Introduction to Counselling Skills

Next course running in Spring 2024
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Evening 8-Week Course:

  • Are you curious about what makes people tick?
  • Are you interested in personal development?
  • Do you want to improve your employability?
  • Do want to improve your listening skills?

You will learn to:

  • CREATE the right environment
  • TRANSFORM your listening
  • USE the core counselling skills
  • DEVELOP your own self awareness

We also offer this course to businesses and organisations in and around Norwich - phone 01953 797160 to find out more.

This 8-week introductory course to counselling is for those who wish to enhance their listening skills at home and at work.

Topics Covered:

- The importance of confidentiality
- The difference between counselling skills and counselling
- How to actively listen
- How to attend to the relationship when listening
- How use skills such as paraphrasing and summarising
- How to listen to emotional talkers
- How to work with differences
- Ethical considerations and boundaries
- The concepts of attachment and loss

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We will cover practical topics including:

• How to actively listen to and communicate with others with interest;
• How to attend to the relationship when you are listening;
• Paraphrasing, summarising and checking.

 

Theoretical topics include:

• Understanding the importance of confidentiality;
• Empathy, unconditional positive regard and congruence.;
• Working with differences;
• Ethical considerations and boundaries.

The cost of the course is £250 per person