Read more about the article Fear busting and monster taming: An approach to the fears of young children by Michael White, read by Hamilton Kennedy 
A beautiful golden sunrise bursting through the eucalyptus trees as it rises over a mountain. A river cuts through a deep valley with early morning mist rising up the dense foliage on the sides of the mountain.

Fear busting and monster taming: An approach to the fears of young children by Michael White, read by Hamilton Kennedy 

This is an audio recording of a paper that was originally published in Dulwich Centre Review, a precursor to this journal, in 1985. In this paper, childhood fears are considered within the interactional context of the family. It is argued that the survival and growth of such fears is dependent upon the presence of a "fears life-support system". The details of this life-support system can be derived by an examination of the family members' inadvertent participation with a fears lifestyle. Interventions to disrupt this participation are discussed. These interventions include the introduction of a non-threatening interactional description of the problem and a structured ritual to challenge the fears lifestyle. A case example is given.

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Read more about the article Cultivating queer joy: Letter writing campaign — Aaron Patey
Aerial View of Cala Brandinchi, Gallura, Northwestern Sardinia, Italy

Cultivating queer joy: Letter writing campaign — Aaron Patey

This audio practice note describes a letter-writing campaign dedicated to sharing insider knowledges of Queer Joy. Letter-writing campaigns seek to create a context to share community knowledges of care in ways that can be accessed by members of the community of concern. This campaign begins with a queer invitation to allow members of the 2SLGBTQIA+ community in our province to write letters about their experience of cultivating queer joy. These letters are then distributed in sessions if a person is struggling to create queer joy in their life. This audio note reviews the care put into the letter-writing invitations. It includes responses from three letter writers and outlines the effects for both readers and writers. I hope that others can create seeds of queer joy in their lives through listening to how others have traversed, creating their queer joy.

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