Main vision
sTimul is a learning place for all who are or will be engaged in the care sector. Care ethics and presence-approach are the two cornerstones of the main vision that support sTimul.
Care ethics
sTimul wishes to sTimulate the reflection on care. Both care-taker and care-receiver gain from this.
Caring for somebody, taking care of somebody, is most of all a relational treatment that needs to be well thought of in the broad cultural and scientific framework of trust between people, expertise, dependence, discretion and responsibility.
Care ethics leads to an alert, deeply human involvement in caring. Care ethics makes you think about the caring dimension of our society, by framing this within the broad context of the cultural living habits and value-patterns, human interactions and working situations within the care sector.
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Presence-approach
With ‘presence’, one means the warm involvement from the caretaker to the person in need of care. This presence allows to assign both caring and care. In this way, presence creates « living space ». The caretaker tries from his own possibilities -with all responsibility- to offer the best answer.
The presence-approach starts from a dialogue, with respect for mutual autonomy and shared responsibility, that creates a bond of care and caring and even in difficult situations creates possibilities for a « living together ».
This reasoning, based on the care-theory, is translated by sTimul thanks to a thorough, interactive and quite realistic simulation of the work field, followed by reflection and attached to a carry-on into the real work field.
