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Narrative forms, case
notes, assessments, evaluations, etc.
We are interested in publishing an upcoming issue of the International
Journal of Narrative Therapy and Community Work that focuses on the ways
in which practitioners and workplaces are developing forms, case notes,
assessments, evaluation procedures that are congruent with narrative
practice. We often hear from practitioners who are faced with certain
requirements for documenting their work, or 'assessing' those who
consult with them, and who are trying to develop ways of doing so that
fit with narrative practice. We also hear from workers who are required
to submit court reports, or conduct staff appraisals, or any number of
other tasks in which a structuralist approach is assumed. We would be
delighted to hear from you about the ways in which they are responding
to these situations, ways to modify the effects of such processes, and
any alternative collaborative processes that you may be developing. We
are particularly interested in approaches to assessments, evaluations,
and forms of documentation that contribute to rich story development.
You can either just write us an email about these, or include examples,
or write up a more formal paper on how you are trying to do so. Whatever
the case, if you have been thinking about these issues, we would be
interested in hearing from you. Please email us on
dulwich@senet.com.au with suggestions,
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Publishing narrative therapy
teaching exercises
An upcoming issue of the International Journal of Narrative Therapy and
Community Work will focus on teaching exercises! If you are a teacher of
narrative therapy we would be very interested to hear from you about any
exercises you may have developed. These exercises may be to explore
post-structuralist understandings or they may be skills-based. We would
very much like to hear from teachers about why they developed these
exercises, what the exercises consisted of, how these are used, any
dilemmas and complexities along the way, and perhaps some comments from
those who have participated in them. Thanks!
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Gathering stories from those
whose parents had serious mental health difficulties
Shona Russell is initiating this project to gather together stories that
relate to the experience of children whose parents have serious mental
health difficulties. We are looking for stories that not only richly
acknowledge the difficulties faced, but also the skills and knowledge of
children in these situations and the many different facets of the
relationships between parents and child. We are interested in including
examples of the ways in which parents with serious mental health
concerns continue to love and cherish their children, and also ways in
which other significant figures in children's lives play important
caring roles during times of crisis. We acknowledge the complexity of
experience for children whose parents are dealing with serious mental
health concerns and wish to gather stories that richly convey this.
These stories may include themes of love, heartbreak, holding onto hope,
laughter, loneliness, confusion, solidarity, care, terror, beauty and so
on. We are interested in gathering stories from children and also
stories from those who are now adults about their childhood experience.
We may then publish some of these stories on this website in order to
create a resource for children and for practitioners. If you have
stories to share, please write to Shona c/o
dulwich@senet.com.au and she will then
send to you some questions that might assist your writing. Thanks.
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Responding to Race Riots in Sydney
Summer 2006
Written response to Sydney Race Riots
Song as response to
race riots in Sydney |
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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. We would especially be interested in any ways that you
are using narrative ideas to engage with these issues. If you have stories
to tell, or if you simply would like us to keep you up-to-date with
developments in this project, please see the document we have placed on
this website:
An invitation to
narrative practitioners to address privilege and dominance
and once you have read this then write to us c/o
dulwich@senet.com.au
Thanks!
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Village-to-village
project: building links to Papua New Guinea
To read about a new project that we
initiated in relation to Papua New Guinea please
click here. |
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*Feminism, therapy and
narrative ideas...a continuing project !!!
We'd like to invite your participation
in a project relating to feminism, therapy and narrative ideas. How are issues
of gender influencing your work? What dilemmas are you grappling with? How does the feminist challenge to
therapy contribute to your work? How do feminist interpretations of
inequality in families and relationships lead to new ways of thinking about
and practising therapy and community work? Where is feminist informed
therapy going? Do you know of hopeful examples of
feminist practice with individuals, families, groups and communities? We hope to generate many conversations and accumulate reflections and papers on this topic.
If you are interested, please write to us (Cheryl, Shona and Maggie) c/o
dulwich@senet.com.au
For more information
click
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Developing a league for deconstructing addiction
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. Based on the knowledge that individual
therapeutic responses are rarely
enough to address the powerful influence of addiction, we are interested
in creating a community-based resource.
Initially we are thinking of creating a website on which we can
post articles, letters, documents,
insider knowledges, and relevant empowering and healing stories of those
who are coming to terms with issues of addiction
in their lives and work. If you are interested in contributing
please write to 'The league for
deconstructing addiction' c/o
dulwich@senet.com.au
We look forward to hearing from
you. To read a collection of articles
associated with these issues:
click here
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Socially responsible and ethical publishing
- an invitation to an ongoing conversation
What makes socially responsible
and ethical publishing? This is a question about which we are constantly
in conversation. It is as important to us as considerations about the ethics
of therapeutic practice. Over the last
ten years we have held various
forums and discussion groups grappling with the ethical dilemmas
associated with publishing. The conversations
have always been thought-provoking and have greatly influenced our
practice. We would love to hear
from anybody with any thoughts, articles, writings, and/or tapes about
this topic, or even any ideas as to
who would be interesting to speak with about these themes. We'd like to
invite you to contribute your thoughts
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