2003: Issue 2 Archives - The Dulwich Centre https://dulwichcentre.com.au/product-category/2003/2003-issue-2/ A gateway to narrative therapy and community work Mon, 17 Jan 2022 07:56:22 +0000 en-AU hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2.2 Feminism, Therapy and Narrative Ideas: Exploring Some Not So Commonly Asked Questions— compiled by Shona Russell & Maggie Carey https://dulwichcentre.com.au/product/feminism-therapy-and-narrative-ideas-exploring-some-not-so-commonly-asked-questions-compiled-by-shona-russell-maggie-carey/ Thu, 22 Dec 2016 20:07:46 +0000 http://dulwichcentre.com.au/?post_type=product&p=7398 In this paper we have been interested to engage with some not so commonly asked questions about feminism, therapy and narrative ideas. So we asked a number of therapists who are engaged with narrative ideas some questions about what feminism means to them, how it influences their work and what feminist issues they are currently grappling with. What followed was an invigorating and challenging process.

Many of the people we approached expressed that they wished they could spend more time thinking about these sorts of questions. Some people spoke of regret that these sorts of conversations are not more common.

In response, we would like to invite all readers to become involved in an ongoing project around these issues. In future editions of the International Journal of Narrative Therapy and Community Work we will be organising a regular column on the theme ‘feminism, therapy and narrative ideas’. At the end of this piece we have listed a number of different themes about which we would love to hear from practitioners. We hope that the following questions and answers will spark your imagination and that you will then write to us with your thoughts and reflections.

But first, on with the questions – and perhaps the first one is the most difficult … What is feminism?

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Building Partnerships in Responding to Vulnerable Children: A Rural African Community Context— Yvonne Sliep https://dulwichcentre.com.au/product/building-partnerships-in-responding-to-vulnerable-children-a-rural-african-community-context-yvonne-sliep/ Thu, 22 Dec 2016 20:03:50 +0000 http://dulwichcentre.com.au/?post_type=product&p=7397 The question of how to respond to vulnerable children continues to confront us in Southern Africa today. This article documents a project in rural Malawi and describes some emerging principles to assist community workers who are seeking to respond to vulnerable children in poverty-stricken environments. A key focus involves the building of partnerships with all concerned.

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Narrative Practice and Community Assignments— Michael White https://dulwichcentre.com.au/product/narrative-practice-and-community-assignments-michael-white/ Thu, 22 Dec 2016 20:01:52 +0000 http://dulwichcentre.com.au/?post_type=product&p=7396 This paper describes explorations of the relevance of narrative practices to working with communities which are facing various concerns and predicaments. These explorations have been undertaken in the context of community assignments that have been initiated in response to approaches from communities. In describing these explorations, this paper highlights the assumptions that have oriented our participation in these initiatives and some of the principles of narrative practice that we have found to be of particular importance in them. As well, this paper presents some special considerations in regard to addressing the psychological pain and emotional distress that is the outcome of trauma; discusses the priority given to the development of partnerships between the members of our team and between team members and community members; and provides an account of the structure of the community-wide gathering phase of these assignments.

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The Same in Difference: The Work of the Peer Counsellors of the Irish Wheelchair Association and the National Council of the Blind of Ireland— https://dulwichcentre.com.au/product/the-same-in-difference-the-work-of-the-peer-counsellors-of-the-irish-wheelchair-association-and-the-national-council-of-the-blind-of-ireland/ Thu, 22 Dec 2016 19:58:42 +0000 http://dulwichcentre.com.au/?post_type=product&p=7395 This paper describes the work and insider knowledges of the Peer Counsellors of the Irish Wheelchair Association and the National Council of the Blind of Ireland. Crafted from a series of interviews, this paper consists of four parts: ‘History’, ‘Why we are involved in this work’, ‘Insider knowledges’, and ‘Principles of practice’. By questioning many taken-for-granted assumptions, it is hoped that this paper will offer practitioners alternative ways of responding to the experience of disability.

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