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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

CE Credit: Building on the Legacy of Michael White

15 CE Credits from Alliant International University APPROVED! Participants can earn 15 CEs for Building on the Legacy of Michael White: A decade of narrative developments March 28-30, 2018 in Coronado, CA (San Diego Bay) Please note: In order to receive the CE certificate, participants must: Pay $20 Sign in and sign out each day Fill out the evaluation at the end of the workshop Alliant International University Continuing Education is co-sponsored by the Association [...]

Peggy Sax2018-03-13T19:46:09-04:00March 10th, 2018|0 Comments

September 2018 Collab Salon: Depression: biological, psychological, or a social construct?

Have Post Modern ideas failed effective work in partnering with our clients around the role severe depression plays in people’s lives? It is Amy Gottlieb's contention it has. As someone with 43 years of lived experience with depression coming and going as an unwanted companion, she has been offered many well meaning yet unhelpful ideas from post modern practitioners. In this salon Amy endeavored to generate thought about how holding a rigid post modern stance (in the name of not being rigid) may not serve our clients as they come to us for help to get distance from depression robbing them of joy.

Peggy Sax2019-12-29T07:09:57-05:00February 1st, 2018|Comments Off

December 2018 Collab Salon: Fields of kindness: An antidote to tyrannical devaluing

Somatic therapies and a resurgence of interest in affect are two significant trends in recent times. These movements invite narrative-oriented practitioners to pause and unpack what claims are being made and their implications. In exploring challenges and possibilities, we considered the dialogical features, affective tones, emotional depictions and embodied expressions of re-membering practices. The December 2018 Collab focused on a notion of relational fields in instituting new forms of everyday living, especially giving attention to expanding relational fields of kindness when tyrannical and devaluing voices seek to usurp a person’s voice and erase their knowing about their achievements.

Peggy Sax2019-12-29T07:03:24-05:00January 31st, 2018|Comments Off

November 18, 2018 Collab Salon: Virtue Inquiries at the End of Life

Sasha Pilkington shares a practice she calls “virtue inquiry” that guides her approach to end-of-life conversations. She listens for and elicits the virtues that are valued by the people with whom she’s meeting. Virtue inquires draw on ideas and practices developed by David Epston including “getting to know the person ahead of the problem”, “researching moral character” and “wonderfulness inquiries” with children. They also build from a paper by Eve Lipchik (1988) called “Interviewing with a constructive ear” that had an influence on Sasha's early practice. Virtue inquiries take place with adults or young adults and so flow differently from “wonderfulness inquiries” (see chapter 2 in Marsten, Epston & Markham, 2016).

Peggy Sax2023-04-15T16:54:07-04:00January 24th, 2018|2 Comments

April 2018 Collab Salon: Yoga and Narrative Practices

What are some ways we can integrate Narrative and Yoga practices? What might this look like? What are some of the questions, dilemmas that need to be considered when exploring such a combination? What are the ways in which these practices could work together to strengthen and deepen one another? Can we do this in ways that fit with an anti-oppressive approach to working with people and practices? In this Collab Salon, Narrative practitioners and Yoga teachers Sarah Hughes and Kayla Robbins reflected on these questions and shared some of their experiences, ideas and struggles. Participants were invited to share their own experiences and reflections, and to imagine new areas of possibility between these two practices.

Peggy Sax2020-01-01T08:58:04-05:00January 15th, 2018|1 Comment

June 2018 Collab Salon: Narrative Group Therapy

Stephen Burton and Kevin O’Bryan presented their narrative approach to group therapy, which acts as an ongoing laboratory to test out new and preferred identities in the social situation of the group, while discouraging group level stories. Together we tried out a group interview with inquiry and outsider witnessing within the group.

Peggy Sax2020-01-01T08:59:14-05:00January 8th, 2018|Comments Off

August 2018 Collab Salon: Taking Narrative Practices Outside

Chris Darmody ( Perth, Australia) described Camp Retreat - a de-patholgising 3 day program for 20 young people aged 14-17 who are engaged in a mental health service. It is run 4 times a year and it is narratively informed. Many of the participants coming into camp will come with a mental health diagnosis and the stigma associated with engaging with a mental health service and the associated feelings of identity failure. The intention of the program is to separate a person from the problem and engage in different activities without the problem being present. By having this experience it is hoped that participants can return to their lives with an understanding of how much influence the problem has over their lives, decisions about how much they want a problem to be there, and skills to reduce its influence on their lives.

Peggy Sax2020-01-01T09:00:11-05:00January 2nd, 2018|Comments Off

July 2018: Re-authoring Teaching New developments

What’s happening with Re-authoring Teaching? What’s going on behind the scenes? A great group got together for our annual tradition reviewing new developments with our Faculty Offerings, Workshops/Narrative Camp, Community Higher Education/Educators Portal, Community and our Reauthoring Teaching Youtube Channel. After giving a brief update, we used break-out rooms to talking among ourselves about what's working and suggestions for the future.

Peggy Sax2019-12-29T07:12:25-05:00December 29th, 2017|Comments Off

February 2018 Collab Salon: Deconstructing ‘No’ in relational, intimate and sexual contexts

Mike Giancola and Diana Lozoya strove to highlight some of the ways that 'No' as a spoken form of not wanting socially, physically or sexually intimate contact may be used to bring partners and partner groups closer together. This may contrast with discursive notions of 'No' as a sign of flat rejection, failure or distancing. How can 'No' be reclaimed, valued, heard and respected by both the people who give the 'No' as well as those who receive it?

Peggy Sax2020-01-01T09:02:20-05:00December 29th, 2017|Comments Off

October 21, 2018 Collab Salon: Psychedelics and Psychotherapy: Narrative Explorations

As someone who is interested in the intersection between psychedelics and psychotherapy, Gabriel Garcia has many questions about the changing landscape of these substances, their legality, and viability as agents of psychological change. Gabriel presented some of the emerging models for working with stories of psychedelic experiences and fold these models into postmodern and narrative ideas. This was a springboard for the creating a generative discussion for those who attend.

Peggy Sax2020-01-01T09:04:08-05:00December 20th, 2017|Comments Off

May 2018 Collab Salon: Race & Privilege in the Therapy Room

As a Woman of Color and as a new private practice intern, I have had the experience of seeing many People of Color (POC) clients. Recently, I have noticed, an increase in Potential POC clients specifically seeking out a POC therapist. At first glance, this increase seemed to be coincidental; I just thought that I was lucky to be receiving so much traffic from Psychology Today as well as many personal referrals. After speaking to many of my clients in detail about their experiences, I inquired about why it was important to them to seek out a POC therapist. Through that questioning, I began to recognize that many of my client's reasons were similar: they felt like a non-POC therapist would not understand them, or that they had a White therapist in the past with whom they felt they couldn’t be vulnerable or honest. Many of them acknowledged that these thoughts and feelings around race and privilege have increased exponentially in the present political climate.

Peggy Sax2023-04-22T09:30:33-04:00December 13th, 2017|Comments Off

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