A STUDY OF RECONCILIATION FOR GRADUATE COUNSELLING PSYCHOLOGY STUDENTS

The current research project investigates a previously undiscovered part of the underlying process of how non-Indigenous Counselling Psychology graduate students make sense of reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples in Canada. This Grounded Theory study sheds light on how the participant's core processes stabilize and destabilize social constructs and thinking. The current study reflects the developing themes for emerging adults in Canada's system. The present work argues that reconciliation on a societal level begins with questioning and creating new narratives individually. However, reconciliation also focuses on a system approach to truth and how this relates to settler/White denial issues. Six processes reveal the factors that facilitate and hinder the potential for societal reconciliation in the Canadian context.