'I am this earth; this earth is me'. Knitting our lives. Painting, acrylic, ink, on canvas, 2008, Simmons-Hansen.
"This is such an important conversation". "I am in you, and you are in me" (Participant).
Behind every spirituality lies our theories and reality. For when we talk, women participants start to be mindful, and more aware of these. A woman's theory's and realities may include the acknowledgment that something, a soul friend or a universal flame within life remains little recognized but is hungered for. When women did have opportunity to speak some said, "I am sharing here to see if I am even spiritual (chuckles)". After speaking many women responded with "Thank you". "This is such an important conversation".
That women professionals notions of spirituality in their social work was rarely documented yet in being affirmed could convey knowledge and status back to women in their work of being alongside people in the difficult circumstances of being human. The research recomendations are to redress the ways women are not seen, are misunderstood through manmade models, the separation of spirit away from the workplace and the separation of professional knowledge and accountability.
For 'when we stop speaking of what matters part of our life begins to die' (Martin Luther King junior). We offer support for naming spirituality-your terms to be in this world.
Surprising knowledge became apparent through the research.
“Spirituality in work is as a gravity which pulled out and also related objects in this universe”. “Just as our universe is both bent and curved by gravity ; in every moonrise the pull on water is the force which linked back to the galaxy within our sky”. “So matters of our lives and work become alive when spirituality is acknowledged” (Merrill, auto ethnography, 2013).
When social workers respectfully engage, we find awareness of the effects of, and care for the spiritual resoucres for those we work with. We work then with the ethics involved when spirituality has been utilised within colonisation processes, processes where we become seperate from who we are. In contrast, finding our words help us see what othewise may be easily missed.
"This is such an important conversation". "I am in you, and you are in me" (Participant).
Behind every spirituality lies our theories and reality. For when we talk, women participants start to be mindful, and more aware of these. A woman's theory's and realities may include the acknowledgment that something, a soul friend or a universal flame within life remains little recognized but is hungered for. When women did have opportunity to speak some said, "I am sharing here to see if I am even spiritual (chuckles)". After speaking many women responded with "Thank you". "This is such an important conversation".
That women professionals notions of spirituality in their social work was rarely documented yet in being affirmed could convey knowledge and status back to women in their work of being alongside people in the difficult circumstances of being human. The research recomendations are to redress the ways women are not seen, are misunderstood through manmade models, the separation of spirit away from the workplace and the separation of professional knowledge and accountability.
For 'when we stop speaking of what matters part of our life begins to die' (Martin Luther King junior). We offer support for naming spirituality-your terms to be in this world.
Surprising knowledge became apparent through the research.
“Spirituality in work is as a gravity which pulled out and also related objects in this universe”. “Just as our universe is both bent and curved by gravity ; in every moonrise the pull on water is the force which linked back to the galaxy within our sky”. “So matters of our lives and work become alive when spirituality is acknowledged” (Merrill, auto ethnography, 2013).
When social workers respectfully engage, we find awareness of the effects of, and care for the spiritual resoucres for those we work with. We work then with the ethics involved when spirituality has been utilised within colonisation processes, processes where we become seperate from who we are. In contrast, finding our words help us see what othewise may be easily missed.