level ii counselling skills session ten

The EndSession Ten

Session Aims

To explore the significance of endings and bring the course to a close

Learning Outcomes

By the end of this session you will be able to:

1. Reflect on your learning over the last ten sessions

2. Recognise the importance of ending the helping relationship.

Last Session

1. Portfolio Work

2. Carl Rogers

3. The Core Conditions

4. Conditions of Worth

5. Therapeutic Change

Contents of this Session

Ice-Breaker: Tube of FireLearning reviewSkills practise: putting it all togetherEndingsPositive affirmations exerciseCourse feedbackFinal Round

Tube of Fire

Learning Review

Working in pairs, take fifteen minutes to consider your journey over the course

1. What have you learnt?

2. How have you changed?

3. How far have you achieved the goal you set at the beginning of the course?

4. What will you take with you into your future?

5. What’s the next part of your journey?

After fifteen minutes, please complete your ‘learning review’ on the worksheet provided and put it at the front of your portfolio.

Final Skills Practise:Putting it all together 40 Minutes

Working in triads

Ten minutes each plus time for feedback

Client: Describe a small problem current in your life

Listener: Help the client to tell their story, using all the listening skills you have learnt, including the core conditions

Observer: Monitor the time and provide written feedback using the feedback form provided

Feedback

Comfort Break

Endings

Why are endings important in a helping or therapeutic relationship?

Endings

Why are endings important in a helping or therapeutic relationship?

Acknowledge the end of the relationshipWork on past endingsProtect boundariesCreate Closure CompletenessCelebrate work done or goals achievedCongruence

Positive Affirmations

1. Adam and John hand out one card each2. Write your name on the envelope3. Then pass your card and it’s envelope to the

person on your right4. When you get a card with the name of someone

else on the envelope write a sentence containing a positive affirmation

5. After several hours you will receive the card belonging to the person on your right. Add your positive affirmation and place the card in the envelope

6. Then hand the card to the person on your right.7. You can open your card whenever you choose

Feedback

Final Round

Goodbye Everybody!