Effective Listening Skills | Redlands Counselling and Training

Short Course
Effective Listening Skills

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15 hours, delivered over 5 Wednesday mornings
Wed
9:30 am - 12:30 pm
Wed 30 Apr 2025 to 4 Jun 2025
15 hours, delivered over 5 Wednesday evenings
Wed
6:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Wed 18 Jun 2025 to 16 Jul 2025
The course is held at our centre in Victoria Park Road
15 hours, delivered over 5 Thursday mornings
Thu
9:30 am - 12:30 pm
Thu 5 Jun 2025 to 3 Jul 2025
This course is held at the Relate centre in Poundbury
15 hours, delivered over 5 Tuesdays evenings
Tue
6:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Tue 22 Apr 2025 to 20 May 2025
15 hours, delivered over 5 Tuesdays evenings
Tue
6:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Tue 3 Jun 2025 to 1 Jul 2025

Learn Effective Listening Skills

We believe that listening skills transform lives. And that everyone can learn to listen more effectively!

Short Course

This superb short course offers numerous long-term benefits for improving relationships with family, friends and colleagues. By learning the art of truly listening, you’ll uncover the unspoken thoughts and emotions of others, thereby enhancing your communication skills. As a result you will deepen your understanding and build confidence in yourself.

Furthermore, this course will help you recognise any personal barriers that may be hindering your ability to listen effectively. The self-awareness you gain throughout the course can prove to be incredibly valuable, ultimately resulting in stronger and more meaningful connections in all areas of your life.

Read our blog about the benefits of learning to listen.

 

How does it work?

Guided by our friendly qualified tutor, you will learn and practice listening and communication skills, in an online or in-person group setting. In addition, you can find out the steps to becoming a counsellor and ask our tutor any questions you may have. After the event you will receive a certificate of attendance by email.

Discount offer

If you go on to study the Level 2 course with us we can credit the entire £55 fee against the cost of that course, effectively making this one free!

Outcomes

By the end of the course you will be able to :

  • Recognise the challenges of effective listening
  • Learn the differences between empathy, sympathy and pity
  • Understand and demonstrate paraphrasing
  • Identify common blocks to listening
  • Have an awareness of your own blocks to listening
  • Understand the progression to Level 2 counselling training and beyond

 

Comments from past students

(100% of them would recommend this course)

"The course was very well run and facilitated; really enjoyed the learning and group dynamic."

"The whole experience was very interesting and eye-opening and I got more out of it than I expected"

"I feel much more confident about interactions at work now"

Fees and Costs
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Further Study
What if I'm not sure?

The cost is £55 for the whole course, which you can claim against the cost of a Level 2 course if you decide you’d like to study further with us.

 

Facilitators

Kate Hyde

Having worked in education for over 20 years Kate trained as a humanistic integrative counsellor and has worked in a number of settings including a local adult hospice and school.  Kate currently works for the NHS as a counsellor and has her own private practice working with both adults and children. Kate has recently completed her training as a professional coach and is an accredited member of the NCPS.

 

Paul René (Director)

The content of this course mirrors the start of CPCAB counselling training, so that you will get a good idea of how training as a counsellor might feel. Going forward, the next stage would be progression to our Level 2 Certificate in Counselling skills, which is a 4 month part-time course.

If you’re not sure that you’re ready to sign up for a day course, then why not try out our free online taster? This is delivered by an experienced qualified tutor from Redlands and last 2.5 hours.

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