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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

For the next Belfast Certificate in Counselling a Christian Perspective please contact alistephvitalconnexions@gmail.com

Download the Belfast leaflet

STORNOWAY May & June

1st & 2nd Module: Fri 19th & 20th May ’23Download the Stornoway leaflet
3rd & 4th Module: Fri 30th June & Sat 1st July ’23

Download the Stornoway leaflet

 

Starting in Sept 2023

The next Diploma in Integrative Counselling with a Christian Perspective
is scheduled for September 2023

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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  Belfast & Glasgow 2023

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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.

Belfast April

Contact alistephvitalconnexions@gmail.com

Down load the leaflet for April Soaring

Glasgow

Contact glasgowvitalconnexions@gmail.com

Supervision Training

Diploma in Counsellor Supervision
August 2023 – August 2024 Blended Learning (Dublin and online)

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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

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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

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Join us on one of our training courses

See our course calendar and book online now.

COURSE CALENDAR

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.

Certificate in Integrative Counselling – A Christian Perspective Edinburgh 2023

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.

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