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December 2016 Collab Salon: Honoring histories and creating spaces for emerging practices

Narrative practices have evolved in many ways over the decades in response to changing professional, social and cultural contexts. In this Collab Salon, we unveil a new Re-authoring Teaching series that builds on our deep respect for narrative therapy while creating spaces for an interplay with other cherished approaches. What might become possible when the somatic and the linguistic shape therapeutic endeavors? How can we put language and understanding around an integration that resonates both philosophically and practically?

Peggy Sax2019-12-29T08:04:23-05:00July 8th, 2016|Comments Off

November 2016 Collab Salon: Justice-Doing in therapy & community work

Vikki & Michael offer an alternative approach to work with trauma, which focuses on the resistance of victims of violence and oppression. Drawing from a decolonizing and justice-doing stance, their activist analysis resists the neutral and medicalised language of ‘trauma’, and names the contexts of social injustice that create the conditions for suffering. Honouring the wisdom of the people we work alongside in their acts of resistance and responses to trauma brings forward their agency and wisdom - creating identities of knowledge, autonomy and strength, as opposed to victim/survivor identities, or other spoiled identities.We will address structuring safety as the foundation of the work, alternative understandings of the way trauma works, and the duty of the witness to work towards justice-doing, connection of private pain with public issues.

Peggy Sax2019-12-29T08:06:31-05:00July 8th, 2016|Comments Off

October 2016 Collab Salon: Arts & Media in Narrative Practice

Photography and social media are such rich and powerful elements of our lives today. This Salon explored the creative ways in which these elements are currently being integrated into clinical work, enhancing the narratives of clients seeking our consultation.

Peggy Sax2020-01-01T09:07:18-05:00July 8th, 2016|Comments Off

August 2016 Collab Salon: Escaping Blame- Introducing New Online Course with Larry Zucker!

Larry Zucker and Peggy Sax officially opened registration for this new online course! Larry described the course's six lessons that explore therapeutic conversations that are possible when Accountability emerges as practice distinct from Blame, and what we can do as therapists to nurture that distinction. They described how throughout the course construction, we've built in opportunities (every lesson) to interact with Larry and with each other. The course draws from a range of multi-media resources to captures some of Larry’s best teaching moments, to demonstrate the practices with clips from simulated interviews, and to explore transcripts, and provide exercises to try out ourselves.

Peggy Sax2019-12-29T08:11:22-05:00July 8th, 2016|Comments Off

Re-authoring Teaching: Exploring new developments: July 17, 2016

Re-authoring Teaching is a mission-driven non-profit organization guided by the vision of bringing together a global learning community of narrative therapy practitioners, teachers, and enthusiasts. Our renovated website has made it possible to focus on building our Narrative Training, Resources and Conversation. Join Maggie, Charley & Peggy for reflections on "Narrative Camp" as we take stock of what's happening with Vermont Workshops, The Collab Salon, Online Courses and Higher Education, and with our Reauthoring Teaching Youtube Channel. We'll share some of our plans for the coming year, and hear your ideas too.

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

Larry Zucker- Escaping Blame, February, 2015 Collab Salon

February 15, 2015 It was a thrill- a dream come true- to bring together people from around the world to exchange with Larry Zucker- and each other- about Larry's work with couples - Escaping blaming frames of reference and engaging a different approach to conversation. A big extra thank you to everyone who helped us officially launch The Collab Salon, and especially to Larry for your generosity and skill in bringing your ideas to [...]

Peggy Sax2019-12-29T08:12:58-05:00July 8th, 2016|Comments Off

March, 2015 Collab Salon: Working with People Living with Serious and Relentless Problems

We had a wonderful Collab session with SuEllen around her narrative approach to working with people who are living with serious and relentless problems or mental health challenges. Thank you to everyone who participated, and especially to SuEllen in offering us such a skillful, clear and energizing presentation.

Peggy Sax2021-05-09T16:51:39-04:00July 8th, 2016|Comments Off

April, 2015 Collab Salon: The Absent but Implicit

Thank you Maggie for joining us for our April Collab session! Maggie presented on the ‘absent but implicit’ as a response to what has been problematic, and scaffolding this as an action. She also shared some thoughts about possible links between the ‘absent but implicit’ pathway and what is happening in the brain when we ask the questions that we do in using this pathway. Our plan was to show a couple of videos from Maggie's upcoming courses on Rich Story Development; however, we experienced a bit of techno/bandwidth difficulty. I will post the links to these videos below.

Peggy Sax2020-01-01T08:00:00-05:00July 8th, 2016|Comments Off

May 17, 2015 Collab Salon: Queer Counseling

As featured guest for our May Collab Salon, Charley Lang presented on the topic of Queer Counseling & Narrative Practice. Beginning with three definitions of "queer," he posed questions about how binaries are helpful and not helpful in our lives. Charley brought us through polarities, as expressed through a recent "pulp fiction" art project. Thank you, Charley for this presentation, and for being our Collab Salon co-host. Your keen intelligence, teaching skills and generosity of spirit are so appreciated by all. We look forward to more opportunities to learn from and with you!

Peggy Sax2019-12-29T10:52:03-05:00July 8th, 2016|Comments Off

June 21, 2015 Collab Salon: Teaching & Learning Narrative Therapy

Beginning with a brief overview of the course Narrative Therapy: Foundations & Key Concepts, Re-Authoring Teaching is setting up a Youtube channel. The archived materials below describe our first collective Youtube Project, which we are currently calling Why Narrative therapy?. We offer four questions to guide your responses, and instructions for making/sending recordings to Peggy or Charley. Together we can "create a collaboratory!" Please check out the "Why Narrative Therapy?" Playlist on our new Youtube channel. Or have a look at our recent blog post that lists the first videos in this project.

Peggy Sax2019-12-29T08:31:34-05:00July 8th, 2016|Comments Off

July 2015 Collab Salon: Imagining new possibilities with young people and their families

On July 19 @ 5pm New York Time), Laurie Markham & David Marsten shared reflections on imagining new possibilities with young people and their families. Drawing from their own work as well as their current book project with David Epston, their presentation ignited lively conversation. We had lots of requests for the slides and recording (see below).

Peggy Sax2019-12-29T08:32:48-05:00July 8th, 2016|Comments Off

August 2015 Collab Salon: Reinventing Re-authoring Teaching’s future

Peggy Sax facilitated a conversation about Reinventing Re-authoring Teaching's future. For the past several months, a team of people have been working behind the scenes on a major renovation of our website, Youtube channel and online course offerings. Together we honored Michael White and David Epston's legacy, traced the evolution of this online learning community, and celebrated our new beginnings.

Peggy Sax2019-12-29T08:33:41-05:00July 8th, 2016|Comments Off

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