Open AccessUsing Bio-Spiritual Music Focused Energetics for Social Workers to Enhance Personal Identity and Professional Transformation: The Power of Self-Reflective Empathy
Author(s) -
Wilfred Gallant,
Michael J. Holosko,
Melanie D. Gallant
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
critical social work
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1543-9372
DOI - 10.22329/csw.v6i2.5669
Subject(s) - addiction , psychology , empathy , social work , identity (music) , power (physics) , professional development , certification , affordance , personal development , medical education , psychotherapist , social psychology , pedagogy , medicine , management , political science , psychiatry , physics , quantum mechanics , law , acoustics , economics , cognitive psychology
Working conditions, client demands, heavy workloads, and numerous other factors cause high levels of stress among social workers and undermine their potential for self-fulfilment and productivity. Bio-Spiritual – Music-Focus - Energetics (BSMFE) is a focusing technique used in this study for social workers and addiction counsellors as a part of staff training and development and re-certification. This article speaks to the need for creative and uniquely supportive approaches for helping professionals. It presents an account of addictions counsellor training and education (N=7) in Windsor, Ontario, Canada. During a day long workshop, social workers and counsellors participated to heighten their awareness of their own inner-directed processes. Implications are directed toward social workers, addiction counsellors, music therapists, helping professionals, clergy, and pastoral counsellors, in their own spiritual quest toward personal fulfilment and professional growth and transformation.