The Love Theorist
Dyann Ross
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Social workers have no power!
After a lecture on power, human rights and ethics, a social work student said: “social workers have no power!” He said it as an unequivocal truth and many other students agreed with him. This came as…
Welcoming the stranger with love
The podcast is a response to contemporary media representations of people who are treated as less than human due to being seen as outsiders to mainstream society. A recent comment by an Australian…
Eco-guilt and living in an unsustainable world
The podcast focuses on our individual experience of eco-guilt that occurs from recognising our part in the unsustainability of the planet. Guilt is defined as both an individual awareness of causing…
Eco-anxiety and finding hope
Eco-anxiety describes the deep worry we can feel when we see very distressing things happening in the world. In particular, when so called natural disasters are wreaking havoc it is a level of…
When AI is your therapist!
For some time I’ve been pondering where I stand in relation to the largely cautionary media reports and research about the use of AI, such as ChatGPT. At the same time it is apparent that no amount…
The Target Threat/Desirability Grid
This podcast shines some light onto the troubling issue of workplace violence which can take many forms, and for our purpose today, I call bullying. The continuing harm caused by workplace bullying…
The non-judgmental attitude in helping
Love is an action and in professional helping, or when helping a friend or family member, it involves a range of capacities and values. This podcast focusses on the key ability of the non-judgmental…
The Love Theorist in conversation with The BTS Theorist
If you are a fan of BTS this podcast is for you. If you have never heard of BTS - check it out to find what a BTS scholar and social worker have in common. We trace the ways we have influenced each…
Towards a love informed anti-oppressive ethical positionality
My co-author, Dilip Karki, and I are excited to share our recent published research article with you. In many ways it distils evidence of why love matters in social work and how love is needed for…
The real cause of burnout & how to resist it
The real cause of burnout in the workplace can be summarised as failures of responsibility in the human services. These failures of responsibility by many actors in positions of authority in a…
Burnout is betrayal
There is a common misunderstanding that if you are burnt out you can’t cope, that you are weak, that you can’t do your job. Burnout needs to be re-defined so we don’t keep blaming ourselves when our…
Zen, helping and compassionate love
These last months I have had the privilege of tutoring in two counselling courses which are about the nature of helping and the kinds of experience which cause people to seek out a counsellor, social…
Some inspiring ideas about emotions from Brene Brown
I’ve had the beautiful book, Atlas of the heart by Brene Brown, sitting on my bookshelf for ages. I pick it up at times and find myself reading a section in depth or a quote in big print or just…
Emotions and tropical cyclone Alfred
Tropical Cyclone Alfred provides an opportunity, albeit unwelcome, to make some comments on my experience and gives me a chance to also comment on a concern I think needs some attention. As one of 4…
Empathy: A Key Love Skill
I am interested in exploring the ethics and skills that should comprise a theory of love that can help us address all types of lovelessness and violence. I keep coming back to empathy as perhaps the…
Making meaning of loss and grief
In this podcast I want to share with you another dimension of my evolving theory of love which seeks to guide us in how to respond to peoples’ experiences of broken-heartedness. I proceed by sharing…
From my bookshelf: Love stories by Trent Dalton
As 2024 draws to a close I wanted to share with you my current reading as it encapsulates so much about what love is and isn’t and how everyone has a love story to tell if we would only listen. The…
Putting love (back) into social work
You might be surprised to know that love is not part of social work as shown by its absence in official documents about social work’s values and social justice mission. This is not to say it is not…
When workplace culture is a breeding ground for scapegoating
The podcast brings a focus to indications that a workplace culture may be creating conditions of unsafety and unfair behaviours. The example of scapegoating is about one worker being targeted in the…
Gossiping and back-biting at work
An interest in love and nonviolence brings me to the focus in this podcast on the issue of bullying in the workplace. Whatever form bullying takes it is violence and most workplaces have policies…
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