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2017: Volume 1: Isseu 1
One of the major objectives of ANSE is to promote and, wherever possible, facilitate cross border contacts. Actually, it is our core business, because, quite like in supervision or coaching, communication is the alpha and omega of the ANSE community. It is, so to speak, our natural habitat.
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Central to our mission is – to quote from our Policy Plan – ‘the cross border exchange of information on professional developments between our National Organisations, training institutes and sister organisations, as well as the cross border exchange of professional knowledge and experience between practitioners.’ Obviously, communication and exchange are prerequisite to freely share information on supervision, coaching and consultancy, and – not to forget – to the (further) development and implementation of (European) quality standards.
There is so much to share! In all our countries, there is a wealth of experience and theoretical reflection. But most of it never crosses the borders of the country - or at best the language area - of its origin. For sure, live experience may be exchanged in ANSE International Intervision Groups, during conferences and at Summer Universities. True; ‘ANSE English’ in the meantime serves as our lingua franca during our live meetings. But theories, books, articles, master theses or scientific research findings are quite another matter. We still have to overcome a big language gap on paper or smart screen. Too much of this richness is inaccessible to too many of our colleagues. Latvian colleagues, for example, have no access to studies published in Hungary and the other way round, and German supervision scholars hardly ever see, let alone understand, Dutch publications and vice versa. This unfortunate state of reciprocal linguistic exclusion goes all the way from Romania to Finland.
But it does not need to be like that. And that is exactly why we hereby launch the first issue of the ANSE Journal, which I am happy to present to you on behalf of the ANSE Board. This one is a pilot, but there surely will follow more. We are planning to publish two issues each year.
I am very grateful for the work that board member Barbara Baumann over the last two years put into this, to Eric Vullers of Kloosterhof Publications who made it all possible, and of course to the authors and national editors. Let’s go on this way, and make our often hidden wealth accessible to all of us. ■
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