Hello, Wendy.
How are you?
We got our approval from the Jewish agency Yesterday!!!
Will be in Israel by the end of January G-d willing.
I am in touch with LLL here and was told that I can finish accreditation in
Israel. Is that right? The leader, who trained me has not have any trainees
in many years, so she is not very up to date. And she does not do Internet
too. But she is a wonderful teacher and has managed to get me off my high
horse (or at least get my feet out of stirrups) and helped me to be more
realistic.
All the best.
--
Henya
Brooklyn, NY
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On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 11:33 AM, Wendy Blumfield
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> The correspondence about pushy counsellors (a tiny minority I hope) has
> inspired me to write about this issue.
> My students in our training courses get tired, I am sure, of hearing my
> mantra: it`s not just what you know, it`s how you say or teach it.
> And the second part of that is....Listen first before you speak.
> Listening skills, empathy, the art of counselling can be learned but they
> have to be there in the first place, in the heart and the head of the
> student counsellor.
> I have often thought that many training courses for the caring professions
> such as ours do not have an adequate selection process. Exams,
> questionnaires, registration forms may give some idea of a student`s ability
> and qualifications, but the only way to guage if they have that ability to
> counsel is for the tutors to sit on the sidelines and watch a group of
> potential students work together. This then filters out the potential
> bullies, those who are working out their anger about their own birth and b/f
> experiences, those who always have an answer but don`t stop and listen
> before giving it. And those tutors have to be unbiassed, not influenced by
> the fact that the course will lose money if one or two students are not
> accepted - or that a department will not get a b/f counsellor if the
> supervisor asks a candidate to leave the programme after watching her work.
>
> Wendy Blumfield
> NCT Trained Tutor Prenatal Teacher/BFC
> Israel Childbirth Education Centre
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