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<h1 dir="ltr" id="isPasted" fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Course Overview:</h1>This training based on leading teams will help you to develop anyone that leads a team or is involved in a leadership role. It is also useful for those that are about to embark on a position of leadership or need to develop their leadership skills.Course Contents:Having an effective team around you is crucial. However, it is an area that is often left to chance, which can lead to de-motivated individuals that do not feel part of the business and consequently do not perform. This course looks at what it takes to lead an effective team and how you can get the best out of the people in it by understanding the role of the leader, both personally and from the point of view of the team.Course Topics:<ul fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><li dir="ltr" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="color:#000000;">Qualities of an Effective Leader&nbsp;&ndash; Identifying the key characteristics of effective leaders, rating themselves against them and establishing key actions to develop the skills.</li><li dir="ltr" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="color:#000000;">Leader or Manager?&nbsp;&ndash; Establishing the difference between the two and comparing themselves to those qualities.</li><li dir="ltr" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="color:#000000;">That Vision Thing&nbsp;&ndash; Making the business vision &lsquo;live&rsquo; for the team by answering key questions.</li><li dir="ltr" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="color:#000000;">Developing Your Team Goals&nbsp;&ndash; Reviewing an action plan that develops clear goals for their team based on the business vision.</li><li dir="ltr" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="color:#000000;">Motivation&nbsp;&ndash; Determining the &lsquo;Why&rsquo; for their staff and developing an understanding of emotions in a business context.</li><li dir="ltr" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="color:#000000;">What Motivates?&nbsp;&ndash; Looking at specific motivators for individuals and understanding that everyone is motivated by different things.</li><li dir="ltr" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="color:#000000;">Being Consistently Different&nbsp;&ndash; Going against popular leadership theory and identifying that each staff member needs to be treated differently.</li><li dir="ltr" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="color:#000000;">Dealing With Difficult Team Members&nbsp;&ndash; Understanding why team members are difficult. Looking at different behavior types and strategies for responding to them. Also, realizing that &lsquo;difficult&rsquo; behavior sometimes has its benefits.</li><li dir="ltr" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="color:#000000;">Coaching&nbsp;&ndash; Using a simple method of coaching, including action plans.</li><li dir="ltr" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="color:#000000;">Three Key Skills of Coaching&nbsp;&ndash; Looking at the skills required to be an effective coach.</li><li dir="ltr" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="color:#000000;">Instant Results Coaching&nbsp;&ndash; Coaching in a hurry!</li><li dir="ltr" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="color:#000000;">Can Do Coaching Practice&nbsp;&ndash; Putting the learning into practice</li></ul>Course Feature:By the end of this training you will be able to:<ul fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><li dir="ltr" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="color:#000000;">Explain the qualities of an effective leader</li><li dir="ltr" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="color:#000000;">Benchmark themselves against those qualities and develop actions to improve</li><li dir="ltr" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="color:#000000;">Explain the difference between leading and managing</li><li dir="ltr" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="color:#000000;">Explain the value of sharing the business vision with the team</li><li dir="ltr" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="color:#000000;">Develop team goals based on the business vision</li><li dir="ltr" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="color:#000000;">Motivate their staff by understanding their drivers and developing actions to support them</li><li dir="ltr" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="color:#000000;">Deal with difficult staff members</li><li dir="ltr" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="color:#000000;">Challenge staff in a meaningful and effective way</li><li dir="ltr" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="color:#000000;">Coach staff effectively using a simple process</li></ul>Certification:Once after the training you receive course completion certificate from MangatesWho can Attend?Anybody who is interested in learning Effective Skills to Lead a Team.

Certificate: Course Completion Certificate | Language: English
Duration: 1 Day | Credits: 8 PDUs
Course Delivery: Classroom | Virtual Live
Lunch and Beverages are included in a classroom session

Course Overview:
This training based on leading teams will help you to develop anyone that leads a team or is involved in a leadership role. It is also useful for those that are about to embark on a position of leadership or need to develop their leadership skills.
Course Contents:
Having an effective team around you is crucial. However, it is an area that is often left to chance, which can lead to de-motivated individuals that do not feel part of the business and consequently do not perform. This course looks at what it takes to lead an effective team and how you can get the best out of the people in it by understanding the role of the leader, both personally and from the point of view of the team.
Course Topics:
Qualities of an Effective Leader – Identifying the key characteristics of effective leaders, rating themselves against them and establishing key actions to develop the skills.
Leader or Manager? – Establishing the difference between the two and comparing themselves to those qualities.
That Vision Thing – Making the business vision ‘live’ for the team by answering key questions.
Developing Your Team Goals – Reviewing an action plan that develops clear goals for their team based on the business vision.
Motivation – Determining the ‘Why’ for their staff and developing an understanding of emotions in a business context.
What Motivates? – Looking at specific motivators for individuals and understanding that everyone is motivated by different things.
Being Consistently Different – Going against popular leadership theory and identifying that each staff member needs to be treated differently.
Dealing With Difficult Team Members – Understanding why team members are difficult. Looking at different behavior types and strategies for responding to them. Also, realizing that ‘difficult’ behavior sometimes has its benefits.
Coaching – Using a simple method of coaching, including action plans.
Three Key Skills of Coaching – Looking at the skills required to be an effective coach.
Instant Results Coaching – Coaching in a hurry!
Can Do Coaching Practice – Putting the learning into practice
Course Feature:
By the end of this training you will be able to:
Explain the qualities of an effective leader
Benchmark themselves against those qualities and develop actions to improve
Explain the difference between leading and managing
Explain the value of sharing the business vision with the team
Develop team goals based on the business vision
Motivate their staff by understanding their drivers and developing actions to support them
Deal with difficult staff members
Challenge staff in a meaningful and effective way
Coach staff effectively using a simple process
Certification:
Once after the training you receive course completion certificate from Mangates.
Who can Attend?
Anybody who is interested in Learning Effective Skills to Lead a Team.

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Leading Effective Teams 1 Day Workshop in Wakefield

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Harrogate

Leading Effective Teams 1 Day Training in Harrogate

Leading Effective Teams 1 Day Workshop in Harrogate

Leeds

Certificate: Course Completion Certificate | Language: English

Duration: 1 Day | Credits: 8 PDUs

Course Delivery: Classroom | Virtual Live

Lunch and Beverages are included in a classroom session

Course Contents:

In a survey carried out amongst experienced, middle and senior executives, designed to determine the things that they feared most, public speaking came out as number one. Death was eighth on the list! So, most of us would rather die than stand up and present!
This session will provide you with the ideas and techniques to help them feel more confident about presenting, and will help you to become an effective presenter.

Course Topics:

Problems and fears with Presentations – Looking at the past problems delegates have felt and seen with presentations. What their fears are and their likes and dislikes of presenting.

Qualities of an Effective Presenter – Identifying what makes a presenter good and analysing the skills required.

Planning a Presentation – Key considerations when planning a presentation and planning around the audience.

Structuring Your Presentation – Considering the attention span of an audience and structuring the session around this. Using the ‘Communicating to Convince’ model to structure the presentation.

Opening Attention Grabbers – How to start a session with a bang.

Using Visual Aids – The do’s and don’ts regarding visual aids and making them effective.

Presentation Models and Tools – Identifying alternatives to PowerPoint.

Presentation style – Considering their style, including; mannerisms, gestures, eye contact, voice and nerves.

Presentation Practice – A chance to test their presenting skills and provide feedback in a safe environment.

Course Feature:

At the end of this presentation skills training course you will be able to:

Plan a presentation keeping the audience in mind
Develop clear objectives for their presentation
Use ‘attention grabbers’ to enhance their opening
Develop effective visual aids
Use several different methods and tools for presenting
Use positive presentation style behaviours
Practice their skills of presenting

Certification:

Once after the training you receive course completion certificate from Mangates

Who can Attend?

Anybody who is interested in learning Presentation Skills.

Presentation Skills 1 Day Workshop in Leeds

Certificate: Course Completion Certificate | Language: English
Duration: 1 Day | Credits: 8 PDUs
Course Delivery: Classroom | Virtual Live
Lunch and Beverages are included in a classroom session
Course Overview:
The meaning of Soft Skills can sometimes be difficult to describe. It can be that unique attribute or characteristic that facilitates great communication. It can be the special way that you show confidence in a challenging situation. The events can become more easily managed with this great workshop.
With our 10 Soft Skills You Need workshop your participants will begin to see how important it is to develop a core set of soft skills. By managing and looking at how people interact and seeing things in a new light, your participants will improve almost every aspect of their careers.
Target Audience:
Professionals who are interested in learning 10 Soft Skills.
Learning Objectives:
After completing this course, Individuals will be able to demonstrate their understanding of:
What are Soft Skills?
Effective Communication
Teamwork
Problem Solving
Time Management
Attitude and Work Ethic
Adaptability/Flexibility
Self-Confidence
Ability to Learn From Criticism
Networking
Agenda:
Module One: What are Soft Skills?
Definition of Soft Skills
Empathy and the Emotional Intelligence Quotient
Professionalism
Learned vs. Inborn Traits
Case Study
Module One: Review Questions
Module Two: Soft Skill 1: Communication
Ways We Communicate
Improving Non-Verbal Communication
Listening
Openness and Honesty
Case Study
Module Two: Review Questions
Module Three: Soft Skill 2: Teamwork
Identifying Capabilities
Get Into Your Role
Learn the Whole Process
The Power of Flow
Case Study
Module Three: Review Questions
Module Four: Soft Skill 3: Problem Solving
Define the Problem
Generate Alternative Solutions
Evaluate the Plans
Implementation and Re-evaluation
Case Study
Module Four: Review Questions
Module Five: Soft Skill 4: Time Management
The Art of Scheduling
Prioritizing
Managing Distractions
The Multitasking Myth
Case Study
Module Five: Review Questions
Module Six: Soft Skills 5 and 6: Attitude and Work Ethic
What Are You Working For?
Caring for Others vs. Self
Building Trust
Work Is Its Own Reward
Case Study
Module Six: Review Questions
Module Seven: Soft Skill 7: Adaptability/Flexibility
Getting over the Good Old Days Syndrome
Changing to Manage Process
Changing to Manage People
Showing You"'re Worth Your Weight in Adaptability
Case Study
Module Seven: Review Questions
Module Eight: Soft Skill 8: Self-Confidence
Confident Traits
Self-Questionnaire
Surefire Confidence Building Tactics
Build Up Others
Case Study
Module Eight: Review Questions
Module Nine: Soft Skill 9: Ability to Learn From Criticism
Wow, You Mean I’m Not Perfect?
Listen With An Open Mind
Analyze and Learn
Clear the Air and Don"t Hold Any Grudges
Case Study
Module Nine: Review Questions
Module Ten: Soft Skill 10: Networking
Redefining Need
Identifying Others" Interests
Reaching Out
When to Back Off
Case Study
Module Ten: Review Questions
Module Eleven: Wrapping Up
Words From The Wise
Review Of The Parking Lot
Lessons Learned
Recommended Reading
Completion Of Action Plans And Evaluations

