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Women in Local Government Leadership Workshop is for Local Government professionals looking to learn new skills with like-minded peers and further or advance their within Local government.

This course aims to assist adult learners in improving their pronunciation skills and reducing their accents to enhance their overall communication in English. Through a variety of exercises and activities, participants will focus on specific sounds, stress patterns, intonation, and rhythm to develop clearer and more fluent speech. Course Duration: 10 weeks (20 sessions) Course Objectives: By the end of this course, participants will: 1. Identify and produce accurate sounds, stress patterns, and intonation in English. 2. Develop awareness of their own pronunciation challenges and strategies for improvement. 3. Reduce their native accent to improve overall intelligibility. 4. Enhance their listening skills and ability to distinguish between different sounds. 5. Increase their confidence in spoken English communication. Course Outline: Week 1: Introduction to Pronunciation and Accent Reduction - Assessing participants' pronunciation strengths and areas for improvement - Understanding the importance of pronunciation in effective communication - Introduction to key concepts: sounds, stress, intonation, and rhythm Week 2: Vowel Sounds - Identifying and producing English vowel sounds - Practice exercises and drills for accurate vowel pronunciation - Common pronunciation challenges and strategies for improvement Week 3: Consonant Sounds - Identifying and producing English consonant sounds - Focus on challenging consonant sounds and their correct articulation - Practice exercises and drills for accurate consonant pronunciation Week 4: Word Stress and Sentence Stress - Understanding the concept of stress and its role in English pronunciation - Practice exercises for placing stress on the correct syllables in words and sentences - Intonation patterns in different sentence types Week 5: Rhythm and Linking - Developing a sense of rhythm in English speech - Practice exercises for linking words together and maintaining flow - Awareness of connected speech phenomena Week 6: Intonation Patterns - Recognizing and producing different intonation patterns in English - Practice exercises for conveying meaning through intonation - Intonation in questions, statements, and emotions Week 7: Pronunciation of Commonly Mispronounced Words - Identification and correction of commonly mispronounced words - Practice exercises for improving pronunciation of specific words - Strategies for self-correction and continued improvement Week 8: Accent Reduction Techniques - Understanding the impact of native accents on English pronunciation - Techniques for reducing native accents and improving intelligibility - Practice exercises for adopting a more neutral accent Week 9: Listening Skills and Discrimination - Enhancing listening skills to better distinguish between sounds - Practice exercises for recognising and discriminating between similar sounds - Developing an ear for correct pronunciation through listening activities Week 10: Review and Fluency Practice - Reviewing course content and addressing individual needs - Fluency practice exercises and activities - Final evaluation and feedback session Note: This syllabus is a guideline and can be customised based on the specific needs and preferences of the participants. You can opt in and out of different modules. 

Exhilarating and empowering dance classes based on neuroscience and designed specifically for individuals living with Parkinson's disease. These dynamic and fun-filled 8 week program aims to enhance physical mobility, mental well-being, and social interaction.

Selling Skills ► Into Action strengthens participants’ ability to apply a consultative, client-focused approach to the selling process. It is exercise-based, highly interactive and designed to yield results that can be put to use immediately. Outcomes – Participants will be able to: Identify and reach the most promising prospects to increase efficiency, Research and understand each unique customer to demonstrate expertise and ability, Conduct productive sales meetings that yield the best data to present the most effective solution, Present solutions that are fully aligned with the prospect’s situation and needs, and Work more effectively and resourcefully to close more business.   ONLINE—Selling Skills ► Into Action is a 4-hour interactive online course. Register for this class and you will be sent ONLINE login instructions prior to the class date. Dr. Atkins, thank you for sharing ‘Language of Happiness and Power of Praise‘ with our chapter! We enjoyed the interactive presentation and your professionalism. I received positive feedback from our members—there is nothing better than that! Thanks again. Olga Otero, Chapter PresidentHuman Resources Association of Palm Beach County (HRPBC)

