Responding to hardship: Narrative ways of working with individuals, groups, and communities

The Dulwich Centre Foundation is pleased to announce this workshop which will explore how narrative ideas can be used to respond to individuals, groups, and/or communities who are experiencing hardship.

The workshop will include:

• Teaching about key principles and concepts in relation to collective narrative practice.
• A wide range of easy-to-engage with methodologies, including the Team of Life, collective narrative documents, the Kite of Life, songs of sustenance, enabling contribution through definitional ceremonies, the Tree of Life, the River of Memory, the River of Dreams, collective timelines, and others.
• Sharing of stories and songs about hopeful work from Australia, Palestinian Territories, southern Africa, and elsewhere.
• Creating a collective document and song during the workshop, and holding a ceremony in relation to these.
• Attention to the politics of experience and what it means to bring a feminist and collective perspective to our work as practitioners.
• Special consideration to ways of responding to individuals, groups, and communities who have experienced significant trauma.

This workshop is designed to enable participants to go back to their own contexts and immediately put to use the ideas covered in the workshop, and be better prepared to assist those with whom they are working.

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.

To register, download the registration form here (pdf, 326 KB).

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