Tahatai Retreat & Conference Centre

Communication, self-esteem, personal life and work goals and attitudes and values are focused in this workshop. This course is a pre-requisite to all Leadership training.

A combination of skill training and focusing on personal beliefs and values that assist or interrupt healthy responses to life. Professional identity development.

"Leadership is a function, not a person."

All the members of a work group or family have competencies that can benefit the group. The secret is to create a group culture in which skills are openly known, shared and valued. This is an interactive process.

A good group creates outcomes that are much greater than the sum of the skills present. Trust, openness, responsiveness and interdependence combine with other communication and collegial skills to create competent Leadership in Teams.

This is a two year, four session training program that builds on the basic leadership skills workshop. Members must have a commitment to the four, five day workshops and two to four individual supervision sessions.

The training is directly applied to current work experience. Role analysis of self and others and of work systems is learned.

Trainees can expect to greatly improve their observation skills, processing and communication skills and their ability to effect and facilitate better outcomes in complex work settings.

New training and Refresher Course exclusive to people who have completed the Advanced Leadership Course over the last eight years.

Includes intensive group interaction; directing and processing sessions, group expeditions and relevant movies.

Group Supervision is supervision by and for a professional group with the coaching and support of an experienced facilitator.

Theory of group processes and of Psycho-dramatic role theory and Sociometry are demonstrated and practiced to create a safe and well informed supervision group.

How we think and feel about what happens to us and what we are doing determines whether we experience the event as stressful or not. Looking at our attitudes and beliefs about life opens fresh new resources for less stressful responses.

With the information explosion and competition for resources escalating we urgently need abilities to ensure our survival in a speedy world.

Specific training and practice in nine communication skills. Workbook, video, teaching and practice in small groups all included.

Essential competencies for all work and family life.

A relaxing and gentle process for mapping personal and family patterns of behaviour that either help or sabotage relationships.

Based on Moreno's theory of role development. Coaching of new helpful roles completes the process of the workshop.

Systems Theory & Role Development applied to individual or group supervision.

Socio-drama, Sociometry and Role Training as models and method for supporting workplace managers involved in complex decisions and negotiations.

Some groups follow a sequence of steps in their growth towards mature competent functioning. Other groups get stuck at stage one or two and are not able to achieve their intended purpose.

This workshop replicates developing group skill sets so that theory and practise can be transferred to work, family and voluntary group situations. Very useful skill training.

Change is always with us. How we respond to it, from our own attitudes and feelings, makes all the difference in the world to our health and the wellbeing of work and personal systems.

In these few days both theory and practise of Change Management will be the focus. Managers and key leaders in the workplace can actively ease the transitions and challenges experienced when necessary changes are being planned and introduced to work teams. Pro-active motivation can be created.

"When is a Change not a Change at all" is also examined. Outcome focus is needed in order to plan for creative new responses and system shifts that do have genuine change as a result. Sometimes everyone in a system is influenced or shifted about so that equilibrium or homeostasis are upset but outcomes are not materially different from before. In planning for change that will produce movement forward and new outcomes we need to be aware of this.

This workshop will provide information and planning models so that Change can be introduced in ways that team members will 'buy into' with creative initiative rather than resistance. Collegial collaboration in the process of Change will become easier to achieve. Energy for forward thinking and respect for individual resistance will be created. Understanding of the effect on others of Change that is introduced will be worked with so as to engage people's energy for positive new outcomes.

When communication and team development skills are applied in decision making settings conflict is less likely to arise. Psychodrama Role Theory provides a skill based model for both pre empting and also resolving conflict situations successfully. Very practical application.