Current projects
Seeking your contributions!
We are currently interested in hearing from narrative practitioners about:
| Couples | Tips, practices, principles, and ideas that you are finding helpful in your work with couples |
| Environment | Stories of therapeutic/community/organisational practice that relate to environmental concerns |
| Technology | Ways in which you are using new technologies (email, Facebook, MySpace, Skype, websites) in your work |
| Research | Ways in which you are researching the effects and effectiveness of your work and/or your organisation’s work |
| Talking about sex | Ways in which narrative practices can be used by therapists in conversations about sexual practices, sexual difficulties, and sexual pleasure. |
| Narrative family therapy | Ways in which therapists are using narrative ideas in working with families. |
If you would like to contribute to any of these projects please
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The Dulwich Centre Foundation also has a range of current projects:
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Responding to the children of parents with mental health difficulties
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Women and grief project
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Responding to survivors of genocide in Rwanda
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Supporting workers in contexts of war and armed conflict
For information about these, click here
New collective narrative methodologies
A range of new collective narrative methodologies are currently under development here at Dulwich Centre. These include:
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The Tree of Life: a collective narrative approach to responding to vulnerable children
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River of memory, river of dreams
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Collective narrative documents
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Narrative song-writing
For information about these, click here
Popular culture and narrative practice
We would be very interested to hear from practitioners about ways in which you are engaging with popular culture in your therapeutic/ group/community work. Do you ever discuss films, books, or music with those consulting you? Or do particular artists, novelists, film stars, or musicians influence your practice? Here at Dulwich Centre, we vividly recall the conversations we shared with Emily Sued, a Mexican narrative therapist who has since passed away, when she would speak about how Harry Potter was one of her most useful therapeutic resources in working with children with fears. In fact, we recall watching one of the Harry Potter movies with Emily and nearly jumping out of our skins as she responded so dramatically to events throughout the movie. If there are particular aspects of popular culture that make a difference to your work we’d love to hear about this. We’re not exactly sure where these explorations will lead … but we have a feeling that it might be both enjoyable and relevant to the further development of narrative practice. If you’d like to join these explorations please write to us here at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .
Preventing Prisoner Rape Project
The 'Preventing Prisoner Rape Project' is a national project here in Australia aiming to: raise awareness about the issue of rape in prisons; reach out and support prison rape survivors; support those workers both inside and outside prisons who are trying to deal with this issue of sexual violence in detention; and bring about appropriate law reform and changes to prison administration in order to prevent prisoner rape. While our key area of concern relates to men's and women's prisons, we are also concerned about sexual violence in juvenile justice centres, secure mental health facilities, and immigration detention centres.
Deconstructing Addiction League
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 the USA, and David Denborough in Australia, a number of people are now interested in developing a 'league' for deconstructing addiction.
A continuing invitation to narrative practitioners to address privilege and dominance
This 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. Follow the link above to see the document we have placed on this website, and then write to us! Thanks!
Documenting testimonies of trauma - double-storied testimony
In collaboration with workers from Denmark, Russia, and Rwanda, Dulwich Centre is continuing our long-standing interest in ways of documenting testimonies of trauma in ways that make people stronger. Renewed interest in this area has come from the Dulwich Centre Foundation's recent work in Rwanda to work with the survivors of genocide. If you are interested in reading more about this work, or if you are involved in documenting testimonies, we would be very interested to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
