Thank you for this wise and important reflection. I also despair at the lack of depth among those who purport to have something to offer as helping professionals. In this age of social media, the number of people offering ideas, advice and support that is unsafe, unsound and unsupported is very very alarming. I mourn the loss of depth, rigour and self development in my own profession as a psychotherapist. Academic courses are no replacement for trainings that not only provide rich theoretical teachings, but also develop the psychotherapist as a human being. I often say that true therapists and healers have super human levels of various capacities - empathy, attunement, self reflection, embodiment, relationality and so on. We need to be braver calling out those that are not fit for these roles.
Thanks Sakino, your reflections are important and spoken from the heart. How would you compare those who learned only with "University Degree" vs those who *only* learned by "Alternative Teachers". Combining the best of both, does that come at the expense of true mastery of a discipline? Are there any "purists" left?
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Thank you for this wise and important reflection. I also despair at the lack of depth among those who purport to have something to offer as helping professionals. In this age of social media, the number of people offering ideas, advice and support that is unsafe, unsound and unsupported is very very alarming. I mourn the loss of depth, rigour and self development in my own profession as a psychotherapist. Academic courses are no replacement for trainings that not only provide rich theoretical teachings, but also develop the psychotherapist as a human being. I often say that true therapists and healers have super human levels of various capacities - empathy, attunement, self reflection, embodiment, relationality and so on. We need to be braver calling out those that are not fit for these roles.
Thank you Sakino for sharing this.
Thanks Sakino, your reflections are important and spoken from the heart. How would you compare those who learned only with "University Degree" vs those who *only* learned by "Alternative Teachers". Combining the best of both, does that come at the expense of true mastery of a discipline? Are there any "purists" left?
Thank you for your thoughts. I believe there is no 'true mastery', we are all students of life, all our lives