By: Katrina Karlapina Power and Jesse Size
This paper considers the ways that narrative practices can intersect with and add richly to a meaningful and inclusive spiritual care approach. In this paper, Aunty Katrina, a Kaurna Elder, and Jesse, a spiritual care chaplain, reflect on conversations together in a hospital setting and what helped to make these occasions of mutual respect and blessing. (Photo of Aunty Katrina by Colleen-Ara Palka Raven Strangways, Arabana, Nharla Photography)
Key words: spiritual care; spirituality; chaplaincy; narrative pastoral therapy; First Nations; Aboriginal; colonisation; decentred; experience-near; absent but implicit; re-authoring; hospital
Power, K. K., & Size, J. (2025). Fire conversations: Ways that narrative practices can intersect with an inclusive spiritual care approach. International Journal of Narrative Therapy and Community Work, (1), 2–10. https://doi.org/10.4320/ZQLI4943
