Rzecz o refleksyjnym praktyku-badaczu, czyli o niekonwencjonalnych sposobach kształcenia doradców

The article presented here is a result of a trio of opinions that arose during the period encompassing the Zakopane Conference on Adult Education (April 2011) and the Summer School for Young Researchers on Adult Education and Counselling (May 2011). Within the range of these scholarly events the authoresses tried to share their experiences on educating would-be consellors at the University of Zielona Góra. The resulting text is an attempt to describe over a dozen years of the authoresses’ experience in running didactic classes outside the university walls and driving traditional workshops out of lecture halls and into the space of a large city. Therefore, on the one hand, the authoresses make a brief presentation of their projects, while, on the other, subject them to academic reflection referring to the areas of professionalism and constructivism as understood nowadays. The article reveals changes in thinking about counsellors’ professional competencies, which may be observed both in practitioners’ statements and counselling reflection. The authoresses show educational possibilities provided by the use of performative etnography, and try to present the elaborate process in which counsellors can become reflective researchers of their own practice.