Announcements

Website We are currently using this website mostly for the CPD programmes but plan to focus on engagement here again from April onwards when Thuli returns from maternity leave.

Calendar 2026

Community connect dates

For who:

• Open days – interested students
• Counselling and pastoral network gatherings
• Meeting lecturers and students across different year-groups
• Opportunities for communities to learn and grow / being empowered

• Saturday morning, 25 April
• Saturday morning, 6 June
• Saturday morning, 22 August

Community celebration
Coram community celebration (Crafts / Picnic): 2 May
Coram Community celebration: 1 August (this one might change)
Coram Community celebration (year-end): 31 October

Short courses:

Remaining courses and CPD events (apart from PNT or Supervision):

17-18 April: MNT26 (Meeting Narrative Therapy – short course)
29-30 May: CPD Mod 2: Faith in counselling
31 July: -1 Aug: CPD Mod 3: Making meaning with children
23-24 October: CPD Mod 4: Storyography (All arts in narrative practices)

Volant Hope Pins Remember our Volant Hop Pin project is an ongoing project. Your support is much appreciated.

Remember you have to wear it or pass it on – that’s the deal (hope needs to spread). Payments can be made the office (before/after class) or online and you can then arrange to pick up at the office or we can post it. More about the project from thispage.

This is a really great way to connect with people and get conversations going about hope in their/our lives.

Coram Care is our community of people across Coram Deo and friends who focus on the important aspect of Care in our lives (care-for-the-caregiver).
It is open to anyone (donation based). Coram Care takes place online, Thursday mornings 09:00-11:00

Recent blog A write-up of our recent Community Connect on Dodging the Blame Game. Click here.

Volunteering Where can you get involved? Every bit helps. Remember we are a community and we get things done when community members step up.

University Certification Every year is unfortunately a waiting game as to when exactly the university plans to host their annual UP Enterprises / CCM certificate ceremony. This is the formal ceremony. It is usually somewhere around/before the June/July school holidays.

Advocacy groups/ mentorship hubs have been created via WhatsApp. Do join one (at most two) as an area where you feel you can make a different. It is still in its early stages, currently inviting early adoption.

The process:

Aggregation and early awareness>Leadership>More Detailed Communication>Setting up accountability>Structuring Momentum>Doing the work (ongoing or projects)>Collating>Dissemination 

Share this please
Our narrative therapy introduction course. Let’s invite more people into our community, and through the short course also into our first-year cohort Pastoral Narrative Therapy (we can do with a few more students and this would be the very last opportunity to do so)
http://coramdeo.co.za/narrative-therapy-introduction-courses/