ABSTRACT

This sentiment applies to the training of volunteers in counselling skills and also to writing about such a scheme. How can I know that you will understand that this is simply one person’s experience as a trainer? Will you read between the lines and know that this is not the whole truth, or even the whole experience? Can I be faithful to the people I worked with and do them justice, while still recording our problems? If we were starting again, with our current knowledge, would we do some things very differently? I have written very specifically about one support scheme, and have tried to draw out of it some of the issues which might concern others involved in doing something similar.