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9th International Narrative Therapy
and Community Work Conference
to be held in Adelaide, Australia 26th-28th November 2008

Revised program now available!

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Feast Festival 2008
Welcome to our diverseCITY! Let's celebrate diverse sexualities and genders.
This Festival of Queer Arts and Culture coincides with the conference
To download Feast Festival program

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:

consider hopeful work in realms of mental health, violence and abuse, grief, addictions, relationships, trauma, family therapy;
include considerations of work with children, individuals, couples, families, groups and communities;
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;
represent a great diversity and plurality of narrative practice;
draw attention to the politics of experience and politics of practice (including the politics of gender, culture, class, sexuality and gender identity);
enable rigorous discussions, debates, and questioning of practices and their real effects in people's lives (we don't all have to agree!);
involve song and other forms of cultural practice throughout the conference experience;
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.

TO REGISTER: Email Virginia Leake: dulwich@senet.com.au

REVISED PROGRAM
Please note, this is only a 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!

Day One	Day Two	Day Three
9am - 10:30am Indigenous welcome Welcoming ceremony Opening keynote: There's more than one story: Stories and songs of reclamation from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities in Cape York and the Northern Territory Featuring the 'Drop the Rock' Team Samuel Bong & Vivienne Moses Chaired by Barbara Wingard Reflections from Taimalieutu Kiwi Tamasese (Samoa/NZ)	9am-10am 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 Chris Wever (Australia) Therese Hegarty (Ireland)	9am-10am The Queer keynote Questioning gender and sexual identity... and in the process therapeutic practice looks a whole lot more interesting Esben Esther Pirelli Benestad (Norway) Sekneh Beckett (Australia) Barbara Baumgartner (Canada) The Standard Deviations
10:30-11:15am Tea Break	10-10:45am Tea Break	10-10:45am Tea Break
Parallel Sessions 11:15- 12:45	Parallel Sessions 10:45-12:45	Parallel Sessions 10:45-11:45
Working with narrative ideas in schools Carolyn Markey & Lisa Johnson (Australia)	Re-generating hope: The work of Latino Health Access America Bracho (Venezuela/USA) (Part One)	A new paradigm for working with organisations: narrative practices for working with organisations, schools and groups Yishai Shalif & Rachel Paran (Israel)
Outsider witness practice 1. Definitional ceremonies Jill Freedman (USA) [60 mins] 2. Learnings from Mexico Leticia Uribe & Diana Rico [30 mins]	Narrative relationship therapy Jill Freedman (USA)	Moving from isolation to inclusion: Supporting HIV positive people in Fiji ~ Richard Sawrey, Akanisi Tarabe & Paulini Vakacegu
Obsessions can not be suppressed or forced, but they might be tricked: working with young people and their families Geir Lundby (Norway)	Supervision Narrative supervision ~ Sue Mann, Shona Russell & Carolyn Markey (Australia)	Queer theory / queer therapy 1. Queering marriage and family therapy: A critical analysis from a queer theory lens Jonathyn Piper (USA) [30 mins] 2. Queer theory, queer therapy: post identities for the post modern world ~ Julie Tilsen & David Nylund (Canada/USA) [30 mins]
Where narrative ideas and medicine meet 1. Narrative approaches to mediation in health care ~ Gerald Monk (USA) [30 minutes] 2. Teaching narrative medicine & narrative therapy ~ Lynn Bloom & Leonard Bloom (Canada) [25 minutes]	Stories from work in Aboriginal Australia Chaired by Barbara Wingard 1. Journey Program ~ Annabelle Sharman & Meaghan Katrak [30 mins] 2. Culturally-based parenting programs: Anne Mead & Donella Mitchell (Australia) [30 mins] 3. The Tree of Life with young Aboriginal parents: Carolynanha Koolmatrie (Australia) [20 mins] 4. Further stories from Ntaria (Hermannsburg) With reflections from the Drop the Rock Team	Manufacturing our identities as therapists Marilyn O'Neil & Gaye Stockell (Australia)
		The place of 'place' in narrative practice: Mark Trudinger, Manja Visschedijk, David Newman (Australia)
