What is Presence? For Social Work
Being present in the life world of citizens and working relationally is essential to social workers.
Video registrations
Lectures, symposia, webinars and short introductions into presence in English, including the knowledge clips What is presence? for social workers and for nurses. Videos load from Vimeo or YouTube only after you click play. More recordings, mostly in Dutch, are on our Videoregistraties en podcasts page.
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What is presence? For Nurses
Nurses who are present and are a presence make a difference for patients and their relatives every day.
Caring presence podcast
What does it mean to ‘practise presence’ in caring for others? How did the theory of presence develop from research on everyday care practice?
Presence: a seed that grew – Andries Baart and Monique de Bree
A wonderfully inspiring conversation with Prof Emmerentia du Plessis, Prof Andries Baart (the founder of the Theory of Presence) and his wife, Monique de Bree, who worked as a neighbourhood pastor and who has been practising presence for many years.
Caring Presence, South Africa: interview with Elly Beurskens
Emmerentia Du Plessis, professor in advanced mental health/psychiatric nursing at North-West University, South Africa, has set up a website on Caring Presence.
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Caring Presence, South Africa: Interview with Guus Timmerman
Emmerentia Du Plessis, professor in advanced mental health/psychiatric nursing at North-West University, South Africa, has set up a website on Caring Presence.
‘What remains is tomorrow: post-colonial and Afro-futuristic insights of being African’. Lecture by Prof Jaco Hoffman
17 Jaar na het verschijnen van Een theorie van de presentie doet de geestelijk vader van de presentietheorie, prof.
An introduction into Presence – Andries Baart
Prof. Andries Baart explains the core aspects of the theory of Presence as a relational approach to care.
Inaugural lecture Prof Andries Baart, North-West University, South Africa
‘Caring for vulnerable people in late modern society: towards the next phase of Ubuntu’. Prestige Lecture as Extraordinary Professor in the field of Ageing and Generational Dynamics on 3 March 2016 at NWU Vaal Triangle Campus, South Africa.
Lecture 8: Andries Baart, ‘Empirical grounded ethics of care: a methodological perspective’
Professor Andries Baart, Chair Presence and Care, University of Humanistic Studies, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
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Lecture 7: Christina Schües, ‘Bodily and social vulnerability: a phenomenological perspective on the practice of care’
Professor Christina Schües, Professor at the Institute for the History of Medicine and Science Research, University of Lübeck, Germany.
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Lecture 6: Helen Kohlen, ‘Bioethics and conflicts of care in the hospital arena’
Professor Helen Kohlen, Professor of care policy at Philosophical-Theological University of Vallendar/ Koblenz and Adjunct Professor at the University of Alberta.
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Lecture 5: Elisabeth Conradi, ‘Beyond autonomy: a relational perspective on an ethics of care’
Professor Elisabeth Conradi, Professor of Social Theory and Philosophy, Baden-Württemberg Cooperative State University, Stuttgart, Germany.
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Lecture 4: Sandra Laugier, ‘Ethics as a politics of the ordinary’
Professor Sandra Laugier, University of Paris and Scientific Deputy Director at the Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences (INSHS) at the French National Centre for Scientific Research, Paris, France.
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Lecture 3: Fabienne Brugère, ‘Emotions as constituents for an ethics of care’
One cannot reflect on the ethics of care without subscribing to an anthropology of vulnerability of both the cared for and the carer.
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Lecture 2: Virginia Held, ‘Care and justice in society’
Professor Virginia Held, Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Hunter College, City University of New York, USA.
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Lecture 1: Frans Vosman, ‘The ethics of care, a roadmap’
Professor Frans Vosman, Chair Ethics of Care, University of Humanistic Studies, Utrecht, The Netherlands.