Personal Development

Training, Workshops & Masterclasses

Training & Workshops

Why attend our training?

Because all our unique Resourceful State training and development courses are carefully designed to offer you the best possible learning experience.
According to the latest research evidence about brain functioning, a rich and varied environment and attention to individual learning styles make training more effective and more transferable to the workplace or environment in which it is to be used.

Our trainers are highly skilled in “brain friendly” methods and will ensure that your learning experience is relevant, challenges without stress and is enjoyable. You will benefit from participating in stimulating learning activities that will expand your skills and increase your capabilities.

As Trainers, we take pride in staying informed, and keep our specialist knowledge up to date through our own research and development. Innovative thinking combined with proven strategies makes us a cutting edge training company.

What training is available?

Resourceful State provides Professional Development training for those involved in the healthcare and educational professions, and for businesses, and Personal Development training for all those interested in growth and human potential.

However, our experience-focused Professional courses are designed to ensure that their participants experience an integrated, holistic benefit of both professional and personal growth.

About our Professional Development Training

“Resourceful States in Therapy”

Workshops for counsellors and therapists. These are specially designed to offer experiential training based on participants learning to create and maintain resourceful states in themselves and in their clients. These are 2 day workshops which usually take place at weekends. For further details click here.

“Resourceful States in the Classroom”

Workshops designed for teachers, special needs co-ordinators, carers and others who work with children, will be available in Spring 2004. Please email for details. Individually designed workshops are available for INSET days and team development in institutions.

“Resourceful States for Managers” and “Resourceful States at Work”

These are complementary programmes designed to introduce the concept of resourceful states in the business setting, to both management and staff.. They provide methods of improving communications, growing leadership skills, enhancing staff development and retention, and enhancing productivity. Elements of change management and conflict resolution will also be included. These trainings can be provided in-house and specifically tailored to the organisation’s individual requirements.

About our Personal Development Training

“Resourceful States for Parents”

If it’s a tough time to be a child, it’s also a tough time to be a parent— these short workshops are aimed at giving parents a valuable resource to make their family lives as harmonious as possible and offer effective strategies for helping children be at their best.

“Resourceful States for Children & Young People”

Fun, fast and effective, a workshop designed to offer young people a means of gaining confidence and self-esteem whilst developing better communication skills. Concentrates on empowering the participants to take responsibility for themselves and their actions, and to consider outcomes before acting.

“How to Live Resourcefully” – Click here for info

A fun, active day which will have you learning and experiencing new techniques for transforming your life and putting them into practice immediately – so you get real results for yourself.

“Rewriting the Script”

This event is a wonderful, inspirational journey workshop based on discovering more of your true self, moving towards self-awareness and growth through finding your purpose. It is based on uncovering persistent patterns which may inhibit fulfillment, learning to overcome self-sabotage, and developing values and beliefs which support your ultimate aims and desires.

Resourceful States and Children

Resilience is widely noted as of particular importance in children, where external risk factors such as loss or separation, life changes, and traumatic events can increase the probability of some children developing problems. Clients and therapists using Resourceful State techniques have reported improvements is areas such as:

Self esteem
Concentration
Communication
Relationships
Therapeutic alliance

Self-esteem, a sense of identity, strong family relationships and good communications with teachers and peer groups are widely acknowledged as key elements in children who are resilient, and such protective processes may counteract an increase in risk factors in vulnerable children.

Many clients will benefit from the possibility of increased self-esteem, better communication skills and improved relationships.

Experience and apply the benefits of Resourceful State with Christine Miller, MA, author of the forthcoming book “Resourceful Intelligence”, and featured in The Economist Guide to Coaching & Mentoring for her work with Children & Young People
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Why Attend a Resourceful Masterclass?

Why Attend a “How to Live Resourcefully” Masterclass?

Our prime intention with
“How to Live Resourcefully” Masterclasses
is to work with all who attend in exploring:

Who you are
- How you function as a unique, remarkable individual
- What valuable skills, talents and experience you have already
- Why you might not be fulfilling your true potential – yet

You can then discover
- What you can do to enhance your sense of self, and
- How you can change and improve what isn’t working for you.

You will find out
- What is important to you
- What your purpose is.

Our aim is to build your confidence and belief, and enhance your wellbeing and sense of self-worth, thus leading towards greater personal power and enhanced performance in all areas of life.

You will specifically learn how to access your calm centre, and how to use breathing for state control. You will begin to learn to control your inner world, and therefore your response to outside influences, by accessing a resourceful state, which re-connects you with your personal excellence. This is one of the first, vital steps in building authentic self – esteem. You will also learn the secrets of creating the future of your dreams, through learning the simple steps to an achievable outcome.

You’ll have great fun, participating in this active day which will have you learning and experiencing new techniques for transforming your life and putting them into practice immediately – so you get real results for yourself.

Only you will know exactly what attending the workshop will mean to you – so keep that thought in mind when you decide what you really want in life and come and discover what could happen when you let go of your limitations.

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Motivation and Zest for Life

“Dear Christine,

I have read several self help books. Tried several techniques. On many occasions have attempted to start a journal, hoping to work on goals, self esteem and prosperity creation.
However good a start I make I find it so difficult to keep motivated, my self doubt creeps in. Being motivated and having enthusiasm for things in life has been a great problem for me since the loss of both my parents and my partner over a period of eight months. Any advice on how I can regain my zest and love for life? I have tried many things all to no avail: is there any hope for me?” JR, Durham, UK

Dear JR

First of all, allow me to express my sympathy for your loss of your parents and your partner over a very short period of time. Such loss certainly requires a period of mourning and readjustment which will not necessarily be swift. It is perfectly normal and even desirable to have many feelings – of sadness, loneliness and even hopelessness – when faced with the gaps in our lives left by the departure of loved ones, whether through death or separation. Acknowledging and even welcoming these feelings is an important part of the process of recovery, and being able to hold such feelings and work with them whilst also moving through them to acceptance is probably one of the key factors in returning to a more joyful life.

