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If you thought you knew Dr. Robert E. Wubbolding, a quick read of this brief report will provide you with significant insights regarding him, and how he sees the world around him. For those of you that don't know Bob, reading this report should help you learn about him and what he does, and possibly what you might need to do to make the world a better place for the whole human race, whether or not you ever choose to do Choice Theory and/or Reality Therapy or not!
On March 29, 2014 at the annual American Counseling Association (ACA) Conference in Honolulu, Bob Wubbolding was recognized as being a "Living Legend in Counseling." He joined Gerald Corey, Marcheta Evans, Jeffrey Kottler, Debbie Joffe Ellis, Howard Kirschenbaum, and Mark Pope in receiving this recognition. The original "Living Legends in Counseling" were identified in 2004 at the ACA Conference in Kansas City. Those honored were Albert Ellis, William Glasser, Patricia Arredondo, John Krumboltz and Jon Carlson. As part of the program Bob was asked to provide some comments as to his personal development, as well as some of his professional wisdom. The questions and Bob's responses follow:
What is your legacy, something you are proud of?
I hope that I have been able to teach students and participants in my training sessions a system that empowers clients and helps them make more effective choices regardless of their current circumstances. We live in an era when we identify people by their degree of victimization. It is my hope that we, in the counseling profession, can decrease the victimization and unfair treatment of other human beings. But equally important for me is that we in the helping professions adopt a worldview of empowerment and opportunities for our clients. In other words, I'm hoping to see the decrease in the perception and the assumption that human problems are due to societal forces over which our clients have no...