Why Learn Sketchup and Stable Diffusion Rendering Course? Course Link SketchUp and Stable Diffusion Rendering Course. An AI image creation course designed to explore AI image creation techniques and master the use of advanced AI technology. You'll learn Ai 3D modeling, advanced rendering, and lighting techniques. Duration: 16 hrs. Method: 1-on-1 Online Over Zoom is also available. Schedule: Tailor your own schedule by pre-booking a convenient hour of your choice, available from Mon to Sat between 9 am and 7 pm. The Sketchup and Stable Diffusion Rendering Course equips students with comprehensive skills for visually stunning Ai (Artificial intelligence) 3D models and renderings. Master Sketchup's user-friendly interface, advanced rendering techniques, and stable diffusion rendering. Hands-on exercises and real-world projects enhance learning. Ideal for architecture, interior design, product development, and visualization careers. The Sketchup and Stable Diffusion Rendering Course equips students with comprehensive skills for visually stunning Ai (Artificial intelligence) 3D models and renderings. Master Sketchup's user-friendly interface, advanced rendering techniques, and stable diffusion rendering. Hands-on exercises and real-world projects enhance learning. Ideal for architecture, interior design, product development, and visualization careers. Sketchup and Stable Diffusion Rendering Course (16 hours) Module 1: Introduction to Sketchup (2 hours) Overview of Sketchup software and interface navigation Basic drawing tools and geometry creation techniques Module 2: Texturing and Materials (2 hours) Applying textures and customizing materials Exploring texture mapping and material libraries Module 3: Lighting and Shadows (2 hours) Understanding lighting principles and light placement Creating realistic shadows and reflections Module 4: Advanced Modeling Techniques (3 hours) Creating complex shapes and utilizing advanced tools Working with groups, components, and modifiers Module 5: Stable Diffusion Rendering (2 hours) Introduction to stable diffusion rendering Configuring rendering settings for optimal results Module 6: Scene Composition and Camera Setup (2 hours) Exploring composition principles and camera perspectives Managing scenes and creating walkthrough animations Module 7: Rendering Optimization (2 hours) Optimizing models for faster rendering Using render passes and post-processing techniques Module 8: Project Work and Portfolio Development (1 hour) Applying skills to complete a real-world project Showcasing work in a professional portfolio Optional: Installing Stable Diffusion and Python (Additional 10 hours) Module 1: Introduction to Stable Diffusion and Python Overview of Stable Diffusion and Python's significance Module 2: System Requirements Hardware and software prerequisites for installation Module 3: Installing Python Step-by-step installation process for different OS Module 4: Configuring Python Environment Setting up environment variables and package managers Module 5: Installing Stable Diffusion Downloading and installing the Stable Diffusion package Module 6: Setting Up Development Environment Configuring IDEs for Python and Stable Diffusion Module 7: Troubleshooting and Common Issues Identifying and resolving common installation errors Module 8: Best Practices and Recommendations Managing Python and Stable Diffusion installations Module 9: Practical Examples and Projects Hands-on exercises demonstrating usage of Stable Diffusion and Python Module 10: Advanced Topics (Optional) Exploring advanced features and techniques Stable Diffusion UI v2 | A simple 1-click way to install and use https://stable-diffusion-ui.github.io A simple 1-click way to install and use Stable Diffusion on your own computer. ... Get started by downloading the software and running the simple installer. Learning Outcomes: Upon completing the Sketchup and Stable Diffusion Rendering Course, with a focus on AI image rendering, participants will: Master AI Image Rendering: Gain expertise in using AI-powered rendering techniques to create realistic and high-quality visualizations. Utilize Sketchup for 3D Modeling: Navigate the software, proficiently use drawing tools, and create detailed 3D models. Optimize Renderings: Apply AI-based rendering to optimize model visuals, achieving faster rendering times and superior image quality. Implement AI-driven Lighting and Shadows: Utilize AI algorithms for lighting placement, shadows, and reflections, enhancing realism in renderings. Create Professional Portfolio: Showcase AI-rendered projects in a professional portfolio, highlighting advanced image rendering skills. Note: The course focuses on AI image rendering using Sketchup and Stable Diffusion techniques, empowering participants with cutting-edge skills for creating exceptional visual representations.

This course aims to provide managers and supervisors with a thorough understanding of the different aspects of health and safety in the workplace. With a focus on the role of supervision, learners on this course will develop the essential knowledge and understanding to enable them to discharge their health and safety responsibilities and ensure the safety of their workplace colleagues. The programme has a particular focus on:

We are delighted to share that we are now running our GP Admin Development Programmes Live Online! If your team have had enough of pre-recorded courses then this is perfect!  We are delivering the content online - Live!  Teams can get involved, interact with each other, and have great discussions. We deliver a suite of programmes to support their development pathway of GP admin staff.  Just £79+vat pp for a half day workshop with resources. The third in the series is: Skills for Confidently Signposting Patients This workshop will provide an opportunity to understand why and how we need to 'Frame' signpost options for patients in order to reach a positive outcome. Each practice has their own approach and guidance to signposting. We focus on how best to present the signpost options to patients, ensuring we don't trigger any conflict by saying 'We don't have an GP appointments' and also making the signpost options sound like a Win:Win! We add value by discussing the importance of the role your team play in Signposting - especially in the bigger picture of the NHS. We also look at how signposting effectively can benefit them, the practice, and the PCN. It's suitable for all staff (new and more experienced). We also encourage the line manager to participate so that they can follow up on the content using our manager support pack - enabling staff to sustain and embed the learning. The programme will cover the following: The Evolution of the Reception Role Benefits & Impact of Signposting Building Knowledge & Confidence in using signposting processes & procedures The Signposting Process - including Framing, Gaining Information, Asking Q's and Presenting Solutions Handling Push Back We will be running multiple dates so that you can enrol small groups of staff any one time, leaving you enough people to man the helm!If you have any questions then please do get in touch,lucy@thedevelopmentpeople.co.uk

