Observation, discussion and practice

To learn how to do something, you need to practise, so you can practise in real life, or you can practise in virtual life, by observing real-life counselling situations, i.e. attending interviews conducted by another counsellor, or even audio or video recordings of counselling sessions. There are other ways, there’s all the contact with peers or ex-peers, former peers like me and the fact of talking to people who practise counselling, as they’re different individuals they share a common basic reference but they each have their own responsibilities, so confronting the different points of view and the different experiences is something quite formative, so this observation part, this discussion part. Another way of training is to consider feedback from the interviews with the learners themselves, who are probably often willing to send information back to the advisor that may be useful for his or her practice.