The Marae-based Hui: Intensive induction to cross-cultural counselling, a New Zealand experiment

Everts, Johannes F.

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“…In addressing such issues, indigenous or culture-specific experiences and rituals can be used very effectively to enhance spiritual awareness and crosscultural competence (Everts, 1988;Gibbs, 1984). For Auckland students who attended the 1993 IRTAC Conference, the combination of the overt acknowledgment of spirituality and Maori cultural protocol in ceremonies provided powerful validation of these themes in the development of their own professional identity.…”

Section: Spirituality As Content In the Programmementioning

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Including spirituality in counsellor education: Issues for consideration, with illustrative reference to a New Zealand example

Everts

Agee

1994

Int J Adv Counselling

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The appropriate inclusion of spirituality in professional counsellor education programmes requires a careful definition of spirituality, and clarification of how it affects the programme's content. It also involves determination of how a programme may be structured to address various aspects of spirituality. This article highlights some of the issues involved in these tasks. SummarySpirituality in this article is defined as 'having to do with a person's innermost being and its connection with a universal force or divine presence which gives purpose and meaning to people's lives'. Issues of spirituality have been difficult for the profession of counselling to encompass because of their subjective and controversial nature. Nevertheless, the increasingly explicit recognition of spirituality in client adjustment and community functioning is forcing counsellors and counsellor educators to incorporate spirituality more fully into their work. This article explores the implications of that trend for counsellor education.In the first instance, it is argued that counsellors must recognise and address spirituality as it is embedded in issues that clients bring to counselling -to do with childrearing, intimate partnerships, vocational decision making, world views, and the experience of birth and death. Counsellor trainees must also be aware how their own values, world view and spirituality influence their reasons for being a counsellor, and the ways that they express their professional role. In training this must be addressed openly but delicately as part of the counsellor's overall professional development. At times this involves addressing deep personal issues or problems. To carry out these tasks adequately, counsellor educators and supervisors must model a genuine and inclusive acknowledgement of spirituality in their teaching, practice and personal behaviour. Systematic and explicit attention must be given to issues of spirituality at any point where they occur naturally -in client analysis, models and strategies of intervention, practical casework, student evaluation, and research projects.

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Section: Spirituality As Content In the Programmementioning

confidence: 99%

Including spirituality in counsellor education: Issues for consideration, with illustrative reference to a New Zealand example

Everts

Agee

1994

Int J Adv Counselling

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“…Well, we are beginning to do something about it, actually. Counselors in New Zealand are gradually being exposed to these ideas and understandings (cf., Everts, 1988). Whether the ideas are becoming part of counseling practice with clients though is not certain.…”

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Counselling Maori people in New Zealand [Aotearoa]

Durie

Hermansson

1990

Int J Adv Counselling

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This paper is an edited version of a seminal address given to a national association of counselors in New Zealand by a senior Maori figure professionally involved in the helping field. It focuses on a particular indigenous ethnic minority in terms of appropriate counseling, but has relevance for other traditionally-based cultures. After some attention to the societal context, the address considers major directions of western thought and how these have been reflected in counseling. It then suggests that these are largely inappropriate for Maori people, elaborating contrasts, Three major dimensions of Maori culture relevant to counselling are presented and developed. Finally, attention is given to ways in which counseling in New Zealand might be better developed along bicultural lines.

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The Marae-based Hui: Intensive induction to cross-cultural counselling, a New Zealand experiment

Cited by 2 publications

References 7 publications

Including spirituality in counsellor education: Issues for consideration, with illustrative reference to a New Zealand example

Including spirituality in counsellor education: Issues for consideration, with illustrative reference to a New Zealand example

Counselling Maori people in New Zealand [Aotearoa]

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