Eating issues 1. From assessment to rich description - working with people troubled by eating disorders ~ Mim Weber (Australia) [45 mins] 2. Narrative practice in relation to eating issues ~ Yael Gershoni, Saviona Cramer & Tali Gogol-Ostrowsky (Israel) [45 mins]	Re-membering conversations 1. Re-membering conversations in practice ~ David Newman (Australia) [90 mins] 2. Expanded, complicated and anti-membership practices [30 mins] Chana Rachel Frumin & Gid'on Mordecai Friedman (Israel)	The 'Found in Translation' Project: What new meanings / new practices can be found as narrative ideas traverse different languages? Daria Kutuzova (Russia) Working with 'troubled' teenagers and their families ~ Vyaceslav Mosvichov (Russia)
		Responding to children who have experienced trauma: Angel Yuen(Canada)
		Break 11:45-12pm Parallel Sessions 12-1pm
Innovative approaches to responding to men who have been violent: 1. Circulating stories of men's anti-violence projects ~ Anne Kathrine Loge (Norway) [45 mins] 2. Journeys in responding to men's violence: from Halifax to the Yukon ~ Nancy Gray (Canada) [45 mins]		Stories from Russia Bringing Michael White's retelling of Vygotsky back into the Russian community of post-Vygotskian psychologists and therapists ~ Daria Kutuzova (Russia)
	Research symposium #1 1. Developing narrative approaches to research ~ Introduction Susanna Chamberlain 2. Resonance and authenticity: reflexive narrative research ~ Ian Percy (Australia) [40 mins] 3. Understanding Sudanese people's responses to trauma ~ Jay Marlowe (Australia) [40 mins] Reflections and facilitated discussion by Susanna Chamberlain	Setting the scene and performance questions: including metaphors of the stage and theatre ~ Yishai Shalif & Rachel Paran (Israel)
		The stories of families living with disability: pAul montgomery (Australia)
		Adapting narrative ideas to fit the work context 1. Transforming assessments in Centrelink : the use of narrative checklists Lesley Dalyell [40 mins] 2. Putting narrative ideas into practice: stories from new narrative therapy practitioners Pia [20mins]
		Narrative approaches in the land of the Thunder Dragon (Kingdom of Bhutan) ~ Sonam Peden (Bhutan), Julie Dickenson, Jo Bower, Ian Percy (Australia) [1 hour] Reflections from Taimalieutu Kiwi Tamasese
		Beyond normality - a partnership between a narrative therapist and visual artist Jane Hutton & Michelle Jackson (Australia)
		Mental health 1. Trauma focused narrative practice via videoconference to rural and remote areas ~ Pam McKee (Australia) [30 mins] 2. Seeking value and purpose: Collaborations with older Greek Australians referred with diagnoses of 'anxiety' and 'depression' ~ Katy Batha (Australia) [20 mins] Reflection from Marilyn O'Neill
Lunch 12:45-2pm	Lunch 12:45-2pm	Lunch 1-2pm
Parallel Sessions 2pm-4pm	Parallel Sessions 2pm-4pm	Parallel Sessions 2pm-3:30pm
Narrative mediation (NZ/ USA) Gerald Monk & John Winslade	The fundamentals of narrative drama - narradrama ~ Pam Dunne (USA)	Narrative therapy and sex: Talking with heterosexual couples about sex, bodies, and relationships Yael Gershoni, Tali Gogol-Ostrowsky & Saviona Cramer (Israel)
Strengthening Resistance: The use of narrative practices in responding to genocide survivors ~ David Denborough, Jill Freedman & Cheryl White Reflections from Barbara Wingard, Saviona Cramer, Yael Gershoni & Yishai Shalif	Deconstructing privilege: implications for practice ~ An international symposium Karen Brown (Australia) [20 mins] Shawn Patrick (USA) [40 mins] Alastair Crocket (NZ) [20 mins] Lisa Berndt (USA) [20 mins] Chaired by: Charles Waldegrave (NZ) & Taimalieutu Kiwi Tamasese (Samoa/NZ)	Working with parents and schools in response to children who have displayed unusual gendered behaviour ~ Esben Esther Pirelli Benestad & Elsa Almaas (Norway)
		Complexities re sexual abuse and sexual behaviour 1. Working respectfully with incarcerated men who have sexually abused children Andrew Frost (NZ ) [40 mins] 2. Working with children and young people where sexual behaviour has brought them trouble: Paul Flanagan (NZ) [40 mins] Reflections from Manja Visschedijk (Australia)
Don't kill your TV set yet: Leveraging pop culture in work with youth ~ Julie Tilsen & Dave Nylund (Canada/USA)	Re-generating hope: The work of Latino Health Access America Bracho (Venezuela/USA) (Part Two)	Considerations of spirituality and spiritual politics in the therapy room Josie McSkimming (Australia) [30 mins] Lesley Porter (Australia) [30 mins] Reflections: Charles Waldegrave (New Zealand) Taimalieutu Kiwi Tamasese (Samoa/New Zealand) Yishai Shalif (Israel)
Practising narrative therapy in modernist settings ~ Walter Bera (USA)	Therapeutic documentation Creative uses of the written word 1. Living Documents David Newman [60 minutes] 2. The story of a letter Mercedes Martinez [10mins] 3. The use of twin story-books Richard Cook (NZ) [10mins] 4. Writing reports / keeping respect Liz Morrigan (Australia) [10mins] 5. Documenting client knowledge in crisis plans in mental health settings: Chris Delany (Australia) [10 mins] Reflections from: Angel Yuen (Canada)	'Respectworthiness' versus 'Blameworthiness': an approach to the problems of young people and their families ~ David Epston (New Zealand)
