How We Care: Episode 12: The Value of Self-Awareness for Helping Professionals

Elizabeth and Paul discuss the value of developing and maintaining self-awareness as a helping professional, and the ways in which high levels of self-awareness can significantly enhance our support for those we seek to help. They share some of their own strategies for being self-aware including journaling, recruiting critical friends, and mind-body awareness practices.

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‘How We Care’ is a series of monthly collaborative conversations between helping professionals for people who care, counsel, guide, or coach for a living (or may want to in the future). We consider what this takes, the challenges, how best to look after our own wellbeing and ways to develop our effectiveness. With combined experience in their fields of nearly 60 years, Paul and Elizabeth are passionate about what they do and the interactions they have with their clients. With guest conversationalists from other disciplines, this is ‘How We Care’!