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Intrinsic Counselling Training

Responding creatively to the 21st Century

Intrinsic Counselling Training delivers training in the most useful and essential counselling skills practiced by Counsellors today. These powerful and effective 'Soft Skills' are combined with Positive Helping Skills and interpersonal Communication Skills that will give participants a host of tools, strategies and positive attitudes to use in their work, office or management environment. 

These skills and strategies join together to ameliorate worker burnout and compassion fatigue. The course also increases EQ 'Emotional Intelligence', empathy and rapport building skills, therefore enhancing any work or team environment making it more productive and functional.

Based in Lismore near Byron Bay in the Northern Rivers region of New South Wales, Intrinsic  Counselling can deliver training anywhere in Australia. The training can be presented in-house at your office or workplace to a schedule that suits you.

"Soft Skills" training and increased EQ are becoming essential for Managers, this course provides intense training in these areas. Training that is real meaningful and lasting.

The underpinning nature of these communication and relating skills means they can be used by anyone in variety of circumstances across a broad area; The work, care or home sector.

The course distills the skills employed by Counsellors and presents them in an easy to learn and practical format. It is delivered in a supportive and encouraging atmosphere that enhances learning and makes it easier to retain and integrate new knowledge and skills.

Managers who want to develop their 'soft skills', enhance interpersonal  communication and manage conflict can gain immense  benefit from these underpinning communication and counselling skills.

Life is not about finding yourself, it is about creating yourself.

Intrinsic Counselling helps you to create the kind of relationships you desire,  it presents proven theory and experiential learning methods for an overall positive educational experience. The skills combined with  the strategies and  helpful attitudes create not only successful outcomes for clients, but also Managers, Workers, and Carers.

The course is suitable for anyone in a caring, supporting or management role, this includes anyone in the HACC, Job Network/Employment, Disability Support, Human Resource,  Child Care, Teaching, Rehabilitation or Welfare field, as well as Carers, Front-line Staff and Management.

Employers are beginning to recognise the impact a worker's wellbeing has on daily work performance, a spin-off from the training is that, it benefits an employee's personal as well as professional life therefore improving overall work performance.

Sometimes training can be dry and uninteresting. Intrinsic Training strives to create an informing, involving, relaxing and interactive atmosphere that makes learning relevant, enjoyable, meaningful and personally and professionally fulfilling. 

This effective and innovative training delivers Professional and Personal Development for the increasingly demanding 21st century  office/ work/client environment.

Intrinsic Counselling - The medium is the message

Past graduates of the course have given it an overwhelming thumbs up, many have said "It was the most valuable and best delivered training they had attended."

Comments from past graduates of the course.

“Content was excellent more than I expected. The skills learned will last me a lifetime".  

“This course was absolutely brilliant. I am walking away a better person” 

“I have learned  great new skills that will enable me to help my clients”  

“Darmin and Michell are great teachers, they presented a truly brilliant course" 

Intrinsic Counselling Training is delivered under the educational principle of EDUCARE, which can be described as learning, growing,  healing and recovery through Education and Caring. The training  also strives to be culturally safe and culturally appropriate at all times.

Intrinsic Counselling has a unique approach and is based on the work of Carl Rogers, M. Scott Peck, Professor Judy Atkinson SCU, Miriam Rose Ungunmeer, Aboriginal Elder and writer, Tovi Browing, David and Kathryn Geldard, Hal  Stone PHd. and Sidra Stone PHd., Robert Bolton, Robert Strike, Dr. Patch Adams.

Inrtinsic Counselling draws upon the theory and practice of Person -Centred Counselling, Voice Dialogue, Dadirri and Australian Indigenous Therapies - Wellbeing and Wisdom, Holistic Pulsing, Community Building, Narrative Therapy, Sandplay and Expressive Art Therapies including Drawing, Drama, Sound and Movement and Humour.

"These skils wil not qualify you as a counsellor or a therapist  but they wll build on existing skills and give you some proven, useful and effective Soft Skills and interpersonal Communication Skills and Positive Helping Skills that can help you, interact with others in a respectful, positive and life-affirming way. The benefits are not only for the people you may be working or interacting with, but thay also benefit you. " Darmin

Working in safety and safely with others, is the most important underpinning value of Inrtinsic Counselling.