Workshop for Teachers

1. Teacher's role effectiveness workshop - an inner dialogue

    Objectives

1. Facilitate the renewal of multiple roles and to address identity issues
2. To understand the role, job and the task of teachers in the systems
3. To generate healthy group processes which foster a sense of belonging team.

    Pedagogy

A projective technique forms the tool for explorations. The approach is participating and experimental in nature.

2. Reaching out to students (for effective counseling)

    Objectives

• To provide knowledge, skills and behavioral inputs for enlarging their roles and becoming effective in their responsibilities.
• To be more sensitive towards students
  
  

    Pedagogy

Role play, group discussion, case presentations, experiment and participating in nature ( Two modules )

3. The eye of the beholder ( workshop for teachers on attitude and values )

    Objectives

Building values and upholding beliefs is as important as imparting knowledge inputs to students. Teachers are the best role models who impart and leave a lasting imprint in the minds of the students. Clarity and openness are both cornerstones to value building. This workshop dwells into the ‘why’ of behavior rather than the ‘what’. The aim is to rediscover our value system and go beyond the realm of cognition and mental process into the deeper truth of the ‘self’. Teachers can provide value based education and this makes a difference in the student’s life

    Pedagogy

Individual group simulation exercise, group discussion and sharing.

4. Personal Growth Laboratory

    Objectives

1. To get in touch with the experiences of growing up and membership in family and work system
2. To discover new options towards a more integrated form of self, role and identity.            
3. To confront the notions held of self and others in a shared space.
4. To unfold that part of the being which nurtures wholesomeness, meaningfulness and self expression.

    Pedagogy

This lab provides a time and space to explore processes of existence at the individual and collective level. Students work in small groups of 10- 12 per group with joint sessions of the entire community in the evenings. The experience is at the emotive level.

5. Certificate course for counseling skills for teachers

    Objectives

• To arrive at a wider perspective in the field of process counseling, in addition to the tradition clinical approach.
• To develop and train individuals as agents of social change to facilitate and manage the various transitions and phases of their lives.
• To create a pool of professionals, systematically trained in the field of counseling.
• To train committed individuals who would facilitate exploration and dialogue around issues of systems, self and relationship at both social and work settings.
• To create in counselors a deeper understanding of the self, role, others and systems and acquire a realistic appraisal into ones own strengths and weakness.
  
  

    Course coverage

It is divided into 5 modules namely

1. Theories of Personality
2. Stages and definitions in counseling
3. Psychopathology and Psychosomatic Disorders
4. Psychological Testing and Measurement of Personality
5. Practicing Counseling
   
   

6. Understanding the Self ( Assessment & Self Exploration )

    Objectives

• To discover and gain insights into the self.
• To identify behavioral strengths and preferred ways to interact.
• To strengthen non preferred areas of interaction to balance out the expected role of a teacher.
  
  

    Pedagogy

Pre testing to be carved out one week prior to the workshop. The work shop will be based on one to one sharing and discussion apart from group discussion. A personality type indicator and a semi structured questionnaire will map the profile. The findings will be discussed in a workshop modality.