We also offer seminars and workshops on relationships

These seminars and workshops are available for social and care organisations, youth work and community groups as half day or evening sessions and the content and time can be tailored for individual requirements.

Seminar title:
Dating: Be Safe And Confident
Going on a first date:
• First impressions on a date
• Interacting with someone new
• Tips for Safe Dating

Chemistry is not enough:
• Looks are not everything!
• The gift of attraction
• Ingredients to make a good relationship.

Why we are drawn to certain people:
• The same date with a different hairstyle?
• Getting out of playing a role
• People who hold their dates hostage

Listen to your friends:
• Why to keep your friends around you
• If your friends don’t like your partner
• Not giving up your life for someone else

Building trust and facing issues:
• Can he or she be trusted?
• What you can live with and what you can’t
• Confronting issues compassionately

Let’s get physical:
• How far should we go on a first date
• Keeping boundaries you’re happy with
• Does good sex mean you’re close?

Too much too fast:
• Embracing the test of time
• Kissing false hope Goodbye
• Is it Happy Ever After?

Seminar title:
Couples: Building A Strong Relationship
Grieving for your single life:
• Marriage and living together is a big change!
• Grieving for what we have lost
• Embracing the feelings

Living together:
• The fun bits – it’s exciting!
• The Compromises
• Having to let go of some ways and habits

Why have you changed:
• He’s or she is not the same as when we dated
• When the romance ends
• Hitting the reality of the day to day

Dealing with conflict at close quarters:
• When it becomes heated
• How to keep it safe
• How to implement a “Time Out”

Getting through the storms:
• A more accurate image of your partner
• Accepting your own struggles
• A good marriage/partnership takes hard work

Don’t go it alone together:
• The dangers of isolation
• Keeping in touch with your friends
• Getting Support – how to and when to

Seminar title:
Singles and Single Again: Strategies For Successful Living
Your feelings are valid:
• Don’t trivialise your feelings
• Don’t let others dismiss you
• How to respond to being set up by others

Take a break from weddings:
• Feeling forced into painful situations
• Don’t keep pushing yourself until you break
• Keeping cool when everyone else is loosing theirs!

Make a love list:
• Take a relationship inventory
• See patterns in your relationships
• Breaking with the past

Is time running out:
• Is it too late to be a Mum or Dad?
• Grieving the loss
• What other options are there for you?

Love is not in a vacuum:
• Look at all your relationships
• Expanding your social circle
• Being open to try new situations

Enjoy what’s going on now:
• Take time to do what you want
• Don’t be pushed into others agenda
• Find friends and have fun together