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Weighting Around – Managing Your Weight:
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Looks at the practicalities of weight loss and how our beliefs affect our ability to sustain change, and how we can overcome this. Includes some basic hypnotherapy techniques to help and support your process.
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Branching Out - Personal Development & Motivation:
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Provides a 'start to finish' look at how we manage our emotions & thoughts, offering tools to help us meet our goals.
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Inside Out – Co-dependency & Self-Discovery:
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Provides a detailed look at how we relate to ourselves and other people, how we sometimes get in our own way and what we really want for ourselves.
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The Gift of the Present – Finding Time:
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Looks at how we lose time and let life rush by and how we can slow things down again, find more time and notice our lives.
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Workshop Details
Sycamore Workshops are delivered by Nicky Spencer in a simple and down to earth way and are easy to be a part of. The courses do not involve personal therapy and you will never be asked to do anything you don't want to do, or to disclose personal information to the group.
Workshop Summary
Weighting Around
Weighting Around is a one day workshop that is ideal for men and women. It makes no promises, and is not about flat stomachs and bikinis. It is about recognising the ways that our beliefs and thoughts can get in our way and sabotage our efforts to make changes in our habits.
We all have an inner judge who demands that we eat, look, sound and behave a certain way and many come to therapy to help them comply with the demands of that judge. We manage for a short time and then with one setback, it all seems to fall apart. By looking at how and why we eat our food, some practical changes that can make a difference alongside exploring the psychological aspects that can affect our choices, the Weighting Around course explores a more sustainable way to make, and commit, to the changes you want.
If you answer ‘Yes’ to any of the following questions, you might just love the course...
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Do you ever label yourself as “good” or “bad” based upon what you choose to eat?
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Do you feel caught up in a cycle of deprivation and indulgence?
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Do you ever notice that when you have lost weight, you don’t actually feel much different inside?
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Do you ever notice that certain events, moods or even conversations affect what you choose to eat?
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Do you ever feel you are eating healthily and yet nothing changes?
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Do you ever feel like you didn’t actually choose to eat, it just happened?
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Do you ever notice that you get so far toward your goal and then it all falls apart?
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Do you ever feel sick of dieting?
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Do you ever feel that you’re missing out in some way?
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Do you ever feel bullied by the judge inside making demands about how you should be?
Weighting Around will offer you understanding and tools to help you improve:
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Your understanding about why you find it hard to stick to your nutritional plans;
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Your ability to make choices for yourself about what you want and why;
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Your ability to sustain the changes you make;
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Your strength to move from wishbone to backbone;
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The way you eat and the ways you can get the benefit from your food; and
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Your understanding about how your body uses its food.
Branching Out
The Branching Out workshop in personal development and motivation is a non-residential weekend workshop which promises to provide you with simple information that can change your life. It addresses some of the core reasons why we often struggle to make and keep the changes we want.
If you answer ‘Yes’ to any of the following questions, you might just love this course...
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Do you ever feel you are not as content as you should be?
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Do you sometimes feel stressed by all the “I shoulds” in life?
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Have you ever noticed a pattern in your “Why can’t I just...”?
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Are there things you would like to do with your life but feel they aren’t quite yours?
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Have you ever said “no” to something you wanted for fear of being 'found out'?
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Have you ever said “yes” to something you didn’t want?
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Have you ever felt unable to manage your feelings, thoughts and behaviours?
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Would you like to know your True North and to find the courage to follow it?
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Would you like to feel a little more in control of yourself, your emotions, your day and your life?
The Branching Out course will improve:
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Your understanding of yourself and what you want;
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Your ability to trust yourself and make things happen;
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Your ability to manage your feelings;
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Your ability to communicate with friends and family;
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Your self-esteem and courage to care about yourself;
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Your ability to say 'No' when it is appropriate;
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Your ability to say “Yes” when you really want to;
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Your control over yourself and your life; and
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Your motivation and your courage to succeed.
Inside Out
The Inside Out workshop in co-dependency and self discovery is a non-residential weekend workshop which aims to provide you with a greater understanding of yourself and the ways you relate to other people in your life.
If you answer ‘Yes’ to any of the following questions, you might just love the course...
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Do you ever feel you just can't get a moment to yourself?
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Do you ever feel lost when you do get a moment to yourself?
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Do you ever feel life has become a rush to keep other people happy?
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Do you ever feel that things would've been different if you had just tried a bit harder?
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Do you ever worry too much about what other people think?
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Do you ever feel you don't notice time passing between all the things you have to do?
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Do you ever feel you have no idea who you actually are?
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Do you ever feel frustrated that others just won't change?
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Do you ever feel it would be selfish to do something just for you and no-one else?
Inside Out will offer you understanding and tools to help you improve:
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Your understanding of yourself and the ways you behave;
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Your understanding of how you impact upon your own life and relationships;
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Your sense of identity;
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Your ability to slow down;
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Your ability to recognise when to slow down;
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Your ability to understand your relationship/s;
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Your freedom to give to yourself and feel good about this;
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Your ability to have more enjoyable relationships;
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Your ability to have fun;
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Your freedom to be imperfect; and
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Your ability to notice and respect your own needs.
The Gift of the Present
The Gift of the Present is a one day workshop that explores the ways that time seems to escape us. So many people comment about how fast Christmas comes around again and question where the time goes. And it begs the question, where does the time actually go? This workshops looks at the ways we lose time and the ways we can slow things down again so that we can once again notice our moments and our days.
If you answer ‘Yes’ to any of the following questions, you might just love the course...
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Do you ever ask yourself where the time goes?
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Do you ever feel stressed that you can’t keep up with time?
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Do you ever wish you could press pause for a moment?
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Do you ever get caught up in worries?
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Do you ever get caught up in the 'what if'?
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Do you ever feel there isn’t enough time in your day?
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Do you ever feel your life is whizzing by without you noticing it?
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Does your time feel like it is really yours?
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Do you ever procrastinate?
The Gift of the Present will offer you understanding and tools to help you improve:
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Your ability to stay out of the past, stay out of the future and stay in your present;
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Your ability to notice your time as you spend it;
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Your ability to slow things down a little;
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Your ability to forgive yourself for “wasting time”;
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Your ability to spend your time wisely;
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Your ability to avoid getting sucked back into losing time;
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Your ability to move from procrastination to choice; and
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Your understanding of yourself and the ways you behave.