9th
International Narrative Therapy
and Community Work Conference
to be
held in Adelaide, Australia 26th-28th November 2008
Draft program now
available!
Pre-conference workshops
Thinking that informs Dulwich Centre conferences
The International
Narrative Therapy and Community Work Conference is returning to Australia!
For the first time in seven years, this event is to be held in Adelaide.
After conferences in USA, Mexico, Hong Kong, UK and Norway, we’re delighted
to be back in Australia. We hope you will join us!
This conference will:
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consider hopeful work in realms of
mental health, violence and abuse, grief, addictions, relationships,
trauma, family therapy;
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include considerations of work with
children, individuals, couples, families, groups and communities;
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include the voices of well-known and
respected international practitioners and the perspectives of
those who have never before shared their work in these forums;
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represent a great diversity and
plurality of narrative practice;
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draw attention to the politics of
experience and politics of practice (including the politics of gender,
culture, class, sexuality and gender identity);
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enable rigorous discussions, debates,
and questioning of practices and their real effects in people's lives
(we don't all have to agree!);
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involve song and other forms of cultural
practice throughout the conference experience;
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enable a range of different sorts and styles of
presentation - from keynote addresses, workshops, paper presentations,
poster sessions, cultural work, participatory education, video and film
viewing, and much more.
PRESENTERS
will include: Jill Freedman (USA), David
Epston (NZ), Salome Raheim (USA), Carolyn Markey (Australia), Stephen Madigan (Canada),
Taimalie Kiwi Tamasese (Samoa/NZ), Charles Waldegrave (NZ), the Dulwich Centre Institute of Community Practice, Lorraine
Hedtke (USA), David Denborough (Australia), Angel Yuen (Canada), John Winslade (NZ/USA), Cheryl White (Australia), Gene Combs (USA), Esben Esther
Pirelli Benestad (Norway),
Yael Gershoni, Saviona Cramer & Tali Gogol-Ostrowsky
(Israel), Geir Lundby (Norway), Anne Kathrine Loge (Norway), Gerald Monk
(USA), Yishai Shalif & Rachel Paran (Israel), Natasha Savelieva (Russia),
Shona Russell (Australia), Daria Kutuzova (Russia), Susanna Chamberlain
(Australia), Gaye Stockell & Marilyn O'Neill (Australia), Jodi Aman (USA),
Mark Trudinger (Australia), Pam Dunne (USA), Barbara Wingard (Australia) and many
others from all continents (except perhaps Antarctica) !
TO REGISTER:
Email Virginia Leake:
dulwich@senet.com.au
DRAFT PROGRAM
Please note, this is only a very rough draft program. It will change
significantly between now and the conference. But it does provide a glimpse
of the diversity of topics and countries that will be on offer!
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Day One |
Day Two |
Day Three |
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Indigenous welcome
Welcoming ceremony
Opening keynote:
Stories and songs from Ireland to Australia and back
Narrative & melodic practices in therapeutic work with those in
prison and those changing their relationships to drugs
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Morning keynote
There's more than one story:
Skills of reclamation from remote Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
communities
The use of collective narrative
practices
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Morning keynote
The Queer keynote
Questioning gender
and sexual identity...
and in the process
therapeutic practice
looks a whole lot
more interesting
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| Parallel Sessions
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Parallel Sessions
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Parallel Sessions
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Therapeutic
documentation
Creative uses of the written word
* letter writing
* report writing
* the use of twin story-books
* documenting client knowledge in crisis plans in mental health
settings
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The stories of
people living with disability |
A new paradigm for
working with organisations: narrative practices for working with
organisations, schools and groups (Israel) |
| Narrative couple
therapy (USA) |
Narrative
supervision (Australia) |
Strengthening
Resistance: The use of narrative practices in responding to
genocide survivors |
| Obsessions can not
be suppressed or forced, but they might be tricked: working with
young people and their families (Norway) |
Outsider witness
work
* Learnings from Mexico |
The use of new
technologies and narrative practice
(including narrative therapy via video-conferencing to respond
to mental health concerns in rural and remote areas) |
Preventing violence
against women: Our silence will not protect us
Women of colour speak (USA with reflections from Samoa &
Australia) |
Working respectfully
with incarcerated men who have sexually abused children
* Presentation from New Zealand
* Reflections from feminist practitioners |
Narrative approaches
in the land of the Thunder Dragon (Kingdom of Bhutan) |
| Narrative practice
and assessment with people troubled by eating disorders
(Australia) |
Talking with
heterosexual couples about sex: A narrative approach
(Israel) |
Innovative
approaches to responding to men who have been violent:
* Circulating stories of men's anti-violence projects (Norway)
* Interviewing women who have been subjected to violence and
abuse about the effects of this with the men in the
outsider witness position (Australia)
* Towards 'the Man I want to be'
* With reflections from practitioners who work with those who
have been subjected to men's violence |
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Lunch |
Lunch |
Lunch |
| Parallel Sessions
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Parallel Sessions
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Parallel Sessions
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| Narrative mediation
(NZ/ USA) |
The fundamentals of
narrative drama - narradrama (USA) |
Strengthening
children's responses to trauma (Canada) |
| Place: narrative
practice and the environment (Australia) |
Deconstructing
privilege: implications for practice
An international symposium |
International
research symposium: Developing narrative approaches to research
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| Don't kill your TV
set yet: leveraging pop culture in work with youth |
The copying
originates: Younger practitioners speak about how they are using
and changing narrative practice |
Considerations of
spirituality and spiritual politics in the therapy room
(Australia with reflections from other countries) |
| Anxiety... and other
stories: working with children, young people and adults
experiencing anxiety (USA) |
Making theory,
making practice:
* Deleuze & narrative practice
* Queer theory / queer therapy |
* School-based
narrative therapy
(Australia)
* Respectworthiness versus Blameworthiness: an approach to the
problems of young people and their families (New Zealand) |
Stories of work from
Russian narrative practitioners:
* Bringing Michael White's retelling of Vygotsky back into the
Russian community of post-Vygotskian psychologists and
therapists
* Working with 'troubled' teenagers and their families
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The 'Found in
Translation' Project: What new meanings/ new practices can be
found as narrative ideas traverse different languages? (Russia,
Colombia, USA and elsewhere) |
Post spinal cord
injury sexual health counselling (South Africa) |
* Working with
children where sexual behaviour has brought them trouble
(New Zealand)
* Community approaches to the problem of stealing (New Zealand) |
Re-membering
conversations
* Expanded, complicated and anti-membership practices |
Stories of practice
from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Communities
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| Setting the scene
and performance questions: including metaphors of the stage and
theatre (Israel) |
Two presentations re
narrative medicine, narrative therapy & narrative mediation
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Seeking value and
purpose: Collaborations with older Greek Australians referred
with diagnoses of 'anxiety' and 'depression' |
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Break |
Break |
Break |
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Afternoon keynote:
Talking (and laughing) with children about problems and
hardship:
Remembering where Michael White's work all began
Younger narrative practitioners share stories of work with
children
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Afternoon keynote
Saying goodbye, saying hullo:
Death, dying, grief & re-thinking life and practice |
Closing keynote
Seeking refuge: skills,
knowledges and stories from newcomers to Australia.
