Defining, Nurturing and Applying Wisdom: How Student Services Professionals View Wisdom in Work and Life

Abstract

This paper examines how individual professionals working in Student Services view wisdom in the context of both their working and personal lives. A range of professionals: teachers, counsellors, heads of department, heads of service, participated in conversations to examine how wisdom operates for them. Are there parallels between one‟s working and personal life? Does length of work experience make a difference to one‟s conception of wisdom and its operation?