10 Soft Skills You Need 1 Day Training in Leeds

Building Better Careers with Soft Skills: 1-Day Workshop in Leeds

Certificate: Course Completion Certificate | Language: English
Duration: 1 Day | Credits: 8 PDUs
Course Delivery: Classroom | Virtual Live
Lunch and Beverages are included in a classroom session
Course Overview:
According to a 1973 survey by the Sunday Times of London, 41% of people list public speaking as their biggest fear. Forget small spaces, darkness, and spiders, standing up in front of a crowd and talking is far more terrifying for most people. Through this workshop you will become more confident and relaxed in front of an audience which will translate into a successful speaking event.
However, mastering this fear and getting comfortable speaking in public can be a great ego booster, not to mention a huge benefit to your career. The Public Speaking workshop will give participants some public speaking skills, including in-depth information on developing an engaging program and delivering their presentation with power.
Learning Objectives:
Inside This Training, You'll Learn
Completely remove your stage fear and become a dynamic speaker
Raise your confidence up to a level you never thought to be possible!
Deeper insights into group dynamics
Presentation design, skills & styles
Tools to get your audience to say yes to you
Advanced new behavior patterns required for public speaking
Control time for effective training
Secrets of mind control techniques
Develop your personal winning style
Agenda:
Module One: Identifying Your Audience
Performing a Needs Analysis
Creating an Audience Profile
Identifying Key Questions and Concerns
Module Two: Creating a Basic Outline
Outlining the Situation
Identifying the Task That Had to Be Performed
Listing the Actions You Took
Revealing the Results
Module Three: Organizing the Program
Making Organization Easy
Organizational Methods
Classifying and Categorizing
Module Four: Fleshing It Out
Identifying Appropriate Sources
Establishing Credibility
The Importance of Citations
Module Five: Putting It All Together
 Writing Your Presentation
Adding a Plan B
Reviewing, Editing, and Rewriting
Module Six: Being Prepared
Checking Out the Venue
Gathering Materials
A 24 Hour Checklist
Module Seven: Overcoming Nervousness
A Visit from the Boss
Preparing Mentally
Physical Relaxation Techniques
Appearing Confident in Front of the Crowd (Even If You Donâ€™t Feel That Way)
Module Eight: Delivering Your Speech (I)
Starting Off on the Right Foot
Using Visual Aids
Checking the Volume of Your Voice
Module Nine: Delivering Your Speech (II)
Adjusting on the Fly
Gauging Whether Breaks Are Required
Wrapping Up and Winding Down
Module Ten: Questions and Answers
Ground Rules
Answering Questions That Sound Like an Attack
Dealing with Complex Questions
Module Eleven: Wrapping Up
Words from the Wise
Review of Parking Lot
Lessons Learned
Completion of Action Plans and Evaluations
Target Audience:
Anybody who is interested in Public Speaking Skills

Public Speaking 1 Day Training in Leeds

Certificate: Course Completion Certificate | Language: English
Duration: 1 Day | Credits: 8 PDUs
Course Delivery: Classroom | Virtual Live
Lunch and Beverages are included in a classroom session
Course Overview:
Providing outstanding customer service can make the difference between gaining, keeping, or losing a customer. In this one-day Customer Service Essentials training course, you gain foundational knowledge, leverage proven techniques, and apply best practices that will help develop and maintain mutually beneficial relationships with your customers, while continuing to grow your customer base. Gaining these essential customer service skills can help your company boost their customer retention and acquisition metrics.
Course Topics:
Assessing your attitude to customer service
Practicing verbal and vocal skills
Handling customer complaints and difficult situations
Demonstrating empathy and building rapport
Defining the Golden Rules for Success
Course Feature:
You Will Learn How To:
Adopt a confident, consistent approach that ensures great service
Apply best practice communication techniques to connect with your customers
Choose and apply techniques that create customer loyalty and exceed expectations
Respond positively and constructively to customer problems
Certification:
Once after the training you receive course completion certificate from Mangates
Who can Attend?
No formal prerequisites are required to attend this course.

Customer Service Essentials 1 Day Training in Leeds

Boost Customer Satisfaction: Join us 1 Day Training in Leeds

Certificate: Course Completion Certificate | Language: English
Duration: 1 Day | Credits: 8 PDUs
Course Delivery: Classroom | Virtual Live
Lunch and Beverages are included in a classroom session

Course Overview:
This practical sales skills training has been developed for salespeople or people who are required to sell as part of their role. This course is applicable for both people relatively new to sales as well as those who have a lot of experience as the content is flexible enough to adapt to suit the audience.
If you want your team to exceed sales targets and gain instant results, this sales training is for you!
Course Contents:
The core aim of this sales skills training is to provide you with a set of tools that can be practicably used in your role as salesperson
The skills provided are simply a collection of valuable methods of achieving sales. There are many tips and techniques that will be incredibly useful and will help you personally develop a successful sales approach whilst enhancing your performance.
Course Topics:
The skills have been produced from many year’s experience in sales and have been tried and tested in a business environment.
Introduction, the 80:20 Rule – Why 20% of salespeople produce 80% of the business
The Perfect Salesperson –  What makes a perfect salesperson and how do the participants individually compare? An exercise which helps the participants appreciate that they need to develop further
Goal Setting – Why and how to set personal performance goals. Followed by an exercise on setting these goals
Build Trust – Developing trust and rapport with a prospect and understanding why this is crucial to their success.
Ask the Right Questions – Developing questioning skills and realising that it is often questions that will develop sales rather than a just a good pitch. With example questions
Engage the Customer – Understanding the life time value of a customer, serving them better and ensuring they perceive the value of the relationship
Be Specific – Adapting their approach to suit the individual customer with an activity related to identifying the specific benefits to the customer
Make Your Customer Smarter – Realizing that customers are now more willing to be educated on products and services and often have already researched prior to the sales conversation. How to deal with this with regards the participants specific products/service
Maximize Your Efficiency – Learning from missed sales and developing further skills to overcome this
Catch Yourself Doing it Right – You can learn from good stuff too!
Know Your Products – An in-depth look at specific products and how to educate themselves in order to maximize sales through product knowledge
Develop a Competitive Advantage – A series of questions that will put the participants one step ahead of the competition
Handle Objections – Identifying typical objections and preparing responses to them in order to practice until they are welcomed with open arms. Also includes set techniques to overcome objections
Ask for the Business – Ensuring the participants can spot buying signals and know how to respond to them in order to lead the prospect to close. Specific advice on closing questions
Follow Up After the Sale – Ensuring that the complete sales process is seamless and the participants understand their responsibilities with regard to creating an exceptional customer experience
Apply the Skills in Your Role – A session on ensuring the learning from the session is practically applied in the participant's role.
Course Feature:
At the end of this sales skills training course your participants will be able to:
Explain what sets the best salespeople apart
Follow set personal goals to sales success
Use a series of practical sales skills to increase their selling potential
Practically apply these skills to their sales role
Certification:
Once after the training you receive course completion certificate from Mangates
Who can Attend?
Anybody who is interested in learning Practical Sales Skills.

