Looking up and out: transcending techniques in counselling for grief and loss with philosophy

This thesis is a phenomenological study of heeding consciousness in lived experience. Narratives of the lives of counsellor and clients embrace vulnerability as courage to face death and loss. Through philosophy and literature, I disclose what is immanent in a counsellor’s life. I question traditio...

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Main Author: Stow, Dianne Margaret
Format: Thesis
Language:English
Published: Curtin University 2013
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/1566
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description This thesis is a phenomenological study of heeding consciousness in lived experience. Narratives of the lives of counsellor and clients embrace vulnerability as courage to face death and loss. Through philosophy and literature, I disclose what is immanent in a counsellor’s life. I question traditional techniques and theories. I present grief and loss as ultimate situations in life, and reveal one other: being-as-counsellor is primarily being-self in genuine conversations, reverently holding human-hood in cupped hands.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-15662017-02-20T06:38:22Z Looking up and out: transcending techniques in counselling for grief and loss with philosophy Stow, Dianne Margaret This thesis is a phenomenological study of heeding consciousness in lived experience. Narratives of the lives of counsellor and clients embrace vulnerability as courage to face death and loss. Through philosophy and literature, I disclose what is immanent in a counsellor’s life. I question traditional techniques and theories. I present grief and loss as ultimate situations in life, and reveal one other: being-as-counsellor is primarily being-self in genuine conversations, reverently holding human-hood in cupped hands. 2013 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/1566 en Curtin University fulltext
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Looking up and out: transcending techniques in counselling for grief and loss with philosophy
title Looking up and out: transcending techniques in counselling for grief and loss with philosophy
title_full Looking up and out: transcending techniques in counselling for grief and loss with philosophy
title_fullStr Looking up and out: transcending techniques in counselling for grief and loss with philosophy
title_full_unstemmed Looking up and out: transcending techniques in counselling for grief and loss with philosophy
title_short Looking up and out: transcending techniques in counselling for grief and loss with philosophy
title_sort looking up and out: transcending techniques in counselling for grief and loss with philosophy
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/1566