Course curriculum

  • 1

    Course Introduction

    • A warm welcome from Kate

    • Course Induction

    • Q&A: Counselling training and careers
  • 2

    Week 1: What is counselling?

    • Just listen

    • Q&A: What is counselling?

    • Counselling Skills verses counselling

    • The day in a life of a counsellor

    • The Helping Continuum

    • Personal Reflections

    • Developing your natural breath for presence & connection
  • 3

    Week 2: Counselling skills

    • Listening and responding

    • A listening exercise: 1) The Story

    • A listening exercise: 2) The questions

    • A listening exercise: 3) The answers

    • Core Counselling skills

    • Demo: core counselling skills

    • Barriers to listening

    • Demo: barriers to listening

    • Grounding and centering
  • 4

    Week 3: The helping relationship

    • Boundaries in counselling

    • Empathy

    • Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs

    • Working with difference

    • Power and privilege

    • To question or not to question?

    • Structuring the helping session

    • A 30 minute counselling session
  • 5

    Week 4: Part 1 - Counselling Theory

    • Counselling theories

    • Q&A: Theory in practice

    • Breathwork: Freeing ourselves from our defenses & engaging the parasympathetic NS

    • Test - which theory?

    • Test - the answers
  • 6

    Week 4: Part 2 - Self Awareness

    • Self-awareness

    • Personal Reflections - Understanding Emotions

    • The Drama Triangle

    • I statements
  • 7

    Week 5: Ethics in counselling

    • Ethics in counselling

    • A discussion on the 6 ethical principles

    • A conversation about self care

    • Yoga Nidra for deep relaxation

    • Q&A: Barriers to accessing counselling & online v in-person
  • 8

    Next Steps

    • Where to next?
  • 9

    Course completion

    • Quiz - 80% to pass

    • Course Evaluation

    • Completion - action required!