level ii counselling skills session six
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This session provides an opportunity to collect peer feedback on your journal and learn about paraphrasing and reflecting feelingsTRANSCRIPT
Paraphrasing and Reflecting Feelings Session 6
Session Aims
Provide an opportunity for peer feedback on your reflective journals, and introduce the topic of paraphrasing and reflecting feelings
Learning OutcomesBy the end of this session you will be able to:
1. Identify ways to improve your reflective
journals
2. Describe paraphrasing and reflecting feelings
3. Demonstrate simple paraphrasing skills
4. Demonstrate the skill of reflecting feelings
Last Session
Refraining
Putting on hold the urge to interrupt with our opinions and advice. Resisting the desire to “fix” problems or repeatedly ask questions
Attending
Focusing all of our attention on the speaker: what they say and how they say it (and what they do not say).
The aim is to remain within your client’s frame of reference
Contents of this Session
Ice-breakerThirty minute peer feedback sessionPresentation on paraphrasing and reflecting
feelingsDemonstration of paraphrasing and
reflecting feelings Skills practise in triadsFeedback your experience to the whole
groupA round to finish
Ice-breaker
Journal Feedback 30 Minutes
1. Collect a blank feedback form
2. Swap your journal with somebody else
3. Take your partner’s reflective journal. On your own, read one or two journal entries and honestly and sensitively complete the structured feedback form.
4. After 20 minutes find your partner and talk through the feedback you have given to help them develop their journal writing.
Remember to use the listening skills of rapport building, refraining and attending as well as your feedback skills
Paraphrasing
Paraphrasing
Paraphrasing enables the listener to clarify meaning by repeating back to the speaker the content of what they have said.
Reflecting Feelings
Reflecting Feelings
Reflecting feelings involves identifying and drawing the speaker’s attention to the feelings behind his or her words
Reflecting the emotional content of what is being said.
Demonstration
Comfort Break
Skills Practise 40 minutes
1. Work in groups of three
2. Take turns being the counsellor, the client and the observer.
3. Take 10 minutes each
4. Client - talk about a small problem that’s current in your life
5. Counsellor - practise your listening skills, including paraphrasing and reflecting feelings.
6. Observer - keep the time and provide brief feedback at the end of five minutes on the counsellors use of listening skills
Feedback
The Round
Conclusions
You are now able to:
1. Identify ways to improve your reflective
journals
2. Describe paraphrasing and reflecting feelings
3. Demonstrate paraphrasing
4. Demonstrate reflecting feelings
Well done Everybody!