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Just For Women

Take a step into a better future!

Have the courage to devote a whole weekend just for you, and watch your world change as you begin to bloom from the inside out.

 

These workshops or “Playshops” as I like to think of them, are carefully planned and structured with experiential processes designed to create “aha!” moments of clarity. The atmosphere is of welcome and acceptance with liberal doses of belly-laughing thrown in.

And you can expect to make new friends. Deep connections can be forged with other participants due to such significant shared journeys of change and growth.

Renovating Women

A Self-Esteem Development and Self-Discovery playshop series for women.

 

The modern woman’s guide for re-building self-esteem.

 

Let’s not call it low self-esteem. Let’s just call it the feeling you have when you wish you were smarter, prettier, better, younger…. The feeling you have when you’re afraid someone will see behind the capable or confident disguise you wear…. That feeling of not being good enough no matter how hard you try.

 

The Renovating Women series is about helping all kinds of women discover how you learned low self-esteem, and how to free yourself from those dreaded feelings.

This series of four workshops alters false and damaging beliefs, inspires emotional healing, creates awareness of destructive patterns keeping you stuck, teaches new skills, and opens up the new you to your creative brilliance.

 

Because there’s a better way to feel than you do now,

and the world deserves to see you shine.

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more information on each of the 4 Renovating Women workshops,

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Designing Women

 

A weekend workshop for 14-17 year old women-in-the-making, for greater confidence and skills in designing your own life, and the tools for the making of your healthy self-esteem. Break the cycle of low self-esteem and change your life starting today.

 

Young women are very vulnerable to the development of low self-esteem or a poor self-image. When this goes unchecked, they can develop behaviours to compensate, such as not aiming very high, trying to either stay in the background or be outrageous and defiant, can develop depression or apathy, prone to addictive behaviours, prone to be suckered by anyone aiming to “sell” popularity, settle for second (or tenth) best, and fail to pursue or achieve their real potential in life.

The tricky thing about low self-esteem though, is that a young woman can deny and hide it, perhaps appearing as determined, sassy, focussed, smart or strong – until she gets in a relationship, which is where the truth of her self-esteem appears. She gives her power away in a heartbeat.

 

What a waste! But you can change this destiny. You don’t have to follow the patterns you’ve inherited.

If you want to feel Proud instead of ashamed,

Strong instead of weak,

Admired instead of dismissed,

Valuable instead of worthless,

Beautiful instead of a freak,

Calm instead of chaotic,

Positive instead of despairing,

Motivated instead of uncaring and apathetic,

Individual instead of just another clone,

Loved instead of unnoticed,

Happy instead of hopeless,

And Good enough just the way you are….

And if you want to know how to tame and quiet those insistent messages in your head trying to bring you down... this workshop is for you.

Want a Designing Women workshop in your area?

Contact Sue Collins to see how we can make it happen.

Dealing With Difficult Men

 

A women’s weekend playshop

that goes far beyond handling the men in your life.

 

Do you have trouble handling difficult men?

Do you get annoyed with yourself for not responding the way you’d like, or fly off the handle making the situation even worse?

Do you rage on the inside but do nothing on the outside?

Do you end up feeling frustrated, confused, abused, or powerless?

 

This workshop looks at our conditioning as women, the communication patterns we’ve learned that keep us disempowered, classic difficult behaviours particularly from the males in our lives, and what real assertiveness skills look and feel like.

 

An hilarious and irreverent weekend complete with great skill-building, for a stronger and more confident You.

 

 

Not-So-Secret

Women’s Business

 

Weekly women’s discussion group in Newcastle, NSW.

 

A weekly friendship group for women to discuss the topics on your mind at the moment, share methods of coping with daily dramas, plus explore some of the deeper topics of a woman’s life.

From hassles with the kids, keeping up with the bills and dealing with moody partners – to what to do with feelings of always running but never seeming to catch up,

considering how you might inspire others or feel purposeful, trying to achieve some balance between working, mothering, studying, loving, contemplation… the business of being a woman in this world.

Thursday evenings, 7.30 to 9.30pm.

Find out for yourself. To get this workshop in your area, contact Sue today.

Text Box: “I don’t feel powerless around my ex-husband any more! This is the biggest breakthrough I’ve had for ages!” G, 44
“Oh my God, I have been my own worst enemy. It always seemed easier to ‘go along’ with what everyone else wanted. I’m not afraid of thinking about what I want any more.” J, 28
“My son has been turning into the kind of male I don’t even like, but I can see now how I let that happen, and it stops right here!” S, 43
“I’ve just discovered that every rotten boyfriend I’ve had fits the same profile! And let me tell you, now that I really get it, its not happening again!” M, 21

Beautiful Boundaries Playshop

 

This weekend “playshop” for women is all about our Boundaries –

What they look like,  how and why we built them that way,

and how to renovate them so we can operate more often from our authentic self.

 

A Fuzzy-Wuzzy

Unclear boundaries

You might often find that you are doing things you don’t really want to do, but struggle to change it. You might be seen as a non-entity, a doormat, soft and agreeable, or a pushover. 

A Prickly-Pear

Sensitive boundaries

You might often find that you are reactive, alert to people’s motives, ready to defend yourself. You might be seen as difficult, bitchy, hard to get along with, or moody. 

A Brick-Wall

Protective boundaries

You might often find it hard to fully participate in friendships or work groups, or to let people get close to you. You might be seen as shy, arrogant or secretive. 

A Mixed-Bag

Compensating boundaries

You might find you impulsively give too much of yourself away, then feel resentful and become prickly, then feel unsafe or wrong and withdraw behind a wall. You might be seen as unpredictable, punishing and unfair, or manipulative.

 

¨ Become clearer about who you are and what you want in life.

¨ Become clearer to other people about your needs and choices.

¨ Improve your self-respect

¨ Teach others how they can also respect you.

¨ Feel more secure and grounded in your own skin.

Having trouble with your boundaries?

Contact Sue today to ask for this workshop.