The experience of transformation of self as revealed in a counselling relationship
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The purpose of the inquiry was to explore the nature of the experience of transformation of self in a counselling relationship. Transformation as described in this study is the human experience that is characterized by a profound difference in a person's Being-in-the-world. Transformation is about significant, multidimensional shifts: it is a major qualitative change in the human psyche. The study draws from three sources: literature in the existential phenomenological tradition, autobiographical reflections on my own transformational experiences, and audio-taped conversations with three persons who were involved in their own personal development and presently in a counselling relationship with someone other than myself. The methodology used in this thesis is phenomenological and hermeneutic. Several themes emerged from the data that elucidated the phenomenon. The significant themes revealed by the co-researchers were: Self-compassion that included awareness, acknowledgement and acceptance, the importance of coming to know one's self through body awareness, and the development of a more "Authentic Self." In addition, the co-researchers identified significant facilitative characteristics of their counsellors that provided a crucible for their transformation.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.003 | 0.007 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.027 | 0.021 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.011 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.005 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.008 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.008 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".