Decolonising methodologies’ – Re-Authoring Teaching

Our Multi-Storied Bodies Practices

What happens when we shift from viewing our bodies as a single entity to experiencing our bodies as a community of diverse members each with their own experience, position, and stories? This consultation group is for folx who are interested in centering post-structural, narrative practice, intersectional feminisms, and community ideas in our conversations with our bodies and in accompanying individuals, couples, families, and communities in conversations that are inclusive of their bodies.

Peggy Sax2023-11-14T16:09:19-05:00December 17th, 2022|0 Comments

March 19, 2023 Collab Salon: The Radical-ness of Love, Attunement, and Imagination

This Collab brings forward the research and approaches of SuEllen Hamkins, Lynne Rosen, and Navid Zamani as they consider the ethics and effects of love and imagination, and the helpful-ness of attunement. Presenters will outline some of their theoretical assumptions, its intersection with broader social justice ethics and values, and the life that these practices breathe in our relationships with those who consult us. Their conversation gives a sneak preview of the new series now in development: Narrative Therapy, Trauma & the Affective Turn.

Peggy Sax2023-03-21T17:23:41-04:00September 10th, 2022|Comments Off

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

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

October 16, 2022: A Response to The Hegemony of Standard English: Storying lives bilingually across languages

We are advocates for justice in language rights. Through our explorations of bilingualism we address the hegemony of standard English. We speak from the perspectives of our languages: Black Talk/Ebonics/Slang, Farsi, Fenglish, Arabic, Italian, Spanish, Chilean Spanish, Colombian Spanglish, Spanglish, Colloquial Spanish, and standard English. We discuss efforts to respond to various linguistic landscapes from the vantage point of our lived experiences and practices in the United States. We explore ways to integrate languages through improvisation and creativity, beyond the lexical and grammatical rules of a language. We hope to describe our response to standard English to co-exist in the creative use of inter-lingual lives that seek to ensure that the juxtaposition of English therapeutic and daily-life landscapes is integrated into various settings. We discuss the contextual, relational, therapeutic, and training potential offered by bilingualism across various languages as well as the necessary transmutations in theory and practice.

Peggy Sax2023-05-20T10:55:39-04:00October 9th, 2021|Comments Off

July 18, 2021 Collab Salon: Building Connections Between the Immigrant Rights Movement and Narrative Therapy

How have the immigrant rights movement and immigrant rights voices resisted the negative dominant discourses about immigrants? What discourses and language has the immigrant rights movement and immigrant leaders created? How has this discourse and language evolved and influenced, how clients story themselves, and their lives. Nidya - a formerly undocumented immigrant therapist - will discuss the connections she has found and utilized between the immigrant rights movement and Narrative Therapy and how these have inspired her therapeutic work with clients.

Peggy Sax2021-07-20T07:59:33-04:00September 29th, 2020|1 Comment

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

February 19, 2017 Collab Salon – Translating Narrative Therapy

How does narrative therapy translate into different languages and cultures? What are some of the challenges and new discoveries? We scheduled this Collab Salon in response to a keynote by David Epston at A Room Full of Stories, The International Narrative Therapy Conference, Mumbai, India, October 13-18, 2016. We startED in response to some of the postcards at the conference, and from there moveD onto co-creating new questions and responses.

Peggy Sax2019-12-29T07:53:35-05:00November 27th, 2016|1 Comment

September, 2015 Collab Salon: Stories that honor cultural integrity – marcela polanco

marcela polanco from Our Lady of the Lake University was our featured guest for the September Collab Salon. After overcoming some initial techno difficulties, we engaged in a discussion about a question Michael White raised in his work “How is it that people pull the materials of culture together to form an identity and a life, and of the processes by which these cultural knowledges and practices are reworked in people’s expressions of living?” (White, 2001). We focused on the complex ways in which culture shapes the oral traditions that support the fabrication of stories and the assembling of our lives in turn. Marcela's work emphasizes the importance of honoring the cultural integrity of stories by recognizing cultural difference between the person of the therapist and the consultant. She situated the discussion in a narrative therapy framework informed by traditions of her own cultural upbringing in Colombia, including the literary genre of magical realism; and her experiences with bilingualism as an immigrant in the U.S.

Peggy Sax2019-12-29T08:37:18-05:00July 8th, 2016|Comments Off

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