This course has a start date in September
Looking out for other people is the hallmark of a caring society.
The School of Education’s Counselling programmes have been running since 1993 and attract students either working as counsellors, in a paid or voluntary capacity, or in other helping professions (eg teaching, nursing, social work, the prison service) and who do counselling as part of their role.
The humanistic approach assumes that given the right conditions, people will become more aware and in touch with their inner wisdom. They will learn, for example, to discriminate between what is healthy and what is damaging for them. With enhanced awareness and acceptance they become more fluid and flexible in their responses to others and are able to make decisions based on self-knowledge and consideration of choices rather than on habit or people pleasing.
Our course tutors strive to create a safe and secure teaching and learning environment in which members feel able to be themselves and to learn through and from their participation in experiential activities designed to develop awareness of self and understanding of self in relationship with others. The theory is taught in context, with issues arising in the ‘here and now’ within the group.