December 20, 2020 Collab Salon: Becoming our practices: Interweaving the storied, embodied, affective and relations of power

Ian continues to explore in his therapeutic work, and also in his teaching program, the interweaving of four interdependent dimensions of practice. He will present scenarios to illustrate some aspects of his weavings and wonderings. Along the way he will very briefly speak to:

• Upholding the precious traditions of narrative ethics
• Sensory impressions in the making of storied lives
• Interpreting mindfulness: body, ethics and inspiration
• Situated affect
• Embodied/enacted power relations

Following this, Ian will invite the group to break into four smaller parts, each with responsibility for a particular dimension. Guiding questions will encourage members to consider some initial thoughts/practices/conversations that could link to, or interweave, their particular dimension to other dimensions. Our purpose is to experience how each expression or dimension may enhance the others, providing conditions for sustaining the preferred and beneficial in people’s lives and relationships.

Learning Objectives:

1. Participants will discuss the practice implications of some emerging developments in Narrative Therapy
2. Participants will learn a questioning process to integrate four dimensions of therapeutic practice
3. Participants will experience how these dimensions could cue each other to appear, so enriching and sustaining beneficial storylines

If you are earning Continuing Education Credit, we are required to submit a separate evaluation for each Collab. Please fill in this evaluation form, save all the evaluations in a folder on your computer, and then send all twelve together at the end of the calendar year to Contact.

In the spirit of experimentation, here are two versions (word and pdf). Can you let us know which works better for you?

• Evaluation/Becoming (as pdf)
• Evaluation/Becoming (as word doc)