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Attend a Buddy Reader Programme in order to help your child with reading and spelling (Nationwide)  •Do you want to get involved in teaching/improving your child’s reading & spelling? •Are you puzzled by your child’s reading and spelling difficulties? •Do you feel that you don't have enough time or the skills to help your child who is struggling with reading and spelling? •Would you like to learn how to be a “buddy reader” and maximise the little time you have to assist your child with homework? •Attend this course to find out what the “do’s” and “don’ts” are when developing reading and spelling skills so that your children can stop “SPELING RONG" and start "REEDING WRITE"!  For more information Please contact Doreen or Jenny on (011) 482 2399 or This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or visit their website.

ACCREDITED TRAINING FOR TEACHERS, PARENTS, PSYCHOLOGISTS, HELP FOR CHILDREN (AND ADULTS) WITH LEARNING DIFFICULTIES - CENTRE FOR INTEGRATED LEARNING THERAPY (ILT). Learning disabled”, “Hyperactive”. “Lazy”, “ADD”, and so on, are amongst the labels often attached to children who struggle in the classroom or on the playground. Integrated Learning Therapy is an individualised, drug-free, home programme comprising movement activities. We address the causes – not the symptoms!  Contacts: Prof Shirley J Kokot, D.Ed. Tel. 021 873 4951 (o)  082 559 9966 (cell)  fax 086 6190051 and Michael L Kokot M.Sc.  082 41 4481 (cell)  This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or visit our  Website

Life Coaching - Based in Randpark Ridge (Johannesburg) She provides structured coaching in a safe, professional and confidential environment conducive to the expansion of your awareness and the confidence to think differently.   A registered member of COMENSA (Coaches and Mentors of South Africa) and ICF (International Coach Federation) she abides by a strict code of both professional and personal ethics.  Anèl utilizes multiple methodologies and tools to assist clients with the process of setting and reaching goals by activating deep self belief and confidence.  Such tools include the Enneagram (a personality typology which promotes personal awareness and growth) and Pranic Psychotherapy (Pranic Healing applied in healing and alleviating emotional and psychological ailments). Contact Anel Bester on 083 600 8969 or This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. For more information view our website

EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE - 18 February 2012 830am - 1pm -  The LIFESKILL that makes ALL the difference in your own life and that of your children! The ability to recognise your own and others emotions and to react in an appropriate manner presented by Hennie Vorster (Educational Psychologist) Business and Life Coach. In this 4 hour workshop we will be covering the following topics:
• The Benefits of EQ
• The physiology of emotions
• Self knowledge
• Self management
• Social knowledge
• Social management
• Leadership
This workshop will be a practical, experiential journey where we learn how to know and manage our own emotions and that of our children. To be held at Bellavista School.  Cost :    R 1000 per person, R 1500 per couple.  The cost includes the workshop, a comprehensive workbook and a scrumptious tea! Tel: 083 564 8266 or This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Learn to Move (Gauteng) - A motor-sensory programme to develop language and learning in the child. Following the natural course of development through to higher cortical skills to stimulate learning and organisation. Now packaged and adapted for teachers in Africa as: Tiggs Train in the country town of Henley on klip, just south of Alberton or in your own school with a group more than ten. Hungarian Basic Development in Africa. This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.   or visit our website

Be different and book a friendship gardening birthday party today for your gardening angel at your house through Little green fingers in Gauteng only. Create a plant marker keepsake for the birthday boy/girl and enjoy making a Mr grass head or dinosaur world to take home. Contact: Sally 082 443 2538  visit our website or Email

ADHD, bipolar disorder & oppositional defiant disorder in South African children - TWO DAY SEMINAR for Teachers and professionals - 15 and 16 March 2012 - Utopia place, Pretoria. Please This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. for more information.