200509 18-6 The story about Shan, the narrator and their interactions－The process of a counselor’s reflection
| Shing-Ling Fan |
| Meiho Institute of Technology |
This article did not follow the formal forms and methods of a research paper. Nevertheless, this article, based upon the main principles of a hermeneutic approach to inquiry, tried to tell a story about Shan, about the narrator and about the interactions between Shan and the narrator. Counseling transcripts, interview records, letters and emails related to Shan were collected for more than four years. The hermeneutic circle and the dialogical spirit were used in the reading and writing process of the article. The author (the narrator) found out that the process of counseling, interviews and writing was a process of co-interpretation and co-construction. In the other words, the client or the speaker told their stories according to their life experiences and cognitive patterns, the counselor or the listener interpreted their stories based on theirtheoretical background and pre-understanding. Finally, in the process of two people’s conversations, new stories or new meaning were constructed. Therefore, the reality was a complicated interacting web and we possibly could never know the truth. We can only co-construct the past story, which was understood by both speaker and listener and then decided the further structure and plots of the following story. However, the main character had to live out the new story so that the new construction was able to exist in reality.
Keywords
story, narrative, construction
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