Part 1: Communication Skills

“The degree to which I can create relationships, which facilitate the growth of others as separate persons, is a measure of the growth I have achieved in myself.”        ~Carl Rogers 

Effective engagement with your clients and making sure they feel like you are listening and joining them in their recovery, requires a building up of basic skills and awareness of self. In this part of the module, we will be asking you to look at the relationship, empathy, and some of the introductory skills of listening and attending to your client. 

We encourage you to reflect, practice, reflect, journal, practice, and on and on, until these listening skills become second nature in time.