| Abstract: | Abstract The author reflects on his twenty-five years as a college counselor. Cornerstones of the counseling relationship and process are considered-listening and speaking; technique and intuition; the languages of silence and of the body. Contemporary and timeless issues are discussed including: Grief; Confidentiality; Vision and Supervision; Psychiatry, Psychoses and Psyche; Spirits and Spirit; Bouquets of Self-esteem; Politics and the Political; Culture and Multiculture; The Body and the Invisible; God, the Good and the Ungodly; and Counseling for a Lifetime. Issues are considered within the context of the author's college counseling center experience, as well as his work as a poet and traveler in Ecuador. |
