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The author of this chapter takes a heuristic and narrative approach to report the findings of an extracted study from her qualitative, transcendental phenomenological dissertation. The topic of spirituality was an unexpected, emerging theme that was disconfirming in the data, where two of the six participants made consistent reference to their spirituality in the workplace.
This disconfirming data was uncovered in this study without any prompting, but its evident emergent presence seemed to merit further investigation. Studies reveal that more and more clients are acknowledging some type of spiritual or religious affiliation. However, social workers as professionals are not necessarily recognized or acknowledged for their beliefs about spirituality and how those beliefs may transcend into the workplace. This chapter provides an in-depth visit to the data related to these two participants who are self-identified as spiritual beings. The major themes and sub-themes are revealed through the lens of self-reflexivity to find meaning from their perceptions of spirituality in the urban-based communities where they live and work.
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Anderson, G.T. (2018). Getting to the Heart of the Matter: A Self-Reflexive Approach to Workplace Spirituality. In: Dhiman, S., Roberts, G., Crossman, J. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Workplace Spirituality and Fulfillment. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-61929-3_32-1
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