Recognizing the brilliance of someone psychological disturbance normalizes their experience and opens the door to transformative change. We aim to explore the lived experiences on irregular perceptions of reality with an open mind. Each Saturday includes: a live dialogue between Prof. Ernesto Spinelli and an International Existential Therapist; a moment to share your thoughts and feelings with the teachers; and a final integration facilitated by Bárbara Godoy. This series of ten dialogues set out to explore the multifaceted dimentions and complexities associated with Existential Therapies. It attempts to engage with various interpretations of insanity through the lens of patients often painful, confounding, and deeply unsettling life experiences. Invention- between Prof. Ernesto Spinelli and Dr. Betty Cannon “When I first saw the topic of this year’s dialogues, I asked myself whether I had anything to contribute. After all, I told myself, I do not usually work with psychoses or other so-called ‘extreme’ or’ irregular’ states of consciousness. This started me thinking about a series of demonstration videos that I have been making with students and supervisees over the last couple of years as part of a book project. Do those videos display ‘extreme states’? To my surprise, the answer is yes. They are filled with experiences that might be described as hallucinations (positive and negative), dissociative states, paranoia, delusions, manic and depressive states, crippling anxiety, schizoid withdrawal, depersonalization and derealization, and body dysmorphic phenomena. Not to mention the so-called normal neurotic trances that Freud called transference, countertransference and defenses, psychedelically induced extreme states, and those nightly hallucinations, our dreams. So why did I not remember at least some of these states as being ‘extreme’? Perhaps the answer lies in my perspective on therapy, which is largely existential-phenomenological. I think that the following quote, from a letter that Sartre wrote to R.D. Laing, captures the essence of this perspective: “Like you, I believe that one cannot understand psychological disturbances from the outside, on the basis of a positivistic determinism or reconstruct them with a combination of concepts that remain outside the experience as lived and experienced. I also believe that one cannot study, let alone cure, a neurosis without a fundamental respect for the person of the patient, without a constant effort to grasp the basic situation and relive it, without an attempt to rediscover the response of the person to that situation and––like you, I think––I regard mental illness as the ‘way out’ that the free organism, in its total unity, invents in order to be able to live through an intolerable situation.”* When a client and I together are able to appreciate the true brilliance of this invention, my experience is that it not only normalizes the client’s experience, it also opens the doorway to change. It allows us to invent something new.” Dr. Betty Cannon. Betty Cannon, PhD, is a licensed psychologist who has taught and practiced in Boulder, Colorado, for over 40 years. She is Professor Emerita of the Colorado School of Mines and president and founder of the Boulder Psychotherapy Institute, which has trained mental health professionals in Applied Existential Psychotherapy since 1989. In addition to existential philosophy, especially the philosophy of Sartre, AEP has roots in Gestalt therapy, classical and contemporary psychoanalysis, humanistic psychology (especially the person-centered therapy of Carl Rogers), and body-oriented psychotherapy. Betty is a member of the editorial boards of the Journal for the Society of Existential Analysis and Sartre Studies International. She is the author of Sartre and Psychoanalysis and numerous articles and chapters on existential therapy. Her mentor was Hazel E. Barnes, who translated Sartre into English and who was the world’s foremost Sartre scholar until her death in 2008. Betty is her literary executor, and her book on Sartre is dedicated to Hazel. Prof. Ernesto Spinelli was Chair of the Society for Existential Analysis between 1993 and 1999 and is a Life Member of the Society. His writings, lectures and seminars focus on the application of existential phenomenology to the arenas of therapy, supervision, psychology, and executive coaching. He is a Fellow of the British Psychological Society (BPS) as well as an APECS accredited executive coach and coaching supervisor. In 2000, he was the Recipient of BPS Division of Counselling Psychology Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Profession. And in 2019, Ernesto received the BPS Award for Distinguished Contribution to Practice. His most recent book, Practising Existential Therapy: The Relational World 2nd edition (Sage, 2015) has been widely praised as a major contribution to the advancement of existential theory and practice. Living up to the existential dictum that life is absurd, Ernesto is also the author of an on-going series of Private Eye novels. Date and Time: Saturday 25 October from 2 pm to 3 pm – (UK time) Individual Dialogue Fee: £70 Venue: Online Zoom FULL PROGRAMME 2025: 25 January “Knots” with Prof. Ernesto Spinelli and Bárbara Godoy 22 February “Healing” with Dr. Michael Guy Thompson and Prof. Ernesto Spinelli 22 March “Difference” with Prof. Tod DuBose and Prof. Ernesto Spinelli 12 April “Polarisation” with Prof. Kirk Schneider and Prof. Ernesto Spinelli 3 May “Character” with Prof. Robert Romanyshyn and Prof. Ernesto Spinelli 21 June “Opening” with Dr. Yaqui Martinez and Prof. Ernesto Spinelli 19 July “Meaning” with Dr. Jan Resnick and Prof. Ernesto Spinelli 25 October “Invention” with Dr. Betty Cannon and Prof. Ernesto Spinelli 15 November “Hallucination” with Prof. Simon du Plock and Prof. Ernesto Spinelli 13 December “Hysteria” with Bárbara Godoy and Prof. Ernesto Spinelli Read the full programme here > Course Organised by:

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This is unlike any other leadership programme you’ve ever taken part in – it is all about learning the practicalities of showing up as an emotionally intelligent leader who is trusted, engages effectively, connects well, makes people feel they matter and creates a psychologically safe environment where people can bring their very best contributions to the team and the organisation.