Chitter-chatter: The socially shared and relational voice of problems: Externalizing internalized cultural dialogues ~ Stephen Madigan (Canada)	Community approaches to the problem of stealing David Epston (New Zealand)	Deleuze & narrative practice John Winslade (New Zealand/USA)
Group work with men who have been violent to their partners 1. Interviewing women who have been subjected to violence and abuse about the effects of this with the men in the outsider witness position ~ Helen Wirtz & Ron Schweitzer (Australia) [45 mins] 2. Towards 'the Man I want to be' ~ Susan Geraghty [45 mins] Reflections from Mark Gordon & Rachael Haggett	Research symposium #2 1. A unique form of narrative therapy practice research (45 minutes) Marit E. Løkken (Norway) University of Waikato 2. Originating research methods: Kathie Crocket & Elmarie Kotzé [15 mins] 3. Bridging between home and school for Tongan students: Averill Walters [15 mins] 4. Mothering on the edge: Non-residential mothers: Jenny Snowdon [15 mins] 5. Counselling patients with a spinal cord injury: Susan Sliedrecht [15 mins] 6. Cultural Conversations in a Counselling Context: Jane Harkness [15 mins]	Research symposium #3 University of Waikato 1. Beyond thin descriptions: Challenging the voices of anorexia/bulimia with auto-ethnography and bibliotherapy informed research: Paula Scott [15 mins] 2. Using imagined dialogue to research practice at a sexual abuse helpline: Shelley O’Brien [15 mins] 3. Co-researching rural family therapy: (Extra) ordinary lives: Annette Woodhouse [15 mins] 4. Dancing between discourses in supervision: Ireni Esler & Frances Sullivan [15 mins] 5. Exoticising the small and ordinary stories of couple relationships: Wendy Talbot & Gary Talbot [15 mins] 6. Researching the co-production of literary therapy: Mandy Pentecost [15 mins]
	Noticing what is precious to people: Explorations of the 'absent but implicit' in narrative counselling Jodi Aman (USA)
Break 4-4:30pm	Break 4-4:30pm	Break 3:30-4:00
Afternoon keynote: 4:30-5:30pm Saying goodbye, saying hullo: Death, dying, grief & re-thinking life and practice	Afternoon keynote 4:30-5:45pm Children, trauma and child protection The Just Therapy Team, New Zealand Tamalieutu Kiwi Tamasese & Charles Waldegrave Strengthening children's responses to trauma: Response-based narrative therapy Angel Yuen (Canada) Launch of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander version of Tree of Life Che Stow (Australia) Carolynanha Koolmatrie (Australia)	Closing keynote 4pm-4:45pm The Team of Life: Offering young people a sporting chance Skills, knowledges and stories from newcomers to Australia. Nohan Dhalayatar James Jum David Denborough & Milan Colic
	Community concert: the sharing of story and song between cultures, countries & generations	Closing ceremony: 4:45pm-5:00pm

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

22^nd November: The power of song, music and narrative practice
One day workshop with David Denborough

23^rd – 24^th November: Narrative therapy in action and reflection
Two day workshop with David Epston

24^th November: Re-membering Lives: A workshop for practitioners working with grief and loss
One day workshop with Lorraine Hedtke & John Winslade

24^th November: Re-creating hope through community participation
FREE Half day morning workshop with America Bracho (9am-1pm)

24^th November: Considerations of gender and culture in narrative practice
Half day free afternoon workshop with Angel Yuen (2pm-5pm)

24^th November: Free evening event remembering and honouring the life and work of Michael White
Bookings are necessary. Email Virginia Leake: dulwich@senet.com.au by October 31st. Thanks.

25^th 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

25^th November: From gender dysphoria to gender euphoria
One day workshop with Esben Esther & Elsa Almaas

25^th November: Introduction to Narrative Practice:
One day FREE workshop

29^th November: The mystery of the sometimes incongruent narrative practice:
The burden of individualism and the psycho-industrial complex
One day workshop with Stephen Madigan

29^th November: Talking about sex: Narrative practice in regard to sexuality in heterosexual relationships
One day workshop with Yael Gershoni, Saviona Cramer, Tali Gogol-Ostrowsky

1^st-2^nd 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.