Metaphoric practice

2026 / 2026: Issue 1 / International Journal of Narrative Therapy and Community Work / Metaphoric practice

Protected: The Tree of Life Project: Using narrative ideas in work with vulnerable children in Southern Africa [audio from the archive] — Nczelo Ncube read by Nczelo Ncube 

This audio practice note describes the generation of a collective document of insider knowledges about living with loneliness with older people living in Eldercare residential aged care homes. In Western societies, older people’s skills, knowledges and values can be treated as irrelevant and obsolete, perhaps especially so for those who are living in residential aged care. Considering the discourses around ageing, frailty and loneliness, this audio note reflects on the operations of modern power and opportunities to address a sense of personal failure in aged care using collective documents.

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March 13, 2026
2026 / 2026: Issue 1 / International Journal of Narrative Therapy and Community Work / Metaphoric practice

Protected: Cedar of Life — Teresa Taouk 

This video contribution highlights the importance of active response and continued resistance – not reaction – to the rise in transmisogyny, anti-trans and racist hate. Lorraine urges all caring adults, helpers and professionals to recognise how colonial, capitalist and white supremacist systems fuel a sense of overwhelm and can create embodied distress, especially for those under attack by these systems.

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March 13, 2026
2026 / 2026: Issue 1 / International Journal of Narrative Therapy and Community Work / Metaphoric practice

Protected: Reclaiming the Tree of Life: Collective storytelling, re-membering and legacy in later life — Helena Rose 

This paper explores using narrative therapy in a genetic counselling context to support people having predictive genetic testing for neurogenetic conditions. Using case examples, I describe my use of narrative therapy practices in this setting, with a particular focus on therapeutic letter writing. I set out the ideas from narrative therapy that I considered in the development of my letter-writing practice.

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March 13, 2026
2026 / 2026: Issue 1 / International Journal of Narrative Therapy and Community Work / Metaphoric practice

Protected: Walking in virtual forests: Using Minecraft to create digital Trees of Life — Paul Graham 

This paper explores using narrative therapy in a genetic counselling context to support people having predictive genetic testing for neurogenetic conditions. Using case examples, I describe my use of narrative therapy practices in this setting, with a particular focus on therapeutic letter writing. I set out the ideas from narrative therapy that I considered in the development of my letter-writing practice.

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March 13, 2026
2026 / 2026: Issue 1 / International Journal of Narrative Therapy and Community Work / Metaphoric practice

Protected: The Marathon of Life: Storytelling for healing and peace building with second-generation survivors of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings — Keiko Tsuzuki

This paper explores using narrative therapy in a genetic counselling context to support people having predictive genetic testing for neurogenetic conditions. Using case examples, I describe my use of narrative therapy practices in this setting, with a particular focus on therapeutic letter writing. I set out the ideas from narrative therapy that I considered in the development of my letter-writing practice.

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March 13, 2026
2026 / 2026: Issue 1 / International Journal of Narrative Therapy and Community Work / Metaphoric practice

Protected: Resilience Wardrobe: An outfit for coping with challenges — Şeydanur Tezcan Özer and Mehmet Dinç 

This paper explores using narrative therapy in a genetic counselling context to support people having predictive genetic testing for neurogenetic conditions. Using case examples, I describe my use of narrative therapy practices in this setting, with a particular focus on therapeutic letter writing. I set out the ideas from narrative therapy that I considered in the development of my letter-writing practice.

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March 13, 2026
2026 / 2026: Issue 1 / International Journal of Narrative Therapy and Community Work / Metaphoric practice

Protected: Exploring the meaning of cosplay for adolescents: A narrative approach — Su Ying 

This paper explores using narrative therapy in a genetic counselling context to support people having predictive genetic testing for neurogenetic conditions. Using case examples, I describe my use of narrative therapy practices in this setting, with a particular focus on therapeutic letter writing. I set out the ideas from narrative therapy that I considered in the development of my letter-writing practice.

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March 13, 2026
2026 / 2026: Issue 1 / International Journal of Narrative Therapy and Community Work / Metaphoric practice

Protected: Fire of Life: Yarning about stories of passions, strengths, skills, interests and hobbies of our mob — Kynan Barnes 

This paper explores using narrative therapy in a genetic counselling context to support people having predictive genetic testing for neurogenetic conditions. Using case examples, I describe my use of narrative therapy practices in this setting, with a particular focus on therapeutic letter writing. I set out the ideas from narrative therapy that I considered in the development of my letter-writing practice.

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