Workshops & Courses

Courses for Individuals

  • Moving On
    • For divorced and separated individuals
  • Parents Apart
    • For divorced and separated parents
  • Taking Charge of Your Life
    • Assertiveness and Self Esteem
  • Riding the Storm
    • Skills for parents of teenagers
  • Couples
    • Relationship learning before you commit
  • From Partners to Parents
    • Relationship skills for parents of children 0-6 years
  • Peer Mentoring
    • Communities supporting one another

Courses for professionals

  • First Impressions (telephone skills)
    • Telephone skills for front line staff
  • Counselling skills for non-Counsellors
  • for listening skills
  • Managing Stress
  • Supporting Distressed and Emotional People 
  • how to handle distress in others
  • Supporting Families
    • Skills for working in the Community
  • Looking Beyond the Problem
    • Solution-focused Skills for working in the community
  • Understanding Relationships
    • The theory of how relationships work

All courses are adapted to meet the needs of the participants.

Schools courses

  • Peer Listening Programmes
  • Listening Skills for School Staff

Schools courses are also available in the following subject areas:

  • Confidentiality, Working with groups, Basic Counselling Skills, Managing Conflict, Self Esteem, Children & Divorce/separation, Sex and Sexuality, First Relationships

Training courses: Counselling skills

  • Do you work in a supportive role?
  • Are you required to offer emotional support to others, discuss sensitive issues or have difficult conversations?

Relate Kent can help you to develop useful counselling skills, interview management techniques and enable positive change. Successful completion of this course can also provide access on to further Relate training.

Supporting Distressed and Emotional People:

A shorter course for professionals who deal with emotional and distressed clients as part of their job, for example management, HR staff, health and social care providers, voluntary and statutory organisations.

By the end of the course the participants will have:

  • Explored the need to build trust and rapport
  • Gained an understanding of how they can positively influence a situation
  • Practised effective questioning and listening skills
  • Practised managing a variety of emotions

COUNSELLING SKILLS NOW AVAILABLE FACE TO FACE email lynne.relatekent@gmail.com for more information.

Training courses: Schools and colleges

Schools and colleges:
We offer short workshops for young people on issues such as raising self esteem, healthy relationships, managing conflict, dealing with peer pressure and stress, coping with family dynamics and peer mentoring.  We also offer workshops for teachers and school staff on counselling skills, supporting distressed students; workshops for parents.

“Feedback from the young people was overwhelmingly positive and they left the day with new ways of thinking and positive coping skills to support their mental health in the future.”

Recent review from Prince’s Trust Medway