CPCAB Philosophy

1. Recognising that we are different and diverse and that we have to work hard to truly listen and understand.
2. Learning not to hide and pretend, but to become more open about our failings and our mistakes: so that we can genuinely learn and develop.
3. Working together in partnership - embodying a model of authority that listens and challenges and empowers.
4. Valuing the emotional and the spiritual sides of ourselves as highly as the rational.
5. Accepting that the heart of our work is the hurt in our own hearts - the rage and disappointment and sadness and viciousness and, in working together, the potential to reawaken love, caring and a joie de vivre.
6. Understanding that counselling and human relations work is founded in subjective, intimate relationship and that, in turn, counselling and human relations training is necessarily founded in subjective, intimate relationship.
7. Staying in genuine touch with, remaining genuinely caring of and being genuinely committed to the people that we are working with.
8. Recognising and bearing the heavy responsibility of our work - because we value it so highly.
9. Learning, in moments of crisis, to reach out from the heart - offering and asking for help and support.
10. Being ourselves, meaning what we say, saying what we mean, walking our talk.