Towards collective and community
practices:
Narrative ways of working with groups and communities
A five day workshop facilitated
by Cheryl White & David Denborough with Barbara Wingard as a special
guest
February
9th-13th 2009
The Dulwich Centre Institute of Collective Narrative
Practice is pleased to announce this workshop relating to how narrative
ideas can be used in collective and community contexts. This five day
workshop will provide an immersion into ways of using narrative
practices:
- to link individuals with whom you may be working
and enable them to contribute to broader collective projects,
- to work with groups,
- and to engage with communities who have
experienced significant trauma
The workshop will include:
- Teaching about key principles in relation to
working in collective ways, and various key narrative concepts and
practices.
- The sharing of stories and songs about hopeful
work from Australia, Palestinian Territories, South Africa, and
elsewhere.
- The creation together of a collective document
and song during the workshop, and the holding of a ceremony in
relation to these.
- Discussions about some of the differences between
therapy and collective/community practice.
- Attention will be paid to the politics of
experience and what it means to bring a feminist and collective
perspective to our work as practitioners.
- Special considerations will be given to ways of
responding to groups and communities who have experienced
significant trauma.
- Particular discussion will also take place about
ways in which workplaces/teams can respond to crises with collective
processes.
PRACTICAL:
This workshop is designed to enable participants to go back to their own
contexts and immediately put to work the ideas discussed. There is a
determination that these five days can assist people to return to their
own contexts better prepared to assist those with whom they are working.
WHO IS THIS WORKSHOP DESIGNED FOR?
The workshop will be suitable for: those working with individuals who
would like to find ways to link people together; those working with
groups; those working with communities; and those wishing to work in
collective and community orientated ways. It will also be relevant to
those who are interested in linking their work to local projects of
social action.
ABOUT THE FACILITATORS:
Over the past decade Cheryl White and David Denborough have been
involved in a wide range of community engagements here in Australia and
overseas. They have also been involved in supporting workers in a
variety of contexts and countries to develop culturally appropriate ways
of responding to children and adults who have experienced significant
trauma (see the recent book Trauma: Narrative responses to traumatic
experience). In many contexts, counselling or therapy is not an
appropriate response, hence the need for more collective and community
practices. Recent teaching assignments have included Kuwait (to Iraqi
workers who are establishing a trauma centre in Basra), Canada, USA,
Uganda & Rwanda. Cheryl White brings to this workshop a long history of
engagement with feminist thought and practice. David Denborough brings a
love of both the written word and song and ways that these can inform
our work with individuals, family groups and communities. Barbara
Wingard is a senior Aboriginal woman and co-author (with Jane Lester) of
the influential book ‘Telling our stories in ways that make us stronger’
(Dulwich Centre Publications 2001).
COST: AUD$660
To register, please email
dulwich@senet.com.au |
