Facilitating Hope - social, political & intercultural dimensions

Facilitating Hope - social, political & intercultural dimensions

Division of work and areas of responsibility within families and society are still often gender-specifically organized. The connotation of gainful employment is mostly male, of relationship work and housework mostly female.
Due to wars and armed conflicts, millions of people are now seeking refuge in the Western world.
At the moment the discourse seems to be determined by tendencies propagating isolation from the foreign and the foreigners and an awareness of safety and control, at the fringe of totalitarianism. Violence seems to be the most efficient means of conflict solving for a lot of people. These are only two examples of the present discrepancies in society.
By embracing standards of aspiration for performance, success and power and keeping the hereby strongly shaped “Western and traditionally male values“, political and psycho-social approaches and therapy schools are experiencing a boom, that promise adapting to standards and incorporation into the working world, characterized by these standards: efficiency concerning time, money, methods and contents, although it is mostly women who practice psychotherapy and it is mostly women who turn to psychotherapy for support and help. This is a challenge for person-centered and experiential models of contrast.