6. Responding to trauma/abuse (reflection due 6 Feb)
In this chapter we take a look at the ways critical thinking can contribute to our practice. Narrative practices invite us to be curious about where our ideas come from and their effects. Here we look at some of…
Resources Raising our heads above the clouds, Caleb Wakhungu and the Mt Elgon Self-Help Community Project:See also this video: https://dulwichcentre.com.au/raising-heads-above-the-clouds-by-caleb-wakhungu/ Responding to genocide in Rwanda: Local knowledge and counter-stories by David Denborough and Cheryl White in collaboration with Hodali…
If you're completing the certification module, you'll need to write a 5000 word project about how you have used narrative practice in your work over the year. This first assignment is an opportunity to share your initial ideas and…
If you're completing the certification module, you'll need to write a 5000 word project about how you have used narrative practice in your work over the year. This first assignment is an opportunity to share your initial ideas and…
Okay, having watched this teaching and heard these stories, now’s the time to reflect upon what you’ve been learning! The following quiz has been designed to assist with this. Please select your answers and then proceed to marking. Don’t…
In this final chapter we provide you a few more examples of collective practice and community work. “As counsellors, therapists, psychosocial workers and community workers, stories of hardship find their way to us. In some ways, we are cultural…
Narrative practices respect people as the experts of their own lives. As such, our expertise is not in how we deliver ‘interventions’, but in how we provide a context, through a scaffolding of questions, that makes it possible for…
Resources Survivors supporting survivors: Recalling the history of the Ibuka counselling team by Adelite Mukamana Intergenerational narrative practice in response to intergenerational trauma by Saviona Cramer with reflections from Rwandan practitioners Discovering children’s responses to trauma: a response-based narrative…
Welcome to Topic 5: Definitional ceremonies and enabling contribution. This reflection is due 10 June, 2022. Information to go here. 'Opening up the counselling room - the joining of stories as a political act' by Renee Handsacker‘Outsider-witness practices: some…
Welcome to Topic 9: Outsider witness practice and definitional ceremony. Outsider-witness practices: some answers to commonly asked questions compiled by Shona Russell and Maggie Carey Narrative Therapy: Responding to your questions Azima ila Hayati – An invitation in to…
Resources Survivors supporting survivors: Recalling the history of the Ibuka counselling team by Adelite MukamanaIntergenerational narrative practice in response to intergenerational trauma by Saviona Cramer with reflections from Rwandan practitionersOur story of suffering and surviving’: Intergenerational double-story development with…
Topic 7 resources: Setting the context: The personal is political and professional – Talking about feminism, culture and violence. A conversation between’ by Angel Yuen and Cheryl White Introduction to Conversations about gender, culture, violence and narrative practice'Commonly asked…
Welcome to Topic 5: Definitional ceremonies and enabling contribution. This reflection is due 9 June, 2023. Information to go here. 'Opening up the counselling room - the joining of stories as a political act' by Renee Handsacker ‘Outsider-witness practices:…
Welcome to Topic 7: Outsider witness practice and definitional ceremony. This reflection is due 25 November, 2022. ‘Outsider-witness practices: some answers to commonly asked questions’ compiled by Shona Russell and Maggie Carey Narrative Therapy: Responding to your questions‘Azima ila…
Welcome to Topic 5: Definitional ceremonies and enabling contribution. This reflection is due 7 June, 2024. Opening up the counselling room - the joining of stories as a political act by Renee Handsacker International Journal Of Narrative Therapy and…
In this final chapter we take some time to reflect on your learning and the next steps you might take in your journey with narrative practices. Here we consider the process of beginning to engage with…
Resources Narratives in the suitcase by Ncazelo Ncube-MlilioChildren, children’s culture, and therapy’ by Michael White (2000) Chapter 1 in Reflections on narrative practice.The Team of Life with young men from refugee backgrounds by David DenboroughListening for alternative stories Narrative…
Welcome to Topic 4: Considerations of folk psychology. The reflection is due 22nd July, 2022. ‘Folk psychology and narrative practice’ by Michael White in Narrative Practice and Exotic Lives, Chapter 6Diversifying and democratising narrative practice: Folk cultural methodologies & Tracing…
Welcome to Topic 4: Considerations of folk psychology. Folk psychology and narrative practice by Michael White in Narrative Practice and Exotic Lives, Chapter 6 Diversifying and democratising narrative practice: Folk cultural methodologies & Tracing the roots of the Tree of…
Topic 8 resources: 'Placing couple work in context', Jill Freedman & Gene Combs (2002) Narrative therapy with couples…and a whole lot more! A collection of papers, essays and exercises. Dulwich Centre Publications: Adelaide'Narrative couple therapy' Jill Freedman & Gene…