The counselling network brings together counsellors from different institutions at Paderborn University and gives them a space to exchange ideas about their own counselling approach, counselling methods, counselling concerns and the framework conditions for (good) counselling. In the network, concerns of those seeking advice are discussed anonymously in order to identify recurring topics in counselling, collegial counselling is possible and the counselling practice of the members is jointly reflected upon and further developed.

What the members of the counselling network have in common is that they focus on the individual person seeking advice and their resources and, in line with the systemic counselling approach, assume that the person seeking advice is part of a system that influences them and over which they have an influence. In dialogue, conditions are sought under which the person seeking advice can activate their resources in order to achieve individual solutions and goals as independently and self-organised as possible. Counselling therefore goes beyond purely informative advice.

The members active in the counselling network and the institutions they represent, as well as their target groups and main topics, are listed below.