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Within the contexts of contmeporary counseling training, this book revisits the importance of continuing personal and professional development for every successful counseling practitioner. From the trainee and their personal development to the trainer and their course, it provides the answers to that all important question: what is personal and professional development and why is it necessary for counselors?
This new edition explores:
the importance of personal development and the core concepts that underpin it; the aims, commonalities and differences of personal development in different settings; the key differences in theoretical approaches and their implications for personal development; the issue of communication and relationship between counselors and professional organizations, society, and the ‘virtual’ world; the trainee and trainer and the challenges of personal development.
Packed full of vivid accounts of personal experiences, questions and points for refection, this book will prove an essential companion for anyone wishing to grow personally and professionally as a therapist.
Personal Development through Structured Activities
Personal Development through Structured Activities
“How do we make learning opportunities active, collaborative, purposeful – and personal?”
This chapter will discuss structured learning opportunities that are active rather than passive, collaborative rather than expert-dominated, and personal rather than generalized. The aim is to focus trainees’ thinking, feeling and sensing, to process new ideas or techniques and to apply and personalize theoretical concepts. The chapter will consider:
- the value of structured activities;
- purpose, timing and debriefing of exercises;
- types of interactive activities;
- levels of exploration;
- multi-purpose exercises;
- advantages and problems;
- skills.
There is a place for lectures in counselling training, since certain kinds of information can be most efficiently delivered to large groups in a didactic form: in contrast, as the previous chapter explored, some learning is most fruitful undertaken ...
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