This document outlines the agenda and content for a seminar-workshop on personality assessment, guidance services, and empathetic response for non-counselors. The workshop covers modules on personality assessment using Johari's Window and body chemistry theory, warning signs of psychological disorders in students, revisiting guidance services, basic counseling techniques, psychotherapy approaches including person-centered therapy, gestalt therapy and logotherapy. It includes activities on active listening, personality typing, and a counseling simulation with role-playing and feedback. The goal is to help non-counselors develop skills in empathetic response, personality assessment, and basic counseling foundations.

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Francis V. Olila, MA Psych.
November 9, 2016, 2015
Seminar-Workshop on Personality
Assessment, Guidance Services, &
Emphatic Response for Non-Counselors

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 Prayer
 Expectation Setting
 Overview of the Training
 Getting to Know (Activity)
 Module 1: Personality Assessment (Johari’s Window & Body Chemistry
Theory)
 Module 2: Warning Signs of Psychological Disorder in a Student
 Module 3: Revisiting Guidance Services
 Module 4: Basic Counseling Techniques
» SOFTEN
» LTFA
 Module 5: Psychotherapy
» Person-centered Therapy
» Gestalt Therapy
» Logo Therapy
 Module 6: Simulation of Counseling Session (Processing & Critiquing)
 Message to Self

3. Processing of Individual
and Group Expectations
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4. Getting to Know U
(Safe & Useful Questions)
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"Know thyself".
– Socrates
 "It is wisdom to know
others. It is
enlightenment to know
one's self".
– Lao-Tzu

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9. is the dynamic organization
within an individual of the
psychophysical system that
determines his or her
characteristic behaviors and
thoughts.
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11.  Draw your own Johari Window on a sheet of paper
and fill the quadrants with:
 information about yourselves that you want to
share, or
 aspects of yourselves that you would like feedback
on, or
 areas that you would like to explore.
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What is your
personality
style?

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Assessing Personality
Type based on
Temperament
(15 minutes)

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To adapt to Choleric, you
should:
• Get things done for them fast
• Be business-like
• Minimize small talk and get to
the point
• Let them decide
To adapt to Sanguine, you
should:
•Minimize details &
complications
•Be enthusiastic, casual, friendly
•Let them talk or make them look
good
To adapt to Melancholic, you
should:
•Do things correctly
•Minimize mistakes
•Focus on their needs, minimize
small talks
•Be business-like, diplomatic &
tactful
•Explain/offer options
To adapt to Phlegmatic, you
should:
•Demonstrate patience
•Offer personal attention &
ongoing support
•Show them step by step
•Do not pressure them

23. Activity:
ACTIVE LISTENING

24. Warning Signs of Psychological
Disorder in a Student
• The student is:
• 1. Having more difficulty at
school;
• 2. Hitting or bullying other
children;
• 3. Attempting to injure himself;
• 4. Avoiding friends and family;
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25. • 5. Experiencing frequent mood
swings;
• 6. Experiencing intense emotions such
as angry outburst;
• 7. Lacking energy or motivation;
• 8. Having difficulty concentrating;
• 9. Having difficulty sleeping, or is
having a lot of nightmares;
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26. • 10. Having a lot of physical
complaints;
• 11. Neglecting his or her
appearance;
• 12. Obsessed with his or her
weight, shape, or appearance; and
• 13. Eating significantly more or
less than usual.
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27. Revisiting Guidance &
Counseling
• Guidance & Counseling Defined:
• refers to the services and
programs that promote personal,
social, educational, and career
development.
• called as the “heart” of the
academic institution.
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28. Services:
• Counseling Service
• Individual Inventory
• Psychological Testing
• Follow-up Service
• Career and Development Service
• Information Service
• Research and Development
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29. Counseling: The Main Service
• Counseling Defined:
• The process of assisting and
guiding clients, especially by a
trained person on a professional
basis, to resolve especially
personal, social, or psychological
problems and difficulties.
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30. Basic Counseling Foundations
S – O – F – T – E – N
 Smile
 Open Posture
 Forward Lean
 Touch (timing)
 Eye Contact
 Nod
L – F – T – A
Learning
Feeling
Thinking
Acting

31. Counseling Techniques
 pattern of sessions
 active listening
 body language
 monitor the tone of
your voice
 open question
 closed question
 paraphrasing
 summarizing
 note taking
 homework

32. Proponents:
Logotherapy
(Viktor Frankl)
Gestalt Therapy
(Fritz Perls)
Person-centered
Therapy
(Carl Rogers)

33. Psychotherapy Defined
is therapy for a person's mental or emotional
problems (psycho, mind, + therapy), typically
by conversing with another person (talk
therapy). This other person may be a
psychiatrist, psychologist, counselor, clinical
social worker, member of the clergy,
alternative practitioner, or (to use the concept
in its broadest sense) any helpful person.

34. Person-centered Therapy
Defined
- also known as person-centred
counseling or client-centred
counseling.
- is a humanistic approach that
deals with the ways in which
individuals perceive themselves
consciously rather than how a
counselor can interpret their
unconscious thoughts or ideas.

35. Person-centered Core
Conditions:
 Congruence - the counselor
must be completely genuine.
 Unconditional positive regard -
the counselor must be non-
judgmental.
 Empathy - the counselor must
strive to understand the client's
point of view.

36. Gestalt Therapy Defined
refers to a form of psychotherapy that
derives from the gestalt school of
thought. It was developed in the late
1940s by Fritz Perls and is guided by
the relational theory principle that
every individual is a “whole” (mind,
body and soul), and that they are best
understood in relation to their current
situation as he or she experiences it.

37. Gestalt Therapy Techniques:
 Role-play
 The Open Chair Technique
 Dialogue
 Discussing Dreams ("What are you aware
of now?")
 Attention to Body
Language

38. Logotherapy Defined:
Viktor Frankl’s
Logotherapy is based on
the premise that the
human person is
motivated by a “will to
meaning,” an inner pull
to find a meaning in life.

39. Logotherapy
Techniques/Questions:
 What have you learned from your
experience?
 What has your experience taught you?
 What have you realized from your
experience?
 What has your experience made you of right
now?

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 After sharing that painful
experience, what’s the brighter
side of it?
 How are you going to see the
brighter side of your situation?
 Has that experience improve
your relationship with our
family? In what way?

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 If given the chance to correct your
wrongs, how are you going to do it?
 As you look back on your past,
what can you say of your self now?
 Has your experience inspired you to
do better? In what way?
 Anticipating the days to
come…what are the specific things
you want to do, say, on the next 5
days, or 1 week?

42. Simulation: Counseling Session
1. Choose a partner (counselor-
counselee relationship);
2. Co-facilitators shall observe the
process;
3. Critiquing (identifying the
strengths & weaknesses of each
session); and
4. Suggest points for
improvements.

43. Let's Do a Letter to Myself
Exercise

44. Questions/Reactions

45. The End 
DREAMS
Don’t Work
Unless YOU
Do!
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