062 – First Contact with Clients – Philosophy of Martin Buber
Counselling Tutor podcast
Kenneth Kelly
4.8 • 657 Ratings
🗓️ 15 December 2017
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
In episode 62 of the Counselling Tutor Podcast, Ken Kelly and Rory Lees-Oakes offer tips on how to make the first contact with a new client. 'Theory with Rory' summarises Martin Buber's concept of 'I–Thou' versus 'I-It'. Last, the presenters discuss the difficulties of seeing our own areas of prejudice.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Counseling Tutor Podcast. |
| 0:04.4 | The must listen to podcast for students of counselling and psychotherapy. |
| 0:10.6 | Here are your hosts, Rory Lee's Oaks and Ken Kelly. |
| 0:15.6 | Hello and welcome to the counselling tutor podcast with me, Rory Lee's Oaks. |
| 0:20.4 | And with me is my fellow anthropological philosopher, Mr Ken Kelly. |
| 0:26.2 | Gooden talk, Rory. |
| 0:27.6 | And I believe that that is in keeping with the theme of what we might be looking at today. |
| 0:32.1 | So great day as we come, I guess, if you're listening to this in real time and not on the catch-up podcasts, |
| 0:37.7 | going into the festive season, I guess, if you're listening to this in real time and not on the catch-up podcasts, going into the festive season, I guess. And episode 62, we're going to be opening with |
| 0:43.7 | that first contact. And, you know, there's the first contact when we maybe see a client in our |
| 0:48.7 | counselling room, but this can extend beyond that. To first contact, maybe we speak to them on |
| 0:52.9 | the phone to arrange that first session. |
| 0:55.6 | And of course that links into a Facebook comment that we will be bringing to you. |
| 0:59.1 | Going into theory with Rory today and we're looking at I and thou, Rory. |
| 1:04.4 | Is this where our German theme kind of fits in? |
| 1:07.7 | It does. We're going to be talking about the philosophy of Martin Buba, who is in fact |
| 1:14.5 | an anthropological, or was an anthropological philosopher. Anthropological philosophy, |
| 1:20.5 | the study of phenomenology, metaphysics, and all those things that are very difficult to measure |
| 1:26.7 | with a ruler or a weighing machine. |
| 1:29.4 | I like it. I like it. So we're going to be looking at that, the I and thou philosophy of dialogue. |
| 1:36.7 | And then we're going to be closing today with something else that's a little difficult to measure with a ruler. |
| 1:41.5 | And that is our own prejudice and how we can challenge our own prejudice that |
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