collab-salons – Page 5 – Re-Authoring Teaching

December 20, 2020 Collab Salon: Becoming our practices: Interweaving the storied, embodied, affective and relations of power

Ian Percy continues to explore in his therapeutic work, and also in his teaching program, the interweaving of four interdependent dimensions of practice. He will present scenarios to illustrate some aspects of his weavings and wonderings. Along the way he will very briefly speak to: Upholding the precious traditions of narrative ethics; Sensory impressions in the making of storied lives; Interpreting mindfulness: body, ethics and inspiration; Situated affect; and Embodied/enacted power relations.

Peggy Sax2020-12-22T13:08:07-05:00September 19th, 2019|0 Comments

March 15, 2020 Collab Salon: Tender Therapy: Living and Working with My Internalized Michael White

"In one of the last Michael White workshops that I attended he introduced his work as "a tender therapy." He said the training would be a week of prayer and protest. These words have resonated with me so deeply as they described so well what I witnessed when watching Michael work in Narrative ways with people. I have held that concept of tenderness in my heart ever since then and moved it into how I approach my work and my life. In this Salon, we will use one of my stories of how I apply Michaels' teaching and his essence into my own life. This is a story of me processing my sister's death with the help of my internal Michael interviewing me. I will be interviewed about this story and how it applies to how I work with Michael. We will create a live outsider witness team in the session with the participants."Sarah Hughes

Peggy Sax2020-03-21T14:01:18-04:00September 16th, 2019|1 Comment

February 16, 2020 Collab Salon: Narrative Ideas for Inspired Responses to Earth’s Environmental Crisis

What do narrative approaches have to offer these wild, uncertain times? How can we contribute? Can ceremonial and community practices bring us together in our grief? In our creativity? Let’s talk about raising environmental concerns in our community and work. Dominant stories of Doom & Disconnect sink spirits and hoodwink people into thinking they are too small to matter. Could emergent liberative narratives stand up to and surpass doomsday stories? Are stories of empowerment and inspired response rooted in people’s gifts? Could we be part of a r/evolution that moves humans from eco-cidal practices towards loving, eco-sourced, joyful ways of living and envisioning for our exquisite Earth?

Peggy Sax2020-03-21T14:06:34-04:00September 14th, 2019|1 Comment

January 19, 2020 Collab Salon: What Happens to Narrative Therapy When It Migrates?

What is the DNA of Narrative Practice beyond the variations across cultures and languages? Pierre Blanc-Sahnoun (Bordeaux, France) will share how Narrative Errances - The Narrative Factory- collectively as a professional community has created the first ethical professional code composed only with questions...

Peggy Sax2020-09-29T05:55:16-04:00September 14th, 2019|Comments Off

April 19, 2020 Collab Salon: Reflections on practice with people who are suffering

As a counsellor working for hospice, I meet with people who are suffering, sometimes with unsolvable problems, as they live with serious illness and the knowledge of their approaching death. What can these experiences offer to those of us facing suffering in many different contexts during this time of Covid-19 pandemic? Given the current context, this Collab is still evolving. I hope to share some of my reflections on practices that ease suffering. These include thoughts on how we create space for stories of suffering, how we respond to big stories day to day and questioning practices that can be significant in restoring a sense of meaning and agency. I look forward to hearing how you might apply such practices to your own context for work. To facilitate the discussion I will be providing a collaborative document to illustrate some of the narrative practices we will be reflecting on. Sasha Pilkington

Peggy Sax2023-04-16T08:33:29-04:00September 12th, 2019|0 Comments

October 18, 2020 Collab Salon: Narrative Letter Writing Across Divides

During the sixteen years of my supervision & apprenticeship relationship with David Epston, David has taught me how to write narrative letters, including letters co-authored with clients. Over the last couple of years, I have been inventing a new letter-writing practice: Co-authoring letters with clients to other family members with whom there has been a rift, or where important issues have not been spoken about. If you would like to learn how to bring a new type of letter writing into your work, do join us! Kay Ingamells

Peggy Sax2020-10-21T05:34:32-04:00September 8th, 2019|0 Comments

AUGUST 16, 2020: Working Narratively in Research with Maggie Slaska, Akansha Vaswani, & Navid Zamani

