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Ongoing Professional Development: This course provides the knowledge and skills to improve performance in this area, offering 10 hours of valuable learning and professional development, as evidenced on the certificate issued upon completion.Live Streamed Availability: This course and a range of other related courses can be delivered to groups of between 6 and 25 people via Live Streaming with Zoom. Contact Kevin O’Doherty for more details on pricing and availability etc.This fully accredited course, endorsed by the International Association of Therapists (IAOTH), offers a comprehensive introduction to Motivational Interviewing (MI)—a powerful set of tools and techniques designed to help individuals overcome barriers, make lasting changes, and achieve their personal or professional goals. Upon successful completion, you will receive an official certificate that acknowledges your mastery of the skills taught in the course.The course is structured with a variety of engaging lectures, handouts, and numerous resources to support your learning and solidify your understanding of MI. It is designed to be highly interactive, enjoyable, and motivational—ensuring that you not only grasp the theory but also gain practical skills that you can apply in real-world scenarios. Whether you’re a professional looking to use Motivational Interviewing with your clients or someone seeking to overcome your own barriers to change, this course will equip you with the techniques to succeed.In this course, we cover key aspects of Motivational Interviewing, including:The Core Principles and Techniques of MI: You’ll learn about the foundational tools and strategies used in MI to help individuals explore their motivations, resolve ambivalence, and work towards meaningful change.Overcoming Unhelpful Assumptions: A particularly valuable aspect of the course is the exp

مرحباً بك في كورس عيش اللحظة MBCT| البرنامج العلاجي المعرفي القائم على تقنيات التأمل اليقظهذا البرنامج والذي قمت بإعداده وجمع مادته العلمية على مدار 3 سنوات من البحث والتجربة والشغف, وقد قمت بتطبيقه على عينة من الأفراد ممن يعانون من ألام وضغوط نفسية, ليتم تقديمه في النهاية كدراسة علمية تجريبية وإضافة جديدة لدى مكتبة العلوم النفسية في جامعة عين شمس, بقسم الصحة النفسية والإرشاد النفسي.ـــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــهذا البرنامج التدريبي ليس فقط للراغبين وأصحاب الشغف, أو أصحاب المعاناة الذي يبحثون عن ما يخفف معاناتهم, أبداً, ليس لهؤلاء فقط, بل إن هذا البرنامج إنما هو لك أيضاً إن كنت مدرباً أو معالجاً وأردت مساعدة عملائك في إدارة أفكارهم ومشاعرهم, ومنحهم قدراً وافي من والسكون وراحة البال, والوصول بهم إلى حالة الحكمة, أو بمعنى آخر حالة " اليقظة " MINDFULNESS.ـــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــأعزائي الدارسين إن إعطاء انتباه أكثر للحظة الأن، لأفكارك ومشاعرك والعالم من حولك، يحسن من رفاهيتك النفسية, فالوصول لحالة الرفاهية ليس في ما تملك, أو ما انت عليه الأن, بل في ما تفكر. فهل أنت قادر على أن تتحكم في أفكارك, وقادر على توجيهها ؟ الأفراد اليقظين فقط, هم من يستطيعون فعل ذلك.اليقظة Mindfulness أو الوعي الآني هي ملكة وسمة شخصية يمكن إكتسابها, والوصول إليها يعد من أهم الخطوات ذوات الدلائل العلمية لتحسين رفاهيتنا النفسية.سوف تتعلم في هذا الكورس التدريبيي المكثف المعنى الحقيقي للتأمل وانواعه والخطوات الصحيحة لممارسته, وسوف تعرف شروطه التي ينبغي أدائها خارج سياق التمرين نفسه.ـــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــعزيزي الدارس.. إن الكثير من طرق الإرشاد النفسي تحاول أن ترشدنا كيف نتعامل مع أفكارنا السلبية أو تلك التي تسيطر علينا, ولكن لازالت تلك المحاولات في النهاية تنتهي بالفشل !! لماذا ؟إن الفلسفة النظرية

I designed this course for the experienced professional. It is a companion to analytic courses in this series, and will leverage the knowledge and skills you have already developed. We begin with a brief overview of basic analytics, before diving into the advanced training where you will how to convert an Association Matrix (AM) into a Link Analysis Chart. I will walk you through the process of converting a matrix into a Link Analysis chart which, a) does not require any software, and b) can be completed by hand in without any special tools. I then give you a detailed explanation and walk-through training on the RFFlow Professional Flowcharting application. RFFlow is one of the most multifaceted, robust, and inexpensive analytic applications available on the market today. It is used by thousands of analysts and investigators in law enforcement, intelligence and other agencies, to graphically depict investigative progress and results. When combined with previous analytic training, you can expect to see immediate results for your investigative efforts!You can download your free trial version of RFFlow to use during and after the course by visiting the RFFlow homepage. IMPORTANT UPDATE: With the proliferation of Artificial Intelligence (AI), there is a desire to rely on AI to work through tasks we previously completed manually. While AI tools are good and are improving, they still have a questionable track record when it comes to correct information outputs/responses. Also AI tools (currently) lack the ability to extrapolate meaning from historical context that has not been entered into the prompt. In other words, AI tools still can't critically think and draw on learned experiences in the field and Analytic Investigations. That said - when the appropriate prompts are in place, an AI tool can be a force multiplier and time saver so don't discount its use outright.

