Personal development courses
Our personal development courses courses offer you the opportunity to learn about yourself and to make changes in your life. All courses are theoretically underpinned by ideas from psychology and counselling. Courses are available part-time daytime, evening and weekends.
- Achieving emotional literacy
- Anger without aggression
- Anger: cool head or hot head
- Be the designer of your life
- Body wisdom for beginners
- Changing direction
- Communicating with your adolescent
- Creating a can do attitude
- Creative visualisation
- Creativity and lateral thinking
- De-clutter your life
- Developing positive body image
- Enterprising thinking
- Exploring the meaning of food
- Exploring your dreams
- Finding direction
- Finding purpose
- Frankl and the search for meaning (personal development)
- Free your mind
- Get off the fence: become a decision maker
- Get your ideas to fly
- Habits of highly effective living
- Improving relationships
- Improving your memory and visual thinking
- Introduction to shamanism
- Journal writing for self-discovery
- Life balance
- Living confidently
- Living with uncertainty
- Making the most of your sleep
- Mindfulness: an introduction
- Myths, fairytales and everyday life
- Narcissism and depression
- Neuro-linguistic programming and manifesting abundance
- Neuro-linguistic programming at work
- Neuro-linguistic programming foundation course
- Neuro-linguistic programming: the healing power of the mind
- Older and bolder
- Overcoming procrastination
- Personal development through philosophy
- Personal power
- Playing with your children
- Positive psychology and happiness
- Raising your self-esteem
- Reaching and becoming your own potential
- Right brain coaching
- Roles people play
- Stress, am I missing the message
- Talk to the chair
- The enneagram: a tool for self-discovery
- The Native American medicine wheel: for insight and personal growth
- Transforming personal conflict
Browse full range of courses
- Visual arts
- Art foundation and portfolio preparation courses
- Art history
- Basketry
- Bookbinding, book arts and conservation
- Calligraphy
- Ceramics
- Design
- Digital arts and graphics
- Drawing
- Drawing and painting from life
- Fashion and textiles
- Jewellery
- Mosaics
- Offsite and studio development courses
- Painting
- Printmaking
- Sculpture
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- Photography
- Beginners
- Business and copyright
- Computer based photography courses
- Documentary and photojournalism
- Exhibiting your photographs
- History, theory and talks about photography
- Lighting and studio techniques
- Photographing London
- Photography and contemporary art practice
- Portfolio and project creation
- Printing courses
- Taking photography further: general
- Taking photography further: specialist
- Traditional techniques
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- Find out more about the Photography department
- Languages
- Drama, dance and speech
- Accredited courses
- Acting - advanced
- Acting - follow-on
- Acting - introductory
- Acting short courses
- Arts administration
- Comedy
- Communication courses for speakers of other languages
- Communication skills for business
- Dance and movement
- Directing
- Drama teaching
- Drama therapy
- Internet broadcasting
- Musical theatre
- Performance skills
- Professional skills for actors
- Professional theatre company
- Stage combat
- Technical theatre
- TV, radio and sound
- Voice, speech and communication
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- Humanities
- Music
- Cello
- Clarinet
- Classical guitar
- Flute
- Instrument playing
- Instrumental ensembles
- Jazz and popular music
- Music access course
- Music appreciation
- Music foundation
- Music technology
- Musicianship
- Piano and keyboards
- Record your performance
- Recorder
- Singing
- String ensembles
- Ukelele
- Violin
- View all in Music
- Find out more about the Music department
- Health and movement studies
- Alexander technique
- Anatomy and physiology
- Complementary health studies
- Continuing professional development for therapists
- Energy and healing
- Fitness workouts
- Health and fitness teacher training
- Massage and bodywork: introductory level
- Massage and bodywork: professional practitioner level
- Meditation and stress management
- Movement classes
- Nutrition and food safety
- Professional development for movement instructors
- Self-defence
- Yoga
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- Computing
- Apple Mac
- Basic computing
- Bookkeeping
- Courses leading to a qualification
- Design and illustration
- Desktop publishing
- Digital Inclusion
- Explore your interests using a computer
- Keyboard skills
- Microsoft Office 2007 applications
- Programming
- Technical computing
- Web page design
- Windows and file management
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- Psychology, counselling & personal development
- English, maths & ESOL
- Deaf education
- Careers in care work
- Access to higher education
- Progress - courses for people with learning difficulties
- Speech therapy
- Teacher & management training
Contact us
Psychology, counselling & personal development
Tel: 020 7492 2530
Drop-in course advice (term-time only) Tuesdays 13.30 - 14.30 (please ask at the Department Enquiry Desk).
To enrol on a course, call 020 7831 7831.
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Why City Lit?
If you are looking for a great choice of inspiring courses; a bright, modern environment to learn in located in central London; the opportunity to have fun and meet like-minded people, we look forward to seeing you at City Lit!