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The Training we provide |
About our training
The training is designed for people who work with people. Our students are counselors, teachers, administrators, social workers, nurses, therapists, probation officers, business people - anyone who manages, teaches, counsels or supervises others.
Though the training is designed for people who work with people professionally, participants in our programmes have generally found the study of CHOICE THEORY, reality therapy and lead-management to be useful in their personal lives as well.
The concepts of CHOICE THEORY, reality therapy and lead-management are not difficult. However, intensive, supervised training is necessary to achieve a good practical grasp of the approach.
Certification
For those interested in more extensive training, the Institite offers a five-part sequential course of study leading to Reality Therapy Certification:
The Evolution of our training
The history of the body of knowledge imparted in the Institute's training has been one of growth and synthesis. We began by teaching reality therapy, a counseling method created by Dr Glasser in the 1960's. Then, in the late 1970's, as Dr Glasser developed control theory as an explanation for human behaviour, our training grew to include what is now called CHOICE THEORY.
Because the name of the theory Dr Glasser had been teaching for twenty years was subject to misinterpretation, in March 1996, he changed the name from control theory to CHOICE THEORY. This correction follows what he has taught for thirty-five years: we choose all we do with our lives.
Most recently, Dr Glasser's work has offered a synthesis of CHOICE THEORY and the work on quality by W. Edwards Deming.
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