Vital Connexions
Training in Integrative Counselling – A Christian Perspective. In Ireland, Scotland and around the globe.
Develop your skills with training in Counselling, Couples Coaching and Counsellor Supervision.
Choose courses to fit with life and work
Our counselling training courses include:
- Short foundation course – A Certificate in Integrative Counselling 4 days
- Diploma in Integrative Counselling – a Christian perspective (externally validated by COSCA 450 hours, 2 years part time)
- Diploma in Counsellor Supervision (externally validated by the IACP) 100 hours
- Couples/Relationship Coaching – Certificate in Couple Counselling (32 hours CPD) in 4 modules
- Continuing Professional Development Courses
– “Soaring In Your Strengths” (4 modules) 12 hours CPD
– “Working On Line With Clients” (6 hours CPD)
Our global vision
We have a heart to help churches and NGO’s in Asia, Malaysia, China, South Africa and Eastern Europe. We provide excellent training for Counsellors, Ministers, lay people and Supervisors to empower them to be the best they can be for those they work with.
As many of our CPD courses are now available on line we are able to offer these courses remotely.
Face to face
The new Certificate in Integrative Counselling – A Christian Perspective: £300
This course is now being offered face to face in geographical locations in Ireland and Scotland. Our new blended learning programme will provide an exciting learning experience in live groups! There will be daily worship and Bible study around psychological subjects, followed by video teaching by Andrea and Vicky and facilitated by local experienced tutors. Students will enjoy small and big group discussion and lots of skills practice.
There will also be opportunity for the Certificate Course to be run on zoom with a live facilitator. Click the links below to see where the next courses will be held. Let us know if you would like a group to run in your area. This face to face course provides a pathway to the Diploma in Integrative Counselling along with the little course Soaring in Your Strengths.
BELFAST February and March 2023
Next Belfast course dates Friday 17 the and Saturday 18th February and Friday 10th and Saturday 11th March 2023 at Beersbridge Road Elim. Contact alistephvitalconnexions@gmail.com
EDINBURGH March and April 2023
Next Edinburgh course: Live Face to Face Teaching Download the leaflet here (see below)
Friday 10th and Saturday 11th March and Friday 14th and Sat 15th April 23
The Certificate in Integrative Counselling- A Christian Perspective with Vicky MvEvoy and Andrea Wigglesworth. This course is for anyone who wished to begin training as a professional counsellor e.g. Church ministers, youth workers, and social workers who are interested in personal transformation and who may wish to learn how to counsel others. The course is and Introduction to the Diploma in Integrative Counselling.
Where: Davidson Mains Parish church coffee lounge, Quality Rd, Edinburgh
Costs £300 or (if preferred £150 per weekend)
Register by emailing Andrea Wigglesworth at andreawig@aol.com and send a completed application form. Or APPLY ONLINE
Certificate Course in Dublin and for the Romanian community worldwide
onitiu@gmail.com. Calin Onitiu
Download the leaflet: Dublin Calin Certificate In Counselling
Aberdeen – carolynraeconsultancy@gmail.com
Ayrshire – elainebirse06@aol.com
Glasgow – glasgowvitalconnexions@gmail.com
Next Course – Module 1 13th and 14th January and 10th and 11th February 2023. in Queens Park Baptist Church. Download the Glasgow Leaflet.
Starting in Sept 2023
The next Diploma in Integrative Counselling with a Christian Perspective
is scheduled for September 2023
The Diploma is fully validated by COSCA, which is the National Accrediting Body for Counselling in Scotland. We can now deliver the Diploma Course in a fully face to face format with options for online and blended learning segments when necessary. As part of the new Diploma some of the theoretical lectures will be presented from the Learning Platform Catalogue of Teaching of Andrea Wigglesworth & Vicky McEvoy who will remain as online/blended learning lecturers on the course. The major face to face elements of the Diploma will be facilitated by a new team of highly qualified Tutors and the new Course Director in Edinburgh, Scotland is Lynn Millar from Balerno
The new Director for Ireland is Laura Wylie – from Moira, Northern Ireland. Applications will be open from January 2023.
EDINBURGH
Download the information booklet for Edinburgh, Scotland
Once you have read the Booklet above for Edinburgh you can register your interest – please contact lynn@vitalpathwaystraining.com
BELFAST
Download the information booklet for Belfast here: ConnexionsTraining Diploma 2023-5_5
Once you have read the Belfast Booklet above you can register your interest – please contact: info@connexionstraining.com
SOARING IN YOUR STRENGTHS Aberdeen January 2023 Belfast 15th and 29th April 2023
This course is designed for those who want to enhance their skills as a strength focused practitioner. It is also part of the preparation for those wishing to enrol in the next Diploma Course. The theoretical base of the course draws on second wave positive psychology, strength based interventions and what the Bible says about renewing our strength.
The course will be delivered face to face over 2 Saturdays 10am- 4pm by Ali Knight & Steph Lowry
SATURDAY 15th April 2023
SATURDAY 29th April 2023
10am- 4pm each day
Beersbridge Elim Church, Belfast
Down load the leaflet for April Soaring
Soaring in Your Strength Aberdeen facilitated by CAROLYN RAE January
10am – 4pm 20 & 21st January 2023
at Westhill Community Church, Old Skene Road, Westhill Aberdeen AB32 6AQ.
Supervision Training
Diploma in Counsellor Supervision
August 2023 – August 2024 on line with local geographical learning hubs face to face
This course is extremely popular and is for experienced Counsellors who wish to become Supervisors. The course will be facilitated on line, but if students wish to work with a live learning hub in their geographical area, they can. Students will learn the Cyclical Model and the Process Model of Supervision as well as Group Supervision, Creative techniques in Supervision and Practice Issues. The course is externally validated by the Irish Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy. The Tutors are Vicky McEvoy, Andrea Wigglesworth and Vivienne Morrow Murtagh.
More Information please contact: vitalconnexions10@gmail.com
AVAILABLE NOW
Couples/Relationship Coaching
Online course in your own time £150 per module
This course is on line in your own time and suitable for anyone who is interested in the inter personal dynamics of:
- COUNSELLORS WHO WISH TO BECOME COUPLE COUNSELLORS
- LOVE RELATIONSHIPS (Couples welcome!)
- EMOTIONAL AND SPIRITUAL HEALTH IN ALL RELATIONSHIPS
(Business Leaders, Pastors and team leaders) - RELATIONSHIP COACHING
Modules 1 – 4 now available
Join us on one of our training courses
See our course calendar and book online now.
Upcoming Courses
Certificate in Integrative Counselling – A Christian Perspective
Cost £150, Available online NOW to do in your own time. Register now.
This Certificate Course is for those who wish to do some skills training in their own time without a facilitator. Please note that if you wish to continue to the Diploma in 2023, we are asking you to do the face to face option so that you get to work with a group and practice skills with a tutor present.
CPD Track
Soaring in your strengths – Available online now
Cost £100, Available now.
Working with Clients Online
Cost £55, Available now
Couples/Relationship Coaching NOW AVAILABLE
An online course in your own time