How narrative practices can be used to respond to those who have
experienced the trauma of war and dislocation |
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Community
concert: the sharing of story and song between cultures,
countries & generations |
Closing
ceremony:
Looking towards Brasil in 2010 |
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REFLEXIVE SPACES
During each day of the conference reflexive spaces will be
created in which people can talk together about how they will
engage with the ideas they have heard back in their own local
context |
INTEREST GROUPS
Throughout the conference there will be
opportunities for participants to regularly meet informally in
interest groups on topics such as research, working with
couples, working in institutions, considerations of gender and
culture in practice ... and many more |
Pre- Conference
Workshops
22nd
November: The power of song, music and narrative practice:
One day workshop with Salome Raheim and
David Denborough
23rd – 24th November:
Narrative
therapy in action and reflection:
Two
day workshop with David Epston
24th
November: Re-membering Lives: A workshop for practitioners
working with grief and loss
One day workshop with Lorraine Hedtke & John Winslade
24th November:
Considerations of gender and culture in narrative practice
Half day free workshop with Angel Yuen
24th November: Free evening event remembering and
honouring the life and work of Michael White
25th
November: Responding to trauma
and enabling contribution:
The possibilities of collective narrative
practice (suitable for those working with individuals, groups
and/or communities)
One day workshop with Cheryl White &
David Denborough
25th
November: From gender dysphoria to gender euphoria
One day workshop with Esben Esther & Elsa Almaas
25th
November: Introduction to Narrative Practice:
One day FREE workshop
29th
November: The mystery of the sometimes incongruent narrative
practice:
The burden of individualism and the psycho-industrial
complex
One day workshop with Stephen Madigan
29th November:
Talking about
sex: Narrative practice in regard to sexuality in heterosexual
relationships
One day workshop with
Yael Gershoni, Saviona Cramer, Tali Gogol-Ostrowsky
1st-2nd
December: A narrative approach to working with relationships:
Two day workshop with Jill Freedman & Gene Combs
About Dulwich Centre
conferences
Over the last nine years, Dulwich Centre
has held International Narrative Therapy and Community Work Conferences in:
- Adelaide (Australia)
- Atlanta (USA)
- Liverpool (UK)
- Oaxaca (Mexico)
- Hong Kong (China)
- Kristiansand (Norway)
From the outset, these conferences have
been organised in ways that seek to be congruent with some the key
principles of narrative practice. They've also sought to be hosted as
'community events'. Some of our aims have included:
• to provide high quality presentations on the latest thinking and
application of narrative ideas and to do so in ways that enable people of
differing experience to be both engaged and challenged
• to enable people of different cultures, countries, genders, ages, class
backgrounds, physical abilities and sexual identities to come together,
enjoy each other’s company, and have a sense that the conference program and
processes include their perspectives, hopes and ideas
• to use the conference as a chance to acknowledge and come to terms with
the history of the land on which it is held
• to create an opportunity for participants to build a sense of
connectedness and to contribute to the building of a community of ideas
• to provide the opportunity and support necessary for individuals and
groups who have never presented before at conferences (and indeed may never
have told their stories in front of an audience) to present the stories of
their lives and their particular knowledges and skills in keynote addresses
• to create an atmosphere that is non-hierarchical, with no pronounced
difference between presenters and participants
• to provide a forum for conversations that are expanding the field (not
confirming it or simply reiterating what is already known)
• to de-centre the conference collective in both the lead-up and during the
conference itself so that the focus remains on everyone’s contributions to a
community event
To read about some of the thinking that informs the
conferences that we run, please
click here
to read 'Conceptualising Conferences as
Community Gatherings', from the book 'A Community of Ideas: Behind the Scenes'
by Cheryl White & David Denborough. This chapter describes the history of the
conferences that we host and some of the thinking that informs them. We are
always interested to hear from practitioners about their ideas and
suggestions about ways of holding conferences that are thoughtful, vibrant,
challenging and practice-based.
Conference just been
Kristiansand, Norway:
Thankyou to all those who
contributed to the 8th International Narrative Therapy and
Community Work Conference which was held in Kristiansand, Norway (20th - 22nd June 2007)
As promised, we have included
here a link to Linda Aleksandersen's paper about her work in
re-uniting Romani families:
'Re-uniting
Romani people with their families: Work of a lifetime'
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