Listen to thisIt is good to be noble,
but learning others to be good is even
more noble ...
and much less troublesome.
Mark Twain
To integrate the well-known things and to discover new things
Enjoying learning has two directions:
Getting familiar with things you
already know
and discovering new things.
The exciting thing about ethics is also that:
all the important
things have been said already,
but that you can never apply them
unthinkingly
to the next situation.
When you talk about the essential things,
about the question of what
makes people happy,
what makes them unhappy,
you will find that most
things have been said a long time ago
and ...that you will have to
figure things out for yourself
time and again.
Supervision and ethics have much in common
as regards their form and
image.
In fact, both are simple and unpretentious.
Supervision is
thinking about learning,
ethics is thinking about what you are doing.
Both deal with “guidelines” and specific questions.
Rules and
principles are useless here.
Both ethics and supervision are not sciences.
They are rather an art.
Something creative,
Live and let die,
Learn and let learn.
It is
a matter of making yourself
and the person you teach an expert in the
art of living.
The art to live well.
The art to work well.
Thinking ethically and supervision also have in common
that they need
space:
an atmosphere of trust,
in which one person dares to put himself in
someone else’s hands,
during a conversation about fear, shame, pleasure.
About experiences and reflection anyway.
Only afterwards you will know whether it was good or not.
Both are
about giving meaning to something:
a lonely process within an unique
person
and without being aware of it,
you will arrive at general
human values.
Supervision is a guided circular learning process,
in which the
supervisee develops his professional identity
by exploiting and
reflecting his experiences
with the aim to acquire a personal approach
of the profession.
I have an almost identical definition for learning to
think ethically.
Hanekamp, H. (1994). Ethical training through supervision,FICE Bulletin, Vol. 10, pp. 27
