Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
Foundational Holistic Counselling Skills
Foundational Holistic Counselling Skills provided an excellent foundation for those aspiring to pursue a career in counselling or psychotherapy. Students successfully explored deep listening, Dr Carl Rogers’ core conditions (empathy, congruence, unconditional positive regard), presence, inner work, metaskills and reflect on how they shape technique.
6 weeks, 1 hour per week
Associate Professor Shuai Zheng
Dean
Metavision Institute
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Develop deep listening, heart-centered presence, empathy, and unconditional positive regard in counselling.
- Practice emotional intelligence and learn reflective listening skills, non-violent communication techniques, and the skillful use of counselling skills.
- Model how to shape a healing conversation.
- Explore Process Oriented Psychology and develop the ability to notice tensions, trouble spots, and difficulties in counselling.
- Reflect on confidentiality, power dynamics, and rank, and develop skills for working with external and internal conflicts.
Syllabus
The course covers:
- inner work
- reflective listening skills and non-violent communication
- the skilful use of questions
- confidentiality, power dynamics, rank
- giving and receiving feedback
- application of skills from the wisdom within
- integrating different counselling modalities
- diversity in counselling practice
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Issued on 19th August 2026
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