A Banjara blog for the DCS Alumni

A Call to All our former DCS students.

Here is a chance to build up your Life Skills:

Admission is open only to those who have completed DCS (in any year).

Two batches will be conducted (subject to minimum 15 enrollments) at the following:

• At RV Road: Monday and Friday 10:30 to 12:30
• At RT Nagar: Tuesday & Thursday 10:30 to 12:30

Fees :

Scheme I: Rs. 16,800.00  (One time payment before 30th June)

Scheme II: Installment Option

An Initial payment of Rs. 6,800/- before 30th June

Subsequent Installments: Rs. 2,750/- per month from July to October 2009.

Classes will be commencing from 10th August, 2009, and will end in
mid-April 2010. In case a batch is not taken up in either of the
centres, full refund of payment will be given immediately.

• School Counsellor required for Delhi Public School (DPS East) at Sarjapur Road, urgently
  Contact ex-DCS  Ms. Parul Malik on 9845449591 giving the reference of Dr. Ali Khwaja.
• Christ College wants a counsellor.  Contact Raja for details. Visit the following webpage for contact details of Raja: http://www.banjaraacademy.org/contact-details

Dear DCS-ers
Hope all of you are doing well.  It is amazing how many enquiries we are getting for jobs these days.  Those of you who wish to take up paid assignments as counselors, particularly in educational institutions, now is the time to apply.  With the new Academic Year, many are open to taking in full or part-time counselors.  If you have personal contacts, even if they have not advertised, do go and explain to them about counselling.

Even otherwise, do not lose touch with counselling – and with each other.  It was a pleasure to get a mail from Pallavi Singh, one of the youngest in the first batch (2000), who completed DCS and went on to join the Army as an officer.  She is now doing a PG course in IIM Lucknow, and plans to leave the army and get a civilian job.  She remembers Banjara very fondly.

The new batch (DCS-10) is starting soon.  This year admissions have been good, and if any of your friends are seriously interested, please ask them to get in touch at the earliest, as we may have to close the batches that get full very soon.

Best wishes !

Ali

A Pranic Orientation program will be held on 10th November (Monday), 2008 between 2 pm and 3:30 pm at the Banjara Academy, R T Nagar, Bangalore.

For details Contact : Sapna – 98440-14644

The Agenda of the Pranic Orientation Program is as follows:

• General overview of the Energy Body or Aura
• Energy centre’s or Chakras
• Kirlian pictures substantiating the existence of the Aura or Energy field of living and non-living objects
• Demo of healing on a member of the audience
• Application of pranic healing on day to day aspects of life, by laypersons and professionals
• Open-House
• Concluding with dates and details of Pranic Workshops (Basic, Advanced and Psychotherapy)

It has been some time since you completed DCS.  Would you like to do a review where you stand in the basic Skills of a Counsellor ?

• Ability to focus on the counselee and his emotions, and not jump to conclusions, look for solutions, or concentrate on other individuals involved with counsellee
• Ability to put counselee at ease, and build rapport
• Maintain confidentiality
• Acceptance, without being judgmental
• Availability, and the ability to make the counselee feel wanted
• Supportive and Active Listening, without interruption
• Resisting the temptation to solve problems or give advice
• Giving positive strokes and encouragement
• Empathy
• Not getting emotional or drowned in the counsellee’s emotions
• Paraphrasing and rephrasing, summarizing
• Empowering counselee to understand need for change, and guiding him towards it
• Helping and supporting counselee set goals
• Ability to understand one’s limitations, accept, and refer when necessary
• Strength and stability to prevent counter-transference, and keep oneself detached
• Capacity to handle difficult counselees
• Build strong bonds with counselee, but ensure he does not become dependant
• Memory to remember counselee’s issues, initiative to keep in touch (when necessary)

And most important – a counsellor should be genuine i.e. he must have congruence between his thoughts, words and action.  See how many of these skills you have, are developing, or improving.  It is not important how high is your rating, what is important is whether you are continuously improving in each of these parameters.

Wishing you a Very Happy Diwali and Rajyotsava!!!