2023: Volume 7: Issue 1
■ Agnes Turner
Learning from mistakes and failure is an essential part of personal growth and development. It is often said that we learn more from our failures than from our successes because mistakes provide us with valuable feedback and insights that we can use to improve our future performance. Professional failures can be unpleasant and demotivating, but they are also an important opportunity for personal and professional growth. By taking responsibility, reflecting, identifying the lessons, applying them and also learning from the mistakes of others, we can improve our knowledge and skills to achieve better results in the future.
In this issue of the ANSE Journal we look at the learning opportunities in the context of mistakes and mistake culture and discuss this in the context of supervision and coaching. Life planning and career paths may have disruptions that could be seen as failures at first glance. But it is precisely these supposed detours and painful experiences - cracks in life - that provide a great opportunity to learn and discover something new. A number of contributions address this issue and point out that it is exactly these life experiences that make us stronger or more resilient.The fact that the unconscious plays a role in our so-called parapraxes is also discussed in this issue and illustrated with examples from supervision. In further succession, a number of articles deal with the learning processes and enormous potential for development - the focus is always on the practice of supervision and coaching. One’s own perspective on mistakes is crucial, as is finding strategies, and this is where supervision can come in. With this issue, we will gain insights into the experiences of supervisors, who tell us in a very lively way about their view of errors and error culture. The European perspective is also explicitly represented in this issue, asking about the knowledge society in Europe.
With this issue, a few changes in the Editorial Board are to be noted. We would like to take this opportunity to thank Sijtze de Roos for his wonderful work for the ANSE Journal!
New to the ANSE editorial board is Gerian Dijkhuizen - welcome, we are very happy to have you in our circle. Gerian is already well known to us through her columns. This part of the ANSE Journal has been taken over by Sveindis Anna Jóhannsdóttir from Iceland. We are looking forward to your columns and thank you very much. Since the beginning of 2023, I have been able to take over the position of Chief Editor and thank the community for the trust they have placed in me.
There are two innovations since this issue: firstly, we have set up a book corner. Books on supervision and coaching will be presented here on an ongoing basis. We are happy to receive suggestions and recommendations. Secondly, we have created a rubric with the title: Did you know?. Here we want to inform briefly and concisely about results and events in the ANSE community.
By the way, did you know that in the summer of 2023 the Summer University will take place in Budapest with the title “With Words and Beyond - Values and Identity in an Incomprehensible World”? More information can be found at https://anse.eu/activities/summer-universities.
See you there and remember, learning from mistakes and failure is a lifelong process. So, let’s go for it! ■
