| Current Projects
Seeking your contributions!
We are currently interested in hearing from narrative practitioners
about:
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Couples |
Tips, practices, principles and ideas that you are finding
helpful in your work with couples |
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Environment |
Stories of therapeutic/community/organisational practice
that relate to environmental concerns |
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Technology |
Ways in which you are using new technologies (email, facebook, myspace, skype, websites) in your work
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Research |
Ways in which you are researching the effects and
effectiveness of your work and/or your organisation’s work |
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Talking about sex |
Ways in which narrative practices can be used by
therapists in conversations about sexual practices, sexual
difficulties and sexual pleasure. |
If you would
like to contribute to any of these projects please
email us!
The Dulwich Centre
Foundation also has a range of current projects:
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Responding to the children of parents with
mental health difficulties
* Women and grief project
* Responding
to survivors of genocide in Rwanda
* Supporting workers in contexts of war and armed
conflict
For information about these, click here
New narrative methodologies
A range of new narrative methodologies are
currently under development here at Dulwich Centre. These include:
* The Tree of Life: a collective narrative
approach to responding to vulnerable children
* The Team of Life: responding to trauma through sport
* River of memory, river of dreams
* Collective narrative documents
* Narrative song-writing
For information about these, click here
Popular culture and narrative practice
We would be very interested to hear from practitioners about ways in
which you are engaging with popular culture in your therapeutic /
group / community work. Do you ever discuss films, books, music with
those consulting you? Or do particular artists, novelists, film
stars, musicians influence your practice? Here at Dulwich Centre we
vividly recall the conversations we shared with Emily Sued, a
Mexican narrative therapist who has since passed away, when she
would speak about how Harry Potter was one of her most useful
therapeutic resources in working with children with fears. In fact,
we recall watching one of the Harry Potter movies with Emily and
nearly jumping out of our skins as she responded so dramatically to
events throughout the movie. If there are particular aspects of
popular culture that make a difference to your work we’d love to
hear about this. We’re not exactly sure where these explorations
will lead… but we have a feeling that it might be both enjoyable and
relevant to the further development of narrative practice. If you’d
like to join these explorations please write to us here at
Dulwich Centre
Preventing Prisoner Rape Project
The 'Preventing Prisoner Rape Project'
is a national project here in Australia aiming to: raise awareness
about the issue of rape in prisons; reach out and support prison rape
survivors; support those workers both inside and outside prisons who are
trying to deal with this issue of sexual violence in detention, and
bring about appropriate law reform and changes to prison administration
in order to prevent prisoner rape. While our key area of concern relates
to men's and women's prisons, we are also concerned about sexual
violence in juvenile justice centres, secure mental health facilities,
and immigration detention centres.
Deconstructing Addiction League
This is an invitation to those
engaging with narrative ideas and practices in relation to issues of addiction
and the use of alcohol and other
drugs. Initiated by Anthony Corballis, in the USA, and David Denborough, in
Australia, a number of people are
now interested in developing a "league" for deconstructing
addiction.
A continuing invitation to narrative practitioners to address
privilege and dominance
This project has been initiated by a group of
therapists, community workers and educators from Samoa, Aotearoa/New
Zealand, Australia, USA and the UK. As professionals and wage-earners we
live with a considerable degree of privilege and freedom. At the same
time, we represent a diverse number of cultures. While some of us live
with white privilege, others of us live as Indigenous people and as people
of colour with the ongoing effects of colonisation and racism. Our
backgrounds also differ in relation to gender, class and sexual
orientation. What we have in common is a deep sadness at much of what is
occurring in the world and a commitment to play our part in continuing to
foster communities of therapists and community workers in which broader
relations of power are acknowledged and addressed in our work. If these
are matters that you are grappling with in your workplace, we would like
to hear from you. Follow the link above to see the document we have placed on
this website, and then write to us! Thanks!
Documenting testimonies of trauma -
double-storied testimony
In collaboration with workers from Denmark, Russia and Rwanda, Dulwich
Centre is continuing our long-standing interest in ways of documenting
testimonies of trauma in ways that make people stronger. Renewed
interest in this area has come from the Dulwich Centre Foundation's
recent trip to Rwanda to work with
the survivors of genocide. If you are interested in reading more about
this work, or if you are involved in documenting testimonies, we would
be very interested to hear from
you.
Community newsletter
Initiatives:
A project to link and sustain the efforts of people in Adelaide who are
trying to make a difference! |
