My experience running Personal Development groups for trainee counsellors and therapists finds me questioning the depth and rigour of many current training courses. I believe this is not so much due to the tutorship or personal agendas, persuasions and skills of tutors, but rather the burgeoning requirement on training courses to prove ('evidence') that all bases have been covered; politically and correctly learned and assimilated, therefore nullifying any possibility of the training being flawed or inadequate - all boxes ticked!
This obsession with training courses evidencing they have ticked all the boxes, covered all bases, means tutors are constantly preoccupied with 'looking over their shoulders' lest they omit or contravene an edict from their respective governing body or authority. This evokes a level of hyper-vigilance severely limiting the potential to explore, experiment, experience and learn; now the 'evidence' becomes the overarching priority. We thus, in giving diplomas for the ability to evidence all the 'right' boxes are ticked, might say that we give 'diplomatic immunity' to our graduates. Would we want to set this precedent for our clients? Indeed, would we like a CCTV camera in the corner of our consulting room? What part(s) of ourselves must we leave outside the consulting room lest it is spotted by 'big brother'?
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