Relentless Accountabilities and Co-’authoring’ our Professional Lives
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accountable, professional, professionAbstract
This article summarizes activities from a workshop on the career development of counsellors. The perspective taken is borrowed from narrative psychology and therapy, and the workshop’s activities are seen as “re-authoring” opportunities. These opportunities arise from questions, answered in pairs, designed to promote reflection and decision-making on aspects of practice germane to experienced counsellors. Counselling is portrayed as a profession where we are expected to balance accountabilities, including those we have to ourselves, and our most important non-work relationships. Narrating the story of our professional life is therefore one in which our ’authorship’ in all areas of accountability is required.
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