Leading Good People to Do Good Work is critical in these days of immense global turbulence and uncertainty. Every community, neighborhood, and nation needs wise and effective leaders.Do you want to learn more about how you can be a wise and effective leader – leading other good people to make a positive difference in this world? This course is for you.This online course will offer you insights into 9 principles of leadership and offer practical suggestions on how you can assess and improve your leadership.The principles (the 9 Ps) include person, purpose, passion, people, planning, plumbing, process, progress reporting, and party. Rick Stiffney’s teaching includes a blend of perspectives from literature and research on leadership, deep personal experience in leading others, and stories from the leadership of others.Dr. Rick Stiffney is a seasoned professional. He has led organizations. He has consulted widely with hundreds of executives, senior leadership teams, and oversight boards on mission, identity, strategy, and governance. He has created and co-facilitated several different leadership development programs, including a one-year program for health sector leadership in Ethiopia.Your Instructor: Rick Stiffney PhDRick has served in leadership capacities since late adolescence. For nearly 40 years he served in various professional leadership roles – leading organizations to produce results week in and week out. He has consulted with a broad range of organizations across the U.S. and beyond. "I want to give my best energy to developing the leadership of others. I am married, a father of two and grandfather to three. Family and faith are central themes in my life. I hope both offer a moral compass for my life and leadership.Most of Rick's consulting work has been with executives, senior leaders, and boards on issues

Since the release of ChatGPT in November 2022, there has been a burning debate worldwide about whether new AI technologies will replace human jobs. However, this extremely human-centric argument appears to overlook one crucial point.Technology continually reshapes our lives and professions.This course offers a unique opportunity to explore the profound implications of generative AI on coaching and humanity. Leveraging the philosophical frameworks provided by thinkers like Fernando Flores, who explores human-computer interaction, Eugen Herrigel, who mastered Japanese Zen through practicing Japanese archery and introduced it to the Western world, Alvin Toffler's insights into technological change, and Kiyoshi Miki's perspectives on action and transformation, we invite participants to a deep dive into the symbiosis between humanity and technology.Participants will explore pivotal questions such as:How can emerging technologies challenge our perceptions of human and coaching?How does this perspective shape the ethical development and application of AI in coaching? In what ways can technology foster a more humble humanity?Fernando Flores (1943~)Questions such as “Can computers think?”, “Can computers understand language?”, and “What is rational decision-making?” comes from a background of understanding that needs to be reexamined and revised.All new technologies develop within the background of a tacit understanding of human nature and human work and the use of technology in turn leads to fundamental change in what we do, and ultimately in what it is to be human.We must reveal the implicit understanding of human language, thought, and work that serves as a background for developments in computer technology in order to become aware of the effects t

Are your Generative AI prompts falling flat? Do you struggle to get the precise, creative, or useful outputs you need from tools like ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude or DeepSeek? Many users expect AI to magically solve problems, but the truth is, the quality of your AI results directly depends on the clarity of your thinking and the effectiveness of your prompts. This course isn't about quick AI tricks; it's about building a strong foundation for effective AI communication.In this unique course, you'll go beyond basic prompt engineering techniques to cultivate the critical thinking habits and clarity frameworks essential for truly mastering AI. We'll teach you how to think more effectively before you type, ensuring your prompts are intentional, precise, and lead to exceptional results. You'll discover how to adapt your approach to any AI tool and overcome common challenges, transforming your interactions with Generative AI.By the end of this course, you will:Develop a powerful "thinking habit" for consistent, high-quality AI outputs.Achieve crystal-clear mental clarity that translates directly into effective AI prompts.Master advanced prompting techniques (including Zero-Shot, Few-Shot, CoT, etc.) for diverse scenarios.Confidently apply AI for writing, content creation, strategic planning, in-depth research, and innovative creative projects, moving beyond basic templates.Unlock the full potential of generative AI tools (like ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude and DeepSeek) no matter your industry.This course is ideal for anyone looking to elevate their interaction with Generative AI and achieve superior outcomes.