2. COUNSELLING SKILLS LEARNING PROGRAMME
The INSIGHT Life Coaching Services’ (ILCS) Counselling Skills Learning Programme is primarily designed for inhouse consumption by its empanelled counsellors and other members its staff team, to effectively deliver a professional counselling service to the members of the communities in various parts of the country. However, the ILCS is committed to widening participation and access to its learning programmes to all sections of the Community including individuals, professionals, organisations and institutions, who directly and/or indirectly do provide or may wish to provide counselling services to their organisational members and service users
It is an online provision of training, which has only 20% theoretical based learning and 80% practice-based learning element.
AIM OF THE COURSE:
To provide and develop a broader range of competencies, knowledge and understanding of counselling skills learned through an experiential learning process from a cultural perspective of the multi-cultural Indian society.
OBJECTIVE OF THE COURSE:
- Introduce and help learners to appreciate the Standards and Ethics for Counselling professionals;
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Introduce learner to counselling profession, its fields of practice and a range of common problems it can help with;
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Facilitate the learning and development of counselling skills;
- Familiarisation with counselling theories, theoretical approaches and models of counselling practice;
- Help learners to understand and appreciate anti-discriminatory & anti-oppressive practice and develop culturally appropriate skills of practice;
- Introduce learners to the importance of Self-Awareness for counselling professionals about their personal values, attitudes, belief and introduce ways of self-exploration.
- Gain first-hand experiential learning of counselling skills and application of counselling techniques.