Draft Program International Narrative Therapy and Community Work Conference

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8th International Narrative Therapy and Community Work Conference
to be held in Kristiansand, Norway

We have included here a draft program for the upcoming conference. As you will see, it promises to be a diverse and invigorating event! A special theme of 'responding to violence' is woven throughout the three days. There are also a number of presentations related to mental health issues.. and an extraordinary range of other topics! The entire emphasis of the program is on therapists, community workers, counsellors sharing examples of practical work that others can then try to apply in their own contexts, and in their own ways. The conference is understood to be an opportunity for the sharing of hopeful work from many different countries, cultures and contexts! We look forward to seeing you there.

Apart from this formal program there will also be opportunities to meet and discuss your work with others working in similar areas. There will also be a range of poster sessions. And, as always, music, song and festivities will be an integral part of proceedings!

If you have not already registered please email us on dulwich@senet.com.au

Day One: 20th June	Day Two: 21st June	Day Three: 22nd June
Opening Ceremony: Including welcome from south of Norway & from Sami people of the north, and responses from Indigenous Australia, Maori and Samoa.	Morning Keynote Journeys of identity: Stories from those adopted across country and culture Leonie Simmons (Vietnam/Australia) Margrethe Sandvand (Korea/Norway) The significance of belonging: Charles Waldegrave (New Zealand)	Morning Keynote The significance of the 'absent but implicit' in responding to those who have experienced trauma Michael White (Australia)
Opening keynote: The Tree of Life Ncazelo Ncube (Zimbabwe/South Africa) Reflections from: * Practitioners from Ramallah (Palestinian Territories) * James Amemasor (Ghana)
Parallel Sessions	Parallel Sessions	Parallel Sessions
Narrative school counselling: Schooling, power relations and the role of the school counsellor John Winslade (NZ/USA) Responding to grief, death & dying Facilitated by Lorraine Hedtke (USA) * Narrative therapy for Chinese advanced cancer patients: Talking and writing about death and loss. Kitty Wu (Hong Kong) * The use of outsider witness practices with those who have cancer and their relatives Bo Snedker Boman (Denmark) * 'Dancing with Mr. D': A narrative approach to talking about death with staff in a cancer centre Yasunaga Komori (Japan) Developing skills of collaboration. Conversations with divorced parents Anne Kathrine Løge (Norway) Mothers and children * Moving beyond mother blame - a narrative approach to successful parenting Andrew Duggan (UK) * Responding to children and mothers from families in which domestic violence has taken place Heine Steinkopf, Ragnild Leite & Gunhild Spikkeland (Norway) Narrative therapy and working with couples Jodi Aman (USA) with reflections from Laura Beres (Canada) The Gifts of the Four Winds: Drug and Alcohol Program & the American Indian Women’s Identity Group: Paula McWhirter, Rockey Robbins, Sadie Willmon, Derek Burke, Brian Stalcup, Tony Wilson, and Karen Vaughn (USA) With reflections from Barbara Wingard (Australia) Responding to Violence Part One: Working with men to separate from beliefs that justify gender violence Nancy Gray (Canada) With a reflection from Ragnild Leite (Norway)	'Family Class' - involving parents in work in schools with young people at risk of expulsion Jannicke Fogh & Christian Pedersen (Denmark) Narrative Questions: The poetics of practice David Epston (New Zealand) Narrative Conversations with young people * Annette Holmgren (Denmark) * Dave McGibbon (Canada) 'Unpacking' problems Rudi Kronbichler (Austria) Narrative practice in rural Taiwan * The Making of Handmade Life Story Books by the women's narrative therapy group in the rural and fishing villages of Yilan County in Taiwan Lin, Hsiang Chun (Taiwan) * A Dream of Revitalizing A Marginal Fishing Village: The use of narrative interviews to re-build the relationship between my hometown and I A-Yueh Chen (Taiwan) Creative means of consulting with agencies - travelling a long way in a short time Jill Freedman (USA) Snakes and ladders: The ups and downs of trying to quit a self-harming lifestyle Diane Clare (UK) Working with children: The use of 'narra-drama' Pam Dunne (USA) Responding to Violence Part Three: Extending a visual narrative therapy and community work response to family violence Art Fisher (Canada)	Narrative approaches to mediation in health care Gerald Monk & Stacey Sinclair (NZ/USA) Locating narrative therapy in the 'turn to narrative' Tina Besley & Michael Peters (USA) The Blind listening to the Blind? Counselling in the realm of the visually impaired Susan Dale (UK) Narrative gathering