Welcome Everybody!

Session One

Adam Gibson and John Marsden

Counselling Skills

Your Tutors

Adam Gibson

John Marsden

This Session1. Learning outcomes

2. Announcements

3. Admin tasks

4. Introduce the course

5. Explain how the course is assessed

6. Introductions exercise

7. Fifteen minute comfort break

8. Set some ground rules

9. Goal setting exercise

Learning OutcomesBy the end of this session you will be able to:

1. Recognise your tutors and know where to find the

loo

2. Describe how the course is structured

3. Outline the way in which the module is assessed

4. List the ground rules you have set for your group

5. State at least one thing you want to achieve from

completing this course

Announcements

1. Toilets

2. Evacuations

3. Refreshments

4. 15 minute break at 7.30pm

5. Only water in the room please

6. Mobile phones

7. Identity cards

Admin

Your Course

Assessment

Assessment

Introductions

Introductions Exercise 5 minutes each

1. Write your first name, big and bold, on the top of your sheet of paper with a felt-tip pen

2. Find a partner you do not know too well, introduce yourself and ‘break the ice’ a little. Tell them about yourself and the things about which you are passionate

3. Agree three positive words that describe your personality and write them in bold on your sheet of paper

4. When you have finished go through this process again with your partner

During this exercise you might even start to notice what the quality of your listening is like.

Introductions

Ground Rules

Goal Setting

Goal Setting Exercise 15 Minutes

1. Find a partner, someone you haven’t yet spent time with.

2. Spend five minutes each completing the work sheet

3. As you help each other to complete the work sheet just begin to notice the quality of your listening

Goal Setting

Learning OutcomesAt the end of this session you are now able

to:

1. Recognise your tutors and know where to find the loo

2. Describe how the course is structured

3. Outline the way in which the course is assessed

4. List the ground rules you have set for your group

5. State at least one thing you want to achieve from this

course

Thank You Everybody!