The Beginning – Iain Douglas Stewart

L3CiCS Reflective Diary – 25th October 2019

By Iain 25 October 2019Qualifications courseworkNo Comments

This week we learned about diversity through exploring the membership of the course group: the different beliefs and behaviours. This enabled us all to become aware of the demographics of our group, for example our culture, family, nationality, race, age, gender, disability or sexuality. We went round the group and everyone said a few words about some of their diverse…

L3CiCS Reflective Diary – 18th October 2019

By Iain 18 October 2019Qualifications courseworkNo Comments

This week we did roleplays to model the three stages of the counselling relationship. I was counsellor with Angela as my client. Firstly, I established that while this was our first proper session, it was the second time I had seen Angela – the first time was a week beforehand in our initial meeting, in which we went over the…

L3CiCS Learning Log – 18th October 2019

By Iain 18 October 2019Qualifications courseworkNo Comments

This week we looked at the three stages of the counselling relationship. There are three stages in the therapeutic relationship between counsellor and client, and they apply to individual sessions as well as the counselling process as a whole. The start of a session is known as The Beginning and is about the counsellor exploring the client’s world and developing…