International Counselling and Coaching Diploma Course. TeleClass Training.

Anita Veenstra

Trainer:
Anita Veenstra
Cornelis Ketelstraat 73
2806 SL Gouda
e-mail - Tel: 0182 - 78 69 02 / 06 - 41 82 52 50
Skype: anita.veenstra

Sites:
- http://www.gcoach.nl/anita-veenstra
- http://www.coachplus.nl/en/index.htm

Member of:
- Gcoach.nl
- CRKBO
- ABvC

Anita Veenstra

I grew up in the Netherlands. As a child already I had great interest in other cultures and an aptitude for languages, along with being very enterprising and outgoing. It was therefore only a matter of time before I started to explore the world, literally. From my early twenties I have backpacked around the globe leaving no continent untouched and wearing out two pairs of mountain boots along the way. Apart from two extensive world trips totalling near three years, I also spent long periods abroad studying at several universities. I know what it is like to be an ex pat and having to adjust, both ways! I have lived for years in Australia, Japan and England.

Having travelled a lot and having to adapt to all kinds of circumstances at a fast pace has enable me to think on my feet very quickly. Meeting all sorts of people from all walks of life resulted in becoming highly flexible in my thinking when dealing with people including clients. It is easy for me to put myself in the other person's shoes. Living and working in several countries gave me the chance to get to know these cultures from the inside out and has contributed enormously to my knowledge of people. I can put all this to good use when teaching and coaching people.

I have always been intrigued in what motivates people, in other words what makes them tick. I am a strong believer in that everybody is the master of his or her own destiny. This doesn't necessarily mean that you always had a say in what happened to you in life, but it does mean that you have a choice in how to deal with the consequences and/or come to terms with it, in other words move on. This realisation and many others are part of the journey of my own personal development. Like my travels the road to personal development has not always been an easy one, but every step of the way was, even though at times hard, worth it. And the road continues…

As far as education is concerned I have done a Joint Honours degree (Bachelors) at the University of Leeds in England in Management Studies and Japanese. Having graduated from Leeds University I did a Masters at Maastricht University in the Netherlands in 'Technology, Science and Society in Europe', an international programme with students from the four corners of the world. My thesis was on the transfer of knowledge, which regularly comes in handy.

In 2006, after decades of corporate employment, I decided to settle down in Gouda. Being a former student of the Academy of Counselling and (Life) Coaching myself, I opened up my own life coach practice COACHplus. I find this kind of work very rewarding and it is me down to a tee. Not a day is the same as clients vary as much as the questions they come with.

I work among other things a lot with energies and objects, but also like to use drawing as a coaching tool with a client. One of my specialisations is Constellations, which goes much further than the well known Family Constellations. In different settings over the years I have given workshops such as 'Systemic work', 'Analytic Drawing' and 'Making Choices and Reaching Goals'. In these workshops and during sessions I like to share my knowledge with Life coaches and counsellors (to be) and the likes. This goes a lot further than just explaining some of the theory.

My credo is:
You are the master of your own destiny!

Level 1 practise experience:

Preparation, introductions, finding out if your system works- 1 hour in total (P0)
Intensive TeleClass training - 24 hours (P1)
Practising with fellow students - 50 hours (P2)
Counselling or coaching 'real' clients - 20 hours (P3)
Getting supervision - 4 hours (P4)
Studying and practising 'The Art of Counseling' - 20 uur (P5)
Getting counselling/ being coached yourself - 3 hours (P6)
Oral exam individual by TeleClass equipment - 1 hour (P7)
The hours of practise etc. needed should be at least - 123 hours (PT)

The course fee is usually slightly higher, when we don't have an anniversary to celebrate, than the normal trainings courses. The reason for this is Teleclasses are more intense as there are only five students to a class. Another reason is students need to take an one hour oral exam each by TeleClass. In regular training courses there can be as much as 15 to 18 students to a class. In these classes you still get personal attention, but not as much as in a Teleclass.

You save a lot on travel time and travel expenses. You are much more flexible in choosing a starting date and time as classes start up quicker with a maximum of five students. Simultaneously you can look after your children who might be asleep or doing there homework in another room. In this respect Teleclasses are cheaper, more modern and much more environmental.

