a serious side which i think, like the fun side, is just as, if not more rewarding. We learn to help people, and the knowledge of knowing you're capable of actively helping somebody is amazing. I'd recommend this to anybody who's willing help another. In summary, peer support is "knock-your-socks-off-awesome".
(Chris, Sha Tin College, 2009)
