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Four stories of narrative practice: David Denborough, Fariba Ahmadi & Dr Abdul Ghaffar Stanikzai

In this keynote for the Australian Family Therapy Conference, I was joined by two Afghani colleagues, Fariba Ahmadi and Dr Abdul Ghaffar Stanikzai to share four stories of narrative practice:
o Family therapy through the Team of Life approach
o Consulting Afghan children through a time of crisis (the fall of Kabul to the Taliban)
o ‘Surviving the ocean of depression’ audio resources
And a project that involved the use of collective narrative practice with Syrian young people in Adelaide who created a video to welcome future new arrivals.

A Community of Ideas: Behind the Scenes – The work of Dulwich Centre Publications — Cheryl White and David Denborough

Author: Cheryl White and David Denborough
Year: 2005
 
The last twenty years has seen the creation of a ‘community of ideas’ linked to narrative therapy and community work. We conceptualise our work at Dulwich Centre Publications as occurring within this ‘community’. This book describes ways of linking practitioners through the written word; ways of hosting conferences as community events; and ways of organising training programs that are congruent with narrative ideas.

Moral injury and moral repair: The possibilities of narrative practice — David Denborough

With a focus on the aftermath of the war in Afghanistan, this paper grapples with the suffering induced by war, and particularly with moral anguish. Following a critical analysis of development of the concepts of PTSD and moral injury, and the material effects these have on the lives of veterans, David Denborough offers a series of additional responses drawn from narrative therapy. These include the key concepts of ‘re-authoring’ stories of identity, externalising problems, honouring responses to trauma, considering distress as a marker of fidelity, re-membering those who have died, and moving beyond scripts about forgiveness. He also offers responses drawn from collective narrative practice that respond to veterans’ stories in ways that avoid both admiration and judgement, instead seeking to communalise grief and enable contribution. These include the exchange of witnessing letters and the Team of Life narrative approach. Denborough argues for a response to moral injury that is both moral and social. He highlights possibilities for linking ‘healing’ with social action: collective projects of moral repair that seek to redress the harm done to others, including the civilians of Afghanistan.

Unsettling Australian Histories: Letters to ancestry from a great-great-grandson by David Denborough

 

What do you do when you find your family tree has been re-planted in someone else’s yard? *

What do you do as a white Australian when you are invited by Aboriginal friends and colleagues to connect with and honour your ancestry?

These questions become even more complicated when you know your family participated in colonial violence and dispossession. The author’s great-great-grandfather was Samuel Griffith, one of the ‘founding fathers’ of Australian Federation. He was a Premier of Queensland, the first Chief Justice of Australia and intimately involved in drafting the Australian Constitution. Other ancestors of the author participated in the Frontier Wars in North Queensland to claim, ‘settle’ and defend their occupation of Aboriginal lands.

This book is a series of letters written to these ancestors. 

Unsettling Histories also includes contributions from Aboriginal Australians and Australian South Sea Islanders about the ways their ancestors are entwined with the complex histories of Australia’s colonisation.

Created through cross-cultural friendships and partnerships, Unsettling Histories engages with the past to enable action in the present.

About the author: David Denborough is a community worker, writer and teacher at Dulwich Centre. He also coordinates the Master of Narrative Therapy and Community Work at The University of Melbourne – a program developed in partnership between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal faculty. 

* Paraphrased from lyrics by Andrea Rieniets 

Matters of care-taking — David Denborough

This is an extract from: Dulwich Centre and Department of Social Work. (2019). Handbook Master of Narrative Therapy
and Community Work. (pp. 20–23). Melbourne, Australia: The University of Melbourne Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences.

Political Dictionary for the field of narrative practice — David Denborough

This dictionary is a guide in relation to the politics of narrative practice – narrative therapy and community work. Mind you, it’s a dictionary like no other. If you are looking for clear and concise definitions, all written in the same style and voice, you will not find them here. What you will find are definitions, descriptions, examples, and quotes from multiple authors and perspectives. It includes entries that emphasise political considerations and dilemmas; that amplify some of the more overtly political voices, histories and concepts in the field; and at the same time draws form the Michael White archive some of the political aspects of Michael’s work that might otherwise slip from view. This partial, incomplete and biased dictionary can be read from cover to cover; dipped into for inspiration/challenge; or you can use the index at the back to find particular concepts that intrigue There are also blank spaces where you can add your own entries!

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