Practical Sales Skills 1 Day Workshop in Leeds

Certificate: Course Completion Certificate | Language: English
Duration: 1 Day | Credits: 8 PDUs
Lunch and Beverages are included in a classroom session
Course Delivery: Classroom | Virtual Live
Course Overview:
Communication Skills are the most highly valued skills in today’s business environment. Successful professionals who add value to their companies communicate clearly, accurately and effectively. Poor communication skills, on the other hand, restrict even the most talented professionals from getting ahead in the business world.
Communication Skills intensive is a cutting edge training program designed to help today’s business professionals take their communication skills and effectiveness to the next level. It immerses you into the most advanced and innovative communication techniques.
You will dive deep into all forms of verbal, non-verbal and written communication, and come out with a developed sense of personal communication style that will help you to connect with, communicate to, and inspire people around you. The ability to communicate information accurately, clearly and as intended, is a vital life skill and something that should not be overlooked. It’s never too late to work on your communication skills and by doing so improve your quality of life.
Learning Objectives:
Script yourself with clear, compelling and well-developed messages that reflect your thinking .
Speak with vision and a logical structure that drives home your points.
Answer questions confidently.
Develop professional relationships and networks.
Communicate with empathy and compassion .
Inspire people by appealing to their emotions.
Move from an informational to an inspirational and action oriented style when creating and delivering presentations.
Integrate effective slides into your presentations.
Become a more powerful leader and communicator by applying effective strategic planning and writing tactics for enhanced writing speed and fluency.
Target Audience:
There is no Eligibility Criteria for this training, anyone can attend this training
Agenda:
The Science of Effective Human Communication
Frames of Business and Communication
Principles and Strategies for Effective Business Conversations
Art of Giving and Receiving Feedback
How to Listen Effectively and Accurately
Science of Body Language
How to look confident and charismatic
Business Presentation Skills and Strategies
Powerpoint Best Practices
Principles and Techniques for Effective Written Communication
How to write clear, concise and fast at the same time

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<div data-testid="richTextElement" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box;" id="isPasted" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">NATIONALLY RECOGNISED AND ACCREDITED VENEPUCTURE COURSELevel Three (advanced), awarding 3 credits.&nbsp;DUAL ACCREDITATION:Awarding Body: Open College Network (OCN Credit4Learning)Awarding Body: CPD (21 CPD Points) Adheres to World Health Organisation venepuncture guidelines (meets or exceeds all guidelines) and Skills for Health Directive HSC376 On completion awards a Nationally Recognised and Accredited Certificate in Phlebotomy.&nbsp;<div data-testid="richTextElement" id="isPasted" fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">PART 1 - CLASSROOM Theory:Attend a classroom location for one full day at the training location that you have selected.</div>&nbsp;PART 2 - CLASSROOMAttend the second day of our two day course in the classroom for skills and practical development.Your classroom tutor will begin your practical sessions learning and developing the skills required up to the point of Live Blood Draws.<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box;" id="isPasted" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> Please make sure you verify the precise dates and timings of your course when you receive your booking confirmation, as it may vary from the information provided above. </div>COURSE ITINERARY M01: Welcome, Introductions and Course Overview: Pre-course criteria (confirmation) and course registration. Modules - overview, intended learning outcomes and course content.M02: History, Definitions and Roles: Early day blood-letting and history of phlebotomy. Definitions and roles within healthcare environments.M03: Work-flow Cycles: Phlebotomist and laboratory work flow cycles.M04: Professionalism: Interacting with patients and staff including patient cofidentiality and GDPR.M05: Health and Safety: Keeping Safe. Bloodborne pathogens and work practice controls. Effective use of PPE. Standard Precautions. Waste disposal. Needle-stick injuries and how to avoid.M06: Blood Collection Systems: A detailed look at three blood collection systems and associated equipment.Practical Session 1: Equipment familiarisation. Hands-on approach.M07: Anatomy and Physiology: An overview of the integumentary system and cardiovascular system. Understanding veins, arteries, capillaries and nerves, and their locations.Practical Session 2: Using the tourniquet and identifying a vein. Hands-on approach. M08: Blood Composition: A detailed look at the composition of blood. Routine tests on whole blood and routine tests on serum and plasma, including profiles.M09: Using the Equipment: A detailed look at one blood collection system (Vacutainer), including standard and butterfly needles and all associated equipment. A comparison of Vacutainer with Monovette and respective merits. Sterilisation processes. Bottle types and handling. Coagulants and anticolagulants. Blood Culture collection.Practical Session 3: Handling and assembling the equipment. Hands-on approach using vein blocks. Familiarisation and procedures including initial skill-set development.M10: Performing the Venepuncture: Pre-venepuncture procedures. The venepuncture. Post-venepuncture procedures. Order of Draw. Complications - causes and solutions. Consent types. Patient ID. Special Requests. Implementing Standard Precautions.Practical Session 4: Handling and assembling the equipment. Hands-on approach using vein blocks. Skill-set development and consolidation.M11: Lab Tests &amp; Bottle Types: A detailed look at test requests and associated departments. Haematology, Biochemistry and Microbiology requests. Special Biochemistry tests. Sample handling and timing. Practical Session 5: Performing the venepuncture (on artificial arms). Palpating the vein, performing the venepuncture and consolidating pre- and post-venepuncture procedures. Further skill-set development.M12: Analytical Errors: Understanding pre- and post-analytical errors including hidden errors.Practical Session 6A: Performing the venepuncture (on artificial arms). Palpating the vein, performing the venepuncture and consolidating pre- and post-venepuncture procedures. Further skill-set development from initial test request to post sample handling and labelling.Practical Session 6B: Role-play (pairs). Performing the procedure in simulation, from request card to sample handling and labelling. Group alternates between 6A and 6B. Includes a short video presentation.M13: Quiz answers and answers to informal quizzes.M14: Award - accredited certificates: value, application and overview. Job Opportunities.</div>

NATIONALLY RECOGNISED AND ACCREDITED VENEPUCTURE COURSE
Level Three (advanced), awarding 3 credits.
 
DUAL ACCREDITATION:
Awarding Body: Open College Network (OCN Credit4Learning)
Awarding Body: CPD (21 CPD Points)



Adheres to World Health Organisation venepuncture guidelines (meets or exceeds all guidelines) and Skills for Health Directive HSC376


On completion awards a Nationally Recognised and Accredited Certificate in Phlebotomy.
 
PART 1 - CLASSROOM Theory:
Attend a classroom location for one full day at the training location that you have selected.
 
PART 2 - CLASSROOM
Attend the second day of our two day course in the classroom for skills and practical development.
Your classroom tutor will begin your practical sessions learning and developing the skills required up to the point of Live Blood Draws.

Please make sure you verify the precise dates and timings of your course when you receive your booking confirmation, as it may vary from the information provided above.


COURSE ITINERARY

M01: Welcome, Introductions and Course Overview:
Pre-course criteria (confirmation) and course registration.
Modules - overview, intended learning outcomes and
course content.
M02: History, Definitions and Roles:
Early day blood-letting and history of phlebotomy.
Definitions and roles within healthcare environments.
M03: Work-flow Cycles:
Phlebotomist and laboratory work flow cycles.
M04: Professionalism:
Interacting with patients and staff including patient
cofidentiality and GDPR.
M05: Health and Safety:
Keeping Safe. Bloodborne pathogens and work practice
controls. Effective use of PPE. Standard Precautions.
Waste disposal. Needle-stick injuries and how to avoid.
M06: Blood Collection Systems:
A detailed look at three blood collection systems and
associated equipment.
Practical Session 1:
Equipment familiarisation. Hands-on approach.
M07: Anatomy and Physiology:
An overview of the integumentary system and
cardiovascular system. Understanding veins, arteries,
capillaries and nerves, and their locations.
Practical Session 2:
Using the tourniquet and identifying a vein. Hands-on
approach.

M08: Blood Composition:
A detailed look at the composition of blood. Routine
tests on whole blood and routine tests on serum and
plasma, including profiles.
M09: Using the Equipment:
A detailed look at one blood collection system
(Vacutainer), including standard and butterfly needles
and all associated equipment. A comparison of
Vacutainer with Monovette and respective merits.
Sterilisation processes. Bottle types and handling.
Coagulants and anticolagulants. Blood Culture collection.
Practical Session 3:
Handling and assembling the equipment. Hands-on
approach using vein blocks. Familiarisation and
procedures including initial skill-set development.
M10: Performing the Venepuncture:
Pre-venepuncture procedures. The venepuncture.
Post-venepuncture procedures. Order of Draw.
Complications - causes and solutions. Consent types.
Patient ID. Special Requests. Implementing Standard
Precautions.
Practical Session 4:
Handling and assembling the equipment. Hands-on
approach using vein blocks. Skill-set development and
consolidation.
M11: Lab Tests & Bottle Types:
A detailed look at test requests and associated
departments.
Haematology, Biochemistry and Microbiology requests.
Special Biochemistry tests. Sample handling and timing.

Practical Session 5:
Performing the venepuncture (on artificial arms).
Palpating the vein, performing the venepuncture and
consolidating pre- and post-venepuncture procedures.
Further skill-set development.
M12: Analytical Errors:
Understanding pre- and post-analytical errors including
hidden errors.
Practical Session 6A:
Performing the venepuncture (on artificial arms).
Palpating the vein, performing the venepuncture and
consolidating pre- and post-venepuncture procedures.
Further skill-set development from initial test request to
post sample handling and labelling.
Practical Session 6B:
Role-play (pairs). Performing the procedure in simulation,
from request card to sample handling and labelling.
Group alternates between 6A and 6B. Includes a short
video presentation.
M13: Quiz answers and answers to informal quizzes.
M14: Award - accredited certificates: value, application
and overview. Job Opportunities.



Geopace Training

Allied Health

Allied Health Professions (AHP)

Blood Taking

Healthcare Workers

Venepuncture

Phlebotomist

Phlebotomy

Accredited Phlebotomy

Healthcare

Learn how to take blood ... train as a Phlebotomist

    Nationally Recognised Qualification

    No previous experience or qualifications needed

    OCN Accredited - Level 3 (advanced)

    CPD Accredited (The CPD Certification Service)

    Covers all steps up to live blood draw

    Practise on artificial arm and fake blood!

