Anxiety

I have been involved today with the writing of some anxiety training we are offering to the volunteer counsellor at my place of work. We offer 4 trainings a year.

The whole day is going to be experiential, with creative tools and how they could be used with client that present with anxiety.

The day will involve me and the other facilitator to create some anxiety within the group on the day so that its live and real. I have learnt over the past years that some counsellors find it hard to use tools with clients, tools like stone work, play dough, drawing etc. So on the day of the training we will be using tools! I know the attendees and this will certainly tap into their anxiety. So looking forward to that. I like real live stuff!

The day will culminate with me offering a group supervision (1 and half hours) of the attendees to talk about the anxiety that came up and what it felt like to experience it, and offer them the chance to use tools within that supervision group to explore what it was like too. There may even be space for how a clients anxiety could impact on the supervisory relationship.

So many question so little time!