Dynamics of professional development

We have dedicated ourselves to studying how a professional person should be, act,
think, feel, etc. in the environment where they live and with the people with whom they
live every day, which we have learned through the people with whom they live. We
interact and in the place where we live as well as in the place where we operate
professionally.

In the topics to be discussed, I was able to realize how I have to behave before society
and what my obligations are as an individual, in order to lead an integrated and mature
life. Which will help me be a good professional person in the things I like to do.

INTRODUCTION

It is common for each person to form and develop their professional, social and
cultural image, this helps them have a better quality of life in society. The professional
can create his or her quality of life through a self-assessment that involves some small
but big behaviors: Who am I? Am I really a professional? I am humble? Did you act
with professional ethics? What is my way of being?

It is necessary that you personally answer these questions coherently and sincerely, it
will help you realize how you should behave within a society [to realize how to act in
society].

Creation of professional self-concept

Most of the time we say that being a professional is someone who finishes their studies
at the university and is certified by an institution, but this does not mean that you are
already a professional. Being professional is; being able to provide a quality and
effective service to the company or business company which helps satisfy a need.

Being a professional is not only having a school certificate that says so (degree), many
people who simply for the reason that they like to do things well and help society and
act with ethics and values, are also capable of fulfilling With the rules that person can
be considered a professional.

The “personal self” and the “professional self”

The personal self is a simple way of acting since throughout life we make many
decisions from; What is right, what is wrong, which shapes your personality and
person, you must be able to recognize difficult situations, and although sometimes they
get out of our hands; You shouldn't give up.

The professional self is to give the best of yourself, in a timely manner, in society and at
work, always demonstrating your ethics and values, complying with the rules and
regulations, being responsible for your own actions, if you comply with all these
obligations you can be a professional, but by complying with all the norms and rules
they cannot force you to do things that harm third parties, it is a decision that you have
to make, to do it or not to do it. Always taking into account your professional ethics.
Identity or professional image

The professional identity is one that is acquired through school knowledge,

professional experience, discipline, perseverance, continuous training and with
professional relationships and working as a team and always being up to date with
mega trends (mega trends are the structural change in accordance with the bone era,
being up to date ; everything related to globalization).

The image is what you project in clothing, formality, speaking, relating in documents
such as logos and the formality of the company.

Identity, in a quick way to explain, is the way you are, your way of acting, (humble,
simple, ethical, unethical [it is better than saying lepero]) since no one but you defines
that and you form that and creating day by day with society.

The image is the way you dress, the people you interact with, etc., this creates a unique
being (creating the YOU).

Identity and image are treated respectively in your person since they qualify you before
you are professional, it is the way of being, acting, thinking, feeling, expressing
yourself, developing yourself, etc.

Ser and duty of professional practice

It is the way to act in professional practice with your coworkers, bosses, etc., since you
relate to each one in a different way, of course, without losing the essence of who you
are...

1.1 Creation of the professional self-concept.

In that people who present a positive self-concept have a greater capacity to act independently, to
make decisions and assume responsibilities, to face challenges and a greater tolerance for
frustration, which allows them to better deal with contradictions and failures. .

The role of the school in the formation and change of self-concept is enormous because it
dispenses praise and criticism, acceptance and rejection, all on a colossal scale.

People's self-concepts include all their beliefs about their own nature. They include your
assumptions about your strengths and weaknesses, your possibilities for development, and your
explicit descriptions of your customary standards of behavior and experience.
Papalia and Wendkos state that:

Self-concept is the sense of self. The basis of self-concept is our knowledge of what we have been
and done; Its function is to guide us in deciding what we will be and do in the future. Self-concept,
then, helps us understand ourselves and also control or regulate our behavior.

Self-concept is considered as a system consisting of a group of elements in the form of beliefs or

perceptions. The central elements are the set of beliefs about basic adequacy and self-care.
Phrases such as: “I am fine” or “I am not fine” and “I love myself” or “I don't love myself” are
included. A person with a basic attitude or position in life of “I'm not okay” or “I don't like myself”
may feel miserable, unhappy, and anxious.

Borden and Stone present the following statements regarding the person's self-concept:

1. What we call “self” or “self-concept” or “self-image” is formed over the years.

2. The self is a social phenomenon and, as such, the people around us have a lot to do with the
image we come to have of ourselves.

3. The image that the individual has of himself has a considerable impact on his future behaviors.

4. One of the most important future behaviors is learning. Self-concept has a lot to do with the
way and degree to which one learns and can be learned.

