This online offering is for counsellors who have completed the GIFTS OF PRACTICE: In Depth Workshopping of Essential Counselling Skills program and are interested in further developing their skills. It's an opportunity to take risks, learn, and grow within a community of supportive peers.
The Counselling Practice Group program brings four counsellors together for 2.5 hours once a week for three weeks. After a 15-minute group check-in, participants divide into two breakout groups with one counsellor and one client participating in a 60-minute observed and workshopped counselling session. Participants then change roles for a second hour of observed and workshopped counselling before returning to the large group for a 15-minute reflective check-out.
In this way, participants experience an opportunity to workshop their skills and receive discerning feedback both when they are counsellor and also as a client learning from the feedback their counsellor receives.
Weekly three-hour classes include advanced training, observed practice and feedback from experienced instructors Lindsay Robertson (MPCC, PCC) and Stacey Huget (RPC, PCC).