Life Skills Seminar

Our Life Skills facilitators are highly skilled in taking you further along the road of knowledge and self discovery. The 4 day course is an intensive emotional workout. You will shed your baggage and leave feeling much lighter with the tools you need to handle whatever life brings your way.
You will learn to understand; human behaviour in a way that helps you respond more positively to conflict, how to get the balance right between personal needs, partners, parenting, family, friends, and your workplace.

Learn how to;Combat persistent patterns of negative behaviour that keeps you from personal growth.Better coping mechanisms to help you through difficult timesHow past events have affected your life and how they continue to shape your futureWho you really are and what  you really wantChanging things around you starts with changing things within you.

The 4 day seminar runs monthly in small groups and you are advised to make an appointment to see one of our Counsellors for a free half hour consultation before you enrol.

Please note: we only have 10 seats available for the Life Skills Seminar so it is important to reserve your booking early.

Lee Pagana is a registered counsellor with a broad and successful career in the field of personal development and counselling. She has worked with people from many walks of life who are facing personal challenges be they large or small.
Lee has been involved in conducting and facilitating seminars and workshops covering such areas as Personal Development, Conflict Resolution, Motivation and Human Resources.
She has assisted many thousands of individuals and couples to take control of their lives and achieve a balance that they once thought they could not achieve. Her clients range from children and teenagers through to corporate consultants and professionals.
Lee also worked with Family and Children's Services in Esperance, Western Australia during a time when the town was going through a major crisis with suicides.
She has been invited to talk to both students and parents at some of Perth's leading private colleges.
Lee works in conjunction with a qualified psychologist and runs the highly successful 4 day Life Skills Seminar.
Her own life experience and early career in hospitality has given her a great insight into the lives of everyday people and into the rush and demands of the business world. It was this insight and the desire to contribute to the betterment of people’s lives that led her to change career path and become a life skills counsellor and facilitator. Her belief that a person’s well being is sustained by taking a holistic view of health, also led her to be a co-founder and director of Desana "Perth WA whole life centre in 2001".
It is Lee’s open and down to earth approach that encourages clients to develop life enriching skills and personal awareness to put their life and relationships into perspective.

Lee now offers her clients Conselling via Skype. For more information, please visit the 'Counselling via Skype' section above.

As an educator of students ranging from pre-primary to tertiary level over many years, Naomi is no stranger to enabling people to achieve their full potential.

In helping her students pursue academic success, it was clear that an approach that developed the whole person was important. Developing programs that assisted students to recognise their strengths and address their weaknesses was paramount to achieving academic success. Assisting students to develop self confidence, perseverance and resilience was also an important factor in students experiencing academic success as it is in life generally.

A growing passion for this area led her to further study as a psychologist and to pursue a career with a continuing focus on helping people become the best they can be. Naomi works with adults as well as working with children aged 4yrs to 12yrs and their families to cope with lifes ups and downs.

In the course of her career, Naomi has presented to a wide range of audiences throughout Western Australia in the areas of child development, cultural awareness, communication, stress management and developing staff morale.

Naomi is available for Saturday morning appointments.

Terrina is a happy, energetic, and dedicated team member of Counselling and Lifeskills. She is located in BUNBURY and is Counselling clients in the South-West region.
 
Terrina does one on one, couples and family mediation counselling and is a lead facilitator in our 4 day Lifeskills Seminars.

Terrina lives with her husband and their three children, she understands first hand the pressures people place upon themselves trying to achieve the balance of raising children, creating a happy family environment whilst juggling a career and the responsibility of running the home.

Because of her own experiences and empathetic approach to people and the importance of their happiness and well being, she has committed herself to helping others realise their self-worth and live their life to the fullest.

Terrina is currently studying her Diploma of Professional Counselling through the Australian Institute of Professional Counsellors and is doing a double major in Childhood Development and Effective Parenting and in Relationship Counselling.

Contact Terrina on 0429 772 467 for an appointment in the South-West region.

Rod has recently joined the Life Skills Seminar and although he might be the serious type, he offers a lot as a Life Skills Seminar facilitator.

Rod is a Chartered Accountant with 30 years business experience behind him. He has wrestled with the challenges of forging a business career whilst raising three children and balancing the needs for himself, his wife and children with those of his business interests and colleagues.

Along the way, Rod has faced his own hurdles and found his way through, over or around them. He knows only too well how the stresses of a young family, new business and unbalanced lifestyle can impact on all your important relationships and test the very thread that holds them together.

By himself benefiting from the Life Skills Seminar, Rod has been able to rebalance his life, rejuvenate himself and his relationships and have a significant and positive impact to those that surround him.

Rod knows what it is to feel as a son, a father, a husband, a colleague and a mentor. He brings these life lessons and his own personal and professional strength, his coolness and calmness to the Life Skills Seminar experience from which all participants can benefit.

Who does a Life Skills Seminar?

People from all walks of life do a Life Skills Seminar. Everyone feels comfortable because they are not judged no matter what their race, sex, age and problem is.

Why is it $1095.00?
Includes:
4 days of counselling (9:00am - no definite finish time).
Morning & afternoon tea
A Workbook
Life After Life Skills

Is the Seminar religious?
No.

How many people are in the Seminar?
There are 10 clients and 2 Sit in's.

Do you need to be emotionally stable?
Yes

Is it best as a couple or single?

It is best either way. If you attend as a couple you will be able to sort out your problems together so there are benefits in that.
Attending the seminar individually gives you a chance to focus on yourself for the duration of 4 days.

What is the age bracket for the Seminar?
The youngest age in the Seminar is 14 years old and it goes up to any age from there.

Do we need to see you before the Seminar?
Yes, you can not book into a Life Skills Seminar without seeing one of our counsellors. That is why we offer a free half hour consult to see if the seminar is right for you.

What time does it start and finish?
Each day we start at 9:00am and there is no finshing time because it depends how well we are doing on that day.

If i have seen a Psychiatrist can i still do the Seminar?
Yes, any one is able to do the Seminar no matter who they have seen in the past.

“At the end I got my best friend and husband back and was able to leave with more understanding of him and more love for him”
Initials: L.R Age:27
Occupation: Retail sales/mother

“I walked into life skills feeling a bit down, scared, depressed, head very spaced out and I walked out of the life skills feeling a lot happier, confident and better about myself”
Initials: R.B Age:20
Occupation: Wood machinist

“I loved the energy and personalities of facilitators which made me feel very comfortable in opening up and feeling free to discuss very personal information. I loved the way the facilitators can disarm and access the real and negative self”
Initials: S.P Age: 31
Occupation: Podiatrist

“I walked in to Life Skills felling very low and exhausted, like I couldn't keep holding my problems and feelings anymore also scared about how I felt.
I walked out of life skills feeling relved that I got my feelings out and happy that I didn't have to continue hiding them from myself and others”.
Initials: A.D Age: 15
Occupation: Student

“I attended Life Skills with a broken relationship and looking for some answers in my life. I did not realize I was full of anger ……. I actually felt emotion (sadness) for the first time in my life for a very long time…... I can see my self having self respect and building a relationship with my wife and kids”.
Initials: B.H Age: 49
Occupation: Builder

“I felt like I didn't know where my life was headed. I didn't have confidence in myself to make decisions. I now have faith in my life. I can trust myself again… to create the life I really want.
Initials: A.S Age: 22
Occupation: Naturopath to be.

“I walked out of Life Skills feeling like I had undergone such a release of pain, fear, frustration and they were replaced with empowerment to change myself and my relationship to get the love and security that I was so badly needing and searching for, that I have got my life back".
Initials: J.E Age: 42
Occupation: Nurse