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Jonathan Coe is the Managing Director of the Clinic for Boundaries Studies. He specialises in education and training around professional conduct. He runs training courses on Values, Boundaries, Listening, Self-‐Disclosure and a specialist service for practitioners who have a particular issue around conduct, usually where there is a formal complaint or investigation. He works with independent services, the NHS, medical schools, churches and charities. He is especially interested in how people come to shift their perspective in ways which create lasting change.
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Professional Boundaries -‐ Berlin wall or a bridge to powerful action?
What does it take to fulfil a professional role? How can the rules be abided by alongside compassion, empathy, connection and warmth? The notion of boundaries can seem to be more like a barrier, a wall between people, a stop to empathic connection. In this way of thinking, the rules become something to avoid, to chafe against, to see as required only for external purposes; to say, along with Robert Frosts neighbour ‘Something there is that does not like a wall’. Or can boundaries be seen as enablers, as ways of being which empower, expand and energise? To say, again with Frost, that 'Good fences make good neighbours'? In this talk I will cover these issues, using examples from our work with people who have got into trouble around boundaries, as well as our work to assist people preventing problems arising. As well as talking, there will be lots of interaction and the chance to share views and experiences.
Jonathan Coe