Caring presence - with Andries Baart and Guus Timmerman

About this episode

This episode explores the concept of 'practising presence' in caring for others with insights from Andries Baart and Guus Timmerman.

What does it mean to 'practise presence' in caring for others? How did the theory of presence develop from research on everyday care practice? And what are the professional, organisational and political implications of presence theory and relational caring? These are some of the questions we explore in this episode, with Andries Baart and Guus Timmerman. Andries is Extraordinary Professor in the field of ageing and generational dynamics at North-West University in South Africa. He is also a former visiting professor at the Department of Psychiatry of the University Medical Centre Utrecht, and Professor Emeritus of the University of Humanistic Studies, Tilburg University, and Catholic Theological University Utrecht – all in the Netherlands. Andries has been one of the leading figures in the development of care ethics in the Netherland and in 2004, with others, he founded Stichting Presentie - the Presence Foundation . Guus has worked as a care ethicist and qualitative researcher at the Presence Foundation since 2014 and has published widely on relational caring and presence in healthcare and social work, and on the methodology of qualitative research. Guus has undertaken research…

People in this episode

Host: Martin Robb

Guests: Andries Baart, Guus Timmerman

Topics covered

• caring presence
• care ethics
• relational caring
• healthcare
• social work

Keywords

• presence theory
• care practice
• professional implications
• organisational implications
• political implications

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: North-West University, University Medical Centre Utrecht, University of Humanistic Studies, Tilburg University, Catholic Theological University Utrecht, Stichting Presentie

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