    Basic understanding of English language required

    OPEN TO ALL APPLICANTS


Introduction to Phlebotomy Course (GPT003) - 2 Day Classroom

General Admission

Course Overview:According to a 1973 survey by the Sunday Times of London, 41% of people list public speaking as their biggest fear. Forget small spaces, darkness, and spiders, standing up in front of a crowd and talking is far more terrifying for most people. Through this workshop you will become more confident and relaxed in front of an audience which will translate into a successful speaking event.However, mastering this fear and getting comfortable speaking in public can be a great ego booster, not to mention a huge benefit to your career. The Public Speaking workshop will give participants some public speaking skills, including in-depth information on developing an engaging program and delivering their presentation with power.Learning Objectives:Inside This Training, You&#39;ll Learn<ul type="disc" fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Completely remove your stage fear and become a dynamic speaker</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Raise your confidence up to a level you never thought to be possible!</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Deeper insights into group dynamics</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Presentation design, skills &amp; styles</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Tools to get your audience to say yes to you</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Advanced new behavior patterns required for public speaking</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Control time for effective training</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Secrets of mind control techniques</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Develop your personal winning style</li></ul>Prerequisites:NoneCourse Materials:Attendees will receive a course manual with presentation slides and reference materials.Agenda:Module One: Identifying Your Audience<ul type="disc" fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Performing a Needs Analysis</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Creating an Audience Profile</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Identifying Key Questions and Concerns</li></ul>Module Two: Creating a Basic Outline<ul type="disc" fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Outlining the Situation</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Identifying the Task That Had to Be Performed</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Listing the Actions You Took</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Revealing the Results</li></ul>Module Three: Organizing the Program<ul type="disc" fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Making Organization Easy</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Organizational Methods</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Classifying and Categorizing</li></ul>Module Four: Fleshing It Out<ul type="disc" fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Identifying Appropriate Sources</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Establishing Credibility</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Importance of Citations</li></ul>Module Five: Putting It All Together<ul type="disc" fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">&nbsp;Writing Your Presentation</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Adding a Plan B</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Reviewing, Editing, and Rewriting</li></ul>Module Six: Being Prepared<ul type="disc" fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Checking Out the Venue</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Gathering Materials</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">A 24 Hour Checklist</li></ul>Module Seven: Overcoming Nervousness<ul type="disc" fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">A Visit from the Boss</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Preparing Mentally</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Physical Relaxation Techniques</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Appearing Confident in Front of the Crowd (Even If You Don&acirc;&euro;&trade;t Feel That Way)</li></ul>Module Eight: Delivering Your Speech (I)<ul type="disc" fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Starting Off on the Right Foot</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Using Visual Aids</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Checking the Volume of Your Voice</li></ul>Module Nine: Delivering Your Speech (II)<ul type="disc" fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Adjusting on the Fly</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Gauging Whether Breaks Are Required</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Wrapping Up and Winding Down</li></ul>Module Ten: Questions and Answers<ul type="disc" fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Ground Rules</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Answering Questions That Sound Like an Attack</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Dealing with Complex Questions</li></ul>Module Eleven: Wrapping Up<ul type="disc" fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Words from the Wise</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Review of Parking Lot</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Lessons Learned</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Completion of Action Plans and Evaluations</li></ul>Target Audience:Anybody who is interested in Public Speaking Skills.Technical Requirements:For eBooks:Internet for downloading the eBookLaptop, tablet, Smartphone, eReader (No Kindle)Adobe DRM supported software (e.g. Digital Editions, Bluefire Reader)eBook download and activation instructions

Certificate: Course Completion Certificate | Language: English
Duration: 1 Day | Credits: 8 PDUs
Course Delivery: Classroom | Virtual Live
Lunch and Beverages are included in a classroom session
Course Overview:
This networking skills training will help you to build a professional reputation and develop a network of connections through the two key methods available to you; face-to-face and online.
You will discover how to effectively combine these two approaches and create a strategy for networking success that will generate your own community and actively grow your personal network. This will result in an improved performance in your approach to networking and consequently provide opportunities and prospects that will increase your business success.
The training provides you with the tools and techniques to both plan a successful, strategic approach to networking and develop your personal communication skills, which will ensure you build effective business relationships.
Course Contents:
Effective Networking Strategies and Techniques – Business Networking Training
Networking has become a crucial factor in the modern workplace. It is the most effective method of developing your business or career and is a key component of your personal brand. You need to be able to build strong business relationships, develop a level of personal credibility and increase your network of contacts in order to enhance your visibility and create opportunities for yourself and your organisation.
Perhaps you’re looking to improve the networking performance of a management or sales team. Or you want to include networking skills training as part of management and leadership training programmes. Whatever your need, We provide you with a comprehensive networking skills training course to make your life easy.
This business networking training is aimed at helping you develop your business or career. You will help ensure you have the skills, knowledge and techniques to develop a joined-up networking strategy that gets you the outcomes you want.
You will also be encouraged to develop the correct behaviours and attitudes to help build your visibility and credibility through networking so that you develop strong working relationships that last.
Course Topics:
Why Network? – Establishing the importance of networking with some shocking statistics and an activity that defines the importance of networking to the individual. This is followed by some insight into the key aims of a networking strategy, what puts people off as well as some personal revelations about networking
Increase Your Business Presence – Looking at the components of a strong business presence, including; credibility, personal brand, visibility and social capital.
Developing a Networkers Attitude – An exercise that clarifies the perfect attitudes and behaviours of great networkers and comparing the participants against this. Thus identifying areas for development.
Face to Face Networking – An overview and insight into the main types of face to face networking opportunities available with the benefits and pitfalls of each.
Online Networking – An overview of the different social media and online networking tools and how to get the best out of them. Includes; LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook and online forums.
Communication Skills for Networking Success – Ensuring a good first impression, creating an opening sound bite and writing an online profile that promotes and engages.
Developing a Conversation – Building on the opening sound bite and developing a conversation through good questioning techniques and following a selection of key networking rules. Including an activity to test and practice the skills.
Working a Room – A fun activity that embeds and develops learning while encouraging practice and communication. This activity covers 10 of the main skills required to work a room.
Breaking into a Group – Identifying body language to spot when a group or pair is open to new people entering the conversation or would rather not encourage participation. Knowing how to break into a group, what to say and how to remain professional.
Exiting a Conversation – Developing some techniques to extricate oneself from a conversation without causing embarrassment or rudeness.
The Follow Up – Using a structure to identify the most important contacts created and establishing when and how to follow up with each group. Includes example follow up email and a chance to develop their own.
Creating a Network Plan – Participants are provided with a networking action plan to review and complete. This sets them on the journey of developing their networking skills and ensures they have a strategy and goals to target.
This training is highly interactive and includes lots of activities and exercises to stimulate discussion and develop learning opportunities.
Networking has become a crucial factor in the modern workplace. It is the most effective method of developing your business or career and is a key component of your personal brand. You need to be able to build strong business relationships, develop a level of personal credibility and increase your network of contacts in order to enhance your visibility and create opportunities for yourself and your organisation.
Perhaps you’re looking to improve the networking performance of a management or sales team. Or you want to include networking skills training as part of management and leadership training programmes. Whatever your need, We will provide you with a comprehensive networking skills training course to make your life easy.
Course Feature:
At the end of this business networking skills training, you will be able to:
Develop a successful networking strategy
Maximise their effectiveness with face-to-face and online networking opportunities
Improve their approach, attitude and behaviours when networking
Create a plan for networking that will help them meet their goals
Certification:
Once after the training you receive course completion certificate from Mangates
Who can Attend?
Anybody who is interested in learning Business Networking Skills.

Networking Skills

Business & Marketing

Business Networking 1 Day Training in Harrogate

Master Business Networking in Just 1 Day - Join our Workshop in Harrogate

Welcome to the Women&#39;s Voice Empowerment ProgrammeThis is a female-designed, new, step-by-step guide, to teach you how you can truly activate and integrate some of the most essential Voicework tools to Free Your Voice and unleash your Creative Embodied Expression. Step beyond your blockages which hold you back from freedom, access the real power behind your emotions and expand into your Authentic Self by healing your Voice.This Women&#39;s Voice Empowerment Programme will provide you with ALL YOU NEED to learn how you can revive your Body&#39;s True Voice and your Real Feminine Power.About the CourseThe course is a 5 week interactive, self guided programme to support you on your journey to truly giving permission to your own vocal authority. During the course, you will be given a toolbox of methods including, loving and nourishing embodied voicework exercises, meditations and affirmation journeys, to learn how to step into your Empowered Feminine Voice. On this programme you will explore:<div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"> </div><ul style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"><li style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">MODULE 1 -&nbsp;Stepping beyond judgements of societal conditioning&nbsp;&amp;&nbsp;feeling confident in your Voice</li><li style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">MODULE 2 -&nbsp;How to use your own Voice vibration for healing by practising the essential tools of embodied sounding&nbsp;</li><li style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">MODULE 3 -&nbsp;How to activate you intuitive creativity&nbsp;and trust in your Self expression through playful voice activation</li><li style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">MODULE 4 -&nbsp;How to own your emotional expression and build a healthy relationship with sounding your feelings</li><li style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">MODULE 5 -&nbsp;How to use Voice Yoga as a wellbeing practise to support your day to day life</li><li style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Plus a few extra goodies.. </li></ul><div fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">For most women, learning how to express our authentic voice is a huge journey of empowerment...</div><div fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </div><div fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Many women have learnt not to speak up, not to share their opinions and not to talk about their feelings - basically to be seen and not heard. But this old way is ready to change now. The world is evolving and it&#39;s up to every individual to choose to make a shift towards a more loving way of being; and being able to hear, and then use our own Voices and Body wisdom will be a key part of this. </div><div fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </div><div fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">If you&#39;re feeling the call to embark on your own personal Voice Empowerment journey, then I am sure course will support you to uncover your most Liberated state of Being. </div><div fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </div><div fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">You can learn more about the course here:&nbsp;<a href="https://www.singforyoursoul.online/womens-voice-empowerment-online-course" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" fr-original-style="" style="user-select: auto; font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: inherit;">Women&#39;s Voice Empowerment Course</a></div><div fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </div><div fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </div><div fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">*** </div><div fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </div><div fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </div>About the Pre-Launch Offer - Available NOW! I am opening 6 more&nbsp;places priced at &pound;250&nbsp;for the entire course - The full price will be &pound;500 when officially launched in November. You will have access to this course for 1 year, so once completed you can revisit any exercise, activity or practise as much as you need to develop the tools which resonate with you the most. *** If you have any questions or wish to get in touch please feel welcome to send a reply to this email. I look forward to having you join us on this journey! With Big Love and the Warmest Wishes from Saraswati Vani @ Saraswati SOUL <a href="http://www.saraswatisoul.com" fr-original-style="" style="user-select: auto; font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: inherit;">www.saraswatisoul.com</a> &nbsp; |&nbsp; &nbsp;<a href="https://www.instagram.com/saraswati.soul/" fr-original-style="" style="user-select: auto; font-size: var(--font-size); box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: inherit;">#Saraswati.SOUL</a> <img src="https://images.cademy.co.uk/sing-for-your-soul/ba089a8f-6637-489b-9c6f-72d6b22eac14/original.png" style="width: 180px; display: block; vertical-align: top; margin: 5px auto 5px 0px; text-align: left; cursor: auto; padding: 0px 1px; user-select: none; max-width: 100%; position: relative; box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="width: 180px; display: block; vertical-align: top; margin: 5px auto 5px 0px; text-align: left; cursor: auto;" fr-original-class="fr-draggable">

