Certificate in Social Personal & Health Education - Minor Award (SPHE)

Course details

This is a Minor Award to the MA in Social Personal and Health Education Level 9.

Central to the SPHE programmes at WIT is the development of facilitation skills which will enable participants to work effectively in many settings including schools. The focus on personal development supports participants to discover that when they empower themselves to be well, they can support others to reach their potential to be well.

The advanced modules in facilitation skills and personal development provide students with a unique opportunity to build upon their SPHE training to date and further enhance the knowledge, skills, attitudes and competencies resulting in effective facilitation of SPHE with groups, individuals, and key populations.

Programme Aims

By the end of the Minor Award in SPHE participants will be able to:

• Demonstrate a further understanding of the use of self in the role of facilitator.
• Demonstrate competency in the safe use of skills and interventions required for effective facilitation.
• Apply experiential methodologies to facilitate their peers in the exploration of effective facilitation.
• Competently work with diversity and complexity which emerges in a group.
• Demonstrate their capacity to provide containment and create a safe climate within a group
• Evaluate their strengths and weaknesses in facilitation and offer appropriate feedback to others in the group.
• Translate insight into action.
• Make effective contact with self and others.
• Work with, and evaluate, their own process
• Demonstrate a capacity to self evaluate
• Critically evaluate their understanding of the significance of psychological separation.
• Articulate their understanding of their own development process

Modules

Semester 1

• Advanced Facilitation Skills

Semester 2

• Advanced Personal Development

Entry Requirements

• To study at level 9, participants must hold a level 8 qualification (ordinarily an Honours Degree).
• All participants must have completed the Higher Diploma in SPHE, or the Extra Mural Certificate in SPHE or equivalent.
• Entry on these modules is subject to the successful completion of an interview.
• Applicants whose first language is not English must submit evidence of competency in English.