If you are in practice as a coach, counsellor or psychotherapist holding your client meetings outdoors, what feedback are you receiving from your clients about their experience of the process? Is it more or less effective compared to seeing clients indoors ie your coaching or therapy room? (My question is not referring to a sport coach or sport psychologist who often work outside.)
I do counselling both in a confined space and as well as outside. I leave the option to the client. Given a free and large space outside, my clients have appreciated it. What they like most is the time I give them. They often give an encouraging feed back even if a session takes place outside.
That's interesting Norman. Is that on the university campus? Norman David Nsereko
Yes indeed. we have trees, space at the university where a client chooses to have an encounter. Some times parents, guardians etc. may suggest to a student to have a chat with me.
I am a consumer of multicultural counselling. Quiet often, our encounter reflects our cultural values, relationship parameters, to an extent that some other trusted individuals might be consulted.
Counselling as a discipline and approach from the Eurocentric background , is still poorly conceptualized in my society. You cannot run it as a service expecting monetary dividends. Some clients even point out that "just talking and you charge me for that."
Actually, there is a lot of unemployment among qualified university graduates. This is because our culture and way of life, people have time for anybody, whether strangers , those in difficulty, challenging moments i.e., loss, grief, got lost on the way etc. When you get lost on the way, a stranger passerby, can lead you to where you are going without complaining about his/her time, distance covered.
Our major effort is promote counselling as a profession in our country. This outweighs un professional conduct, like compromised confidentiality dual relationships issues,, informed consent etc.
Open space is definitely more effective than closed space. Because people like diverse environment. Also, according to Newell's model in learning, the acquisition of a skill depends on the characteristics of the person, the environment and the task, and the open environment solves this need
جواد Azar مجرد آذر Interestingly, in one of our research studies we found that not everyone preferred outdoors coaching, but the majority did.
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