This document provides information about a self-awareness course, including prerequisites, objectives, materials, assignments, tuition, and completion timeline. Students will explore personal life, thoughts, emotions and relationships to increase self-awareness. The $40 tuition includes instructional materials and students must complete assignments within 4 weeks to receive a course completion certificate. The instructor, Daniel Keeran, has over 30 years of counseling experience.

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A self-awareness COURSEcourse description and requirements
College of Mental Health Counseling
www.ctihalifax.com
Register by March 15
(Register today, Acceptance is on a first-come-first-served basis.)
Registrations are welcome from North America and from international locations.
Distribute this description to parents, school counsellors and administrators, and wherever teens are found.
Adults over age 19 may enroll in a similar course at www.ctihalifax.com
Prerequisites:
The successful student possesses excellent reading comprehension skills, writing composition skills,
email skills, and psychological-mindedness. The student should also have a supportive teacher and
parent(s) or someone they can talk to about the course as she or he proceeds.
Course Objective:
To help you experience the exploration of your personal life, thoughts and emotions, and your
relationships with others and to increase your self-awareness and mindfulness.
You Will Learn:
1. How to identify and express your difficult emotions in healthy ways, for example, fear, anger, guilt,
sadness, emptiness, low self-worth, and despair.
2. How to listen empathically to others’ needs and be assertive in communicating your own needs,
feelings, and thoughts.
3. How to give and receive negative feedback or criticism respectfully.
4. How to identify and help anxiety, depression, and suicidal thoughts.
5. How to solve problems and make decisions.
6. How to identify and positively understand different influences on your life, for example,
relationships with parents and peers.
7. How to feel OK again after a loss or breakup.
To Register, email collegemhc@gmail.com and provide your full name to be printed on the course Certificate, the
date you wish to start the course, and your full regular mailing address where your Certificate should be sent. Please
provide your tuition through secure paypal at this link, and if you are under age 18, ask your parents if it’s OK to
enroll. You will then receive a “confirmation of acceptance” email. All personal information is kept strictly confidential,
known only to the instructor, and shared with others only if harm is threatened.

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Course Materials (provided with tuition and available at the following links):
1. Essential Effective Communication Skills
2. Effective Counselling Skills text (sent as a PDF email attached file)
3. Fifteen Principles of Feedback and Criticism
4. Anger Self-Assessment
5. Life Story Questionnaire (sent as an editable Word .doc email attached file)
Course Assignments:
1. Create and design a minimum of 100 to 120 long and short-answer questions reflecting the scope
and depth of the text and the article “Essential Effective Communication Skills,” with page numbers
where answers are found in the text.
2. Complete and submit the Life Story Questionnaire.
3. Complete the Anger Self-Assessment
4. Read A_Technology_of_Words_Five_Steps_for_Creating_Solutions_and_Agreements,
try it with your class, and write a one-page report on your experience (extra credit).
Tuition:
The $40 tuition can be provided through paypal at this secure link, or in Canada through your online
banking using interac etransfer directed to collegemhc@gmail.com Ask about financial assistance
if needed.
Course Certificate:
The Course Certificate of Development in Self-Awareness will be issued by regular mail when we have
received your tuition and completed assignments. Professional support from your instructor is
available daily.
Time for Completion:
Depending on your learning style and pace, the course may require about four weeks, allowing two
hours per weekday to complete all assignments. Time extensions to complete assignments are
approved on request.
To Register, email collegemhc@gmail.com and provide your age, your full name to be printed on the
course Certificate, and your full regular mailing address where your Certificate should be sent. All
personal information is known only to the instructor and is never shared with other parties unless
harm is threatened. Remember to pay your tuition through paypal at this secure link, but ask your
parents if it’s OK to enroll. In most cases, parents will arrange to pay for the course. Ask about
financial assistance if needed.
Your instructor is Daniel Keeran, MSW, a professional counsellor and trainer having over 30 years’
experience. He is author of numerous books and articles on counselling, personal development,
spirituality, philosophy, mindfulness, anger, grief, and more. Professional support from your instructor
is available daily.