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"I cannot see my way clear. I cannot see the blackboard": Deconstructing personal failure stories

Abstract
In this article, a failure identity story of a student counsellor is deconstructed. Self-data on the experiences of her six-year-old self in a school were generated through an outsider witness ceremony, as suggested by White (2007) in Maps of Narrative Practice. The data take the form of a rescued speech poem, as proposed by Speedy (2005). The article reflects on the process of data generation and of using a failure conversation map, as discussed by White (2002) in his paper “Addressing personal failure,” to analyse and deconstruct the failure identity/ies available to the student counsellor. The process of the research, the writing, and the analyses of the failure story contributed to the development of an ethical counselling practice by the student counsellor.
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Journal Article
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Citation
Kotzé, E., & Moneypenny, P. D. (2014). ‘I cannot see my way clear. I cannot see the blackboard’: Deconstructing personal failure stories. New Zealand Journal of Counselling, 34, 37–52.
Date
2014
Publisher
New Zealand Association of Counsellors
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© 2014 NZAC