News & Events
We hope that you enjoy reading the blogs that we post on this page which might help to give you a different insight into issues facing families in our community today. We will also be posting news about our Education Programmes and events here as they are developed.
Safeguarding Our Wellbeing
23 October 2023
Following the traumatic events in Israel on 7 October, JCounselling organised an evening dedicated to helping people learn how best to safeguard their wellbeing in these difficult times. Please click here to find our more about Understanding and Coping With Trauma.
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Learning to Live Together
23 October 2023
On Monday 16 October we relaunched our much loved course for Engaged & Newly Married Couples. Led by renowned educator Joanne Dove, this course aims to provide young couples with the tools that will enable them to make the transition from being single to living as part of a couple. “Learning in a place of […]
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A Sense of Belonging
9 February 2023
As society enters the post-liberal era, it is now time to return to those solid values that have stood the test of time and to re-align our moral compass accordingly.
In the pursuit of so-called economic advancement and specialisation, globalisation has decimated communities and torn them apart. And as towns and communities have disintegrated – with jobs and skills transferred abroad and no hope for a future outside of the dole - so too have the families that formed the backbone of those communities.
People no longer have any sense of belonging – to each other, to their family, to the community or to a faith. It is not surprising, therefore, that families are struggling to “hold it together”.
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