Running Total: 21 1/2 Hours
3:30 pm- 6:30 pm
On Friday, April 19th i attended this 3 hour training with my mentor Consuelo Martinez. So this was a very fascinating experience from me because i learned a lot of things that i never knew about being a counselor. So basically what this training included was talking about Motivational Interviewing just giving all the counselors tips for when their with their clients, and all that is what i expected a training for this career would be, but what really got my attention was when we reached the " self- care" portion of the training. so what this "self - care" program is, is to support the counselors to help them to do their job the best they can but also by first helping them help themselves. Some of the exercises they do are just an open discussion about how hey feel about anything which would most of the times be a case they were working on, also they practiced guided meditation to unload stress. i got to participate in a little of the meditation which felt a little unusual considering i never really tried mediation specially in a group. My mentor was telling me one of the reasons they do this is of course to unload stress, but what we don't really think about is the type of stress counselors like this have, some of the cases that they get, that my mentor gets are very upsetting and disturbing, As much is they try to leave those thoughts at work it follows them home and can really affect them. so that's why programs/ training's are offered to them every month because of the emotional demand of this job. What my mentor told me really stuck with me because i never really thought about that side of it all, listening to peoples issues all day and not thinking that one of these peoples tragic story might really upset me, i never thought about that. Although that is something in never considered it dosnt scare me away from this profession but gave me and even deeper respect to the people that do this ever day, because in one way or another these cases do become personal. I think that this training is an amazing resource for all counselors and was really cool to be able to listen, watch, and do someone meditation.
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