Along with clarifying your doubts, for the first 3 classes – one of the participants would volunteer to be a client for the counseling session and share some of her/his real concerns. The facilitator would do counseling and you all can observe it. We do not do mock sessions or role play. We do real counseling sessions in our training programmes.
In the next 4 classes, one of the participants will take the role of counsellor and do the session. After that, as participants are trained well, they will start doing the counseling sessions. Hence usually you will observe 7 sessions. If you are struck during the session, you can freeze the session and get ideas from fellow participants or from the facilitator or look at your notes. Once you get some clarity, you can unfreeze the session and continue the process. ‘N’ number of times, you can freeze and unfreeze the counselling session. There will be a discussion on the session immediately to correlate with the theories learnt.