Considers the nature of relationship education; the question of confidentiality; working with groups on sensitive issues; national and local legislation; basic counselling and listening skills.

• Stand up for me - managing conflict
  Looks at the impact of conflict; develops effective responses to conflict, challenges attitudes.
• Room to be me - raising self-esteem
  Develops an understanding of self-esteem; examines the roles people adopt; considers the value of good communications; practises listening skills.
• Picking up the pieces - children and divorce/separation
  Increases understanding of children's emotions and behaviour when their parents break up; defines limits and scope of teacher's role; identifies support systems.
• Getting close - sex and sexuality
  Works through three elements of sex education - knowledge, skills and attitudes; considers sexual diversity and looks at sex in relationships.
• First relationships
  Looks at how and why people make relationships; considers the impact or change and the pain of ending early relationships; examines the role of assumptions and expectations.
• Managing stress
  Raises awareness of the causes and effects of stress; develops coping strategies, considers using stress to improve performance.

Most Relate centres provide the following services:

• Couple counselling
  Counselling for you and your partner or for you on your own. We can help if you are having problems and want to work them out or if you want to separate, or if your relationship has ended. . Sex problems service Sex therapy for couples and individuals who are experiencing sexual problems in their adult couple relationship.
• Consultation and Assessment services
  Couples and individuals can attend single sessions with a counsellor to
  address immediate concerns and to assess whether Relate's
  other services would be helpful.
• Other services available in many areas:
  Mediation, Counselling for young people whose parents may be separating. Education & training Relate does not offer legal, financial or medical advice. If you need these or other services not offered by Relate you may find what you need on our website.

A course specifically designed for the clergy and lay members we can also design courses to personal specifications. Contact our Training development manager , on 01442 266998 to discuss your requirements Relate has a long history of working with couples who are experiencing difficulties in their relationships.

Now, through our training and education programmes, we are working in order to help people create better relationships and to deal with problems before they become a threat to the relationship.

As part of this work we offer to schools our Relationship Education package.
We aim to deliver the course to teachers involved in PSHE and directly to pupils. Each teacher who attends the course receives a Workbook of lesson plans and materials for delivery to pupils.

The course may be delivered on Professional Development days, twilight sessions, day-or part day-release; or any combination of these. Choose what you need. We can deliver any or all of the parts of the course in a sequence that suits your situation. Workshops can be delivered as sand-alone units or as follow-ups to a foundation course.