2015: Issue 4 Archives - The Dulwich Centre

Review of the Non-Monogamies and Contemporary Intimacies Conference (NMCI) held in Portugal, 25th – 27th September 2015— Manja Visschedijk

Dulwich — Sat, 12 Nov 2016 00:46:18 +0000

A review of the first Non-Monogamies and Contemporary Intimacies (NMCI) conference held in Lisbon in September 2015. This conference brought together activists, artists, academics, therapists and other practitioners working in the field to explore the lived experiences of non-monogamies, especially those considered consensual; ideological and representational changes in how intimacies are thought of; intersections with race, sexgender, sexual orientation, kinship, kink, sex work, class, culture, religion, dis/ability, asexuality, a-romanticism; activism and community-building around non-monogamies; reproduction of normativities and resistances: polynormativity and relationship anarchy, neoliberalism and political contestation; evolution of scientific discourses on non-monogamies; challenges to counselling, psychotherapy, (public) health and legal frameworks around non-monogamies; the roles of mass media and new technologies around transformations of intimacy.

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The future is shifting: Aboriginal young people leading the way An interview with Alice Abou, Amber Abou, Cheyenne Andy & Josh Simpson

Dulwich — Sat, 12 Nov 2016 00:43:32 +0000

In this interview, members of the Youth Advisory Committee of the Vancouver Aboriginal Child and Family Services Society describe how this committee is enabling Aboriginal youth to have a voice not only in their own care, but also in the larger care system. The committee holds an annual youth conference, trains new foster parents, are consulted about policies, and advocate in the greater community for changes within the care system.

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The stories we need to tell: Using online outsider-witness processes and digital storytelling in a remote Australian Aboriginal community— Clare Wood, Mercy Fredericks, Beth Neate and Doreen Unghango

Dulwich — Sat, 12 Nov 2016 00:40:08 +0000

This article outlines an innovative narrative therapy project in the remote Aboriginal community of Kalumburu, in the Kimberley region of Western Australia. The project was a collaboration between the Tramalla Strong Women’s group from Kalumburu community, and a narrative and community practitioner.

The project incorporated digital storytelling in combination with narrative therapy practices to document and reclaim stories of survival and resilience to enable people to speak of future hopes and dreams. Narrative therapy practices such as re-authoring, rememembering, outsider witness process and definitional ceremonies provided the framework to unearth these stories. This article explores the ethical position underpinning the collaborative partnerships and how narrative therapy practices and digital storytelling practices were adapted in a rural and remote context. The project also outlines an experiment with an online outsider witnesses practice.

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‘My story to be told’: Explorations in narrative documentation with people from refugee backgrounds— Chanelle Burns

Dulwich — Sat, 12 Nov 2016 00:33:09 +0000

This paper explores the use of narrative documentation in work with people from refugee backgrounds, specifically in contexts of responding to trauma. It recounts, through an in-depth case study, work with a man from Sierra Leone in which a number of documents were co-created, including letters, documents of skills and knowledge, and rescued speech poetry. Through the lens of narrative documentation, a number of narrative principles and practices are explored, including eliciting responses to trauma, scaffolding, externalising, re-authoring, and outsider-witnessing. This paper is the outcome of a project of co-research and offers insights into how the practice of narrative documentation might be used across language and culture.

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Re-contextualising conversations and rich story development— Chris Dolman

Dulwich — Sat, 12 Nov 2016 00:23:52 +0000

In contrast to more common understandings circulating in contemporary Western culture that de-contextualise the problems experienced by people and tether them to their bodies and beings, this paper describes a number of narrative practices that contribute to the rich description of the context in which problems emerge in a person’s life. Therapeutic practices of double story development that provide a foundation for these re-contextualising conversations will also be described.

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Exploring feminist narrative practice and ethics in a school setting— Carolyn Markey

Dulwich — Sat, 12 Nov 2016 00:18:33 +0000

This article recounts an example of working with a young female student who’d been referred for ‘needing to build resilience’ after being subjected to male peer abuse. The article explores ways of honouring the intent of the original referral, and broader family concern, while also broadening out the conversation from one of working with an individual young woman, to working with a group of young women students, to then engaging a group of young men in respectful conversations about abuse and harassment. In the process, the young men find ways of speaking about abusive actions they have taken, while the young women create a platform for taking broader cultural action on issues of gender and sexuality diversity in the school. Along the way, subtle dilemmas of feminist and narrative ethics are explored.

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