I’m back with the NHS group today discussing how we find the ‘voice’ in our practice. This is about the difference between a role we are given, a job we have, and a practice that we hold. The example I used is being a writer: I have always used a pen or a keyboard to write ‘stuff’, but there was a point, around eleven years ago, when suddenly felt that I was a writer, and started calling myself that - without feeling like a fake.
In this sense, finding our voice in our practice is a little like finding an identity in it.
Use your sixty seconds today to consider the ‘voice’ in your own practice.
Perhaps this is when you feel you have moved from ‘learning how’ to do something, through to being able to use that skill as a voice in itself. Whether you are a nurse, a woodworker, lawyer or teacher, when dd you find your voice - and how dd you know?
Was it simply self belief, or the first time someone used a title for you, or bought something you made, or respected you in a certain way, or something else?
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