Rethinking the Logic of School Counseling

Chapter 7 addresses the need for school counselors to confront their purpose and question their commitments. We all must deeply reflect on the ways in which carcerality, or the punishment mindset, is alive in us. We offer reflective practices for school counselors to use as they begin and sustain their commitment to abolitionist counseling in schools. In particular, we draw from embodiment and community-based practices to help counselors identify where these beliefs and feelings live in the body and how we can meet these parts of ourselves with compassion and commitment to change. We conclude this chapter with questions and experiments for practice.