2003: Issue 1 Archives - The Dulwich Centre

Voices from Bali: Responding to the October Bombing— Muhammad Arif, Putu Nur Ayomi Janet De Neefe, Sugi B. Lanus Ni Made Marni, Wayan Sarma & Frances Tse

Dulwich — Thu, 22 Dec 2016 19:42:51 +0000

This piece has been created as a response to the bombing that took place in Bali in October 2002, five months ago. As these words are being written, Australia is preparing to join the USA and Britain to bomb and invade the sovereign country of Iraq many thousands of miles away. Most Australians do not support such a war and are deeply worried about its implications. So too in Bali. Those we spoke to when we visited there last month were unanimous that the looming war in Iraq would bring only further violence and hardship to the world and in turn make the healing of the bombing in Bali much more difficult. The following piece describes some of the ways in which the effects of two bombs in Kuta continue to haunt the people of Bali. As the USA, Britain and Australia prepare a far more devastating attack on the ancient cities of Iraq, a sense of grief visits us. This piece is all about grief, about responses to loss and violence, and about the people of Bali – Australia’s neighbours

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History Shaping the Present: from an interview with Marlene Silbert

Dulwich — Thu, 22 Dec 2016 19:39:14 +0000

In this piece, Marlene Silbert, the Education Director of the Holocaust Museum in Cape Town, South Africa, describes ways of teaching history that make it relevant to the present. In particular, Marlene describes ways of engaging with Holocaust history that can enable action and healing in present day South Africa. This piece is derived from an interview. Cheryl White, David Denborough and Peter Hollams were present.

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Recreating Our Community – Memory, Restitution and Action: from an interview with Terence D. Fredericks

Dulwich — Thu, 22 Dec 2016 19:35:39 +0000

In this piece, Terence Fredericks, the Chairman of the District Six Museum Foundation, in Cape Town, South Africa, describes the inspiring work of the District Six Museum. This museum is involved in not only honouring the memory of the community of District Six, from which thousands of people were forcibly removed by the Apartheid regime, but also working with this memory, welcoming people to history, developing meaningful restitution and, importantly, re-creating the community. This piece is derived from an interview conducted by David Denborough.

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Responding with History and Story: An Interview with Joan Nestle— David Denborough

Dulwich — Thu, 22 Dec 2016 19:33:16 +0000

Joan Nestle is one of the founders of the Lesbian Herstory Archives in New York City and has been an instrumental figure in the documentation of lesbian history as well as a highly respected teacher and writer (see reading list below). In this interview, Joan elegantly articulates why she and others chose to respond to the pathologisation of lesbian lives with the creation of history and stories. This interview took place in Adelaide, South Australia. David Denborough was the interviewer.

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Counterviewing Injurious Speech Acts: Destabilising Eight Conversational Habits of Highly Effective Problems— Stephen Madigan

Dulwich — Thu, 22 Dec 2016 19:30:41 +0000

This paper discusses eight internalised injurious speech habits that contribute to the existence and maintenance of problems in people’s lives. The speech habits discussed are self-surveillance/audience, illegitimacy, escalating fear, negative imagination/invidious comparison, internalised bickering, hopelessness, perfection and paralysing guilt. The paper also provides a full discussion on the practice of deconstructing and destabilising these discursive habits. This process includes exposing and locating dialogic habits, counterviewing longstanding problem descriptions, re-remembering aspects of clients’ lives existing outside of the problem descriptions of them, and revitalising possibility and appreciation through therapeutic conversations.

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Conversations with Persons Dealing with Problems of Substance Use— Wendy R. West

Dulwich — Thu, 22 Dec 2016 19:28:28 +0000

This article provides practice-based and narrative-inspired ideas for working with persons who struggle with substance use. The author describes various categories of questions that assist people: to reflect on the ways alcohol, cocaine or other drugs have impacted their lives; to articulate their intentions and purposes in stopping using; to develop skills and abilities for resisting cravings and urges; and to begin to create identities based on new or re-claimed purposes, values, beliefs, and commitments.

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Remembering Meg— Anne Stringer

Dulwich — Thu, 22 Dec 2016 19:26:13 +0000

This paper describes how a group of young women, in conversation with their school counsellor, found ways to remember and honour the mother of one of their close friends. The paper has been written collaboratively between the school counsellor and the young women involved. It is shared here in the hope that it may offer something to other young women and to other school counsellors.

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Using Letters in School Counselling— Katy Batha

Dulwich — Thu, 22 Dec 2016 19:20:21 +0000

This paper explores the creative use of therapeutic letters in a school counselling context. A number of different types of therapeutic documents are described including letters of introduction and invitation, letters of reflection, letters to keep contact, and letters to summarise co-research.

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Outsider-witness Practices: Some Answers to Commonly Asked Questions— compiled by Maggie Carey & Shona Russell

Dulwich — Thu, 22 Dec 2016 19:16:04 +0000

The use of outsider witnesses is a therapeutic practice commonly engaged with by those interested in narrative therapy. This accessible paper offers an introduction to, and clarification of, some of the intricacies of this practice. This paper was created through a collaborative process involving well-respected therapists from Australia, the USA, Mexico, South Africa and the UK.

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