Welcome to the Women's Voice Medicine Enrolment Page!

Congratulations on making your decision on joining our programme! 

With this booking you are purchasing:
The Women's Voice Medicine Online Journey
3 x 1-1 Voice Medicine Coaching Sessions Online


"Our Voices are like seeds, they can sit dormant until the right conditions present themselves, and when this occurs they come bursting out full bloom!"


I truly trust that this programme will offer you a transformative journey that will allow you to blossom into the full potential of your authentic feminine voice! 


I look forward to sounding with you soon!


With Big Love and the Warmest Wishes from


Saraswati Vanisha 




Founder of Sing for Your Soul and Co-Founder of The Voice Tantra Academy



www.saraswatisoul.com | #Saraswati_SOUL  | www.voicetantra.com






Sing for Your Soul

Singing

Crystal Healing

Sound Healing

Welcome to the Women's Voice Medicine Journey. This is a female-designed, step-by-step programe, to teach you how you can truly activate and integrate some of the most essential Embodied Voicework tools to Free Your Voice and unleash your Creative Feminine Power.

Enrolment for the Women's Voice Medicine Journey & 3 x 1-1 Coaching Sessions

Welcome to the Women's Voice Medicine Enrolment Page!

Congratulations on making your decision on joining our programme! 


With this booking you are signing up for the “Pay by Instalment” option to receive the Women's Voice Medicine Journey.

This involves 3 x monthly payments of £90.


I truly trust that this programme will offer you a transformative journey that will allow you to blossom into the full potential of your authentic feminine voice! 



"Our Voices are like seeds, they can sit dormant until the right conditions present themselves, and when this occurs they come bursting out full bloom!"



I look forward to sounding with you soon!


With Big Love and the Warmest Wishes from


Saraswati Vanisha 




Founder of Sing for Your Soul and Co-Founder of The Voice Tantra Academy



www.saraswatisoul.com | #Saraswati_SOUL  | www.voicetantra.com






Instalment Payment: Enrolment for the Women's Voice Medicine Journey

Africa’s development landscape is undergoing a radical shift as global South powers redefine longstanding patterns of influence. At the forefront stands China, a transformative force whose trade and investment in Africa have soared more than tenfold in the past decade. Propelled by its "Going Global" strategy, China’s pursuit of Africa’s rich resources—minerals, oil, and more—has fueled this ascent. 
Yet its role reaches far beyond economics, with growing involvement in peacekeeping, infrastructure, and security—driven by political, economic, and security imperatives—signaling a bold new chapter in Africa’s geopolitical narrative.

Built on decades of historical ties and a shared developing-world identity, this partnership is accelerating at breakneck speed, raising urgent questions: How is China’s rise reshaping African economies, governance, and societies? What strategies are African leaders, businesses, and global players adopting in response?

This course offers a dynamic, multidisciplinary framework to address these and other questions, blending historical context, economic trends, and political analysis to illuminate China’s expanding footprint in Africa.

Course Objectives
Participants will pierce through the "Win-Win" rhetoric of China-Africa relations, critically evaluating its promises, realities, and far-reaching consequences. Through historical insights, economic scrutiny, and political perspectives, the course uncovers the strategies driving China’s foreign policy and their profound impact on Africa’s future.

Course Learning Outcomes

By the end of this 8-week journey, participants will be able to:
Trace the historical arc of China-Africa relations and its pivotal moments.
Dissect the economic and political forces shaping this partnership.
Assess the opportunities and risks China’s presence poses for African progress.
Pinpoint key areas of collaboration, from trade and infrastructure to security.
Judge whether China’s development model holds lessons for African nations.

Who Should Take This Course

This course is crafted for professionals, scholars, and students eager to unravel the nexus of international relations, Chinese foreign policy, and African development. Whether you’re an analyst charting China’s global rise, a policymaker shaping Africa’s path forward, or a geopolitics enthusiast, this course arms you with sharp insights and practical tools to master this evolving landscape.

Note: The course requires a minimum of 10 participants to proceed. To register or express interest, email info@gadaedu.com.


Act now—secure your spot today!



https://gada-academy.cademy.io/

Explore China’s growing influence in Africa through this in-depth course. Weekly themes blend history, trends, and analysis to unpack the economic, political, and social layers of this evolving relationship. Gain a nuanced view of its impact on Africa’s global role

Global Power Shifts and China's Evolving Role in Africa | Live Online Learning

Price with Early Bird

Our STGO Awareness TrainingSTGO Awareness Training is for drivers and operators who carry abnormal loads and covers the legislation around the carriage of abnormal loads, the rules and regulations relating to all aspects of this as well as the potential difficulties drivers and operators face when carrying this type of cargo.&nbsp;<p style="margin: 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-decoration: none; box-sizing: border-box;" id="isPasted" fr-original-style="margin: 0cm;font-size: medium;font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-style: normal;font-weight: normal;text-align: start;text-indent: 0px;text-decoration: none;">STGO Regulations and Compliance:<p style="margin: 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-decoration: none; box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="margin: 0cm;font-size: medium;font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-style: normal;font-weight: normal;text-align: start;text-indent: 0px;text-decoration: none;">In-depth exploration of STGO regulations and legal requirements.<p style="margin: 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-decoration: none; box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="margin: 0cm;font-size: medium;font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-style: normal;font-weight: normal;text-align: start;text-indent: 0px;text-decoration: none;">Understanding the specific permits and approvals needed for special transport.<p style="margin: 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-decoration: none; box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="margin: 0cm;font-size: medium;font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-style: normal;font-weight: normal;text-align: start;text-indent: 0px;text-decoration: none;">Compliance with weight limits, dimensions, and route restrictions.<p style="margin: 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-decoration: none; box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="margin: 0cm;font-size: medium;font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-style: normal;font-weight: normal;text-align: start;text-indent: 0px;text-decoration: none;">►&nbsp;Escort Vehicles and Their Role:<p style="margin: 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-decoration: none; box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="margin: 0cm;font-size: medium;font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-style: normal;font-weight: normal;text-align: start;text-indent: 0px;text-decoration: none;">Overview of the purpose and responsibilities of escort vehicles in special transport.<p style="margin: 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-decoration: none; box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="margin: 0cm;font-size: medium;font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-style: normal;font-weight: normal;text-align: start;text-indent: 0px;text-decoration: none;">Detailed examination of escort vehicle equipment and communication systems.<p style="margin: 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-decoration: none; box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="margin: 0cm;font-size: medium;font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-style: normal;font-weight: normal;text-align: start;text-indent: 0px;text-decoration: none;">Techniques for effective coordination between the main transport vehicle and escort vehicles.<p style="margin: 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-decoration: none; box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="margin: 0cm;font-size: medium;font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-style: normal;font-weight: normal;text-align: start;text-indent: 0px;text-decoration: none;">►&nbsp;Safe Loading Practices:<p style="margin: 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-decoration: none; box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="margin: 0cm;font-size: medium;font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-style: normal;font-weight: normal;text-align: start;text-indent: 0px;text-decoration: none;">Importance of proper vehicle loading for overall safety and compliance.<p style="margin: 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-decoration: none; box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="margin: 0cm;font-size: medium;font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-style: normal;font-weight: normal;text-align: start;text-indent: 0px;text-decoration: none;">Load distribution and securing methods to prevent accidents and damage.<p style="margin: 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-decoration: none; box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="margin: 0cm;font-size: medium;font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-style: normal;font-weight: normal;text-align: start;text-indent: 0px;text-decoration: none;">Hands-on demonstrations and simulations for safe loading procedures.<p style="margin: 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-decoration: none; box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="margin: 0cm;font-size: medium;font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-style: normal;font-weight: normal;text-align: start;text-indent: 0px;text-decoration: none;">►&nbsp;Route Planning and Risk Management:<p style="margin: 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-decoration: none; box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="margin: 0cm;font-size: medium;font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-style: normal;font-weight: normal;text-align: start;text-indent: 0px;text-decoration: none;">Comprehensive understanding of route planning for STGO, considering infrastructure, traffic, and potential obstacles.<p style="margin: 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-decoration: none; box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="margin: 0cm;font-size: medium;font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-style: normal;font-weight: normal;text-align: start;text-indent: 0px;text-decoration: none;">Risk assessment and mitigation strategies to ensure safe transportation.<p style="margin: 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-decoration: none; box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="margin: 0cm;font-size: medium;font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-style: normal;font-weight: normal;text-align: start;text-indent: 0px;text-decoration: none;">►&nbsp;Emergency Response and Incident Management:<p style="margin: 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-decoration: none; box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="margin: 0cm;font-size: medium;font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-style: normal;font-weight: normal;text-align: start;text-indent: 0px;text-decoration: none;">Training on emergency procedures in case of accidents or unforeseen events.<p style="margin: 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-decoration: none; box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="margin: 0cm;font-size: medium;font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-style: normal;font-weight: normal;text-align: start;text-indent: 0px;text-decoration: none;">Development of incident response plans to handle emergencies effectively.<p style="margin: 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-decoration: none; box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="margin: 0cm;font-size: medium;font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-style: normal;font-weight: normal;text-align: start;text-indent: 0px;text-decoration: none;">&nbsp;<p style="margin: 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-decoration: none; box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="margin: 0cm;font-size: medium;font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-style: normal;font-weight: normal;text-align: start;text-indent: 0px;text-decoration: none;">Certification and Assessment:<p style="margin: 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-decoration: none; box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="margin: 0cm;font-size: medium;font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-style: normal;font-weight: normal;text-align: start;text-indent: 0px;text-decoration: none;">Participants will undergo assessments to evaluate their understanding of the course material.<p style="margin: 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-decoration: none; box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="margin: 0cm;font-size: medium;font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-style: normal;font-weight: normal;text-align: start;text-indent: 0px;text-decoration: none;">Successful completion will result in a certification demonstrating competency in STGO awareness, escort vehicle operations, and safe loading practices. This online course is ideal for professionals involved in the transportation industry, logistics, and anyone seeking to enhance their expertise in the safe and legal handling of special transport and goods overseeing. Participants will leave with the knowledge and skills necessary to contribute to the efficient and secure transportation of oversized or special goods. Course delivered OnlineAll our courses are 7 hours and count towards your 35 hours CPC Periodic Training. Course cost includes VAT and CPC upload fee.&nbsp;

