counselling diploma - stage II
This year follows on from the foundation year-Stage I. Students will develop the basic therapeutic skills and perspectives for counselling.
During the autumn term students develop the skills to prepare them for taking on clients. In the spring term they begin counselling in a suitable voluntary agency or other placement. The remainder of the year is devoted to building confidence in the role, deepening and applying their understanding of Integrative Psychosynthesis, and developing a repertoire of counselling skills and strategies.
learning outcomes
- developing presence
- establishing a working alliance together with appropriate professional boundaries
- awareness of authentic and dissonant communication
- body awareness
- transference and the use of self-disclosure
- working with images and symbols
- working with sub-personalities
- evoking the authentic choice of the client
- containing and accepting suffering through empathic resonance.
selection criteria
At the end of the Foundation Year self, peer and trainer feedback is used to assess suitability to further training. The final decision rests with Re•Vision.
course format
- 9 monthly training weekends
- 9 mid-month tutor groups
- 9 interpersonal groups
- 12 supervision groups
- 3 video supervision groups
- residential winter school
- residential summer intensive.
written work
- 3 theoretical assignments
- 4 supervision presentations
- 2 book reviews.