ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the key findings of the research and discusses the ways in which critical reflection on practice developed possibilities for change. It explores the issues related to participants' constructions of professionalism and hierarchy and they ways this led to the development of oppositional power relations. By tracing the journeys of the participants from their initial constructions of their critical incidents, which clearly expressed feelings of powerlessness, fatalism and disillusionment, the chapter demonstrates transformative learning in the ways that participants used critical reflection to identify and rethink their original assumptions and retell their stories in ways that positioned them as more enabled and empowered. Transcending these oppositional power relations with other legal professionals was integral to counsellors/advocates feeling more empowered and able to conceptualise new thinking and approaches to practice. Power is one of the most central themes to this research, considering that power is implicated in all of the other themes.