5. One area in which self-concept exerts significant influence is that of personality development
and modification.

6. The concept that the person has of himself can be altered or modified.

7. The teacher is one of the significant others in the life and formation of the child. He has the
opportunity, therefore, to make image changes that result in changes in the child's subsequent
behavior.

A variety of counseling theories and models exist to help people improve their self-concept.

The first is that people differ with respect to the level of their self-doubt and the helping approach
chosen by the counselor must be appropriate for the client's level of self-acceptance.

- Second, it is assumed that all the approaches presented offer, within the context, the essential
conditions that provide the ideal experiential framework for orientation.
- The third assumption is that the helping professional is a person who can not only provide the
essential conditions in his or her relationships with people, but also has sufficient personal
flexibility to use a variety of approaches, depending on the needs. of the person being cared for.

Conclusions

- Self-concept is a complex system that includes everything from body image to a person's
thoughts, feelings, attitudes, values and aspirations. It is also a social phenomenon, since its
reaffirmation or transformation is based, to a large extent, on social relations.

- A good self-concept favors the sense of identity. It serves as a frame of reference to interpret
both external reality and personal experiences. In addition, it influences expectations and
motivation to achieve future goals and, when positive, promotes emotional well-being.

- If it is considered that education and the family must prepare for life, both families and
educational institutions must attach significant importance to the achievement of positive self-
concepts in their student population.

- Educational institutions interested in the issue of promoting positive self-concept in their

students must establish a common conceptual framework that allows them to apply various
procedures and develop attitudes and behaviors that favor the creation of an academic climate
that helps achieve this purpose.

- The topic of self-concept should be part of the school curriculum. As mentioned, curricular areas
such as reading and writing can be used as opportunities to reflect on self-concept.

- Teachers, in addition to caring for a large number of students, maintain contact with them for
very long periods of time, which is why they become very significant people in their lives. Thus,
teaching staff can become an agent of enormous importance in promoting the development of
positive self-concepts of the student population.

- The role of guidance must become central to the systematic solution and prevention of problems
related to self-concept and the contribution it can provide to the enhancement of learning
environments, which favors the self-concept of both male and female students. as well as the staff
of the institution.
- It is important to note that the development of a healthy person requires a positive self-concept
and that the subsequent development of a satisfactory image of oneself is crucial to achieving full
maturation of the integral personality.

1.2 The personal self and the professional self.

“The self is the focal point of consciousness.

It is the bearer of our conscious awareness of existing, as well as the permanent feeling of
personal identity. It is the conscious organizer of our thoughts and intuitions, of our feelings and
sensations. It is the bearer of personality. The self arises from the self... plays roles of crucial
importance. Perceives meanings and evaluates values, activities that promote survival and make
life worth living.

The ego-self axis is crucial in this question that we are debating, since it affirms the important
functionality of the self while relativizing it, since its origin is the self archetype as the true center
of the "individual" in part personal, partly transpersonal (individual and collective unconscious).
We find a similar point of view in R. Assagioli, “Psychosynthesis.”

“The personal self and the Transpersonal self are, in fact, the same reality experienced at different
levels: Our true essence behind any type of mask and conditioning.” The personal self in
psychosynthesis is pure consciousness, which once it has been detached from the psychological
elements that structure and reinforce it, has the tendency to return to its origin as the
Transpersonal Self. From the moment self-confidence and individuality are discovered, a
progressive transition towards a global understanding of universality can begin. So that there are
no errors of interpretation, I want to add the following statements: “The self is the most
fundamental psychological experience we have: crystalline, clear and clean consciousness.” “The
self is not a reality that must be blindly admitted. It is something that can be continually verified in
our daily lives, since it is pure inner silence. The “I” could be defined as consciousness in its
essential undiluted, chemically pure state. This personal self is the one that can recognize the
different subpersonalities present in the individual, since as a witness consciousness it sees the
different subpersonalities that are psychological satellites that coexist with a multitude of lives
within the global set of our personality. Working on our sub-personalities (sub-egos) is to increase
our unity, to increase the sense of Self as understood in psychosynthesis.
This question is also worked on by Virginia Satir, who compares personality with a theater in which
different characters act, “love”, “stupidity”, helplessness”… who are out to “kill” each other, until
one asks “Who?” he is in charge?". This would be the function of the ego in Virginia Satir... let us
remember here Karen Horney with her weak ego (neurotic ego) and strong ego (less neurotic).

I would also like to emphasize the vision of Ken Willber (transpersonal psychologist) in which he
agrees with Piero Ferucci regarding the testimony consciousness as a springboard to the
consciousness of unity. This consciousness being a testimony of a living reality and not an
abstraction or fiction or illusion.

