Authentic Counselling Training
Giving and Receiving Feedback
[Under construction: 29 May 2005 ]
Conclusion
Counselling training would be enfeebled without the receipt and delivery of feedback. Counselling trainees learn not only about the effect their words and how they deliver them have on other people (such as counselling clients), but also about the impact on themselves of making interventions that are, for example
· challenging (“I think I am hearing you say that you have been considering taking your life.”)
· communicate positive regard (“Our meetings always feel so engaged that they pass in a flash. I think we work really well together. I am wondering what your experience is.”)
· intimate (“You want to be with him so much, but daren’t tell him, or anyone else, in case he runs away from you.”)
Giving and receiving feedback are valuable activities, are demanding of individuals and groups, and require frequent attention to, and adjustment of, process. Sometimes the feedback says more about the feedback deliverer, or about the group context, than it does about anything or anyone else.
In response to reading this document
1. What did you hope to achieve by reading it?
2. To what extent have your hopes / expectations been met?
3. What have you not found here that you would like to have read about and explored?
4. What have you learned about the following?
a. Counselling training
b. Feedback
c. Yourself
5. In what ways could this document be improved?
I consider much of what I write to be provisional and under development. I often amend and edit documents, including in response to feedback. I should be grateful to receive your feedback, and to improving this document in response.
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