You don’t mention how long ago you experienced these losses, and each person has a different time scale for mourning. Cultural background can influence the way we deal with bereavement, with certain societies encouraging visible, audible public expression of sorrow, and others choosing a quiet, private and internal way of grieving.

For some, grief is immediate and sharply felt, expressed spontaneously and freely. For others, the sense of loss creeps more slowly, perhaps only hitting home some weeks or months after the bereavement. And there are always those moments of recall, the promptings of a familiar sound, sight or place, the event or occasion when the person’s absence is strongly felt, the shock of their habitual presence being no longer there. So be kind to yourself and accept that what you experience may be the natural way your body, heart and soul respond to changes which have come from events beyond your control.

Take all the time you need to grieve. Your parents were with you all your life – it would be unrealistic not to feel their absence acutely for a period of time, and your partner was also a key part of your life – it is acknowledged that it can take many years to come to terms with the death of a partner, so take your time and value the personal growth you can experience from this process. Get some help from a bereavement counsellor if you would like someone to talk to. CRUSE in the UK specialise in bereavement issues, offering free advice and support. (www.crusebereavementcare.org.uk)

These events, your losses, were beyond your control – you can, however, now start to make a conscious decision about how you respond to the feelings which they have led you to experience. If you are ready to move forward, holding dear the precious memories of your loved ones, and allowing the feelings their loss has created in you to be a resource of strength and determination, then you can start to change and regain your motivation and zest for life.

Acknowledge to yourself that it’s okay to feel sad sometimes, that you can be safely sad, and that you can also enjoy life’s pleasures and joys alongside the sadness. Your respect for your loved ones does not mean you have to deprive yourself of joy – you can better honour their memory by living a full and richly rewarding life which is a testimony to their positive influences on your development.

Take some time to consider what you really want – if you really want to be happy, then the choice to feel happiness lies within you. You have demonstrated by asking these questions that you have sensitivity and awareness, that you know that the answer truly lies within. Develop that ability to look within, and accept yourself as a whole and sensitive person who is capable of deep feeling and unlimited growth. Take a quiet, reflective moment and ask yourself if it is alright for you to experience that which you desire – whatever it may be – and pay attention to the spontaneous response you get.

Make a definite decision to look for the positive in whatever happens to you – what strength and knowledge can you draw from your life experiences? Which people can you attract into your life to share and enhance your world? Create your ideal in your mind, make it as vivid as the most compelling film you have ever seen, the most riveting novel you have ever read, and allow yourself to start living the possibility – remembering that all your emotions are valid, and that there will be times when life’s natural events lead to feelings which modern society can tend to disown.

Although love can bring sadness and loss, the true joy lies in knowing that your strength increases through exposure to the full range of a life well lived – including the disappointment, confusion and unexpected results which offer the greatest lessons.

Hope is always present in our lives, if we choose it so – you can be, do and have whatever you want, know that you deserve your heart’s desire – and you can then respond in the way that best fulfils your needs. I wish you a joyful journey into a future filled with rich experience as you start to explore the map of your life – one which you can create and recreate as you tread more lightly into the world.

Christine

About Us

The Resourceful State is led by Christine Miller, M.A.

Christine has a first degree in Linguistics and she is also a qualified teacher. From teaching, she moved into a career in industry as a research consultant to use her languages and to travel, for which she developed a continuing passion. She has lived in France, Greece, Scandinavia, Holland and Australia, developing an understanding of cultural difference and an awareness of the challenges posed by frequent change.

Christine has held senior management posts in marketing and training, for major UK public companies, where she discovered that her skills and passion lay in helping people uncover their potential to perform at their best, to experience personal development, and true “emotional intelligence”.

Having discovered this strong interest in coaching and counselling, she decided to retrain as a therapist, and she has continued to attend training to develop her skills and knowledge throughout the past six years. She has recently completed two years research for a Master’s degree in Counselling Practice, for which she was awarded a distinction. This study explored the effects of resourceful states of mind on the outcomes of counselling and the relationship between therapists and their clients. The research will be published as a book later this year.

Working in private practice as a counsellor, coach and mentor to children and young people, with clients ranging from Primary age to University level students and adults, Christine deals with a variety of issues from bereavement and loss to self-esteem and learning difficulties. She will also offer counselling online if preferred.

Additionally, she runs ‘Resourceful State’ seminars and workshops in personal growth and development, and trainings for other therapists and counsellors in the techniques she has developed. To quote Christine:

“Helping people to grow into their potential and have a balanced life is one of my major passions. I always say, though, that only you, yourself, can choose to make the changes needed to achieve what you want. I’m there to help and support, and if you come to work with me you learn quickly that you are the one in charge of your own life! That way YOU hold the power to be, do and have whatever you desire.”

Resourceful State also works in affiliation with a group of highly qualified and experienced trainers and therapists with a range of specialisations from Hypnotherapy, Brief Therapy, Performance Coaching, Clean Language, Metaphor and Storytelling to Emotional Intelligence, Special Needs and Whole Brain Learning, who contribute their skills and knowledge as required.

Married with two children, Christine is based in the UK in London, although she travels internationally to train others and to give workshops and seminars.