Our STGO Awareness Training
STGO Awareness Training is for drivers and operators who carry abnormal loads and covers the legislation around the carriage of abnormal loads, the rules and regulations relating to all aspects of this as well as the potential difficulties drivers and operators face when carrying this type of cargo. 
STGO Regulations and Compliance:
In-depth exploration of STGO regulations and legal requirements.
Understanding the specific permits and approvals needed for special transport.
Compliance with weight limits, dimensions, and route restrictions.
► Escort Vehicles and Their Role:
Overview of the purpose and responsibilities of escort vehicles in special transport.
Detailed examination of escort vehicle equipment and communication systems.
Techniques for effective coordination between the main transport vehicle and escort vehicles.
► Safe Loading Practices:
Importance of proper vehicle loading for overall safety and compliance.
Load distribution and securing methods to prevent accidents and damage.
Hands-on demonstrations and simulations for safe loading procedures.
► Route Planning and Risk Management:
Comprehensive understanding of route planning for STGO, considering infrastructure, traffic, and potential obstacles.
Risk assessment and mitigation strategies to ensure safe transportation.
► Emergency Response and Incident Management:
Training on emergency procedures in case of accidents or unforeseen events.
Development of incident response plans to handle emergencies effectively.
Certification and Assessment:
Participants will undergo assessments to evaluate their understanding of the course material.
Successful completion will result in a certification demonstrating competency in STGO awareness, escort vehicle operations, and safe loading practices. This online course is ideal for professionals involved in the transportation industry, logistics, and anyone seeking to enhance their expertise in the safe and legal handling of special transport and goods overseeing. Participants will leave with the knowledge and skills necessary to contribute to the efficient and secure transportation of oversized or special goods.
Course delivered Online
All our courses are 7 hours and count towards your 35 hours CPC Periodic Training.

Course cost includes VAT and CPC upload fee. 

Please review our Terms and Conditions for more information.


Total Compliance 

Driving & Vehicles

Compliance & Safety

STGO Awareness, Abnormal Loads & Escort Vehicles Course - Online

Master plant tinctures are sacred, natural extracts derived from powerful Amazonian plants, each carrying unique healing properties. 

Used traditionally in shamanic practices, these tinctures provide a gentle, yet profound way to heal, release emotional blockages, and restore physical vitality. 

Instructions:
1. Dosage & Absorption
Empty Stomach for Optimal Absorption: Take your tincture on an empty stomach, ideally at least 30 minutes before eating or 2 hours after your last meal. This enhances absorption and allows the plant’s energy to work more directly.
Sublingual Method (Under the Tongue): Place the recommended number of drops directly under your tongue and hold them there for about 1-2 minutes before swallowing. This method allows the plant’s essence to enter your bloodstream more quickly and efficiently.
Swallowing & Following with Water: If needed, you can follow with a sip of water or herbal tea, but avoid strong flavours that might interfere with the plant’s subtle energy.
2. Dietary Considerations
Avoid heavy, overly processed, or highly stimulating foods (e.g., caffeine, sugar, alcohol, or spicy foods) before and after taking the tincture, as they may interfere with the plant’s effects.
Simple, grounding meals such as lightly cooked vegetables, whole grains, and herbal teas, support a clearer connection to the plant.
If fasting or eating lightly while working with the tincture, listen to your body’s signals and adjust as needed.
3. Setting an Intention
Focused Approach: Working with one plant tincture for 1-2 weeks with a clear intention allows for a deeper relationship with the plant’s wisdom. Reflect on what you’re calling in whether it’s emotional healing, clarity, protection, or insight.
Intuitive Use: While structured use can be powerful, you can also work with the tincture as needed, trusting your intuition to guide you. It is safe for daily use if you feel called to it.
Journaling & Reflection: Keeping a small journal can help you track any insights, shifts, or emotions that arise during your work with the plant.
4. Adapting the Experience to You
There’s no rigid rule - some people benefit from structured, intentional work, while others find a more fluid, intuitive approach works best.
Pay attention to how your body, emotions, and energy respond. If you feel resistance or discomfort, pause and reflect on what the plant might be showing you.
Trust your own process and know that the relationship with plant medicine is deeply personal.
By approaching master plant tinctures with respect, presence, and openness, you can allow their wisdom to guide you in a way that best serves your journey. 🌿✨

Delivery
All prices include postage packaging and UK delivery and will be shipped once ready on the 28th of April. The Tinctures will also be available for purchase in person (cash only) at the Breathwork Sessions on Sunday 27th of April. 

Expected delivery date: April 30th-May 6th 2025. 

1. Marosa – Pfaffia Iresinoides
Marosa is a master plant known for awakening deep self-love, beauty, and emotional sensitivity. She works on the heart, softening emotional walls and helping us to reconnect with our vulnerability. Marosa teaches us to embrace love without fear, whether it be romantic, self-love, or universal love, helping us open to deeper relationships while maintaining healthy boundaries.

On an energetic level, she harmonises feminine energy, fostering grace, sensuality, and magnetic presence. She is often used to heal wounds from past relationships, dissolve patterns of unworthiness, and enhance our ability to both give and receive love. Marosa also connects us with our inner beauty, restoring confidence and self-worth. Physically, Marosa has purifying properties, supporting the skin, reproductive system, and circulation. She helps to bring lightness to the body, washing away stagnant energy and emotional burdens that weigh us down.

2. Chiric Sanango Flower - Brunfelsia grandiflora
A powerful Master Plant and member of the nightshade family. The name Chiric means "cold," as this plant is traditionally used to remove cold from the bones, warming the body and relieving tension. It is commonly worked with to treat fevers, alleviate arthritis pain, and enhance circulation, while also being known to increase libido by stimulating vitality and flow. 

On a deeper level, Chiric Sanango penetrates the nervous and muscular systems, aligning the body's core structure and releasing stored tension. It works directly on the brain and neural pathways, facilitating a kind of neural reset that can promote trauma release, mental clarity, emotional resilience, and a renewed sense of balance.


Numinity 

Shamanism

Herbal Medicine

Herbalism

Herbal Remedies & Medicine

Master Plant Tinctures made by a master herbalist in Peru. 

Master Plant Tinctures - Marosa & Chiric

Please specify which tincture(s) you would like in the order form.

1 x Tincture (30ml) + P&P

Please specify which tinctures you would like in the order form.