To finish the tour of the contemporary West I will quote Jim Leonard, creator of vivation, and his
definition of the self:

I (self): “Part of an individual who perceives and contemplates realities, classifies realities into
concepts, creates and refines models of reality, creates and adopts or rejects new contexts,
discovers existing contexts and/or continues to use or reject or structure them, and/or either
maintains the content in a certain context or reclassifies the content from one context to
another.”

I would like to introduce Alexander Lowen with the concept of Ego-Self (periphery-center). Also to
Berne, with the concept of adult compared to the “Parent” and the “Child” in Transactional
Analysis, that is, adult state of the ego, parent state of the ego and child state of the ego... and to
the contemporary reductionists, at the level cerebral, in which the frontal lobe has one function,
the occipital another... maintaining a balance between the different areas of the brain and the
system according to the information that comes from all parts of the body, external or internal,
nervous or hormonal... just to reflect Let's say that if you stand in front of a mirror “as if” you were
happy long enough, the brain will end up producing the “happy” substances and you will actually
end up feeling truly happy (internally). This would give us an idea of the dynamic state of the brain
center.

1.3 Professional identity and image.

Professional identity.

Identity can be defined as the differentiation of the being, in relation to others from whom we
want to separate ourselves, distinguish ourselves. The search for identity generates crises and
conflicts, which are or should be the driving force behind changes in collective thoughts, as
processes of enrichment of that identity. Without these conflicts, it is difficult for the changes we
want to achieve to occur.
Much of what we experience has completely scientific bases, but what really is what we do with
our human part in the fight for our goals, because simple ideas that make sense can also lead to
knowledge. The scientific rigor of what a professional should be is there, in the books, for those
who want to walk with truthfulness and only truthfulness.

But let's remember that sometimes human beings still think with other parts of the body that are
not the brain. Intuition, improvisation, are forms of creation and knowledge that we use every
day.

Their richness and usefulness are such that they can hardly be displaced by science.

Therein lies the big difference, learning so much equally from books but teaching more through
life, making those books part of a school, the school of life that forms and educates us towards an
identity in our profession.

A good professional image helps create and gain a place in the minds of clients, that is, to position
yourself.

Professional Image.

Correct positioning consists of ensuring that the client clearly differentiates the services provided
by the professional from those of his/her competition; perceiving them as unique, and as the first
and most relevant option, when choosing the alternative to satisfy their needs. The professional
image is an abstract concept, which is formed through the perception of real and emotional
elements in people's minds.

Among the main factors that help or stimulate the generation of a professional image, personal
appearance stands out; body language during interaction with the client; the actions of the
professional (inside and outside the company); the surrounding environment (work environment
including other staff and their workspace); professional fees; technical knowledge; and the general
attention provided to the client.

When a client comes for a consultation, they place their trust in the professional so that he or she
can provide them with solutions regarding their company, etc. Furthermore, he hopes to meet a
person who, beyond his technical and scientific knowledge, is neat, careful with his clothing and
personal hygiene, educated and with a good general culture, characteristics that he will surely
associate with seriousness, honesty and professional capacity.

Some of the aspects that should be considered are:

Body language.
The body posture

Manage the distance factor

Reception room

Professional fees

1.4 Being and duty of professional practice.

Be.

A professional person is one who fulfills his obligations by doing a little more than expected to the
point of surprising us, because he lives, thinks and dreams of moving forward with his family, his
work, his study and everything in which he has pledged his word. .
The professional person is generous, they look for ways to give more affection, affection, effort,
well-being... in other words: they go beyond what the contracted duty entails in principle.
He is happy with what he does to the point of not seeing commitment as a burden, but as the
ideal means to perfect himself through service to others.

It must be.
The professional must be a director of human conduct and in this sense should meet some
minimum requirements for action or behavior, among them the following can be mentioned:
- Be humble in your daily actions inside and outside of your work duties.
- Show honest behavior in work development and coexist as a citizen.
- Be a researcher par excellence to optimize your academic work.
- Have ethical, moral citizen behavior attached to good customs.
- Dress and make-up (Ladies) simple but with decorum.
- With perfect coherent diction when thinking and speaking.
- Be a social and community leader.
- Assertive and objective critic in the transfer of knowledge, inducing the learner towards critical
and reflective debate within umlauts and synderesis.
- Tolerant, cooperative, proactive, empathetic or diligent in finding solutions to problems that
affect the functioning of the area where you work and reside.
- Religiously respectful of the beliefs of his fellow men.
- Guider of knowledge, dignity and human honor.