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L3CiCS Reflective Diary – 27th September 2019

By Iain 27 September 2019Qualifications courseworkNo Comments

We talked a little about our own personal boundaries in this lesson, and at first I was a little blank about what my own personal boundaries as a counsellor would be. I am pretty easy going and I like to think I would be able to handle most subject matter thrown my way. Still now, as I’m writing this a…

L3CiCS Reflective Diary – 20th September 2019

By Iain 20 September 2019Qualifications courseworkNo Comments

Firstly, I feel I need to address this last academic year. I was upset that I didn’t start the Level 3 last year, but that shouldn’t have stopped me from doing anything productive. I just didn’t feel like I was able to be productive. When the Level 2 course finished in 2018, it was nice to take a little break…

L2CiCS: Reflective Diary – 23rd May 2018

By Iain 23 May 2018Qualifications courseworkNo Comments

This week we were asked to find a newspaper article and describe our various reactions to it. This is the article I have chosen: Link to article here. R-bombing: The new dating trend you may have already experienced Today’s dating trends are as whimsical as they are ephemeral. When once the thing burdening singletons the most was simply finding a…

L2CiCS: Reflective Diary – 2nd May 2018

By Iain 2 May 2018Qualifications courseworkNo Comments

This week we were exploring the features of safe practise. My own personal definitions of the four terms we were asked to define are as follows: Ethical – Ethics are personal values that define how a person lives and behaves. In relation to counselling, I see ethics as a matrix for enabling a counsellor to make difficult choices in the…

L2CiCS: Reflective Diary – 25th April 2018

By Iain 25 April 2018Qualifications courseworkNo Comments

This week we took a mock version of the external assessment. In this assessment, we are to watch a DVD in which two actors play out a short scene involving counselling skills. We were each given a series of questions asking us about the scene. We read through the questions and then watched the scene. While the scene was playing,…

L2CiCS: Reflective Diary – 18th April 2018

By Iain 18 April 2018Qualifications courseworkNo Comments

This week we looked at more aspects of personal development, such as personal growth and how we feel about our developing counselling skills, as well as how we feel about giving feedback. Personal Growth Looking back on at my own journey on the course since September I have definitely learned a great deal about counselling and the various skills used…

L2CiCS: Reflective Diary – 14th March 2018

By Iain 14 March 2018Qualifications courseworkNo Comments

This week we did some roleplays concerning endings in counselling. I was counsellor first, and Phillip played the client. Charles and Emily were observers. Phillip’s problem was that he was worried that once he stopped coming to therapy, that there would be nothing stopping him reverting to old patterns of behaviour at his workplace. I was thinking during the whole…

L2CiCS: Reflective Diary – 28th February 2018

By Iain 28 February 2018Qualifications courseworkNo Comments

This week Katherine did her presentation about Art Therapy. I thought it was very interesting and enlightening – while I did have some idea that painting and drawing were involved in Art Therapy, I had never considered that physical expression such as dancing or playing music could be classed as therapy. I agree that the colours people choose to use…

L2CiCS: Reflective Diary – 7th February 2018

By Iain 7 February 2018Qualifications courseworkNo Comments

This week we talked about Stephen Karpman’s Drama Triangle, and the roles we often take on without realising. It started as a roleplay between Sue, Gloria and I, but turned into a more informal chat towards the end. I purposefully played the Victim at the start by saying how I didn’t like my life at the moment, disliked my job,…

L2CiCS: Reflective Diary – 31st January 2018

By Iain 31 January 2018Qualifications courseworkNo Comments

This week’s Reflective Diary includes my thoughts on Sue’s presentation, as well as my reflections on our roleplays. To monitor our personal development, we were tasked with identifying responses in ourselves that occur during a helping interaction. We did this with several rounds of roleplay. The first roleplay of the evening was Emily as the counsellor, and I played the…