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Learn to sew your own custom pyjamas or loungewear in our beginner-friendly class! Choose from various top and bottom styles, use new fabrics or recycled bedding, and master essential sewing techniques including hemming and overlocker use

Aimed at health care assistants working in General Practice who want to develop themselves and the wider team in the care and management of the patient with diabetes.

This workshop is aimed at practice managers who work in GP Practices and Health Centres or their equivalent. The purpose of this workshop is to equip practice managers with the tools and techniques they need to run a busy practice and/or team.

This is a two-day course designed for ward, department and team managers in healthcare. It is suitable for both aspiring ward, department and team managers and those already in post.

Who is this course for? SketchUp - Rendering with V-Ray Course This course is tailored for architects, designers, 3D artists, and anyone interested in enhancing their rendering skills using SketchUp and V-Ray. Whether you're a beginner or an experienced user, this course provides in-depth training to create stunning visualizations and realistic renders in SketchUp using V-Ray. Check our Website Course Duration: 6 hours  Training Method: 1-on-1, (Face to Face) or Live Online session. Personalized to your needs. Course Content Overview: SketchUp and V-Ray: Exploring Intermediate Modeling Techniques Mastering V-Ray Materials: Textures, Sources, and Editing Managing and Optimizing Textures for Graphics and Bitmaps Illuminate Your Designs: Delving into Lighting: Types, Placement, and Scene Enhancement Understanding V-Ray Camera: Exposure, White Point, and Efficient Setup Achieve Stunning Renderings: Rendering Scenes: Digital Output, File Formats, and Best Practices Optimizing Quality Settings for Efficient Scene Creation Transitioning from 2D to 3D: Modeling Essentials for Visualization Utilizing Follow-Me and Push-Pull Techniques Enhancing Designs with Components: Choosing Between Groups and Components Mastering V-Ray Frame Buffer: Automatic 2D Graphic Saving File Types, Properties, and Effective Usage Perfecting V-Ray Materials: Materials Editor: Layering, Previews, and Shiny Surfaces Incorporating Bumps and Bitmaps for Realism Exploring Advanced Techniques: Unveiling Ambient Occlusion Effects Advanced Modeling, including Magic Box and Polygon Techniques Optimizing Texturing: Projected UVW Mapping Fine-Tuning Mapping Size and Position Locking Mapping for Consistency Alpha Channels: Preparing Graphics with Alpha Channels Integrating Rendered Output with Photoshop Hands-On Learning: Practical Exercises: From Concept to Stunning Renderings Vray for SketchUp Trial. https://www.chaosgroup.com/vray/sketchup/free-trial. Texture resources https://www.vray-materials.de/ and https://textures.com After completing the SketchUp and Vray course, participants will: Gain expertise in creating realistic 3D architectural and interior design scenes using Vray for SketchUp. Master lighting, camera settings, and composition for visually striking renders. Excel in applying Vray materials and textures for enhanced design quality. Produce high-quality renderings and refine them with post-production techniques. Receive a certification of attendance and 30 days of post-course email support. Job opportunities include roles in architectural visualization, interior design, real estate marketing, product design, and more. Skills Acquired: Advanced SketchUp Proficiency: Master advanced techniques for modeling and designing in SketchUp. V-Ray Rendering Skills: Learn how to use V-Ray to create realistic, high-quality renders in SketchUp. Texture Mapping and Material Application: Understand the art of texturing and applying materials for lifelike renders. Lighting Techniques: Explore various lighting setups to enhance the realism of your renders. Post-Processing: Gain skills in enhancing renders further through post-processing techniques. Job Opportunities: Architectural Visualizer: Create detailed and realistic architectural visualizations for projects. Interior Designer: Develop compelling interior visualizations for residential or commercial spaces. 3D Artist: Work in the gaming or animation industry, creating 3D models and environments. Visualization Specialist: Provide visualization services for real estate, marketing, or design agencies. Freelance Renderer: Offer your rendering services on a freelance basis to various clients. Why Choose Our Training? Personalized Coaching: Benefit from one-on-one training sessions conducted either Face to Face (SW96DE) or Live online, ensuring a tailored experience with practicing architects and designers. Flexible Hours: Our training is available Monday to Saturday from 9 am to 7 pm, accommodating your schedule for a seamless learning experience. Tailored Tutorials: Take advantage of custom video tutorials designed specifically for you, providing additional resources to enhance your learning journey. Comprehensive Reference: Receive a digital reference book to support thorough revision, ensuring a comprehensive understanding of each concept covered. Ongoing Support: Enjoy free and continuous support via phone or email even after the course concludes, ensuring your success beyond the classroom. Adaptable Syllabus: We customize the syllabus and projects to meet your specific needs, ensuring a focused learning experience on what matters most to you. Official Certification: Receive a certificate upon completing your course, recognizing your achievement in mastering the content. Why Us? Individualized Learning Support: Our courses, ranging from 10 hours to 120 hours Diploma training Courses, provide consistent support. With personalized assignments and post-course assistance, we guide you towards mastering software with dedicated help. Personal Attention, No Crowds: Say goodbye to crowded classrooms. Experience the intimacy of one-on-one learning, ensuring you receive the focused attention necessary for a confident and comfortable learning environment. Financial Flexibility: We understand the financial aspects of education. We offer various payment plans tailored to your needs, making your learning journey accessible and affordable. Expert Instructors, Real-world Knowledge: Our instructors are industry experts chosen for their extensive knowledge and teaching passion. Dedicated to imparting invaluable skills, they provide real-world insights to anyone eager to learn.

