The temptation to control the conversation or try to “fix” the patient by giving advice is ever before me. Voices from my embedded childhood theology of a “controlling” God is ever present in my inner dialogue tempting me to control the conversation. The temptation to pre-construct opinions rather than to construct them in the present shows how difficult it is to be a true active listener.
Trauma & Storytelling
If I was to describe reality beyond postpositivism, through a constructivist paradigm, I realize that we change each other as we interact with each other, and meaning is dynamically fluid, on the move, and co-created as it meets the need of the local hour.