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
- Changing direction
- 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
- Finding purpose
- Frankl and the search for meaning
- Habits of highly effective living
- Improving your memory and visual thinking
- Introduction to shamanism
- Journal writing for self-discovery
- Mindfulness
- Myths, fairytales and everyday life
- Narcissism and depression
- Neuro-linguistic programming and learning
- 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
- Positive psychology and happiness
- Raising your self-esteem
- Reaching and becoming your own potential
- Relaxation and stress relief for the African Caribbean community
- Right brain coaching
- Stop worrying, start living
- Stress, am I missing the message
- The enneagram: a tool for self-discovery
- The Native American medicine wheel: for insight and personal growth
- Time to think using neuro-linguistic programming
- Transforming personal conflict
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- Visual arts
- Art foundation and portfolio preparation courses
- Art history
- Bookbinding, book arts and conservation
- Calligraphy
- Ceramics
- Design
- Digital arts
- Drawing
- Drawing and painting from life
- Fibre arts: textiles and basketry
- Graphic design, DTP, illustration and cartooning
- Interior decoration
- Jewellery
- Mosaics
- Offsite and studio development courses
- Painting
- Printmaking
- Professional practice
- Sculpture
- Sewing and clothes making
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- Photography
- Computer applications including Photoshop and web site creation
- Documentary, visual journalism, photojournalism
- General and specialist courses taking photography further
- History, theory and philosophy
- Introductory and beginners courses
- Lighting and studio techniques
- Photographing London
- Portfolio and project creation, assessment, and exhibiting
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- Languages
- Arabic
- Catalan
- Chinese (Mandarin)
- Classical languages
- Cornish
- Czech
- Dutch
- French
- Gaelic (Scottish)
- German
- Hindi
- Italian
- Japanese
- Language tasters
- Modern foreign languages teacher training
- Modern Greek
- Polish
- Portuguese
- Russian
- Spanish
- Swahili
- Welsh
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- Drama, dance and speech
- Accredited dance courses
- Advanced acting courses
- Audition workshops
- Communication courses for speakers of other languages
- Courses for professional actors
- Dance and movement
- Follow-on drama courses
- Introductory drama courses
- Media courses: TV, radio and sound
- One and two-day courses
- One-week intensive courses
- One-year advanced diploma
- One-year drama access course
- One-year drama foundation course
- Professional skills - technical
- Professional skills for actors
- Professional theatre company
- Summer school
- Sunday courses
- Voice, speech and communication
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- Humanities
- Anthropology
- Business and economics
- Communications and study skills
- Creative writing
- English for second language speakers
- Film
- Folklore, myth and spiritual studies
- History
- History and politics
- Journalism
- Latin America
- Literature
- London walks
- Philosophy
- Science and environment
- Summer school: Britain in the 1930s
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- Music
- Health and movement studies
- Alexander technique
- Anatomy and physiology
- Complementary health studies
- Continuing professional development for therapists
- Energy and healing
- 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
- Your progression routes to teaching
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- Computing
- Apple Mac
- Basic computing
- Courses leading to a qualification
- Desktop publishing
- eBay, podcasting and blogging
- Graphic illustration and multimedia
- Interests
- Mac software
- Microsoft Office 2007 applications
- Networking
- PC maintenance
- Programming
- Sunday courses
- The internet
- Web page design
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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 advice (term-time only) Wednesdays 12.30 - 13.30 (please phone for an appointment outside these times).
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!
