Spring 2024 SHEP Foundation Part 2

(Certificate in Social Awareness and Community Empowerment)

– a journey to transformation and understanding yourself, transforming your world.

social awareness and community empowerment

Our next Foundation Part Two (SACE ‘Training for Transformation’) courses will commence in  Spring 2024. Applications can be emailed to info@socialandhealth.com or inquiries to course co-ordinator liam.mccarthy@socialandhealth.com

Application Form and Information Combined Kerry-Limerick area Spring 2024

Application Spring 2024 Lmerick Kerry combiined Foundation Part Two (Social Awarness and Community Empowerment)

Combined Brochure Application and Reduced Fee Form Limerick Kerry Spring 2024 SACE – Foundation Part Two

For Further Information

  • Cork Phone Number: (021) 466 6180
  • Kerry Phone Number (087) 772 8089
  • Limerick Phone Number (085) 8626844/086-1451408

Information

This course offers you ongoing personal development towards becoming more involved in community. In a supportive, friendly, non-judgmental learning environment, you can grow in awareness of how we relate and co-operate in groups. It’s a place to explore how we are shaped by the society we grow up in and how we, in turn, shape society through our lives and actions.

Some of the Themes explored

  • Roles and behaviours

  • development education
  • dealing with conflict constructively
  • styles, skills and strengths in leadership
  • intercultural relationships
  • why society is the way it is now
  • understanding the systems we live with (economical, political etc.)

  • power
  • social justice
  • caring for the earth
  • what the important issues are in our community and what we can do

Approach used

Personal, supportive, non-academic through listening, reflecting and sharing, participants find meaning and gain knowledge from their own experience and the group becomes a learning community. This helps people to learn new skills, new attitudes or even entirely new ways of thinking. There are no exams!

Entry Requirements

No special prior qualifications are needed, just an interest in community, a willingness to use critical thinking and to interact with others. People on the course come from all sorts of backgrounds, meet as equals, learn from each other, become empowered and begin to dissolve social and cultural barriers.

This course along with the SHEP Certificate in Personal Development, together comprise SHEP’s Foundation level of training. Graduates of the foundation level can go on to do further training with the Social and Health Education Project, including training courses in Group Facilitation, and other SHEP’s practitioner trainings.

Progression Options

A large amount of participants progress to do the Cert. in Continuing Personal Development or the Cert. in Facilitation. Although this the logical pathway through  SHEP,s training programme, participants are also entitled to apply for SHEP’s array of Short courses, Reflective Practice or the Introduction to Advocacy Course