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Using the Dialogical Concept of the “Architecture of Life Space” in Facilitating Career Adaptability, Resilience and Coping with Transitions

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Abstract

In post-modern reality, it is imperative to analyse life in its entire complexity. In this chapter, a holistic perspective is proposed to grasp the multidimensionality of life in terms of a spatial structure with a specific dynamics of its own. This life space is increasingly often recognised and examined by scholars; it is also targeted by helping interventions of career counselling. Because self-construction takes place in interpersonal relationships, dialogue becomes a key factor in counselling, where it designates a mindset, a principle and an intervention method. The author outlines the dialogic concept of counselling as participatory architecture of life space and argues that this counselling model fosters such competences as adaptability, resilience and coping with transitions.

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    While I am aware that the word “subject” is highly contested across disciplines, I do not agree that it uniformly carries negative connotations. In a number of philosophical frameworks, it is a cornerstone, a fundamental term used either purely neutrally or even with clearly positive overtones to refer to a human being that has achieved the position of self-awareness, subjectivity and agency. Delsol uses it repeatedly as one of the most essential human designations. I will not be using it elsewhere in the text to avoid any controversy, but at this point I believe it merits being retained as it is very specific to Delsol’s philosophy. Also, while I do understand that there is a widespread standard of using the plural form “people” instead of the singular “person,” I wish to give a precise account of Delsol’s thought with all its distinct terminology as well as to keep my stance of personalism, where the term “the person” is invested with value, meaning and dignity and denotes something else than “one specimen from among people” or “an individual.”

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    The exercise I describe in this chapter is based on an exercise developed by Minta (2012) for group work with students. I have modified, expanded and specified it based on the notion of interpersonal dialogue for the use in the counsellor-client dyad. Cf. Minta (2012, p. 63).

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Drabik-Podgórna, V. (2017). Using the Dialogical Concept of the “Architecture of Life Space” in Facilitating Career Adaptability, Resilience and Coping with Transitions. In: Maree, K. (eds) Psychology of Career Adaptability, Employability and Resilience . Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-66954-0_14

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