Confidence building, emotional healing & communication skills events

Revitalise your mind and your mood

Reflect and Recharge courses offer you all the benefits of a traditional short-break or retreat plus the additional bonus of a challenging personal development course. As a result, you will return home not only with renewed mental and emotional energy but also a motivating action plan. Gael has been leading similar courses in Spain for several years and has received many testimonials that prove that this kind of experience can be life-changing, fun and also the foundation for life-long friendships.

At £295 each these courses are exceedingly good value as a similar amount of time with such highly experienced consultants would cost almost twice the price in London. On certain courses when the number of participants exceeds four, Gael will be joined by the guest consultant who is profiled for the course. This means that you can always be assured of high quality individual attention.

In between your sessions and self-help assignments, you will, of course, be able to re-energise or relax your body on Rota’s beautiful beaches and doing this will enable you to think more creatively and clearly. This means you will have both the physical benefits of an activity holdiay plus the psychological ones of a retreat. Another plus is that many people also establish mutually supportive friendships with other participants which continue after the course. So you can return home with not only an inspiring action plan but also new friends to help you see it through.

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Our location

The courses are held in Rota, a small historic town on the Costa de la Luz in southern Spain. Rota is situated in the Bay of Cadiz and is surrounded by 16km of beautiful sandy beaches.  Because of its temperate climate (ranging from average of 15 – 35º) and its invigorating Atlantic sea air, it attracts many tourists (mostly from within Spain) in July and August.  Out of this high season (when our courses take place) it functions as a typical lively Andalusian small town. It has a strong sense of community and life-balance is taken very seriously. So on some of our courses you will find yourself in the midst one of its many traditional festivals.

Course content and programmes

Each course lasts from Friday morning through to Sunday afternoon.  The programme varies with each individual course as they are planned when we have assessed each particular group’s needs. Most will offer a mixture of 1-1 sessions plus some creative group work.  

All courses will also involve participants doing some self-help assignments in between sessions but there will also be plenty of time to reflect and relax. Social activities will be arranged informally by participants and you can choose to join in on as many or as few as you like.

Accommodation and food

You will stay in a hotel of your choice in the town which is only ever a few minutes walk from one of the beautiful beaches. We will provide you with contact details of our recommended list of hotels ranging from a luxurious 4 star to small budget hotels at around only 60 euros per night.  Rota has many excellent and very reasonably priced restaurants and small tapas bars. The fish is particularly fresh and superb as fishing is one of the town’s principle industries.

Courses 2008

Communicate Engagingly

Date of course: May 2-4th 2008 (Feria festivals in Rota and Jerez)

This is a unique opportunity to give your inner confidence and outer social confidence an intensive boost. This could be invaluable if you have a new communication challenge ahead such as pitching for new job or business, or conveying critical information to an important person or group but it could also help you to make a greater impact in social and personal situations. You will learn:

• how to improve your self-esteem and self-belief by using simple strategies
• what you really look and sound like  to others  by seeingyourself on DVD
• how  best  to your body, voice and language in order to communicate engagingly and dynamically though practicing and  receiving honest feedback in a highly confidential setting

You will leave with your own personal DVD and action plan to ensure that you apply your learning on your return home.

Guest consultant: Annette Kurer

Annette is a communication skills consultant who works with a range of people from business leaders to school children. Annette hasmanaged multi million pound international businesses in over 20 countries before launching a coaching and training consultancy - Ark Consultants. Annette also qualified and practised as dentist, before making the successful transition to her current career.

Emotional Healing

Date of course: 20 June - 22 June

This will be a dramatherapy workshop led by Gael. We will use Gael's Emotional Healing Strategy as our theoretical guide. Her new book on this subject and its self-help programme will provide a supportive guide to enable you to continue the healing process on your return home.

This course will be suitable for anyone who would like to do some deep therapeutic healing work in a safe supportive small group . This could be on an issue from the distant past which is still holding you back from getting what you want and need in the present. Or, you could use the opportunity to work on a more recent loss such as a bereavement or a trauma such as a break up of an important relationship or an serious abuse of trust.

Moving On

Dates of courses:   18-20 July 2008

Is there anything about you, your relationships or your life more generally that you wish was different? If so, seize this opportunity to get out of your rut! You could use this special time-out to:

• make a difficult decision or solve a moral dilemma
• break a long-term sabotaging habit such as procrastination, eating too much or pulling out of relationships as soon as the ‘honeymoon period’ finishes
• heal from an emotional hurt such as a rejection or loss
• become more assertive at work or at home
• change an aspect of your parenting behaviour
• look at how to manage a difficult transition or health issue
• have a general confidence boost to enable you do anything that you are holding back from doing!

For the most part, you will work with Gael in 1-1 sessions but on many courses particpants also choose to have some creative groupwork sessions together. We will start with a short introductorygroup to help everyone get to know each other and finish with an action planning session.

For this particular course, it is essential that you email Gael before booking.  She will then arrange to talk to you on the phone or in person so that she can advise you as to whether this week-end could be of benefit to you.

Revitalise your Career

Date of course: 19-21 September 2008

This is a chance to do some serious career reflection and the support and advice of highly experienced specialists. The complementary skills of the two consultants will give you the unusual opportunity to look at your career from a personal as well as a ‘success at work’ perspective. Here are some examples of the kinds of issues you could explore:

• reviewing your strengths and aptitudes
• exploring alternative career options
• improving a key relationship with a colleague, team or customer
• achieving a better work-life balance
• overcoming  self-sabotaging habits that are blocking your progress
• staying confident and in control in difficult situations
• setting up your own business
• planning for retirement or semi-retirement

Before coming on the course, we will send you a questionnaire to help us assess your needs.

Guest Consultant: Jan Hildebrand (pictured left)

Jan combines her coaching and mentoring skills to help people to clarify, manage and achieve their career objectives. She works as a Consultant with world-wide leaders in employee development and transition. American born, with an international business background, Jan founded, managed, then sold an award-winning design and branding communications consultancy. She is also a qualified business adviser.

How to get to us

Rota is 30 minutes from Jerez which has daily low-cost flights to and from London. Flights from Manchester are also available to Jerez from March 2007. Alternative airports are Malaga (2 hours 30 mins drive) and Seville (1 hour 45 mins drive). There are also daily flights to and from other European cities as well as several major towns within Spain. Depending on the time of your arrival, you can travel from the airport by taxi or by bus. Alternatively car hire is cheap and the drive to Rota is a straightforward 30 minute drive. Please contact us if you would like more advice on travel.

Cost of courses and booking

£295 per course. Deposit £100

Please note: travel, accommodation and food are not included in the above price. There are low-cost flight options to Jerez (30 minutes from Rota) or Seville. Obviously, the earlier you book a place, the cheaper the flight and the more likely you are to obtain accomodation in a good quality reasonably priced nearby hotel.

To reserve a place, or for further information or to talk to Gael about your needs:

Please email Gael at: lindenfield.office@blueyonder.co.uk

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