Building community – Re-Authoring Teaching

June 18, 2023 Collab Salon: Teaching Narrative therapy: Exploring The KRAI Experience

How can we teach Narrative therapy in a way which responds to its philosophy and ethics? How can Narrative therapy change and develop in our collaborations and engaging with new ideas? How can we work together in the team paying attention to power relationships? How can we be narrative practitioners in actual political situation in Russia and in the world? When we’ve started our project, KRAI, together with our colleagues, we were drawn to this questions and a lot more. We’ve developed a diverse yearlong program on Narrative therapy and community work as long as another laboratories and workshops. We are glad to share our experience at the Collab salon.

Peggy Sax2023-06-21T09:24:11-04:00August 6th, 2022|Comments Off

Migration of Identity Consultation Group

This consultation group is for people who are familiar with narrative therapy practice and migration of identity in an experiential way and have a particular interest in unpacking ideas and practices that can accompany people/families/communities in times of movement (chosen and imposed), transition and liminality. While this can attend to large movements, it is also inclusive of small moments in daily life and moment-by-moment exchanges in conversations and relationships. Together we will explore our experiences accompanying people in these movements through sharing stories of practice and engaging in experiential exercises.

Peggy Sax2023-12-26T04:17:27-05:00July 29th, 2022|0 Comments

Engaging an Audience: Bridging Narrative Practice and Applied Theatre

This 6 session consultation group will be beneficial for practitioners who are trying to support communities and individuals to enrich their narratives through performing arts. Contemporary theatre shows an increased interest in personal stories, while the narrative community might be interested in the means to embody and celebrate participants/clients preferred identities.

Peggy Sax2022-08-20T05:28:17-04:00March 30th, 2022|0 Comments

June 19th, 2022: Centering Diversity and Identity in Narrative Practices: The BIPOC Community

In July 2020, the BIPOC narrative community was launched with the intention of providing narrative practitioners of color a supportive space to discuss “local” ideas, innovative practices, amplify one another’s work, and process their experiences. The community organizers also hoped to mentor and support newer narrative practitioners, and practitioners working in spaces that did not privilege narrative ideas or postmodern therapy practices. As the community enters its second year, planning committee members Ingrid, Candea, Shuo, and Akansha shared lessons learned and their hopes for how they envision the community will grow and be sustained in the future.

Peggy Sax2022-06-20T15:59:18-04:00October 22nd, 2021|Comments Off

March 20, 2022 Collab Salon: Co-sparking Conversations Across Narrative Generations

How can we develop working relationships across narrative generations to become mentors to each other? What are some of the fresh ideas and different nuances persons from different generations are adapting to narrative practices from their cultural and historical contexts? This gathering brings together two narrative practitioners in conversation across narrative generations. Akansha will interview Peggy Sax, a narrative therapist and Founder of Re-authoring Teaching and Trishala Kanakia, a fairly new narrative therapist and the Re-authoring Teaching Assistant. We hope to spark ideas about how narrative practices are being applied in diverse work contexts and also to highlight the fresh and different nuances each practitioner may bring in as they use the practices with their know-hows, wisdoms and adaptations.

Peggy Sax2022-03-22T08:26:40-04:00September 8th, 2021|0 Comments

January 16, 2022 Collab Salon: Beyond Deconstruction: A Compositionist Narrative Therapy

What's getting in the way of curiosity these days? Justine D’Arrigo and Chris Hoff will explore the practice of Scenarios and how narrative practitioners can use Scenarios in the effort of reinvigorating curiosity and composition in their practices. Michael White (1997) wrote that when someone is considering entering some form of liminal space, like the co-creation of possible futures, that it is important to engage in some predictions of the experiences that one might expect in these efforts. We believe that White (1997) knew that the significant periods of confusion and disorientation, and at times despair and desperation that often accompany journeys into liminal space could shut down these efforts, and have these travelers turn back toward more familiar territories. We think one tool that can support a cultivated liminality and composition is the practice of Scenarios.

Peggy Sax2022-01-17T16:13:33-05:00September 7th, 2021|1 Comment

September 19, 2021 Collab Salon: Asking about online communities of support

Narrative Therapy inquiry offers novel and exciting opportunities to explore membership in online communities and spaces. Whether it is through involvement with Discord servers or Team Speak or through informal groups through Facebook or WhatsApp, complexity and sophistication can be co-discovered in online communities. Vast possibilities exist around speaking about these groups and communities in Narrative Therapy and, in particular, the importance of these communities can be privileged and elevated instead of obscured or diminished.

Peggy Sax2021-09-22T16:30:57-04:00May 12th, 2021|Comments Off

January 17, 2021 Collab Salon: Re-authoring Confinement: Creating a Collaboratory During the Pandemic

Around the world, Covid-19 profoundly impacts our everyday lives. As narrative practitioners we are trained to double-listen to problems, to pay close attention to the suffering as well as to initiatives and events that might not be predicted by the problematic stories. What are some of the sparkling moments where the dominance of the pandemic problem disappears? Please join us as we begin our new year with a range of contributors sharing experiences and the joy of collaborative projects across the world: making poetry and art, creating Covid inspired music, learning from Community gatherings and from our children.

Peggy Sax2021-02-20T07:10:15-05:00October 10th, 2020|0 Comments

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

April 29, 2018: Reflecting on the San Diego Narrative Gathering

Reauthoring Teaching is offering a Special live online Collab Salon to reflect on and share resonances from our San Diego Narrative Gathering. ALL are welcome to this free narrative community conversation, Sunday, April 29, 2pm (PT), 5pm (ET). We're eager to hear where our conversations will be taking us! Anyone can sign up (not just members)- just be sure to register. Space is limited.

Peggy Sax2019-12-29T07:00:56-05:00April 2nd, 2018|Comments Off

March 2018 Collab Salon: Building on Michael White’s Legacy Community-Project with Peggy Sax

Peggy Sax created The Michael White Legacy project as a companion to the narrative gathering on Coronado Island, San Diego. Building on the Legacy of Michael White: A Decade of Narrative Developments (March 28-30, 2018). Our hope is that others will now send us their contributions. Whether you can come to this event or not, this community project gives us many opportunities to reflect together: Looking Back, Exploring Initiatives Honoring Michael's Intentions, and Re-imagining the Future of Narrative Therapy. Join us for this Collab Salon when we will share our collective efforts to create a collaboratory in honor of our mentor, Michael White.

Peggy Sax2019-12-29T07:21:57-05:00September 15th, 2017|Comments Off

June, 2017 Collab Salon: Teaching and Learning Narrative Therapy – David Epston, Gerald Monk, Peggy Sax, Larry Zucker and others

Our June Collab Salon took place during "Narrative Educators Camp" - a very special gathering of Narrative Therapy teachers and trainers who spent three days together, sharing innovative pedagogies in the classroom and online for training narrative therapy practitioners. Did you study narrative therapy in graduate school? Which experiences stand out to you as memorable? Collab members and special guests came together for a conversation about teaching and learning narrative therapy.

Peggy Sax2020-01-07T17:53:01-05:00April 29th, 2017|Comments Off