In her lecture on the danger of a single story, the Nigerian writer Chimamanda Adichie reminisces Fide. When she was...
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Helping Conversations
Ella consults a care provider. What is she hoping for? Or is she losing hope? Or both? Isabel is the...
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Protecting against black magic: ‘people always respond’
People always respond Michael White already mentioned this when he talked about having helping conversations with people who have gone...
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Occasionally, you experience something that makes you realize that your life will never be exactly the same again. Sometimes you...
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Hello everyone, my name is Annie. I work at a psychiatric hospital, offering pastoral care in the broad sense of...
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Do you take notes during the helping conversations you have? I take quite extensive notes. But what do I do...
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In a recent post I discussed the giving of compliments to the people who consult us. However is it possible...
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Conversations have a fleeting quality. And that goes for helping conversations too. Just ask your interlocutor a week later what...
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How exploring nice, pleasurable, or otherwise sparkling experiences can free up inspiration in the face of problems and dilemmas. A...
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cheat sheet: 6 types of questions for an empowering conversation
In 2008, in Adelaide, I heard David Epston tell a story about a first interview with a family. The family...
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Who am I?
Johan Van de Putte is a psychologist with 25 years of experience in holding helping conversations. His focus goes out to molding conversations
- that are identity-friendly,
- that explore what sparkles in the life and the person of your conversation partner,
- that maintain an awareness of the unequal distribution of power in the therapeutic relationship.