My Experience in Gaining Valuable Counselling Skills During My Career Development
My first day of participation in video counseling was not successful. I lacked the disclosure skills and the necessary level of competency to conduct the interview as expected. I was very nervous because I was afraid of losing the subject and getting stuck in the conversation, so I got lost.
This was due to the lack of full confidence in what I was doing and what actually needed to be consulted. Nevertheless, it is an undeniable fact that knowledge is power, and it is likened to light that dispels the dark cloud of ignorance. After acquiring relevant knowledge, skills, and developing confidence and belief in what I do, the last 10-minute video consultation experience was great, everything went as expected. Unlike the first day, I acquired all the skills, appropriate knowledge and precise procedures that need to be followed to make the consultation as successful as possible.
Therefore, starting from the second consultation, I feel great and comfortable. ef in what I wasance. After gaining age is power, and is In the first incident, I was not armed with necessary techniques required in counselling; while in the last incident, I was aware of all the techniques required to make a counselling session as successful as possible. In the fist experience of video counselling, I hardly employed active listening, tone, body language, note taking, summarizing and paraphrasing. As a result, I never became one with the interviewee and I could not get and information due to failure to actively listen.
Besides, my confidence was at stake, owing to the fact that I never took notes and I was not able to master any word hence it was impossible to summarize the entire session or even paraphrase everything the interviewee shared with me. Nonetheless, the humble beginning never influenced my growth and zeal to improve on myself. Actually, this breathtaking experience created a gap in heart, which I had to fill to be at peace with myself. In the following video counselling, all the techniques were in my mind. Active listening enabled to get the context and fully understand what the interviewee was saying, and this created an avenue to intertwine my tone with body language.
Being aware of all necessities, confidence hardly became a worry. I feel comfortable, because I was able to relate with my interviewee based on the notes I took, the summary of important points I made and the sentences paraphrased. Therefore, with success in the second session, it is permanently inculcated in me that the distinct counselling techniques are important in meeting the needs of a client and feeling a sense of contentment when everything flows perfectly. Through the last video counselling, I am fully aware that asking questions helps an interviewee to open up, paraphrasing enables one to convey empathy, genuineness and acceptance, summarizing enable focus on the main points during the session and the goodie bag creating fun and enjoyment within the session making it as lively as possible. In contrast, in the first instance I regarded counselling like any other question,
