Hi,
If you are running a counselling training course exploring emotional
relations and effective boundaries how can you do that in a large
institution that ignores both and
models neither?
warm wishes
Bob Smith
Birmingham Counselling Centre
www.counselling-direct.co.uk
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From: Rennie, Steve [HES] <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2001 11:33 AM
Subject: Re: courses
> I am slightly cautious about specialist agencies offering counselling
courses for two reasons. First I think there are issues about whether
skilled practitioners and theorists are necessarily good at teaching or
enabling learning. Second, an agency commited to a particular approach or
theory base may not be able to offer sufficient breadth of learning
resources to cover learners' needs. This latter point also raises for me the
possible advantages to learners of being in an institution with a broad
population of other learners. I have had experience of playwork students
taking radically new approaches to their work through interaction with
speech therapy students, drawing inspiration from landscape architects and
developing useful professional skills from social sciences students.
>
> There are major problems with large institutions offering counselling
courses. The lack of insight displayed by many managers is occasionally
breathtaking, frightening and downright offensive. The brutality of large
institutional management can be crushing. The temptation to withdraw into a
specialist enclave in those circumstances is very attractive. I think
though, that it is a price we must pay for breadth of student opportunity.
The alternative is the kind of blinkered thinking so often evident in
specialist training institutions such as medical schools.
>
> Stephen Rennie, Leeds Metropolitan University
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Audrey Vollans [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> > Sent: Monday, June 25, 2001 11:48 PM
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Subject: courses
> >
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > At the risk of taking people back in time and sorry if it is a boring
thread but I am struck that no-one seemed to reply to my request for
feedback on specialist organisations offering counselling courses as opposed
to FE colleges, given the inbuilt conflicts in that setting. What do people
think? Do you think specialist training institutes have an elitist image -
is that what people / potential students think? All comments welcome.
> >
> > All the best
> > Audrey
> >
>
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