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Certificate in
Humanistic Counselling Skills
Counselling skills are regarded as advanced, interpersonal, communication
and social tools that enable people to express, explore and come to terms
with their thoughts and feelings. Showing that you can listen and understand
a person, even if nothing can be changed about their situation is invaluable
to them. Counselling skills are also used to guide people through decision
processes, perhaps helping to see potential possibilities or areas for
change.
Gestalt holds a central position in this course and as an evolving, exciting
and universally applicable theory, supports the use of counselling skills.
It is well respected and has influenced and enriched many other therapeutic,
educational and managerial approaches to supporting people.
There are three components to the course:
The first component
provides the Foundation to your training and is fifty hours long.
You will learn about the various counselling skills and techniques needed
to support people in personal exploration and during times of difficulty.
Looking more closely at yourself and relationships with others, you will
be invited to consider your attitudes to race, gender, sexuality and other
differences. There will be an introduction to Gestalt theory and practice
and how it supports the use of counselling skills.
The
second component presents Gestalt in Action.
You will use the twelve hours of this module to deepen your understanding
of Gestalt theory and practice using words, art, writing, sound, movement
and other creative ways. You will explore how we make and break links (or
contact) with ourselves, others and the environment and how this affects
our life. You will also consider how, as self-regulating animals, we seek
out what we need to keep us healthy but sometimes deny these needs by employing
various psychological mechanisms.
As a central issue of Gestalt, you will also look at the issue of responsibility;
how, what and when you may disown it and the consequences. Our personalities
are made up from many different parts and so we experience contradictory
thoughts and feelings and often deny the parts that we consider unacceptable
eg. our anger. Inner conflicts result, which lead to confusion, anxiety
and fatigue. It is important that when we use counselling skills, we recognise
these conflicts in ourselves as well as in others.
We also offer this module as
a single weekend.
The third
component concentrates for thirty-four hours on Loss and Bereavement.
As children, the quality of the bond that we make with others lays the
groundwork for future relationships and determines how we cope with the
many different losses in our lives. We respond to loss by beginning a
process of grieving and you will learn how best to understand and support
people who are going through this process in the light of various cultural
and spiritual attitudes. Sometimes, grieving can be complicated by unusual
or unexpected loss, eg. a child's death, suicide, the loss of a limb,
redundancy, illness etc. and you will consider this too. You will also
have the opportunity to look at how you respond to the losses in your
life and how this affects your work with grieving people.
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The course is suitable if you wish to:
- understand more about yourself, other people and your relationships
- develop your skills of communication, negotiation, problem-solving
and assertiveness
- acquire Continuing Professional Development credits
- apply to the Diploma in Counselling
It offers you:
- flexible training times - either thirty Thursdays 7pm-9.30pm plus
three Saturdays 10am-5pm, thirty Fridays 10.30am-1pm plus three Saturdays
10am-5pm or sixteen whole days (Saturdays and weekends) 10am-5pm.
- participation in a varied, stimulating learning environment which
includes tutor and student input, group-work and personal reflection
- an understanding of the theories which support the use of counselling
skills
- opportunities to practice within an ethical and professional framework,
various counselling skills and techniques
- a safe place to begin to explore and share some of your personal beliefs
and values
- continuing professional development.
To successfully complete this course you will have:
- shown appropriate participation in all areas of the course
- kept a Personal Learning Journal which gives an account of your reflections
on the course material and its impact on you as a person and your relationships
- written two Essays, one on a theoretical topic relating to counselling
and the other on an aspect of Gestalt theory that has interested you.
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If you have any queries and would like to discuss your options
further, please feel welcome to contact Centre Coordinator:
Jacqueline Wearn.
e-mail: mail@gestaltcentre.co.uk
tel: (020 7613 4480
fax: (020) 7613 4737.
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