You can learn to make healthy choices intentionally rather than to unconsciously repeat unhealthy patterns.

1. The Self Awareness
Course
from the College of Mental Health Counseling
You can learn to make healthy choices
intentionally rather than to unconsciously
repeat unhealthy patterns.

2. 1
The Self Awareness Coursecourse description and requirements
College of Mental Health Counseling
www.ctihalifax.com
Register by May 15
(The above date is set at the discretion of the instructor.)
Registrations are welcome from North America and from international locations.
Prerequisites:
The successful student possesses reading comprehension skills, composition skills, email skills, and
psychological-mindedness. If under age 18, the student should also have a supportive teacher and
parent(s) or someone he or she can talk to about the course.
Course Objective:
1. 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.
2. To gain self-awareness in order to live intentionally instead of being compelled to repeat unhealthy
patterns.
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.
8. How to identify and distinguish healthy from unhealthy thinking.
To Register for this course, email collegemhc@gmail.com the following information: 1. your age and 2. your full name
to be printed on the course Certificate, 3. the date you wish to start the course, and 4. your full regular mailing
address if you wish to receive the Certificate of Development in Self-Awareness. 5. Please provide your tuition
through secure paypal at this secure link. (If you are under age 18, ask your parent or guardian if it’s OK to enroll and
ask them to send an email giving their permission. You will then receive a “confirmation of acceptance” email with
course materials as attached files. All personal information is kept strictly confidential, known only to the instructor,
and shared with professional helpers only if harm is threatened.)

3. 2
Course Materials (All course materials are provided with tuition and emailed to you in this document
with a hypertext link for each of the following.):
1. Essential Effective Communication Skills
2. Effective Counselling Skills (full-text book)
3. Fifteen Principles of Feedback and Criticism
4. Anger Self-Assessment
5. Life Story Questionnaire
6. Meaning Therapy (full-text book)
Course Assignments: Please be sure to refer back to this course description and email all
completed assignments as files attached to a single email message.
1. Create and design a minimum of 100 to 120 long and short-answer questions and answers,
reflecting the scope and depth of the text and the articles “Essential Effective Communication Skills”
and “Fifteen Principles of Feedback and Criticism,” with text page numbers or article titles where
answers are found.
2. Complete and submit the Life Story Questionnaire.
3. Complete the Anger Self-Assessment and write a short report on your conclusions.
(All course materials are provided with tuition and emailed to you in this document with a hypertext
link for each document.):
4. (Extra credit or substitute for one assignment listed above in #1 - 3.) Read “A Technology of
Words: Five Steps for Creating Solutions and Agreements,” try it with a group, and write a minimum
one-page report on your experience.
5. (Extra credit or substitute for one assignment listed above in #1 - 3.) Read Meaning Therapy and
write a minimum one-page report about your conclusions.
Tuition:
The $40 tuition can be provided through paypal at this secure link. 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.
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 if you are
under age 18, ask your parents if it’s OK to enroll. In the case of many students under age 18,
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. Support from your instructor, is available
every day within 24 hours.