THE SHEP CERTIFICATE IN

SOCIAL AWARENESS AND

COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT

LIMERICK 2019 September to December

The programme is been overseen by the local inter-agency SHEP Mid-West Advisory Group

The current partners include The Social and Health Education Project, MWRDAF, HSE and Mid-West/Clare ETB and Paul Partnership..

All course participants will be highly subsidised by the collaboration and grant support

Are you volunteering or working in a community oriented and/or service oriented role?  Are you interested in deepening your personal journey of growth and development? Are you interested in exploring how deepened awareness of relationships with community and social issues can better enable us to bring about positive change - in yourself, your organisation or community? This part-time SHEP course commencing in Sept 2019 may be of interest.

A Transformative Course

In a supportive, friendly, non-judgmental learning environment, you can grow in awareness of how we relate and cooperate in groups, how we are shaped by the society we grew up in and how we in turn shape society by our lives and actions. Themes include:

·         Roles within groups

·         Working co-operatively in a group situation

·         Behaviour in groups

·         Dealing with conflict constructively

·         Leadership styles

·         Talents, skills and strengths in leadership

·         Why society is the way it is now        

·         What changes are needed and what we can do

·         What the important issues in our community are

·         How do realities of Gender, Power, Diversity, inter-culturalism, justice … impact our lives

·         Values

·         Development, environmental challenges and sustainability

Certification

A SHEP Certificate in Social Awareness & Community Empowerment is awarded for 80% attendance.

Highly Subsidised

Offered at the highly subsidised rate of €100 (i.e. a concession of €350 on the normal course fee).

Open Access

This is an open-access course for adults (18 and over). Application is open:

·         To people who have already completed SHEP’s Certificate in Personal Development, this course here being Part Two of the SHEP Foundation Programme in Social and Personal Health Education. For these, it is a continuation of their personal journey of growth and development, through deepening awareness of the wider social relationships with which we are all involved AND

·         To people as an alternative entry point to SHEP’s training pathway than the Personal Development course, so as to include participants whose main starting interest is their community, their involvement in a local organization, and want to bring deeper awareness to that involvement

Closing date: Friday 6th Sept 2019. 

Please note that late applications will be accepted.   

For Further Information:

Anita O’Shea SHEP Limerick 085-8626844/086-1451408  or Liam McCarthy SHEP (021) 4666 180

Anita.oshea@socialandhealth.com

Liam.McCarthy@socialandhealth.com   

https://www.socialandhealth.com/training/shep-certificate-social-awareness-community-empowerment/