"As people interested in working narratively in research, we will share some of our experiences, influences from outside the world of narrative therapy that supported our principles, and challenges involved in the process. Each of us has been involved in a research project for our doctoral dissertations which we will use to illustrate 1) how we negotiated ideas of power to construct research questions 2) methods we used to incorporate social constructionist understandings of relationally informed meaning making in our work 3) how we navigated (continue to navigate) demands/expectations of our respective institutions." Akansha, Maggie & Navid

Peggy Sax2020-08-17T15:43:46-04:00July 24th, 2019|0 Comments

August 18, 2019 Collab Salon: Finding Agency: The Politics of Knowledge and Power in Supervision

Sarah Kahn & Sol D’Urso reflected on their experiences co-facilitating a narrative consultation/supervision group in San Diego, CA that seeks to address social justice issues by tending to the politics of knowledge and power in supervisory experience. During this salon, they shared the guiding principles and practices that inform their work. These principles include: 1) positioning knowledge as discourse: using the skills of deconstruction and transparency; 2) co-constructed knowledges: valuing perspectives of supervisees and clients; 3) the use of questions verses directives, 4) valuing expansive conversations, and 5) promoting discursive agency. Guided through questions, Sarah and Sol explored what resonance these principles have in participants' own life and work experience and invited us to consider ways to cultivate a social justice ethic in supervisory experience.

Peggy Sax2020-01-01T08:55:55-05:00November 11th, 2018|Comments Off

September 15, 2019: Anti-Machinalization (a.k.a Burn-out) Global Summit

Have you seen anyone spending extraordinary hours working in isolation with the best of intentions, being fueled by expectations or a sense of obligation/responsibility even though the initial fuel was un-mistakably passion, curiosity, creativity and/or social justice? We have a suspicion that Machinalization of human beings today is never a personal problem but a globally witnessed/experienced phenomenon that could potentially have life-suffocating, or even life-threatening effects on our lives. The summit started with Sumie Ishikawa’s sharing her ‘insider experiences’ and her hope-generating discoveries as to how we could possibly co-resist Machinalization, followed by Amy Druker interviewing Sumie and an outsider witness. Participants were invited to join in a group discussion, where taken-for-granted Machinalizing discourses and practices that are woven into the capitalistic structure of modern society can be called into question. Let’s imagine together small acts of co-resistance so that the human part of us can survive and thrive in this Machinalizing time we live in today!

Peggy Sax2020-09-27T19:47:17-04:00October 31st, 2018|Comments Off

NOVEMBER 17, 2019: Re-imagining Narrative Therapy in the Americas

As part and parcel of marcela polanco's PhD thesis in Family Therapy at Nova Southeastern, she and David Epston set about the translation of Michael White's 'Maps'(2007). Through many twists and turns this led them to preparing a manuscript for a book tentatively titled: "Re-Imagining Narrative Therapy in the Americas." They will share with us some of their discoveries as they read and consider learnings from 'translation studies', 'decolonising methodologies'(Tuawai Smith) and creative transformations at the borders of cultures/languages.

Peggy Sax2020-01-07T17:44:14-05:00October 30th, 2018|Comments Off

OCTOBER 20, 2019: A Narrative Therapy Approach following in Michael White’s Footsteps to those Who Hear Voices

Over the last several months with the support of the Mental Health Services. Aalborg University Hospital, Christoffer Haugaard and David Epston have been applying the same methodology e.g. co-researching that led to Maisel, Epston and Borden(2004): Biting the Hand that Starves You: Inspiring Resistance to Anorexia/Bulimia(New York, WWNorton). Responding to a request to invent a narrative therapy-inspired approach to the so-called 'chronic mentally ill', they prefer the term 'those who are spoken to by voices'. This approach takes up where Michael White left off in the 1990s with the 'power to our journeys' approach. The image is copyright by artist Magda Hertzberg.

Peggy Sax2023-04-22T18:17:53-04:00October 30th, 2018|Comments Off

July 21, 2019 Collab Salon: Working with children and families experiencing developmental disabilities

The Ummeed Team will discuss using narrative practices when working with young people experiencing developmental disabilities and their families. Using examples from practice we will share how we are adapting the ideas with young people who have diverse ways of expressing themselves in preferred identity development, navigating various systems of power in preferred ways and in making possible family-centred care, where caregivers and children become partners in the journey of therapy.

Peggy Sax2020-01-06T11:36:30-05:00October 28th, 2018|Comments Off