Closeness and distance – shaping professional relationships
Relationship is the most important working tool in pedagogy – and at the same time a field of tension. This course clarifies how professional closeness and distance can succeed: understanding power and asymmetry, maintaining boundaries, recognising boundary violations and grooming dynamics, and creating safety through stance, reflection and a protection concept. Practical, with confirmation of participation.
What is it about?
Good pedagogical work needs closeness — and at the same time professional distance. Too much distance prevents relationship; too much closeness can tip into enmeshment or boundary violation. This course for professionals teaches how to achieve this balance: understanding power and asymmetry, recognising boundary violations and grooming dynamics, and protection through stance, code of conduct, reflection and a protection concept — including your own mental self-care.
What you will take away
- Understand closeness and distance as a professional balance
- Recognise power, asymmetry and boundary violations
- Place grooming dynamics and warning signs in context
- Act safely through stance, reflection and a protection concept
📘 Further reading on this topic: Protection concepts in youth welfare: obligation and building blocks
Self-study without supervision, assignments or assessment of learning progress by instructors; the voluntary self-reflection is for your own orientation only. Your confirmation of participation becomes available once you have marked all modules as done yourself.