The training day was a complete success!
It still surprises me that some counsellors are scared to use tools in counselling like pens and paper, playdoh, stones and sand box etc. It seems to be in some HND courses, there is no training on creative tools at all.
The day started with a bit of hypnotherapy as the counsellors attending the course asked how hypno could help their clients that present anxiety. Not so they can perform hypno but can refer clients to the hypno service we run.
We then moved on to creative tools, at this time there was a bit of anxiety in the room, we used a scaling handout between 1 and 10 to catch this, so they could plot their anxiety throughout the day.
Some of the counsellors wanted a demo on how to use the stones in counselling. So that was for me to stand up to the mark. What we did was to split into pairs the three facilitators joined in too.
It was really good to show someone how there is a place for creative tools in counselling along with all the other skills the counsellors they already have.
I may well add the hand outs to this blog so you can print them off if you would like them.
Of course all tools are there for the client to use if they chose too.
Great that it went so well! Did you come away from the day with sense that some of them might start using a more creative approach to their counselling?
ReplyDeleteThanks Christie for your comments. Yes they have been using them with there clients already. I have supervised two counsellors today and they both used them.
ReplyDeleteI was also have my concerns that counsellors trained on the training day force the tools on to the clients rather than allowing the clients to choose.
I guess this comes with experaince.