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Most diabolical course I have ever undertaken
I cannot emphasise enough how poorly this course has been put together. I wanted to do the counselling course but was made to do the hypnotherapy course at Level 3. When asked why I had to do this they said to lead me into the Level 4 counselling course. I believe the fact that I am educated to Level 7 in a similar field that allows me to be part of the British Psychological Society, I do not believe I should have been made to do this level three course as I more than well equipped to start the Level 4 course. This should be assessed individually and not forced to do it when already educated to a certain level, it's just another money making scheme by Chrysalis. In order to really become educated by them they want you to pay lots of extra money for their CPD courses which are about £200 a go, about things you thought would be taught within the course that you have signed up for, For example, Smoking cessation this is one of the main things you could make money out of a s a hypnotherapist whilst training to become a counsellor. Nothing was done on this with the help of the tutor. We had to meet once a month on a Sunday, which turned out to be entirely pointless. You left with the same knowledge you what you went in with it was just wasted time. Yet it could have been used more productively to maybe explore this smoking cessation and how to do it and provide more details, but no apparently there was not enough time! There was plenty of time- pick anyone of these Sundays where we did nothing. But instead Chrysalis want you to pay extra for this to do their CPD at £200 a time!! However during these Sundays the course wanted you to spend time on areas we are not allowed to even attempt as unqualified and trainees and not to be able to go forward with even after the course is completed- How does this make any sense?!!! spend the time on things we can and are allowed to do! The course on Moodle is so poorly set out and everyone in my group found it confusing- they had different names and things like, components/modules and then a random unit 6 which was not placed in the order of the other components of when it needed to be done and turns out to be a quite and extensive piece of work which was not in anyway supported or delved into in a productive way by the tutor. Many of the people on my course had not engaged in any form of education since school and so more guidance was required which was not provided. For example, there is a 3000 word essay which was needed to be completed and with Harvard refencing there was no breaking down of how to approach this and this was overwhelming for those in the class that had only done their GCSE's and were stepping foot back into education. Although Harvard referencing was mentioned it was never taught. I was familiar with it due to my education and so I spent hours with my group explaining this and how to approach a 3000 word essay so that it was achievable and not overwhelming. My group would call the tutor and two occasions the response was' you have Marie in your group she knows what she is doing!' I am happy to help my people in my group but I did spend hours doing this as it was just not made clear for them, so maybe Chrysalis should be paying me! This was the same with the case studies and how this needed to be put together. I ended up spending four hours looking through my groups work to check they had everything they needed and that they were on the right lines as it just wasn't made clear to them by the course or the tutor. Personally for me I learnt nothing from the tutor I just read the titles of what I had to do and complete and read a book around the topic and completed the work. I then shared my knowledge of what needed to be done with my group so they knew how to complete it. The Sunday meetings and online sessions were completely pointless- I learnt nothing- nothing was taught we were just talked at. I do not fully blame the tutor as they have hired Hypnotherapist to teach and these are two completely different professions. She was a great hypnotherapist I am sure but that does not make you a good teacher and I do not believe that Chrysalis provided the right support to the tutor in how to deliver a productive, inclusive and engaging session that builds on skills. All that happened was we were talked at about, well, nothing !!The most interesting part was watching her do hypnotherapy once so that was an hour out of 7hrs a session once a month which was relatively useful! I was paying to sit in a room bored out of my mind. Others in the group they felt the same. I have formally complained and no longer want to do the counselling purely because of how bad this course is but they are going to make me pay for the next two years if I pull out, which I do not think is right when the one and only reason I do not want to continue is because of how dire it is and I am not getting what I am paying for, a decent course.