Introduction to Relationship Counselling Online Short Course

Section One: Introduction to Relationships

• Getting Started
• No man is an Island
• The myth of relationship
• A lack of awareness
• From the outside looking in
• Relationship councelling defined
• Who should go to relationship counselling
• Counselling can benefit your relatationships
• FAQs
• Who can practice
• Individuals vs. relationship counsellers
• How is relationship counselling conducted
• In summary

Section two: The Relationship Counseller

• Getting into practice
• Self Assessment
• It all starts within
• Areas of Self-analysis
• Understanding counselling
• Stages in counselling
• Basic counselling skills
• Empathy
• Non-verbal attending
• Focus on feelings and emotions
• Asking open questions
• Symmetry
• Linking
• Promoting direct interaction
• Blocking
• In summary

Section Three: Communication

• Let's talk things through
• Pragmatic communication rules
• We communicate all the time
• Verbal vs. non-verbal communication
• The power of non-verbal communication
• An exercise on non-verbal communication
• The process of receiving messages
• Message vs. interpretation
• A counsellor's focus
• The medium is the message
• Communication = meddage context
• The issue of when and where
• Facilitating dialogue
• Dialogue vs. debate or discussion
• Elements of dialodue
• Mind what you say
• I-Messages
• Hearing vs. listening
• Example of active listening
• Structured vs. unstructured dialogue
• In summary

Section Four: Hallmarks of healthy relationships

• A closer look at relationships
• Hallmarks of healthy relationships
• Self-worth within relationships
• A closer look at self-worth
• Communication that promotes self-worth
• Communication that decreases self-worth
• How a counseller can help
• An exercise in self-worth
• Rules that bind
• What are rules
• Expressed vs. unexpressed rules
• The good
• The bad
• How a counseller can help
• An exercise on rules
• The roles we play
• How do roles come about
• When do roles become problematic?
• How a counseller can help
• An exercise on roles
• Openness to the world
• How a counseller can help
• An exercise on openness to the world
• An end note