Our opening session sets the tone for an engaging and meaningful experience. We collaboratively establish community guidelines that shape a respectful, supportive space.

Through structured icebreakers, students connect with one another and begin building trust. The session concludes with a guided discussion where participants identify the topics, challenges, and successes most relevant to their relationships and personal lives—helping to shape the direction of future conversations.

You will learn the Haven Selves Model, which looks at our ideal self vs our actual self, the self-critic cycle, the process of striving and the challenging behaviours that go along with it, as well as the self-compassion process and making new choices.

Learn how to use the Satir Personal Iceberg model to explore the motivators underneath some of their behaviours, while examining yearnings, expectations, beliefs, feelings, feelings about feelings, coping and behaviours. 

The group explores different reasons for and styles of communication. They discuss direct vs indirect communication as well as vulnerable vs protective communication. Students examine their need for connection and defences/behaviours that may help or hinder them. 

Identify their patterns of reacting vs responding, explore congruency, and the four Satir coping styles we often adopt when we’re uncomfortable.

To conclude the training, students engage in a feedback process with each other to reflect on their time together and the changes they have experienced.