This session provides an opportunity to collect peer feedback on your journal and learn about paraphrasing and reflecting feelings

1. Paraphrasing and Reflecting Feelings
Session 6

2. Session Aims
Provide an opportunity for peer feedback on your
reflective journals, and introduce the topic of
paraphrasing and reflecting feelings

3. Learning Outcomes
By the end of this session you will be able to:
1. Identify ways to improve your reflective journals
2. Describe paraphrasing and reflecting feelings
3. Demonstrate simple paraphrasing skills
4. Demonstrate the skill of reflecting feelings

4. Last Session

5. Refraining
Putting on hold the urge to interrupt with our opinions
and advice. Resisting the desire to “fix” problems or
repeatedly ask questions
Attending
Focusing all of our attention on the speaker: what they
say and how they say it (and what they do not say).
The aim is to remain within your client’s
frame of reference

6. Contents of this Session
 Ice-breaker
 Thirty minute peer feedback session
 Presentation on paraphrasing and reflecting
feelings
 Demonstration of paraphrasing and reflecting
feelings
 Skills practise in triads
 Feedback your experience to the whole group
 A round to finish

7. Ice-breaker

8. Journal Feedback 30 Minutes
1. Collect a blank feedback form
2. Swap your journal with somebody else
3. Take your partner’s reflective journal. On your own, read
one or two journal entries and honestly and sensitively
complete the structured feedback form.
4. After 20 minutes find your partner and talk through the
feedback you have given to help them develop their
journal writing.
Remember to use the listening skills of rapport building,
refraining and attending as well as your feedback skills

9. Paraphrasing

10. Paraphrasing
Paraphrasing enables the listener to clarify
meaning by repeating back to the speaker the
content of what they have said.

11. Reflecting Feelings

12. Reflecting Feelings
Reflecting feelings involves identifying and drawing
the speaker’s attention to the feelings behind his
or her words
Reflecting the emotional content of what is being
said.

13. Demonstration

14. Comfort Break

15. Skills Practise 40 minutes
1. Work in groups of three
2. Take turns being the counsellor, the client and the observer.
3. Take 10 minutes each
4. Client - talk about a small problem that’s current in your life
5. Counsellor - practise your listening skills, including
paraphrasing and reflecting feelings.
6. Observer - keep the time and provide brief feedback at the
end of five minutes on the counsellors use of listening skills

16. Feedback

17. The Round

18. Conclusions
You are now able to:
1. Identify ways to improve your reflective journals
2. Describe paraphrasing and reflecting feelings
3. Demonstrate paraphrasing
4. Demonstrate reflecting feelings

19. Well done Everybody!