Counselling Training

I was so whacked after 6hours intense counselling training. It was another amazing personal development opportunity for me to share my journey with others and to grow. I worked very hard to push my boundary especially in a large group situation. It's always easy for me to deal with a one-to-one based conversation, but to express my own believes/values/options in a large group in English has always be difficult. However, I was very pleased myself in the afternoon sessions to speak up my feelings to the whole group freely and even lead the whole group to thank the two facilitators for their wisdom and enthusiasm. I knew that the speech I did today was rather clumsy, but at least I did what I thought was impossible!!! It was a big step for me because last week, I really admired this gentleman who stood up in front of 75 graduates and gave a very appropriate thank you speech to the organisers from his own willingness. I remembered hearing myself saying, I wanted to do the same, but I wish I could have had his courage! He is actually the very one who made me very famous among all the graduates, HR and managers during the Graduate Orientation dinner. However, I was very inspired by him at that moment even he was still wearing my name tag!

Another interesting finding was about my comfort zone. I noticed how my body and mind react when I walked towards different genders and vice verse. My anxiety and tenseness shot up the highest when a male walking towards me, followed by walking towards a male, walking towards a female, and the female walking towards me. I always thought that in order to survive in this male dominated industry, I should have got so used to around males, but NO!! My arms, my chest were all tense and I couldn't breath when he walked towards me slowly. I also had to stop him from getting too close to me.

Growing old is mandatory, but growing up is optional! I like this quote and today I saw two living proof in our group. Especially this young man who is only 18 years old, but he was more mature than most of 25 years old boys that I know of. I am happy for him as he has such great potential to grow more!

Everyone was very exhausted by the end of the day, but I believe they are all as looking forwards as I am for the next 7 training courses with each other!