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The Personal licence Course qualification aim is to provide individuals with essential knowledge of the legal framework surrounding the sale of alcohol in England and Wales.

Essential skills for successfully treating a wide range of conditions – such as trauma, addictions, anxiety and depression – as well as making long-lasting behaviour changes and much more… Accredited CPD Certificate : 6 hours Length 1 day (9.30am - 4.00pm) This has been a priceless experience. Life-changing. Brilliant, simply brilliant!COUNSELLOR / EX IT SERVICE MANAGER Why take this course Strong emotions focus and lock attention – keeping people trapped in problem behaviours. Therapeutic change cannot happen until the emotional arousal is reduced. This is why all health and welfare professionals need to know how to induce the relaxation response in their clients. Guided imagery and visualisation not only reduce emotional arousal quickly but can be used to reframe life circumstances through metaphor and to rehearse in the imagination any required changed behaviours and/or feelings, which dramatically increases the likelihood of those changes taking place in ‘real life’. If you want to be able to help people effectively, this is a key course to attend – guided imagery is an essential skill required for removing phobias, curing PTSD, lifting depression and overcoming addictions or self-harm, and is also useful for raising self-confidence and increasing motivation. When you become confident in using these skills, you can begin to bring patients out of the emotionally-driven trance states of a wide range of conditions such as anxiety disorders, addiction, anger, stress overload, trauma, depression, chronic pain and much more. That is why guided imagery is one of the most powerful psychotherapeutic tools available to us – and one you need in your ‘toolkit’. Fascinating way of working with clients – relaxation techniques very powerful. Extremely relevant to practice. Good techniques and strategies learnt to use with clients to help them problem solve and move forward.HEALTH VISITOR What will you learn Powerful new ways to improve treatment outcomes Training and practice in using one of the most effective psycho- therapeutic tools available for treating a wide range of emotional and physical conditions Invaluable ways to motivate people, reframe life circumstances and instigate changes in behaviour Insight into how the mind/body communication system works Greater confidence when working with a wide variety of conditions Supervised practise in generating healing trances The core skills you need to acquire for the rewind technique for treating PTSD and phobias A variety of ways to help people relax Ways to reduce pain, including in childbirth Increased understanding of trance states and their role in everyday life Effective skills for helping people improve their performance – sports, public speaking etc. The opportunity to experience relaxation, guided imagery and visualisation yourself A scientifically-sound knowledge of why the various techniques and skills you will gain are so valuable And much more Good to know The skills you will learn on this course are an essential pre-requisite for taking the The Rewind Technique – Effective treatment for trauma (PTSD) and phobias course. You will also need them for the following courses too: Brief Therapy for Stopping Addictions How to Lift Depression Overcoming Self-harm Further guided imagery techniques can be learnt and practised on our NEW workshop: Guided Imagery 2 – essential techniques Course Programme The ‘Guided imagery and visualisation for therapeutic change’ course starts at 9.30am and runs until 4.00pm. From 8.30am Registration (Tea and coffee served until 9.25am) 9.30am What guided imagery is and why it works 11.00am Discussion over tea/coffee 11.30am The essence of all relaxation inductions: an easy way to start 1.00pm Lunch (included) 1.45pm Why it is important to be flexible: a range of techniques 2.45pm Discussion over tea/coffee 3.00pm Guided imagery and counselling: the essential steps 4.00pm Day ends Who is this course suitable for? Anyone who wants to help people effectively and for the long-term, particularly those involved in mental and physical healthcare would benefit from attending Psychotherapists, counsellors and mental health workers – these skills are essential to have to work with a wide range of conditions and for ensuring long-term behaviour change (see list below) Trained hypnotherapists looking to extend and build on their existing skillset and understanding The information and skills taught are extremely useful for dealing with: Stress; addictions; agoraphobia; allergies; anorexia; anger; asthma; bed wetting; blood pressure; bulimia; depression; lack of confidence; chronic pain; eczema; frustration; guilt; grief; hay fever; inhibition; insomnia; irritable bowel (IBS); relationship/marital difficulties; migraine; nightmares; obsessions (OCD); pain control; panic attacks; phobias (all kinds); sexual difficulties (impotence, premature ejaculation and vaginismus); shyness; skin disorders and trauma (PTSD); flashbacks; ulcers; warts and worrying. You can also control blood pressure, stimulate the immune system, promote healing of damaged skin tissue and bones and give birth easier using guided imagery and visualisation. This course has been independently accredited by the internationally recognised CPD Standards Office for 6 hours of CPD training. On completion of this training you’ll receive CPD certificates from the College and the CPD Standards Office.

