Learning Conclusion (Required for Portfolio)

review your portfolio (i.e., read through it) and reflect on your learning across the semester, including a consideration of how your understanding of counselling theories has changed and developed since the beginning of the course. Write 2-3 pages, double spaced, using the following questions as a guide (you do not need to answer all of them. Use them to develop a discussion that shows meaningful reflection about your own development in this course):

– What particular counselling theories and/or schools (e.g., psychodynamic, existential-humanistic, cognitive behavioural, constructivist) resonate with you and why?
– What are some of the personal counselling values you bring to this work? Are there particular theories that align well with those values?
– What are some of the basic assumptions you have about people and what theoretical approach is the closest match to these assumptions?
– What was a meaningful topic, reading, discussion, or activity for you in this course and why?
– What do you know now that you didn’t know before this course? About the field of counselling? About yourself?
– What surprised you about the course that you weren’t expecting (relating to the field of counselling and/or your learning experiences in this course)?
– In what ways has your thinking and perspectives changed as a result of this class?
– What will you change in your own life and work as a result of your experience in this course and this portfolio?
– What were some of your most challenging moments in this course/doing this portfolio and what made them so?
– What were some of the most challenging topics/discussions and what made them so?
– What were your most interesting discoveries in this course?
– What did you learn about yourself?
– What questions and curiosities are you leaving this course with that you would like to continue to pursue and explore?
– What is something about your learning this semester that you are proud of?