Events Archive - 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 Sax2023-02-08T08:22:03-05:00December 17th, 2022|0 Comments

Narrative Practice & Somatic-Oriented Therapies

Registration for this self-paced course will be open and ongoing.

Peggy Sax2023-03-04T08:02:37-05:00October 24th, 2022|0 Comments

18 CE Credit: Collab Salon 2023 Series

Participants can earn 18 CEs for attending and/or viewing The Collab Salon 2022 Series. We always meet at 4pm on the third Sunday of the month (New York time) for 1.5 hours.

Peggy Sax2023-01-04T04:50:11-05:00October 19th, 2022|0 Comments

December 17, 2023 Collab Salon: On Inspiration

In the final Collab for the year, Ian Percy (Perth, Australia) invites us to reflect on the experience, the effects, and the practice of inspiration. Inspiration may bring pleasure and delight, lead to new possibilities and creativity, be expressed in commitments to action, and take our relational selves in novel directions. Ian will guide us to focus on: Recalling and honouring an experience of inspiration during the past year and Imagining possible experiences of inspiration during the year to come.

Peggy Sax2022-10-14T13:47:39-04:00October 13th, 2022|0 Comments

January 15, 2023 Collab Salon: Our Multi-storied bodies

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? We will take a look at micro-practices and lines of enquiry that can disrupt the familiar and expected ways our bodies might be invited (or not) into therapeutic spaces and conversations.This can assist us in attending to experiences of being mandated to therapy (by people, institutions or ideas), responding to the effects of trauma/non-choice, and inviting us to move in unexpected ways in response and, at times, resistance to the ways in which we are being demanded.

Peggy Sax2023-01-17T07:30:31-05:00October 12th, 2022|Comments Off

November 19, 2023 Collab Salon: Letter writing campaigns: You never know what might emerge from a ‘roadblock’

Are you meeting with people who are living with Despair? Or where problem stories or descriptions have taken over a person’s identity, and/or where systemic, structural and/or institutional forms of oppression have contributed to ‘totalized identity conclusions’? (Eg. I’m a Troublemaker, I’m Too Damaged To Be In A Relationship, There’s Something Wrong With Me’). What guides your approach to conversations with people facing Despair, or where a person’s identity has been overtaken by a problem story? Amy Druker will share an attempt at a letter writing campaign with a young person who was (at the time of the proposed letter writing campaign) surviving within the carceral system, and what emerged when we encountered a “roadblock”. Amy will share a recorded interview with a friend of the young person who was surviving time inside, who participated in the project of helping her friend reclaim his life from Despair and Hopelessness.

Peggy Sax2022-10-14T18:26:04-04:00October 11th, 2022|0 Comments

May 21, 2023 Collab Salon: Stories of Resistance to Isolation

Rocio and Akansha extended the following invitation to participants in a Re-Authoring Teaching Consultation Group from January-April 2023. Are you feeling a sense of isolation and disenchantment in your work? Do you feel you are being recruited into stories of dominant ideas of what a “good therapist” is or stories that are pathologizing of the people who consult you? We invite you to resist these stories and ideas in this community consultation group and think together about what you would prefer your practice to embody. Rocio and Akansha will create space for conversations about preferred ethics, consultation with your insider knowledges and wisdom, and articulation of consonant practices and ways of being. They will draw on their lived experiences of working in sites of “modern power” and support you in inhabiting your narrative multilingual voice. In this Salon they will share stories and ideas that group members generated for further circulation and co-sparking.

Peggy Sax2022-10-14T15:03:00-04:00October 11th, 2022|0 Comments

April 16, 2023 Collab Salon: Remembering Michael 15 Years Later

In this Collab we remember Michel White who died in April 2008. We bring together a number of people lucky enough to know Michael personally to talk with each other about memories, Michael's legacy and what lies ahead.

Peggy Sax2023-03-19T17:21:15-04:00October 7th, 2022|0 Comments

July 16, 2023 Collab Salon: Re-Membering Writing Practices

In this Collab on using re-membering practices in writing, we will explore these ideas on team development to use to connect you to the people that support you to be the therapist/ teacher/ person you want to be and to help clients with their teams. We will work with some writing prompts to put this into practice and see who we long to talk with and what you hope they might ask us about.

Peggy Sax2022-10-14T18:56:26-04:00October 5th, 2022|0 Comments

August 20, 2023 Collab Salon: Traveling with People into Unfinalizable Futures

Our new series, Where the Buses Don't Run Yet, is constructed around edited conversations between David Epston and Kay Ingamells. This Collab focuses on two imaginative practices covered in these courses: Internalized Other Interviewing and Hauntings from the Future. Illustrating with training interviews, David takes advantage of pedagogical circumstances to demonstrate using the future as a playground in narrative conversations.

Peggy Sax2022-10-14T15:37:32-04:00October 5th, 2022|0 Comments

September 17, 2023 Collab Salon: The Power of Resonance and Transport: Experiences of a Narrative Reflecting Team

The Vermont Center for Narrative Practice (VCNP) has been utilizing a Narrative Reflecting Team consultation model that incorporates the 4 part “Retelling” process outlined by Michael White (2005, p. 190)1 for Outsider Witnesses: 1) Expression 2) Image 3) Personal Resonance 4) Transport. Through our conversation together at the Collab Salon, our aim is to share our experiences as a team particularly with the processes of Resonance and Transport and to learn how participants have also incorporated these elements into their own narrative practices (whether through reflecting teams or not). It is our hope that this dialogue will foster new understandings of these mechanisms and move us to consider different ways of incorporating these outsider witness practices into our work with others.

Peggy Sax2023-03-03T10:03:24-05:00October 4th, 2022|0 Comments

Contemporary Narrative Therapy

Registration for this self-paced course is open and ongoing.

Peggy Sax2023-02-02T07:40:02-05:00October 1st, 2022|0 Comments