Training

Aims and objectives

MAST logo 2016

Autism Training for Counsellors

The aims of this course are:

To deliver autism spectrum training as a model for counselling couples where Asperger Syndrome or High Functioning Autism is a presenting issue in the relationship. To enable counsellors to feel confident in the delivery of this form of counselling.

Objectives:

For delegates to:

  • Identify with the 7 stages of the counselling model.

  • Appreciate the linear structure of the model, but also the interplay between the stages.

  • Experience various techniques, skills and strategies that accompany each stage.

  • Recognise that this counselling shares many skills and abilities with non-Asperger counselling.

Course Outline

The morning session will be about Asperger/Autism awareness and will include a number of elements that involve audience participation.
The afternoon session will be a journey through the counselling model and an introduction to numerous autism appropriate strategies.

MAST logo 2016

Autism Spectrum Training

The aims of this course are:

To develop awareness and understanding of autism spectrum and related conditions and to realise that it’s not only those people with high functioning autism that can be given help, guidance and support, but also those with more profound difficulties.

Objectives:

The best way to outline the course objectives is by way of the following quotes from Jim Sinclair and Alan Turin.

“If you would help me don’t try to change me to fit your world. Don’t try to confine me to some tiny part of the world that you can change to fit me”.
“Grant me the dignity of meeting me on my own terms - recognise that we are equally alien to each other and that my ways of being are not merely damaged versions of yours”.
“Question your assumptions. Define your terms. Work with me to build bridges between us”.

Jim Sinclair

“Sometimes it is the people no one can imagine anything of who do the things no one can imagine”.
Alan Turing

Course Outline

The training will give a novel introduction to autism and Asperger Syndrome by way of observable elements that involve audience participation. It can also be adapted to include autism in children and young persons and other related syndromes such as ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder) and Tourette’s.

Contact Us

Please get in touch
Contact Us