What is counseling?
Counselling is a special way of helping
people which involves the use of
particular verbal, non-verbal and
relationship skills in order to facilitate
change so that the person being
helped can feel better and discover
new ways of thinking and behaving
Why is reflective practice useful?
- Essential for responsible and ethical practice – invites us to
take responsibility for our actions and values - Enables us as practitioners to learn from experience – to
question our stories - Provides strategies to bring things out in the open & frame
questions never asked before - Challenges assumptions, social and cultural biases,
inequalities & questions our own behaviours which may
silence or marginalize voices of others - Builds confidence in our practice
Prevents stagnation – antidote to complacency, habit and
blindness
What is critical reflection?
Critical reflection is a process that
involves the ‘unsettling’ of
assumptions held individually,
socially, professionally, theoretically
and politically that influence our
lives
Why is the inductive learning cycle useful?
*Centers you (the participant) rather than the facilitator
*Enables us to constantly grow our practice through building
on and/or changing our behaviour as a result of an
experience or input
*Research has shown that people learn best by “doing.”
*while “ideas are formed in the minds of individuals,
interaction between individuals typically plays a critical role
in developing these ideas … ‘communities of interaction’
contribute to the amplification and development of new
knowledge” Nonaka (1994)
*Overcoming this tendency to simply agree and go along
can increase the team’s access to multiple viewpoints .., a
process that stimulates critical thinking and deep learning
(Kayes, 2001).
