This is the first session of the CPCAB accredited Level II Counselling Skills Award: Introductions, setting the ground rules and goal setting.

1. Welcome Everybody!

2. Counselling Skills
Session One
Adam Gibson and John Marsden

3. Your Tutors
Adam Gibson John Marsden

4. This Session
1. Learning outcomes
2. Announcements
3. Admin tasks
4. Introduce the course
5. Explain how the course is assessed
6. Introductions exercise
7. Fifteen minute comfort break
8. Set some ground rules
9. Goal setting exercise

5. Learning Outcomes
By the end of this session you will be able to:
1. Recognise your tutors and know where to find the loo
2. Describe how the course is structured
3. Outline the way in which the module is assessed
4. List the ground rules you have set for your group
5. State at least one thing you want to achieve from
completing this course

6. Announcements
1. Toilets
2. Evacuations
3. Refreshments
4. 15 minute break at 7.30pm
5. Only water in the room please
6. Mobile phones
7. Identity cards

7. Admin

8. Your Course

9. Assessment

10. Assessment

11. Introductions

12. Introductions Exercise 5 minutes each
1. Write your first name, big and bold, on the top of your sheet of
paper with a felt-tip pen
2. Find a partner you do not know too well, introduce yourself and
‘break the ice’ a little. Tell them about yourself and the things
about which you are passionate
3. Agree three positive words that describe your personality and
write them in bold on your sheet of paper
4. When you have finished go through this process again with
your partner
During this exercise you might even start to notice what the quality
of your listening is like.

13. Introductions

14. Ground Rules

15. Goal Setting

16. Goal Setting Exercise 15 Minutes
1. Find a partner, someone you haven’t yet spent
time with.
2. Spend five minutes each completing the work
sheet
3. As you help each other to complete the work
sheet just begin to notice the quality of your
listening

17. Goal Setting

18. Learning Outcomes
At the end of this session you are now able to:
1. Recognise your tutors and know where to find the loo
2. Describe how the course is structured
3. Outline the way in which the course is assessed
4. List the ground rules you have set for your group
5. State at least one thing you want to achieve from this
course

19. Thank You Everybody!