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How to go about Online Counselling?
Some Practical Guidelines
Sahaya G. Selvam
Background
The situation created by COVID-19 is difficult for most people. Internet and online services have filled the gap in social distancing. Online teaching and learning have become the new norm.
COVID-19 induced lockdown might create increased need for psychological help for some people, while reducing the possibility for physical sessions. Therefore, there could be more regulated possibility for online counselling and therapy sessions.
The guidelines here refer to some practical hints on how to go about online counselling sessions. Remember, all regular norms of ethics and code of conduct proper to counselling and therapy will apply: confidentiality being a primary concern. These guidelines are not meant to offer alternative code of conduct to any existing norms offered by governments or professional […]
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Religion and Spirituality in Time of COVID-19
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Religion and Spirituality in Time of Corona Virus
The Corona Virus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) is due to change the current world order. Besides the economic implications, many social agents and institutions are adversely affected by this viral phenomenon. The global extent of the disruptions in educational institutions, religious practices, entertainment industry, including the media, have been totally unprecedented. The lack of predictability around this virus aggravates anxiety eliciting extreme measures, and some panic too. In any case, it has emerged that the defeat of COVID-19 requires a concerted effort led by the civil administrators.
The initial response of religions to the phenomenon of the novel virus has been a subject of debate, even in Kenya. It is a plain fact that religious gatherings have been early triggers for the spread of the contagion in many […]
Religious Antecedents of Secularisation and Secularist Consequents on Religion
Religious Antecedents of Secularisation, and Secularist Consequents
on Religion: Insights from Social Sciences
Sahaya G. Selvam, sdb
Abstract
Religion and secularism have a reciprocal relationship. The roots of political secularism and social secularisation could be traced within religion, and the rise of a secularist culture elicits a reactionary feedback from religion in the form of religious spirituality at best, and fundamentalism and fanaticism at worst. Basing itself on the historical context of the watershed events in European history that marked the rise of secularisation and secularism, the present paper points out the antecedents of secularism situated within religion. The paper argues that religion can be described in its four dimensions: creed (a set of beliefs explaining the mystery dimensions of life), code (a set of ethical principles and prescriptive and […]
Monthly Recollection at Don Bosco Upperhill – 11 Jan 2020
Spirituality of Youth in the 21st Century
Dimesse Centre, Nairobi, 22 October 2019
A presentation made to the Kenyan Association of Vocation Animators (KAVA).
The presentation has three parts:
What is special about the youth of 21st Century?
What is spirituality?
Dimensions of Youth Spirituality
The first part explores the characteristics of the youth of 21st Century. It focuses on the following aspects:
a. It begins by pointing out to the fluidity of the 21st century… what will be the nature of the following in the year 2100: education, job-market, media, science & technology, politics, social structures? No one really knows in details. One thing is sure: it is going to be much different from that of today.
b. Consider the demographic truth. Africa is still going to have a high level of youth population. Causing a youth-bulge! Would we […]