2021: Issue 1 Archives - The Dulwich Centre https://dulwichcentre.com.au/product-category/2021/2021-issue-1/ A gateway to narrative therapy and community work Mon, 20 Jun 2022 07:12:46 +0000 en-AU hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2.2 Moving beyond the single story: using a double-storied assessment tool in narrative practice — Jake Peterson https://dulwichcentre.com.au/product/moving-beyond-the-single-story-using-a-double-storied-assessment-tool-in-narrative-practice-jake-peterson/ Wed, 07 Apr 2021 02:13:05 +0000 https://dulwichcentre.com.au/?post_type=product&p=31221 This paper explores the danger of a single story in traditional mental health assessments, and presents an alternative assessment tool that seeks to contribute to rich story development while satisfying organisational requirements. This double-storied assessment tool elicits stories of strength and hope alongside stories of difficulty. The paper draws on the maps of narrative practice and discusses six aspects of the assessment tool: structuring safety, externalising conversations, re-membering conversations, unique outcomes, deconstruction and documentation. Transcripts from case examples are used to demonstrate the use of the assessment tool. The tool can be used by narrative practitioners and other mental health professionals who are required to administer assessments and wish to resist pathologising approaches and to invite practices of accountability into their work.

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]]> Seeing the forest for the trees: Exploring the forest aspect of the Tree of Life process to sustain and nourish socioecological activism — Elizabeth Nicholas https://dulwichcentre.com.au/product/seeing-the-forest-for-the-trees-exploring-the-forest-aspect-of-the-tree-of-life-process-to-sustain-and-nourish-socioecological-activism-elizabeth-nicholas/ Wed, 07 Apr 2021 02:04:57 +0000 https://dulwichcentre.com.au/?post_type=product&p=31219 This paper presents several additions to the Tree of Life narrative process. By expanding the ‘forest’ section of this process to include collective consideration of mycelium, possibilities were opened to exploring ‘underground’ networks of care and support, including those that might not be seen or recognised by the dominant culture. Exploring the role of hub trees in a forest system enabled conversations about the contributions of elders in a community. Considering forests as place sparked discussion of the contributions of place and the more-than-human world in our lives. The Tree of Life metaphor was modified in this way in the context of a co-research project seeking to elicit the insider knowledge of long-term activists about sustaining activism addressing ecological and social justice issues, particularly climate change.

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]]> I will keep your secret: Ijoro Ribara Uwariraye Kandi Ntamvura Idahita – From psychological suffering to recovery in Rwanda — Chaste Urihoweye https://dulwichcentre.com.au/product/i-will-keep-your-secret-ijoro-ribara-uwariraye-kandi-ntamvura-idahita-from-psychological-suffering-to-recovery-in-rwanda-chaste-urihoweye/ Wed, 07 Apr 2021 01:52:33 +0000 https://dulwichcentre.com.au/?post_type=product&p=31217 This resource has been created to assist Rwandans to deal with hardships and pain that may not be visible to the eye but that is real, and often experienced physically, especially by those who survived the 1994 Genocide in Rwanda. It includes a series of narrative exercises and stories of face-to-face conversations and text exchanges in the hope that it will be helpful to the general public in Rwanda as well as to counsellors and therapists.

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]]> Just Girls: Conversations on resistance, social justice and the mental health struggles of women — Shelja Sen https://dulwichcentre.com.au/product/just-girls-shelja-sen/ Wed, 07 Apr 2021 01:40:53 +0000 https://dulwichcentre.com.au/?post_type=product&p=31216 During the COVID-19 pandemic, my work with young women dealing with experiences of trauma, gender-based violence and pressure to conform to patriarchal definitions of success took the form of a journey metaphor that could be used across age, class, language and culture. The Courage Map brought a sense of movement and hope in times of despair and immobility. This methodology helped to render visible, externalise and politicise acts of social injustice, turning the gaze back on normative judgment and acknowledging micro-acts of resistance, care and protest (individual or collective). It invited personal agency and counter-stories, documenting, collectivising and inviting contributions to build solidarity. In this paper, stories of two young women illustrate how conversations that start in the therapy space can create ripples in our sociocultural and political contexts.

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]]> During the COVID-19 pandemic, my work with young women dealing with experiences of trauma, gender-based violence and pressure to conform to patriarchal definitions of success took the form of a journey metaphor that could be used across age, class, language and culture. The Courage Map brought a sense of movement and hope in times of despair and immobility. This methodology helped to render visible, externalise and politicise acts of social injustice, turning the gaze back on normative judgment and acknowledging micro-acts of resistance, care and protest (individual or collective). It invited personal agency and counter-stories, documenting, collectivising and inviting contributions to build solidarity. In this paper, stories of two young women illustrate how conversations that start in the therapy space can create ripples in our sociocultural and political contexts.

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