level ii counselling skills session six

Paraphrasing and Reflecting Feelings Session 6

Session Aims

Provide an opportunity for peer feedback on your reflective journals, and introduce the topic of paraphrasing and reflecting feelings

Learning OutcomesBy the end of this session you will be able to:

1. Identify ways to improve your reflective

journals

2. Describe paraphrasing and reflecting feelings

3. Demonstrate simple paraphrasing skills

4. Demonstrate the skill of reflecting feelings

Last Session

Refraining

Putting on hold the urge to interrupt with our opinions and advice. Resisting the desire to “fix” problems or repeatedly ask questions

Attending

Focusing all of our attention on the speaker: what they say and how they say it (and what they do not say).

The aim is to remain within your client’s frame of reference

Contents of this Session

Ice-breakerThirty minute peer feedback sessionPresentation on paraphrasing and reflecting

feelingsDemonstration of paraphrasing and

reflecting feelings Skills practise in triadsFeedback your experience to the whole

groupA round to finish

Ice-breaker

Journal Feedback 30 Minutes

1. Collect a blank feedback form

2. Swap your journal with somebody else

3. Take your partner’s reflective journal. On your own, read one or two journal entries and honestly and sensitively complete the structured feedback form.

4. After 20 minutes find your partner and talk through the feedback you have given to help them develop their journal writing.

Remember to use the listening skills of rapport building, refraining and attending as well as your feedback skills

Paraphrasing

Paraphrasing

Paraphrasing enables the listener to clarify meaning by repeating back to the speaker the content of what they have said.

Reflecting Feelings

Reflecting Feelings

Reflecting feelings involves identifying and drawing the speaker’s attention to the feelings behind his or her words

Reflecting the emotional content of what is being said.

Demonstration

Comfort Break

Skills Practise 40 minutes

1. Work in groups of three

2. Take turns being the counsellor, the client and the observer.

3. Take 10 minutes each

4. Client - talk about a small problem that’s current in your life

5. Counsellor - practise your listening skills, including paraphrasing and reflecting feelings.

6. Observer - keep the time and provide brief feedback at the end of five minutes on the counsellors use of listening skills

Feedback

The Round

Conclusions

You are now able to:

1. Identify ways to improve your reflective

journals

2. Describe paraphrasing and reflecting feelings

3. Demonstrate paraphrasing

4. Demonstrate reflecting feelings

Well done Everybody!