Content of practise training.
The training sessions are divided in 16 topics, each taking 90 minutes. The content is virtually the same as the regular practise training A TeleClass training consists of:

Preparing by reading the literature.
Preparing for TeleClass by practising with your fellow students by skype, webcam or another system.
The actual TeleClass in which you show what you have learnt and you will be given feedback on this. - An introduction to the next topic to work on for the next teleclass.
Putting what you have learnt in your dissertation/paper or essay.

Counselling en Coaching Level 1 - Practise Experience Schedule.
Day 1.
Literature: the Art of Counselling (part of the syllabus)
Itinerary;
- Introductions trainer and students
- Outline of the course
- House rules
- Ethical Code
- Feedback rules
- Practise counselling and life coaching skills and techniques; listening, open and closed questions, paraphrasing.

Day 2.
Literature: the Art of Counselling (part of the syllabus).
Itinerary:
- Counselling skills; reflecting, further reaching questions, summarising and evaluating.
- Counselling/ coaching how it is not done.
- Difference between coaching and counselling.

Day 3.
Literature: The skilled helper - G. Egan.
Itinerary:
- Working with G. Egan's model.
- Problemstage, targetstage, the road to it and evaluation.

Day 4.
Literature: The skilled helper - G. Egan.
Itinerary:
- Working with G. Egan's model.
- Problemstage, targetstage, the road to it and evaluation.

Day 5.
Itinerary:
- Counselling skills: what do you tell a client at the beginning of his/her first session.
- follow up sessions.
- Being genuine, Empathy and unconditional acceptance.

Day 6.
Itinerary:
- Counselling skills: dealing with difficult clients, what is your position as the coach/counsellor.

Day 7.
Literature: Approaches to psychology - William E. Glassman & Marilyn Hadad.
Itinerary:
- Biological approach, behavouristical approach, cognitive approach.
- Practising with these approaches.

Day 8.
Literature: Approaches to psychology - William E. Glassman & Marilyn Hadad.
Itinerary:
- Psychodynamic approach - humanistic approach, and working eclectic.
- Practising with these approaches.

Day 9.
Literature: An introduction to counselling - John McLeod.
Itinerary:
- Counselling skills; dealing with resistance.

Day 10.
Literature: An introduction to counselling - John McLeod.
Itinerary:
- Counselling skills: working with traumatized people, addictions, stress.

Day 11.
Itinerary:
- Familysystems: how to use the client's family history in a session.

Day 12.
Itinerary:
- Working with couples, with a group, group dynamics.

Day 13.
Literature: Handbook Coaching - Rudy Vandamme.
Itinerary:
- Different coachingsmodels: enneagram - Grow.
- Practising coaching/counselling skills

Day 14.
Itinerary:
- Trainer's specialisation and/or students preference for repeating or practising something particular.

Day 15.
Itinerary:
- Intervision: what is intervision - When to use it - practising with intervision.

Day 16.
Itinerary:
- Specialisations, Presentation, Marketing and rounding up.

Note! Due to difference in groups, we might deviate from the set itinerary.

Level 2 - Practise Experience Schedule
Day 1.
Introductions of students, the trainer and the second level of the course
House rules, Ethical Code - Feedback rules.
Introduction to Intervision (peergroup feedback)

Day 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16.
Intervision: Every student is in the hot chair twice.
Think of it as a free counselling session of a Master Mind Group.

Day 7, 9, 11, 13, 15.
Specialisation workshops by the students.

Data

Even though new group dates are not set yet and on the website, you can enlist already anyway. As soon as a group of five is formed, training dates and time are set by mutual agreement and the course will start. The indicated time is Dutch Time - Time Zones.

Counselling and Coaching - Level 1
TINTE1 Thursday Evening 20:30 - 22:00 Day - Data
1 - 22-09-11 2 - 29-09-11 3 - 13-10-11 4 - 27-10-11 5 - 10-11-11 6 - 24-11-11 7 - 08-12-11 8 - 15-12-11 9 - 05-01-12 10 - 19-01-12 11 - 02-02-12 12 - 16-02-12 13 - 01-03-12 14 - 15-03-12 15 - 29-03-12 16 - 05-04-12