for peer counsellors from the Irish Wheelchair Association and National Council for the Blind of Ireland Keith Oulton, Pat Walsh, Brenda Heffernan, Gabriel Maloney (Ireland) & Maggie Carey (Australia) Responding to young people around the issue of drug use * A community approach to 'deconstructing addiction' and supporting young people dealing with substance use Brian Wong and Yee Wu (Hong Kong) With a reflection from Einar Egenæs (Norway) * Speak Out Speak Easy: working with young people with 'dual diagnosis' - talking about drug use and mental health concerns Julie-Anne Geddes (Australia) Narrative approaches to child protection Maconny Egholm Tveiten, Elisabeth Dyvik & Frode Kavli (Norway) Trauma and Re-membering conversations Geir Lundby (Norway) Narrative Practice in Organisations Keeping good atmosphere's alive Dorte Nissen (Denmark) Witnessing processes in organizational conflicts: problems and values as twins Allan Holmgren (Denmark) The dissolution of conflict in workplaces and organisations Marie Sloan & Susan Raphael (Australia) Re-telling gender stories Elmarie Kotzé, Kathie Crocket, Steve Gaddis
Lunch	Lunch	Lunch
Afternoon keynote: Insider knowledge: How the perspectives of those who have experienced mental health difficulties is changing the mental health field Featuring Odd Volden (Norway) Turid Foss (Norway) & Stories of love and lament: Perspectives of children whose parents live with mental health difficulties Ellen Walnum (Norway) Shona Russell (Australia) & others!	Developing counter-practices to sustain narrative practice in traditional settings Bill Madsen (USA) Holding onto the ethics of narrative practice within public services Glenda Fredman (UK) Map-making for the conversational explorer Mark Hayward (UK) Talking about sex: narrative practices Yael Gershoni, Saviona Cramer & Tali Ostrovsky (Israel) Witnessing as healing practice in addressing the effects of racial oppression, poverty and HIV/AIDS in South Africa Elize Morkel (South Africa) With reflections from Ncazelo Ncube (Zimbabwe/South Africa) Responding to Violence Part Four: Conversations with men about women's violence: Ending men's violence by challenging gender essentialism Tod Augusta Scott (Canada)	The stories of women's lives * Responding to the experiences of women from the former USSR who have come to Australia as 'mail-order' brides: Irene Quinn (Australia) with a reflection from Daria Kutuzova (Russia) * Domestic Violence - the Indian Experience: Milly Chatterjee (India) * '(W)rightful - a write to right': supporting creative writing & creative thinking as a strategy for social change: Christiana Lambrinidis (Greece) Talking about eating issues * Marnie Sather (USA/Australia) * Saviona Cramer & Yael Gershoni & Tali Ostrovsky-Gogol (Israel) Narrative Supervision Amanda Redstone (UK) Re-thinking life, identity and knowledge: * New Stories of Intellectual Disabilities Sandra Baum & Henrik Lynggaard (UK) * Researching in partnership about the experience of living with learning disabilities Zara Clarke (UK) * Working with people with acquired brain injury - reconnecting and remaking identity Keith Oulton (Ireland) Developing communities to work with narrative practices Jan Ewing and the Center for Therapeutic Collaboration (USA)
Parallel Sessions Responding to children, young people and adults whose parents have mental health difficulties * The work of "Andungen" & "Morild" Ellen Walnum, & Toralf Tronstad (Norway) * Ruth Pluznick & Natasha Kis-Sines (Toronto) Narrative group work: the use of outsider witness practices Anne Romer & Anne Saxtorph (Denmark) Responding to trauma: * A re-authoring map to assist clinicians in their work with people struggling with trauma Marie-Nathalie Beaudoin (USA) * Using narrative practices to respond to experiences of trauma in group, family and individual work Yishai Shalif & Rachel Paran (Israel) Stories from 'inside' * Making and Keeping Friends on the Outside: A manual developed by a man living in an inpatient forensic ward ~ Margot Brink (UK) * The work of the Violent Offenders Treatment Program: A prison program ~ Rachael Haggett (Australia) Responding to Violence: Part Two Narrative, Collaborative and Restorative/Transformative Justice Therapies for the Effects of Sexual Abuse Walter Bera (USA)	Queer Keynote From Gender Dysphoria to Gender Euphoria: Parents supporting children to live differently gendered lives Chaired by Esben Esther Pirelli Benestad Reflection from - Taimalie Kiwi Tamasese (Samoa/New Zealand)	Afternoon keynote Travelling stories: Finding our own way Linda Aleksandersen (Norway) Sissel Wilhelmine Daabous (Norway) Reflection from Barbara Wingard (Australia)
Evening Keynote: Invigorating communities America Bracho (Venezuela/USA)	Conference Concert Join in as participants share songs, poems, dances from their own cultures and contexts	Closing Ceremony

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