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🫂Counselling Skills (Aotearoa NZ)

Learn to listen well and help people feel heard, the Aotearoa way

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What counselling is, and what it is not

Helping skills are not a licence to practise

The NZ profession, and the move toward regulation

Te Tiriti o Waitangi and cultural responsibility

Te Whare Tapa Whā

Whakawhanaungatanga and manaakitanga

Whānau and kaupapa Māori approaches

The Fonofale model for Pasifika wellbeing

The ethical frame, in plain words

Confidentiality and its limits under NZ law

Boundaries

When to refer, and free NZ supports

Carl Rogers and the core conditions

Empathy up close

Unconditional positive regard

Congruence

Attending, the skill before words

Open questions and minimal encouragers

Paraphrasing

Reflecting feeling

Summarising and silence

Empathy versus sympathy versus advice

The major approaches at a glance

A closer look at motivational interviewing

The stages of a helping conversation

Working with strong emotions and crisis basics

Cultural humility

Self-care and supervision

Common beginner mistakes

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