Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it.Marian Wright Edelman
Certificate Counselling Skills
(Four-day intensive - 30 hours)
This course is for those wanting to learn counselling skills for the first time or to improve and develop existing skills. It is a multi-level group with an emphasis on learning from each other. The number of tutors will vary depending on group size and the aim will be one tutor to every five participants. There will be small group learning and exercises, as well as time in the larger group. Sessions will be tailored to the needs of those attending.
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Skills covered include: reflecting, summarising, paraphrasing, creative interventions and challenging while embracing Rogers' [1] core conditions of empathy, congruence and unconditional positive regard. The course will have an emphasis on the practical; learning skills to take away and use.
Course tutor: Leilani Mitchell, Mark Head
Recognition: A certificate will be presented at the end of the course. Students who complete the course may apply to attend The Link Centre's counselling diploma or psychotherapy course.
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- ^ Carl Rogers developed person-centred counselling.