Banjara Academy
One year

DIPLOMA IN COUNSELLING SKILLS (D.C.S.)

Here is a course with a practical orientation -- to understand, master, and practice the skills of psychological counselling at workplace, community, institutions, and in informal set ups. The course has been designed from many years of experience of people working in and teaching counselling, and is conducted by a broad cross section of counsellors, psychologists, medical professionals, special educators, human resources experts, and wonderful human beings.

Managed by professionals, the course is tutored for even those who have not had prior theoretical knowledge of psychology, and is conducted with the explicit aim of empowering the students in the practical realm. More than eight hundred students have successfully completed the course since it was given a formal structure in 1999, and many thousands have benefited from short term courses of the Academy.

This course highlights the philosophy that each person is unique in his or her own right; that in certain conditions each one has the ability to grow and develop; that learning is best achieved when the person takes responsibility and is willing to ‘experience’ a range of different skills.

This course will help those who wish to improve their own relationships and practice counselling in the following areas:

In offices and factories, educational institutions, adolescents, hospitals, nursing homes, alongside busy medical professionals, women’s or community organizations, old age homes, hospices, de-addiction centres, with families, youth and children, for marital harmony, or even informally in the community.

The program simultaneously nurtures personal growth and development by making one understand one’s own strengths and weaknesses.