self-awareness – Page 4 – Iain Douglas Stewart

L2CiCS: Homework – Counselling in the Media – 10th February 2018

By Iain 10 February 2018Qualifications courseworkNo Comments

This week we were given a series of questions about how counselling is portrayed in the media, in particular magazine and newspaper problem pages and TV shows such as Oprah and Jeremy Kyle. Here are the two problems from “Agony Aunts” I have chosen to look at; One from a “lowbrow” newspaper and one from a “highbrow” newspaper. The first…

L2CiCS: Learning Log – 7th February 2018

By Iain 7 February 2018Qualifications courseworkNo Comments

This week we looked at some aspects of Transactional Analysis, in particular Stephen Karpman’s Drama Triangle, as well as Abraham Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs. The Drama Triangle was conceived as a social model of human interaction by Stephen Karpman in 1968. In life, people play games. In difficult or tumultuous relationships, the Drama Triangle can be used to map the…

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…

L2CiCS: Reflective Diary – 24th January 2018

By Iain 24 January 2018Qualifications courseworkNo Comments

This week we were asked to explore and reflect on a couple of thought exercises relating to our self-awareness. One was to think about a time you were not helped by someone from whom you expected help from. For me, this would be a couple of years ago when I thought I had some kind of physical problem in my…

L2CiCS: Reflective Diary – 17th January 2018

By Iain 17 January 2018Qualifications courseworkNo Comments

This week was a bit more abstract and self-exploratory than usual, in that we carried on exploring our understanding of the relationship between our personalities and our helping work by asking ourselves various introspective questions (Unit 5.1), and we also considered the ways in which our life history has impacted on our behaviour and life choices (Unit 5.2). Because of…

L2CiCS: Reflective Diary – 10th January 2018

By Iain 10 January 2018Qualifications courseworkNo Comments

Today we explored personal blocks to listening, which are external or internal factors that interfere with a counsellor’s ability to be present in the room and utilise active listening. One internal block to listening that I feel could be pertinent to me, especially at this early stage of my counselling journey, is me wanting to give advice. So often in…

L2CiCS: Learning Log – 15th November 2017

By Iain 15 November 2017Qualifications courseworkNo Comments

This week we were asked to describe the meaning of empathy in our own words. Here are my words: Empathy is being aware of other people’s emotional responses and seeing things from their point of view, understanding how they react to problems or how they have reacted to problems. It could be likened to walking alongside someone, so that you…

L2CiCS: Reflective Diary – 4th October 2017

By Iain 4 October 2017Qualifications courseworkNo Comments

I was not late this week, in fact I was the third or fourth person to arrive, and I was happy about that. Although for reasons I cannot fathom, I had a feeling of being out of my depth at the very start of the session. I am not sure why exactly, but I feel this way at the start…