Curriculum for the peer counseling training

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Build at 30.06.2001

 


1st week Introduction

 

Introduction to the training.
History and philosophy of the self-self-determined-living movement.
Personal history in the movement.
Peer Counseling - the specialities.
Different theories about counseling - an overview.
Outlines on social law and application.

 

2nd week Self-experience

 


Reflections of oneself's own psychical history as basis for an unbiased attitude towards counseling.
Encouragement of an intensive contact among the group members.
Encouragement of a stable group.

 

3rd week Peer Counseling in practice

 


Identity and role understanding of Peer Counselors.
Women and men in Peer Counseling.
Limitations in counseling.
Practices.

 

4th week Experiencing limits - grief

 


Cultural history of grief.
Theories on grief.
Grief and guilty in the biography of disabled persons and parents.
Personal reactions to grief, sorrow and dying

 

5th week Experiencing limits - body

 


Physical experiences and awareness.
Partnership.
Sexuality.
Pregnancy.

 

6th week Peer Counselors - spheres of work


Peer in different contexts.
From CIL to social welfare office.
Final evaluation.