Part One: The Self

• Consider ways in which you can support your own process of self-development as you join this very experiential course.

• Set your intentions for yourself and your practice.

• Explore key questions around the ‘Self’ to help you understand Person-Centred theory of Self and how it fits with your own philosophy
  
  Play with the concept of Configurations of Self and get to know your own configuration, check in with this throughout the course.

• Learn how we change and modify our self-concept in continual process and how we can facilitate our clients’ healthy process.

• Reflect on how you most know yourself, come into contact with yourself and your own process of actualisation.

• Understand the role of the therapist in the client’s process of becoming.

• Consider how therapists use Self as a vessel for therapy.

• Explore how we apply all this alongside our tools to help clients work through what they bring to therapy
  

Part Two: The Relationship

• Learn the theory around the Person-Centred Core Conditions and the therapeutic relationship.

• Explore the qualities of the transformational relationship between client and therapist through working experientially with the Person-Centred Core Conditions.

• Understand and consider how (and whether) the Core Condition offer the necessary and sufficient relational factors which, if present in the relationship, make the client safe enough to move into the actualising process we explored in Part One.

• Experience and explore the blocks that can interrupt the client/therapist relationship and consider how we can work with those therapeutically.

• Feel confident to step back from needing to know what to do, and from any anxiety or pressure to ‘fix’.

• Feel more ready to experience a more equal relationship with your client where you deepen trust in your client’s process and autonomy, moving to a place of Being with your client in a transformational relationship.

• Bring your experiences of what can feel challenging in client relationships and explore how we might facilitate congruent discussions with the client to resolve these
  

Part Three: The Process

• Discuss and explore the idea that we are always in process: In a process ourself (our own growth and self-concept) and in a relational process with our clients.

• Build a framework of the therapeutic process including beginnings, middles and endings.

• Gain the skills to facilitate regular conversations with your client about where you both think you are in the therapeutic process and understand the positive outcomes of this.

• Understand that letting your client drift without reference to where you are in the process they may become lost, unsafe, confused, dependent or lose confidence in the work.

• Learn how to facilitate beginnings: meeting the client, exploring the work, contracting and beginning the relationship.

• Learn the skills involved in regular reviewing of the clients goals, process of self, the relationship.

• Feel able to reflect yourself, with your supervisor/mentor and with your clients on the process and the relationship with a client.

• Explore how to negotiate and navigate difficulties.

• Reflect on how therapy comes to an end in your experience; exploring the many forms of ending.

• Deepen your awareness of your relationship with endings and how that might impact the client.

• Consider ways in which the relationship might not quite end; when the relationship is going to continue in some way, or you might have further contact with clients.

• Learn ways to understand what might be happening if you struggle to let go of a client.

• Plan and experience our own ending as a group.

• Embed what you have learned from the whole course and commit to what you want to take forward into your own practice
  

On completion of the Core Counselling Concepts Course you will receive an attendance certificate confirming 36 hours of CPD.