Relentless Accountabilities and Co-’authoring’ our Professional Lives

Authors

  • Tom Strong University of Calgary

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.82396/cjcd.v4i2.2992

Keywords:

accountable, professional, profession

Abstract

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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2005-09-01

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Strong, T. . (2005). Relentless Accountabilities and Co-’authoring’ our Professional Lives. Canadian Journal of Career Development, 4(2), 14–20. https://doi.org/10.82396/cjcd.v4i2.2992

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Vol. 4 No. 2 (2005)

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