2 x Tinctures (30ml) + P&P

3 x Tinctures (30ml) + P&P 

4 x Tinctures (30ml) + P&P

<p id="isPasted" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; color: var(--text); font-family: sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" fr-original-style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; color: var(--text); font-family: sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">LOOKING FOR: ADULT FICTION, NON-FICTIONJulie Gourinchas (she/they) provides editorial and administrative support to various agents at Bell Lomax Moreton. Prior to her time at BLM, she was managing editor for a transcontinental literary consultancy, and later transferred into freelance editorial work where she worked closely with a number of agents and their clients. Recently, she has begun slowly building a small, selective list focused on adult literary fiction.Julie is drawn to uncommon voices and striking, intelligent writing&mdash;whether it be vibrant and floral or tense, quick, and sparse&mdash;as well as texture in both tone and setting, and she loves anything spiky, toothy, and dark. While the literary-speculative is her sweet spot, she considers herself genre agnostic within literary fiction, and remains open to compelling and well-executed genre overlap, such as with historical fiction (including and indeed encouraging alternate history) and gothic fiction (specifically regional gothic), as well as literary science fiction, western, magical realism, horror, dark academia, and low fantasy, all with a basis in the real/human world. Stylistically, she loves uncommon, thought-provoking experimentation with both prose and form.Folkloric and mythological retellings are a special favourite, particularly when approached from a fresh, imaginative perspective; she&rsquo;d also love to see a sharp, literary story exploring humanity&rsquo;s relationship to technology in the vein of&nbsp;Black Mirror. Likewise, a New Weird story exploring the effects of climate change on humanity and society, in the vein of Jeff VanderMeer or China Mi&eacute;ville, would not go remiss; she&rsquo;s also keen to see dark, literary westerns reminiscent of Cormac McCarthy&rsquo;s oeuvre.&nbsp;On rare occasion, a moody psychological suspense story, where a heady sense of atmosphere reigns, is welcome. Also, more terrible women please. (Please do bear in mind that, despite a deep and abiding love for all things Tolkien and Star Wars, she is&nbsp;not&nbsp;the right fit for epic or high fantasy, nor space-faring science fiction. She would also prefer to avoid pulpy crime and romance/romcoms.)She is keenly interested in hearing from authors traditionally underrepresented in the industry, including but not restricted to writers of colour; queer, trans, and nonbinary writers; working class writers; disabled writers; etc. In non-fiction, Julie is keen to read in the narrative and &ldquo;big ideas&rdquo; spaces, particularly in the realms of politics, history, and the social sciences.Julie is not looking for young adult, middle grade, and children&rsquo;s books.Julie would like you to submit a covering letter, 1 page synopsis and the first 5,000 words of your manuscript in a single word document.&nbsp;<p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; color: var(--text); font-family: sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" fr-original-style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; color: var(--text); font-family: sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">(In addition to the paid sessions, Julie is kindly offering one free session for low income/under-represented writers. Please email <a href="mailto:agent121@iaminprint.co.uk" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: inherit; cursor: pointer; user-select: auto; font-size: var(--font-size);" fr-original-style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: inherit; cursor: pointer; user-select: auto;">agent121@iaminprint.co.uk</a> to apply, outlining your case for this option which is offered at the discretion of&nbsp;I Am In Print).&nbsp;By booking you understand you need to conduct an internet connection test with&nbsp;I Am In Print prior to the event. You also agree to email your material in one document to reach I Am In Print by the stated submission deadline and note that I Am In Print take no responsibility for the advice received during your agent meeting.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; color: var(--text); font-family: sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" fr-original-style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; color: var(--text); font-family: sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">The submission deadline is: Wednesday 13 September 2023

LOOKING FOR: ADULT FICTION, NON-FICTION

Julie Gourinchas (she/they) is developing a selective list focused on upmarket and literary adult fiction across a wide variety of genres. Writers she represents have been nominated for the British Book Awards, the Hugo Awards, the BSFA Awards, and the Saltire National Book Awards, among others.

In fiction, she's drawn to a uncommon voices, and striking, intelligent writing – whether vibrant and floral or tense, quick, and sparse – as well as texture in both tone and setting (particularly anything with a strong aesthetic). Above all, she is looking for hooky, high-concept work, but her taste can perhaps be best summarised as "the weird, dark, and gruesome." 

While literary-speculative is her sweet spot, she considers herself genre agnostic within upmarket/literary fiction, and remains open to compelling and well-executed genre overlap. These include:

upmarket and literary horror: especially featuring feminist or cultural themes, body horror, mangled nature, or cosmic, Lovecraftian vibes and looking for a fresh, literary take on vampires. Think Mona Awad, Lucy Rose, Julia Armfield, Jade Song, Stephen Graham Jones.
dark and spiky literary dramas with high emotional stakes - think Eliza Clark, Julia May Jonas.
razor-sharp dark academia particularly with something to say about the complex and exploitative systems within academia, more The Secret History, less The Atlas Six.
gothic fiction, specifically regional gothic anchored in an evocative sense of place in the vein of Alexis Henderson and Alix E. Harrow.
grounded fantasy or otherwise speculative fiction with coherent, sharp worldbuilding that feels recognisable and familiar, or directly set in our world. Play with magic, faith, and technology in your story like Babel, or a more literary version like Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries, Blood Over Bright Haven, Metal From Heaven.
Searing contemporary fiction centred on themes of identity and belonging: think Sally Rooney, Torrey Peters, or what Saltburn should have been.
dark westerns, in particular any that play with the truth and false hopes of the American Dream.
magical realism both whimsy with a touch of darkness, and darkness with a touch of whimsy.
unhappy romances
anything -punk:
steampunk, solarpunk, silkpunk, clockpunk, dieselpunk, cyberpunk and more of these! Suffice to say: if you can successfully and smartly comp to Arcane, Julie wants to see it!
character-focused historical fiction with a literary edge: think Lauren Groff, Anthony Doerr, Eleanor Catton, particularly in the 19th and 20th centuries; including and indeed encouraging alternate history.

Stylistically, Julie loves uncommon, thought-provoking experimentation with both prose and form, and anything spiky, toothy, and dark. Happy endings, to her, should feel earned. In all things, compelling character development should come first. First person narration is not impossible, but hard to sell. A smart genre blend is always welcome, as is any fresh-eyed approach to a well-trodden trope. Julie is also very much looking for her first romantasy – especially one that approaches this exciting new genre from a fresh, bold perspective.
 
She is keenly interested in hearing from authors traditionally underrepresented in the industry, including but not restricted to writers of colour; queer, trans, and nonbinary writers; working class writers; disabled writers; etc. 

Her enduring favourite books include All The Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr, Do Not Say We Have Nothing by Madeleine Thien, The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton, and Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials series. More recent favourites include the masterful Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin, Babel by R.F. Kuang, Detransition Baby by Torrey Peters, Matrix by Lauren Groff, Tell Me I’m Worthless by Alison Rumfitt, Brother Alive by Zain Khalid, and Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield.

In non-fiction, Julie is keen to read in the narrative and “big ideas” spaces, particularly in the realms of politics, history, and the social sciences.

Please note: Julie is not looking for young adult, middle grade, and children’s books. Strictly no AI-generated content of any description. Please also bear in mind that, despite a deep and abiding love for all things Tolkien and Star Wars, she is not typically the right fit for epic or high fantasy, nor space-faring science fiction. She would also prefer to avoid pulpy crime and straightforward romance/romcoms.

Julie would like you to submit a covering letter, 1 page synopsis and the first 5,000 words of your manuscript in a single word document. 

(In addition to the paid sessions, Julie is kindly offering one free session for low income/under-represented writers. Please email agent121@iaminprint.co.uk to apply, outlining your case for this option which is offered at the discretion of I Am In Print). 

By booking you understand you need to conduct an internet connection test with I Am In Print prior to the event. You also agree to email your material in one document to reach I Am In Print by the stated submission deadline and note that I Am In Print take no responsibility for the advice received during your agent meeting.

The submission deadline is: Tuesday 29th April 2025

I Am In Print

Fiction Writing

BOOKINGS CLOSED! 6th May Julie Gourinchas #Agent121. Looking for: ADULT FICTION, NON-FICTION

Do you want to learn the scientific background of body-mind-interactions and how to integrate this knowledge in your practical work with your clients, as e.g.:
Doctor, naturopath, psychotherapist
Complementary medicine therapist
Nurse, physiotherapist, nutritionist
Chiropractor, NLP, EFT, EMDR practitioner
Business consultant, teacher, social worker
Other health professional and coach?
This course contains both self-study and live training in online classes and covers the META-Health Level 1 and 2 material. It will take 6 months including 24 live sessions, 2 hours each, mainly in a weekly rhythm. You will get preparatory videos, reading material and tasks that help to understand and integrate the content, while the group sessions focus on demonstrations, discusion of the material, and practical exercises for you. All the time, our trainers and tutors will support you and we’ll be a learning family with an active chatgroup. Altogether you should reckon approximately 5 hours per week.
To cover most time zones, the schedule will be tuesdays at 17:00 GMT (London), starting on 7 January 2025.
Course content
You will learn the META-Health methodology for self-help, coaching and therapy:
Understand the META-Health principles and the Organ-Stress-Emotion-Belief Connection
Use META-Analytics for assessing the background and development of any health issue
Establish stress triggers, emotions and beliefs affecting your client’s health issue
Learn the building blocks for efficient changework and therapy
Unlock people’s healing potential through META-meanings, facilitating health supporting lifestyle changes
Develop integrative tailor-made META-Health Action Plans for your clients
You’ll learn META-Health from scratch. Those who have absolved a MHI Level 1 training within the last year get a discount of 20% of the training fee.
This training prepares you for the certification process to become licensed as META-Health professional.
Certification is optional. Even if you aren’t a health professional, you may enter the training to deepen your knowledge, understanding and resources for becoming and staying healthy – however be aware that basic knowledge of biology and anatomy will be very helpful!
More info: https://www.meta-health.info/meta-health-professional-online-course-2025/?ref=cdm



META-Health International

Health Coach

Become a META-Health professional with our 6 months intensive training!

Do you want to learn the scientific background of body-mind-interactions and how to integrate this knowledge in your practical work with your clients? This course contains both self-study and live training in online classes and covers the META-Health Level 1 and 2 material. It will take 6 months including 24 live sessions, 2 hours each, mainly in a weekly rhythm. You will get preparatory videos, reading material and tasks that help to understand and integrate the content, while the group sessions focus on demonstrations, discusion of the material, and practical exercises for you. All the time, our trainers and tutors will support you and we’ll be a learning family with an active chatgroup. Altogether you should reckon approximately 5 hours per week.

