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Announcements
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This is the space on our website
where we post various announcements about projects, upcoming events,
requests for papers etc. With images of torture currently being shown in newspapers and on
television screens around the world, it seems a time for us as counselors and
community workers to be considering how we can respond. This seems all the
more important to us here in Australia as our Government continues to
support US military occupation in Iraq. At the same time, asylum seekers in
Australia, many of whom have fled war-torn countries where they experienced
trauma and torture, continue to be subjected to ongoing harsh treatment. In
this context, what is our role as counselors and community workers? How can we
contribute to responding to trauma including the trauma of war,
occupation, terror, political violence and torture? It is in response to these sorts of questions that we
have initiated a new project in which we would value your participation.
* Responding to trauma: including the trauma of war, occupation, terror,
political violence and torture
A new project in which we invite your participation
* An invitation to narrative practitioners to address privilege and dominance
This new project has been initiated by a
group of therapists, community workers and educators from Samoa, Aotearoa/New Zealand,
Australia, USA and the UK. As professionals and wage-earners we live with a
considerable degree of privilege and freedom. At the same time, we represent a
diverse number of cultures. While some of us live with white privilege, others
of us live as Indigenous people and as people of colour with the ongoing
effects of colonisation and racism. Our backgrounds also differ in relation to
gender, class and sexual orientation. What we have in common is a deep sadness
at much of what is occurring in the world and a commitment to play our part in
continuing to foster communities of therapists and community workers in which broader
relations of power are acknowledged and addressed in our work.
If these are matters that you are
grappling with in your workplace, we would like to hear from you. We would
especially be interested in any ways that you are using narrative ideas to
engage with these issues. If you have stories to
tell, or if you simply would like us to keep you up-to-date with developments
in this project, please see the document we have placed on this website:
An invitation to narrative practitioners
to address privilege and dominance and once you have read this then write to us c/o
dulwich@senet.com.au Thanks!
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Village-to-village project: an invitation
To read about a new project that we
are initiating in relation to Papua New Guinea please
click here.
* Redfern
To read a short response to the
recent events in Redfern, Sydney please click here.
* Feminism, therapy and
narrative ideas...a new project !!!
We'd like to invite your participation
in a new project. We have recently placed on this website a new paper titled:
'Feminism, therapy and narrative ideas: exploring some not so commonly asked
questions' which has been compiled by Shona Russell and Maggie Carey in
conjunction with Cheryl White. Following on from the creation of this
paper we would like to hear from you in response to any of the following
questions:
We hope to generate many conversations and accumulate reflections and papers on this topic. if you are interested, please write to us (Shona, Maggie and Cheryl) c/o dulwich@senet.com.au
* Tapes available of selected Dulwich Centre Publications
Thanks to the encouragement of Elaine Howley, who works for the National Council of the Blind of Ireland, we now have available a number of key narrative therapy texts on tape. Please contact us c/o dulwich@senet.com.au for more information.
* Developing a league for deconstructing addiction
This is an invitation to those
engaging with narrative ideas and practices in relation to issues of addiction
and the use of alcohol and other
drugs. Initiated by Anthony Corballis in Florida, a number of people are
now interested in developing a
"league" for deconstructing addiction. Based on the knowledge that individual
therapeutic responses are rarely
enough to address the powerful influence of addiction, we are interested
in creating a community-based resource.
Initially we are thinking of creating a website on which we can
post articles, letters, documents,
insider knowledges, and relevant empowering and healing stories of those
who are coming to terms with issues
of addiction in their lives and work. This project is in its initial stages
and we would love to hear from anybody
who is interested in contributing to it. If you are interested in contributing
please write to 'The league for
deconstructing addiction' c/o dulwich@senet.com.au
We look forward to hearing from
you. See the new section on this web site:
Deconstructing Addiction!
* Socially responsible and ethical publishing
- an invitation to an ongoing conversation
What makes socially responsible
and ethical publishing? This is a question about which we are constantly
in conversation. It is as important to us as considerations about the ethics
of therapeutic practice. Over the last
ten years we have held various
forums and discussion groups grappling with the ethical dilemmas
associated with publishing. The conversations
have always been thought-provoking and have greatly influenced our
practice. We would love to hear
from anybody with any thoughts, articles, writings, and/or tapes about
this topic, or even any ideas as to
who would be interesting to speak with about these themes. We'd like to
invite you to contribute your thoughts
to the ongoing conversations here at Dulwich Centre.
* Contacting people at Dulwich Centre
If you are trying to write to people at
Dulwich Centre on their personal email addresses and you are having trouble
getting through or receiving a reply, it is worth just writing c/o
dulwich@senet.com.au This is because a
number of people at Dulwich Centre have had to change their personal email
addresses lately due to the ever increasing amount of spam. Thanks!
* A public statement from Dulwich Centre about
‘conversion’ therapies in relation to homosexual desire
13th May 2002
We were recently contacted by someone
in North America who informed us of the possibility that one or
more therapy practitioners may
be using narrative therapy techniques with the aim of ‘converting’ gay
and lesbian people to heterosexual
lives. While there’s been no confirmation of this, the possibility of this
occurring has greatly saddened us. There
is a long history within the psychological and therapeutic fields of marginalising
lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender
people. A part of this history of marginalisation has been, and continues
to be, the use of ‘therapeutic
approaches’ to attempt to ‘cure’, ‘treat’ or ‘convert’ homosexual desire.
Dulwich Centre would like to publicly express
that we are deeply troubled by any use of narrative therapy that constructs
homosexual desire as in anyway less acceptable than heterosexual desire.
We celebrate lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender choices and lifestyles.
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