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Discover the highly effective psychological techniques that are helping people overcome all kinds of addictions and compulsive behaviours… Accredited CPD Certificate : 6 hours Length 1 day (9.30am - 4.00pm) Hugely informative - one of the best addiction training daysADDICTIONS COUNSELLOR NEXT available date: Tuesday 27th February, London – join Emily Gajewski for this popular addiction recovery training workshop – to ensure your place, book online now or call our friendly team on 01323 811690. Other dates and venues available. When combined with key insights into the addictive process and what drives it, the techniques covered on this day prove effective at helping people successfully quit a wide range of addictions. They also help to reduce withdrawal symptoms, minimise relapses and give people the best chance at effective, long-lasting recovery… What will you learn New insights into the addictive process and why people become addicted Common traps to avoid when treating addictions A range of psychological techniques for overcoming addiction How to develop a treatment plan and deepen a client’s commitment to change Ways to overcome resistance – and prevent relapses Also covered: Demonstrations – by a leading expert in addiction counselling – of the powerful skills that help to quickly break the patterns of addictive behaviour Guidance and practise in using some of these yourself How to break the cycle of shame involved in addictions, using self-compassion and generation of hope Essential motivational interviewing techniques – and how to incorporate them into the ‘cycle of change’ Up-to-date knowledge of the most useful ways to beat a wide variety of addictions – and prevent relapse Increased understanding of the addictive trance and its false promises How to use harm-reduction techniques Why the social-based model of addiction is more helpful than the disease-based model An understanding of the importance of guided imagery in overcoming addictions and substance abuse (particularly ‘counter-conditioning’ which is taught on Guided Imagery 2: additional techniques) Co-morbid conditions – the link with addiction and how to deal with them as effectively and quickly as possible A total revelation – very upliftingMENTAL HEALTH WORKER Why take this course The numbers of people affected by addictions and substance abuse continue to rise – causing immense mental, physical and financial suffering to individuals, their families and colleagues – while the resources to help are dwindling. But thankfully it is possible to help most addicts transform their lives – often in only a few sessions – as you will discover on this practical day which draws together, from various schools of solution-focused therapy, the most effective and proven techniques for treating addictions (including motivational interviewing and self compassion techniques) with essential neuroscientific insights into the addictive process to create powerful interventions. You will leave the day with renewed confidence knowing how it is possible to help most people with addictions, enabling them to transform their lives, often in a small number of sessions. The skills covered are essential to have (along with guided imagery) if you wish to improve your effectiveness when helping people quit any addiction, including: alcohol addiction, smoking, gambling addiction, shopping, social media addiction, sex, substance abuse, self-harm and eating disorders. Please note You will leave this workshop with essential information and a variety of skills that you can implement straight away. However, the key concepts and most effective ways of treating addictions, which you will see demonstrated and explained, incorporate guided imagery skills. We therefore recommend, if you aren’t proficient in these already, that you attend the Guided imagery and visualisation for therapeutic change workshop (either before or after this one). The counter-conditioning technique that you will see demonstrated and explained on ‘Stopping Addictions’, is taught in detail and practiced by workshop participants on Guided Imagery Day 2: additional techniques. ‘Stopping Addictions’ complements our online course Tackling Addiction and what you will learn on it will also be very useful if you support or work with people who self-harm. Course Programme The ‘Stopping Addictions: effective treatment and recovery’ course starts at 9.30am and runs until 4.00pm. From 8.30am Registration (Tea and coffee served until 9.25am) 9.30am How and why people develop addictions 11.00am Discussion over tea/coffee 11.30am Dealing with resistance 1.00pm Lunch (included) 1.45pm How to create the optimal environment for positive change 2.45pm Discussion over tea/coffee 3.00pm Utilising the imagination 4.00pm Day ends Who is this course suitable for? All members of the caring professions, including: psychotherapists, addiction counsellors, drug workers, youth workers, nurses and detox support specialists, doctors, sober companions and drug and alcohol workers, therapists, vocational counselors, clinical psychologists, occupational therapists, psychiatrists, cognitive behavioural therapists, teachers and education professionals, social workers, supervisors, physiotherapists, support workers and anyone wishing to improve their understanding of addictive behaviour and how to treat it. This course has been independently accredited by the internationally recognised CPD Standards Office for 6 hours of CPD training. On completion of this training you’ll receive CPD certificates from the College and the CPD Standards Office.