Workshops, hosted by Solace
Working With Teens & Young Adults
Who would benefit from this workshop:
This workshop will be helpful to counsellors, counselling students, social workers, school deans, and those who work with young people.
In this workshop Leith shares his knowledge of:
- What is counselling? Where does change take place?
- How to use a person centred approach to help young people open up.
- What parts do caring, warmth, empathy, non judgement play in counselling.
- How is my story helpful in reaching young people..being genuine, my real self.
- Noticing all information in the counselling room, how to look for deficits in thinking.
- How to teach teens Cognitive Behavioural Therapy to become aware of their own thoughts, to dispute and exchange thoughts.
- How to make the thoughts visible, using the power of t.shirts in therapy.
- Teaching skills to understand and handle anxiety.
- Teaching skills to understand and handle depression.
- How to sit with young people in their hardest times…to see the thoughts that are destroying them.
- How to use Narrative Therapy to help young people understand behaviours.
- How to create Sculpting pictures to represent family, friendships and school.
- How to use Re-authoring to help young people know that things can change.
Date: Monday 2nd October 2023.
Time: 9.00am - 3.30pm
Venue: Our City Church. 133 Central Park Drive, Henderson, Auckland
Register: or txt or phone Donna on 0274815466
Morning tea provided.
Cost: $240.00 incl. GST (Students: $195.00 incl GST)
Direct Credit: 01-0373-0113606-26 (Reference: Your Name, Particulars: Youth Akl)
Mahi Tahi Me Nga Rangatahi
Date: Saturday 4th November 2023.
Time: 9.00am - 3.30pm
Venue: Maungaraki Baptist Church. 164 Dowse Drive, Maungaraki, Lower Hutt, Wellington
Register: or txt or phone Donna on 0274815466
Morning tea provided.
Cost: $240.00 incl. GST (Students: $195.00 incl GST)
Direct Credit: 01-0373-0113606-26 (Reference: Your Name, Particulars: Youth Wlg)
Mahi Tahi Me Nga Rangatahi
Working With Children
Who would benefit from this workshop:
This workshop will aid counsellors, counselling students, social workers, school deans and those who work with children.
In his workshop Leith shares his knowledge of:
- How he gets children to open up.
- How he uses play to create relationship.
- How he uses play in therapy.
- How he uses a child’s language and intuition to understand children’s thoughts.
- How he uses Cognitive Behavioural Therapy to teach that thoughts need to be challenged before they are believed.
- How he uses symbolic t.shirts in therapy to make thoughts visible.
- How he uses Narrative Therapy to help children understand themselves.
- How he uses small figures and Sculpting Therapy to create pictures of a child’s life.
Date: Tuesday 3rd October 2023.
Time: 9.00am - 3.30pm
Venue: Our City Church. 133 Central Park Drive, Henderson, Auckland
Register: or txt or phone Donna on 0274815466
Morning tea provided.
Cost: $450.00 incl. GST (Students: $395.00 incl GST)
Direct Credit: 01-0373-0113606-26 (Reference: Your Name, Particulars: Children Akl)
Mahi Tahi Me Nga Tamariki
Date: Thursday 2nd November 2023, Friday 3rd November.
Time: 9.00am - 3.30pm
Venue: Maungaraki Baptist Church. 164 Dowse Drive, Maungaraki, Lower Hutt, Wellington
Register: or txt or phone Donna on 0274815466
Morning tea provided.
Cost: $450.00 incl. GST (Students: $395.00 incl GST)
Direct Credit: 01-0373-0113606-26 (Reference: Your Name, Particulars: Children Wlg)
Mahi Tahi Me Nga Tamariki
Counselling Skills for Church Workers
Aligning Psychological Approaches with God’s Heart
Who would benefit from this workshop?
This workshop will be helpful to those who would like some understanding of psychological models blended with Christian approaches. Pastors, pastoral care workers, counsellors, ministry leaders, youth group leaders, children’s workers.
In this workshop I will develop ideas concerning:
- Being empathetic, the warmth and caring that people long for and need for recovery.
- Being a good listener, not interrupting, drawing out a person’s story.
- Confidentiality developed through trust.
- Learning to be your real self when sitting with people.
- Looking for the good in people.
- Accepting, never judging, being the safe person people need.
- Noticing how a person’s language reveals what they believe about themselves.
- Teaching people the skill of seeing their own thoughts in the moment.
- Helping others to doubt the accuracy of long held self beliefs.
- Helping people ponder whether these beliefs align with what God thinks.
- Helping people to know that every thought needs to be challenged before it is believed.
- Allowing God space in the moment to speak to hearts, to renew minds.
- Allowing God to bring about change.
Date: Thursday 8th June 2023.
Time: 9.00am - 3.30pm
Venue: Upstairs, Central Baptist, 640 Cameron Rd, Tauranga
Register: or txt or phone Donna on 0274815466
Morning tea provided.
Cost: $195.00 (Students: $175.00)
Direct Credit: 01-0373-0113606-26 (Reference: Your Name, Particulars: Christian)