Thank you for sharing your project! Many times, I have been astonished by the politics of the media inviting experts to speak about different topics like for example the national exams and the stress they provoke to children and their families.

Through your project, the words’ tips and advice ‘attracted my attention because I always wondered if this could help people in facing hardship.

Your project Kassandra is really inspiring of how to escape from the reproduction of dominant discourses in media and highlight narrative ideas as acknowledging people’s skills and knowledge in responding to hardship and enabling contribution.

Your project and the steps that you took to collect the people’s alternative stories around different issues and your intention to share this hard-won knowledge to the audiences of the media had first talked about these narrative ideas with the tv producers all this sounds very challenging to me.
By listening to your presentation, I can recall my own experience. As a parent counselor, I recently used more consciously these narrative ideas with my clients and I found out that they were delighted by discovering their knowledge and skills in facing issues with their children. I was amazed by their migration of identity.

They came into the therapy room, considering themselves unable to resolve any problem with their children and blaming themselves for this reason while at the end of our meetings they left with a sense of resourcefulness and creativity.

Kassandra, thank you for sharing your mindful project with us. It is an opportunity for thinking about how meaningful narrative ideas are for shaping people’s preferred identities and relationships.

Margarita Halvatzi- Katsikadelis, Narrative Therapist