Guidance and Counseling: Dwijendra’s Ethical Spiritual Value

Abstract

- Guidance and counseling innovation by developing local wisdom and indigeneity is very important. Dominated by western theories and approaches, guidance and counseling implementation often collides with local cultures. Research problem: How to describe the Dwijendra's ethical-spiritual values in guidance and counseling on the process of reconstruction and restructuration students’ personality traits and changing students’ behavior. The purposes of this study: (1) describing and interpreting Dwijendra's ethical-spiritual values that are applicable to guidance and counseling, (2) understanding and interpreting the Dwijendra's ethical-spiritual values that lead to certain model and understanding the implementation stages of the value to the students, (3) describing the implementation of Dwijendra's ethical-spiritual values on the guidance and counseling of students of SMA (Senior High School) Dwijendra Bali. This study was conducted using phenomenology research method. Hermeneutics was used for data analysis. The subjects of this study were the teachers, counselors, supervisors, and students of SMA Dwijendra Denpasar, Bali. Data analysis steps were data reduction, data display, and conclusion drawing. The results of this study showed: first, the applicable Dwijendra's ethical-spiritual values for guidance and counseling are summarized in the “Mokshartam Jagadhita ya ca iti Dharma” construct. Second, the reconstruction and restructuration of Dwijendra's ethical-spiritual values was done by implementing local wisdoms. Third, the implementation process of Dwijendra's ethical-spiritual values includes: (1) pawintenan saraswati, (2) dharma wacana, (3) dharma sadhana, (4) evaluation and reflection. This implementation is a permanent and sustainable process. The implications of this study to the ethical-spiritual-value-based guidance and counseling at school are: (1) counselors should integrate the culture knowledge and students’ spirituality, (2) counselors should apply counseling with harmonious and balanced approach summarized in moksartham jagadhita ya ca iti dharma, (3) counselors should optimize the integration of spirituality in counseling, (4) the integrated ethical-spiritual values counseling model. Suggestion: this study contributes to a model and a form of guidance and counseling inspired by ethical-spiritual values.