Collaborative Practice: A Way of Being “With”

Abstract

We live and practice in a rapidly changing world in which people demand democracy, their human rights and social justice, and want to have a voice in concerns that affect their lives. Such changes and demands require practitioners to step back and reflect on their practices and find ways to keep our practices in sync with these. This article presents collaborative practice, a dialogic conversational therapy, as a response. It discusses the assumptions on which the practice is based and the implications for the practitioner's stance. Two examples of clients' experiences and descriptions of a consultation session illustrate the transformational nature of such conversations.