META-Health Professional 2025

Course fee

Examination & Certification fee 

50% reduction for participants with low income

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Facilitated by: Teresa Nightingale, HIGN trustee and Income Generation &amp; Marketing Director, Wirral Hospice St John&rsquo;s.Sharing and networking session.<div fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </div><div fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Q2 Reporting THIS SESSION WON&#39;T BE RECORDED. <div fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"> Session aimed at fundraising leaders: Directors | Heads of | Leads | Managers</div></div>

Sharing & Networking - Legacy marketing plans around Hospice UK's national campaign
Session aimed at legacy fundraisers and marketers
THIS SESSION WON'T BE RECORDED

Hospice Income Generation Network

Tue 6 May 2025 - Legacy marketing around Hospice UK's national campaign

Personal development groups for practitioners with B&aacute;rbara GodoyA playground for therapists to expand our perception to metaphor, as a way to connect directly with the experience of the other, guided by folklore and fairytales. "Supportive, thought-provoking, emancipating, grounding"<table style="width: 100%; border: none; border-collapse: collapse; empty-cells: show; max-width: 100%; box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="width: 100%;"><tbody fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><tr fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="width: 50%; min-width: 5px; box-sizing: border-box; user-select: text; border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221);" fr-original-style="width: 50.0000%;">Tuesday Evenings Group&nbsp;6 pm to 7.15 pm&nbsp;(UK Time)</td><td style="width: 50%; min-width: 5px; box-sizing: border-box; user-select: text; border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221);" fr-original-style="width: 50.0000%;">Friday Lunchtime Group 12.30 pm to 1.45 pm(UK time)</td></tr><tr fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="width: 50%; min-width: 5px; box-sizing: border-box; user-select: text; border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221);" fr-original-style="width: 50.0000%;">Term One: 21 and 28 January 4, 11, 18 and 25 February 4, 11, 18 and 25 MarchTerm Two: 6, 13, 20 and 27 May 3, 10, 17 and 24 June 1 and 8 JulyTerm Three: 23 and 30 September 7, 14, 21 and 28 October 4, 11, 18 and 25 November</td><td style="width: 50%; min-width: 5px; box-sizing: border-box; user-select: text; border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221);" fr-original-style="width: 50.0000%;">Term One: 24 and 31 January 7, 14, 21, 28 February 7, 14, 21 and 28 MarchTerm Two: 2, 9, 16, 23 and 30 May 6, 13, 20 and 27 June 4 JulyTerm Three: 26 September 3, 10, 17, 24 and 31 October 7, 14, 21 and 28 November</td></tr></tbody></table> Venue: Online (Zoom) Fee:&nbsp;&pound;350&nbsp;per term or&nbsp;&pound;900&nbsp;the whole yearB&aacute;rbara Godoy&nbsp;M.A., Adv. Dip. Exi. Psy. Existential Psychotherapist Group Leader, Counsellour, Lecturer and Supervisor, MBACP &amp; UKCP accredited, SEA Professional Member, Director of Therapy Harley StreetB&aacute;rbara&rsquo;s academic contributions in London since 2008 include lecturing and researching on the theory and practice of Phenomenological Existential Therapy on Doctorate, MA and professional courses at the School of Psychotherapy and Counselling Psychology, Regent&rsquo;s University and the New School of Psychotherapy and Counselling directed by Emmy van Deurzen. B&aacute;rbara has facilitated and designed therapeutic Group Work since 1997. She brought her earliest workshop: &ldquo;Experiences&rdquo; to large groups in The Netherlands, Italy, France, UK and Argentina. These awareness-intensive processes are a legacy of the human potential movement (HPM) of the 1960s, with techniques such as AUM Meditation Marathons, Psychodrama, Bioenergetics and Primal Feelings work. <img src="https://images.cademy.co.uk/d34b3e28-5501-46b2-9009-97ed10d2e273/f0370d38-60f2-46d6-bd42-11b15afedfae/original.jpeg" style="width: 446px; display: block; vertical-align: top; margin: 5px auto; text-align: center; cursor: auto; padding: 0px 1px; user-select: none; max-width: 100%; position: relative; box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="width: 446px; display: block; vertical-align: top; margin: 5px auto; text-align: center; cursor: auto;" fr-original-class="fr-draggable"> Organized by: <img src="https://images.cademy.co.uk/d34b3e28-5501-46b2-9009-97ed10d2e273/376c7e35-cd6e-46a0-9b64-dee8373e64c4/original.png" style="width: 698px; display: block; vertical-align: top; margin: 5px auto; text-align: center; cursor: auto; padding: 0px 1px; user-select: none; max-width: 100%; position: relative; box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="width: 698px; display: block; vertical-align: top; margin: 5px auto; text-align: center; cursor: auto;" fr-original-class="fr-draggable">

Personal development groups for practitioners with Bárbara Godoy
A playground for therapists to expand our perception to metaphor, as a way to connect directly with the experience of the other, guided by folklore and fairytales. "Supportive, thought-provoking, emancipating, grounding"
Tuesday Evenings Group 6 pm to 7.15 pm 
(UK Time)	Friday Lunchtime Group 12.30 pm to 1.45 pm
(UK time)
Spring Term Phase One - 2025
22 and 29 April
6, 13, 20 and 27 May
3, 10, 17 and 24 June
Autumn Term Phase Two - 2025
23 and 30 September
7, 14, 21 and 28 October
4, 11, 18 and 25 November
Winter Term Phase Three - 2026
20 and 27 January
3, 10, 17 and 24 February
3, 10, 17 and 24 March	Winter Term Phase One - 2025
24 and 31 January
7, 14, 21, 28 February
7, 14, 21 and 28 March
Spring Term Phase Two - 2025
25 April
2, 9, 16, 23 and 30 May
6, 13, 20 and 27 June
Autumn Term Phase Three - 2025
26 September
3, 10, 17, 24 and 31 October
7, 14, 21 and 28 November


Venue: Online (Zoom)
Fee: £350 per term or £900 the whole year
Bárbara Godoy M.A., Adv. Dip. Exi. Psy. Existential Psychotherapist Group Leader, Counsellour, Lecturer and Supervisor, MBACP & UKCP accredited, SEA Professional Member, Director of Therapy Harley StreetBárbara’s academic contributions in London since 2008 include lecturing and researching on the theory and practice of Phenomenological Existential Therapy on Doctorate, MA and professional courses at the School of Psychotherapy and Counselling Psychology, Regent’s University and the New School of Psychotherapy and Counselling directed by Emmy van Deurzen. Bárbara has facilitated and designed therapeutic Group Work since 1997. She brought her earliest workshop: “Experiences” to large groups in The Netherlands, Italy, France, UK and Argentina. These awareness-intensive processes are a legacy of the human potential movement (HPM) of the 1960s, with techniques such as AUM Meditation Marathons, Psychodrama, Bioenergetics and Primal Feelings work.





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EFQM Performance Improvement Practitioner Course
A 2-day deep-dive workshop on RADAR and how to use it as an agile project performance framework.
The essential course for anyone wanting to learn more about the RADAR logic and how to build a continuous improvement culture and mindset across your whole organisation.
 
Who is it for?
This course is suitable for anyone who wants to understand the RADAR logic and how it can be used to make their organisation more effective.
Whilst this training is effective as a stand-alone course; it is also a Level 1 option for anyone considering one of the EFQM qualification routes as a way of progressing their management development and career.
 
Benefits
By the end of the course, participants will be able to:
Explain the overall RADAR logic
Explain the main principles of positive culture and mindset for driving performance
Describe how RADAR can be implemented into an organisation to improve performance at every level
Identify how to use RADAR to drive the management agenda
Apply RADAR across day-to-day initiatives and key projects as an agile project performance framework.
Programme
The main topics covered during the EFQM Performance Improvement Practitioner training are:
RADAR logic and examples of how it can be used
Using RADAR to drive the management agenda
Using RADAR to drive strategic initiatives
Using RADAR to set up strategic KPI’s
RADAR as a Performance Improvement Framework
Case studies and group exercises
RADAR Improvement Matrix self-assessment
The training is spread over two days and is delivered in a virtual classroom setting (Zoom or Microsoft Teams), using videos, group discussions, case studies and activities in breakout rooms and presentations from the trainer.
 
Further Development
The EFQM Performance Improvement Practitioner training provides core knowledge about the RADAR Logic. In some cases, the training will have fulfilled an individual's learning needs. In many cases, the individual will want to consolidate their learning by applying the theory to a practical task. We encourage you to apply RADAR to a practical, work-based project, and we provide guidance on how to approach and complete your project. 
 
Completion of the RADAR Performance Improvement Project also allows you to progress to one of the advanced EFQM qualification programmes: EFQM Performance Improvement Leader, EFQM Assessor or EFQM Organisational Change Leader.
 
EFQM Performance Improvement Leader
If you successfully complete the EFQM Performance Improvement Practitioner training and the subsequent project, you are invited to apply for the EFQM Performance Improvement Leader assessment. You will be guided and coached by an EFQM trainer and asked to present your project to the EFQM expert panel. Here you will answer questions about how you applied the RADAR logic and principles (we provide participants with templates for running the project, as well as a high-level mid-term review). You will also receive feedback on how to improve and maximise the use of RADAR for future endeavours.


Dates and time:
This is a two day on-line workshop delivered on the 12th of June & 18th of June from 9:00 AM to 3:30 PM GMT



Cost:
£1000 + VAT

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