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When I started the counselling skills course, I didn’t expect to learn so much about myself. block 2 started with me focusing on the skills I would like to develop such as better questioning and giving constructive feedback. However, I feel that I am changing a lot because of this course. I have enjoyed every second of the learning and find it fuelling a desire to learn more in my spare time. I don’t think two thousand words is enough to explain how this module has gone for me. I love the skills practice and feel more confident now in the sessions. I think that being part of a supportive group is helpful, everyone has brought skills and information and I love how we can learn so much through this. I want to improve my questioning and I have a couple of times had blank moments, I think that this is due to a lack of confidence in asking the right thing and that I should just summarise what I have heard instead. I don’t like how my contracting sounds at the beginning I think that it sounds wooden and scripted, and I don’t think it sounds genuine, I have been trying out this at home. I have worked on my feedback and tend to look for 2 or 3 positives and give constructive feedback for something to work on. I would prefer more critical feedback as I feel that this helps me. I think being the observer is a good opportunity to see what it looks like and what I like dislike and use that in my own practice. I have been surprised at the level of knowledge we have been introduced to and although some of these concepts have been familiar to me, I think viewing it in the view of counselling has brought a different outlook. I particularly enjoyed the week we spoke about attachment theory. I have done a lot about attachment in my role as a foster carer and in my school role. I have had the opportunity to attend the Scottish attachment in Action conference where I got to meet Dan Hughes an American Psychologist that developed the PACE method of working with children. I think he was one of the people who I met and heard speaking who I felt spoke to me describing my foster son exactly. When all other professionals had no advice to give me, I left that day with ideas what I put in place which amazingly worked. I think he was one of the people that inspired me to think about counselling. I enjoyed how this week allowed me the chance to self-reflect on my own attachments and it gave me a lot of questions. I do feel attachment theory can also be judgemental almost blaming parents and in using this with clients it is important that we don’t put blame and shame on to our clients. I think using these ideas with clients can be helpful depending on the way that we use it. That session was full on as we also touched on the tasks of grief and I did find this quite hard as my dad died last year and I think what It made me think is that I feel guilty for not being one of those drowning in grief and although I had a very close relationship with my dad iv not been struggling to cope and I think that’s important when dealing with a client who has been bereaved that they may go through that process in a different way and to be mindful not to expect people to be ruled by their grief. The grief information tied in well with some previous learning I have done with child bereavement UK and with some voluntary work where I do support for bereaved children. I think this week also made me consider the different kinds of losses and its not just bereavement, I thought of myself and how I have no children and how at that time that was a huge loss to me and how society When I started the counselling skills course, I didn’t expect to learn so much about myself. block 2 started with me focusing on the skills I would like to develop such as better questioning and giving constructive feedback. However, I feel that I am changing a lot because of this course. I have enjoyed every second of the learning and find it fuelling a desire to learn more in my spare time. I don’t think two thousand words is enough to explain how this module has gone for me. I love the skills practice and feel more confident now in the sessions. I think that being part of a supportive group is helpful, everyone has brought skills and information and I love how we can learn so much through this. I want to improve my questioning and I have a couple of times had blank moments, I think that this is due to a lack of confidence in asking the right thing and that I should just summarise what I have heard instead. I don’t like how my contracting sounds at the beginning I think that it sounds wooden and scripted, and I don’t think it sounds genuine, I have been trying out this at home. I have worked on my feedback and tend to look for 2 or 3 positives and give constructive feedback for something to work on. I would prefer more critical feedback as I feel that this helps me. I think being the observer is a good opportunity to see what it looks like and what I like dislike and use that in my own practice. I have been surprised at the level of knowledge we have been introduced to and although some of these concepts have been familiar to me, I think viewing it in the view of counselling has brought a different outlook. I particularly enjoyed the week we spoke about attachment theory. I have done a lot about attachment in my role as a foster carer and in my school role. I have had the opportunity to attend the Scottish attachment in Action conference where I got to meet Dan Hughes an American Psychologist that developed the PACE method of working with children. I think he was one of the people who I met and heard speaking who I felt spoke to me describing my foster son exactly. When all other professionals had no advice to give me, I left that day with ideas what I put in place which amazingly worked. I think he was one of the people that inspired me to think about counselling. I enjoyed how this week allowed me the chance to self-reflect on my own attachments and it gave me a lot of questions. I do feel attachment theory can also be judgemental almost blaming parents and in using this with clients it is important that we don’t put blame and shame on to our clients. I think using these ideas with clients can be helpful depending on the way that we use it. That session was full on as we also touched on the tasks of grief and I did find this quite hard as my dad died last year and I think what It made me think is that I feel guilty for not being one of those drowning in grief and although I had a very close relationship with my dad iv not been struggling to cope and I think that’s important when dealing with a client who has been bereaved that they may go through that process in a different way and to be mindful not to expect people to be ruled by their grief. The grief information tied in well with some previous learning I have done with child bereavement UK and with some voluntary work where I do support for bereaved children. I think this week also made me consider the different kinds of losses and its not just bereavement, I thought of myself and how I have no children and how at that time that was a huge loss to me and how society When I started the counselling skills course, I didn’t expect to learn so much about myself. block 2 started with me focusing on the skills I would like to develop such as better questioning and giving constructive feedback. However, I feel that I am changing a lot because of this course. I have enjoyed every second of the learning and find it fuelling a desire to learn more in my spare time. I don’t think two thousand words is enough to explain how this module has gone for me. I love the skills practice and feel more confident now in the sessions. I think that being part of a supportive group is helpful, everyone has brought skills and information and I love how we can learn so much through this. I want to improve my questioning and I have a couple of times had blank moments, I think that this is due to a lack of confidence in asking the right thing and that I should just summarise what I have heard instead. I don’t like how my contracting sounds at the beginning I think that it sounds wooden and scripted, and I don’t think it sounds genuine, I have been trying out this at home. I have worked on my feedback and tend to look for 2 or 3 positives and give constructive feedback for something to work