Transforming health care professionals from being fixers to facilitators

If you are interested in developing your communication and empowerment skills, come to Sedgebrook Hall. Our future courses are listed below, book early to avoid disappointment

Register an interest

Please let us know if you are interested in attending a course by providing contact details on our ‘register an interest’ page. This does not commit you to anything, but will allow us to keep you informed of future course dates and will help us in planning the required number of courses.

Diabetes Counselling and Empowerment Course

  • Are you a health professional working in diabetes?

  • Would you like to develop your consultation skills?

  • Do you want to help people self-manage their diabetes more effectively?

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Diabetes counselling course - NEW DATES FOR 2025:

Our 2025 face-to-face courses will be on:

  • Monday May 12th (3pm) - Thursday May 15th (1pm) - FULLY BOOKED

  • Monday September 29 (3pm) to Thursday 2nd October (1pm)

The next virtual courses in 2025 will be on:

  • Wednesday March 19th to Friday March 21st 9am to 3.45pm daily - FULLY BOOKED

  • Wednesday October 8th to Friday October 10th 9am to 3.45pm daily - FULLY BOOKED

  • Wednesday November 26th to Friday November 28th 9am to 3.45pm daily

Please register your interest in any of these courses by clicking the button below.

Knuston Hall to Sedgebrook Hall:

Knuston Hall , the venue for the Diabetes Counselling and Empowerment course for more than 30 years, was closed during the covid pandemic and , sadly, was unable to reopen. In June 2022 we held our first post-covid residential course at Sedgebrook Hall, Northamptonshire.  The new venue was very suitable for the course and staff were very friendly and accommodating. Feedback from faculty and staff was very positive, in spite of temperatures up to 40 degrees in the hottest days on record in the UK.

We shall continue to use Sedgebrook Hall  for the residential course and you can find out more about the venue below. We have retained the title Knuston Diabetes Counselling and Empowerment Course, as the course is widely known as ‘Knuston’

The next face-to-face course with place available will be on Mon, 29 Sep to Thu, 2 Oct 2025, go to the Courses page and register an interest.

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Feedback from residential course:

  • “The course was fantastic. I really did have reservations and resistance to attending but by golly I am so glad I did. It has made such a difference to me and how I feel about using counselling skills. Thank you so much.”

  • “Empowering and life-changing; new skills learnt to facilitate more effective and patient centred diabetes care based on patient needs and not my wish to ‘fix the problem’.”

  • “Really found this course thought provoking. The facilitators were excellent and really did their best to make me feel at ease.”

  • “When I applied for the course I had some idea about what I wanted to learn. The course was as I hoped it would be and more. I learnt a bit about counselling and a lot about me.”

  • “I found the course excellent/very useful. Vital for health care practitioners caring for people with diabetes. Should be part of the Diabetes Specialist Nurse competencies.”

  • “Very enjoyable and interesting course. Life-changing from my perspective both personally and professionally.”

  • “Very warm welcoming atmosphere. Thoroughly enjoyed the course which surpassed my expectations. Thank you all”

  • “Fabulous course, absolutely loved it. I really hope this has given me enough tools and self-awareness to change my practice.”

If you are interested in developing your communication and empowerment skills, come to the Knuston Course. Our future courses are listed below, book early to avoid disappointment

Learn about the venue Sedgebrook Hall