Section: Seminars and Events

Social Work Seminar Series -

A Story to Live and Work By

Title
A Story to Live and Work By: Religion and spirituality in the self-narratives of Scottish Counsellors
Speaker(s)
Speaker: Dr. Alette Willis # School of Divinity, University of Edinburgh
Date and Time
27th Mar 2012 14:00 – 27th Mar 2012 16:00
Location
Seminar room 3, CMB, 15a George Square
URL
http://www.socialwork.ed.ac.uk/events/social_work_seminar_series/2011_2012/a_story_to_live_and_work_by

Counsellors use their selves in their practices, drawing on practical personal knowledge that is intertwined with their professional identities.Who the counsellor is matters to what happens within the therapy room and to how these practices are storied more broadly in society.

In turn, in forming personal professional identities, counsellors must necessarily draw on cultural resources, on broader societal stories about their profession, in order to be intelligible.In this way they are constrained in giving meaning to their professional lives and in implementing their personal practical knowledge by how society stories their professions.

In this seminar, I invite you to step into the stories-to-live-by of counsellors and psychotherapists whodraw on religious and spiritual discourses and invite you to bring your own professional identity into dialogue with their stories.Drawing on narrative social theory, I argue that such alternative stories offer important challenges to the medicalized discourse of counselling and psychotherapy currently gaining dominance over the field.

No registration required

Written confirmation of 2 hours CPD activity can be provided

This page was published on 23 March 2012


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