Wisdom in Our Work: Resisting Alienation for Our Students and Ourselves

Abstract

For eight years I've worked as a narrative counsellor in a Student Counselling Service in a New Zealand University, largely with a sense of fulfilment and a belief in the value of what I do. I've been privileged to work in a profession where I feel I'm doing some good in the world and paid to do so by an employer whose motives I never questioned. I believe in higher education and have benefited from it myself; if my work helped students to gain degrees along the way, so much the better.