ABSTRACT
In this chapter, we share our conversation about navigating our political selves, as five trainee clinical psychologists, mid-journey into our training. We reflect on the lightness and emotional burden of these experiences and how they reflect the conversations we have in our wider systems. Our dialogue can be perceived as a microcosm of how we navigate differences in our clinical work, and resonates with the conflict between our personal and professional selves. We invite you to consider what it means to carry political weight; weight to who; why do we practise; how do we navigate; and how do we sustain ourselves? In this chapter we do not present any ready-packaged conclusions for the reader to take away, but instead leave the conversation open – inviting the reader to take these conversations further within their practice.
