1. Check-in

2. A closer look at Module Two’s competencies ( handbook, page 10)
Facilitate the exploration of the speaker’s concerns
Help the Speaker identify personal motivators and inhibitors to change

3. ‘The First Meeting’ Two persons are in psychological contact.
The first, whom we shall term the client, is in a state of incongruence, being vulnerable or anxious

4. Or, as David Rennie states…
Clients and counsellors are often nervous about their first meeting. Clients entering counselling for the first time have made a momentous decision. It is not easy to admit that one cannot take care of oneself. Many people agonize for a long time before taking such a step and often go through many false starts. As the day arrives, preoccupations and worries rise to the surface and clients wonder: ‘Who is to say that my problems are important enough to warrant counselling? What if the counsellor doesn’t take me seriously?’ Or, ‘How did I get into this state? I can’t believe that I’m actually contemplating seeing someone. I’m used to solving problems on my own.’ …

5. The counselling process
Beginnings
Middles
Endings
The Process
“Coming Together”
Est. the relationship
Explore the issue(s)
Acknowledge anxieties
Assess needs (and risks)
Negotiate the contract
“Working Together”
Deepening the relationship
Widening the exploration of issues
Exploring the feelings
Insight and understanding
Making connections
Holding Boundaries
Reworking
“Separating”
Recognition of change/no change in relation to
Self
Others
Life context
Counsellor
Separation and loss

6. Boundaries
Appendix 2.2a
Boundaries
How close is
‘close enough’?

7. The counselling process
Beginnings
Middles
Endings
Ways of Being
Empathy
Acceptance
Genuineness
Trust
Openness
All aspects named in beginnings plus
Advanced empathy *
Listening to and using self
Monitoring Speaker’s use of Listener
All aspects named in beginnings and middles plus
Letting go
Acknowledging work done
Equality of regard
Looking to the future

8. The counselling process
Beginnings
Middles
Endings
Ways of Doing
Attentive listening
Observing and sensing
Accurate responding
Reflection of feeling
Paraphrasing and summarising
Providing information
Exploring alternatives
Identifying strengths
Acknowledging difficulties
All activities named in beginnings plus
Focusing, being specific and concrete
Challenging and linking
Negotiating and setting goals
All activities named in beginnings and middles plus
Renewing the contract
Renewing the work done
The possibility of future contact
Saying goodbye

9. Skills practice One room per group
Each group should agree and set up their own counselling space
Each member assumes the role of Observer, Speaker & Listener
In the role of Speaker you should choose the setting of your choice – work, agency, church etc.
The Speaker is in the role of someone who comes to speak privately to the listener about an issue of a sensitive/emotive/personal nature (see wee bit of paper from the Malcolm – be creative!)

10. Self-in-context: transitions, attachment, loss & readjustment

11. Yalom’s ‘givens’ relevant to the therapeutic alliance (from Love’s Executioner)
We become anxious as we endeavor to cope with these four givens of existence:
The inevitability of our own death and that of those we love
The freedom to create the lives we want
We are ultimately alone
The absence of meaning to life

12. Two Content Layout with SmartArt
First bullet point here
Second bullet point here
Third bullet point here
Group A
Task 1
Task 2
Group B
Group C

13. Title and Content Layout with Chart