Comments on: The Language of Structuralism by Mark Hayward

By: Sarah Wakholi

Sarah Wakholi — Sun, 03 Jul 2022 08:23:39 +0000

Hi Mark,
I found your ideas very enlightening and I am so glad to have listened to it. It opened my mind up to possibilities and ways of thinking more specifically when working in the helping profession.
Thank you.
Sarah

By: Divya

Divya — Fri, 29 Apr 2022 14:50:37 +0000

Thank you for the very thought provoking talk. The idea of Neoliberalism and its impact on us really stood out for me. It gave words to an abstract idea and feeling I’ve held for a long time. And this helped me make sense of it and give me the language for it as well. Thank you!

By: Danita

Danita — Fri, 03 Jul 2020 23:35:59 +0000

Hi Mark,
I found your presentation very thought provoking. As an non-structuralist Aboriginal woman, I now understand why I struggle with fitting into a work environment that has so many structures, and trying to conform when I don’t clearly think this way. It’s very disempowering to my identity as a cultural woman. The balancing of working in an education system and supporting our Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander community and students is like walking in 2 worlds. It brings a lot of challenges and I see sometimes our cultural identity suffers for it. I find bringing more of our cultural language and communication into this space provides an avenue for our voices. So thank you for this insightful conversation.

By: peter charleston

peter charleston — Mon, 29 Jun 2020 21:19:14 +0000

thanks for your clear and concise explanation of structuralism. Im glad you reminded me of how much we have made up in our helping professions

By: Olive

Olive — Sun, 31 May 2020 09:35:52 +0000

That example of talking with your colleague who claimed to know your internal world was so useful – for your statement of forgetting what projection means more than anything – thank you! It gives me a bit of respite from feeling bad at forgetting, not knowing, or mixing up the DSM criteria for various diagnoses….. which can make it difficult to hold onto credibility or sense of agency as a psychologist in the highly professionalised (and medicalised, structuralist) context in which I work.

By: Pam Howells

Pam Howells — Fri, 01 May 2020 02:51:12 +0000

Loved your account of Structuralist language and its use in modern psychological theory. I have been familiar with these ideas for many years but it has been very refreshing to hear them again.Thank you for presenting the ideas so succinctly.

By: KeXiou

KeXiou — Thu, 23 Apr 2020 01:39:16 +0000

Love your presentation! You made it so concise and easy to understand the concept. Thank you very much.

By: Mark Byrne

Mark Byrne — Wed, 12 Feb 2020 01:02:58 +0000

Fantastic awareness expanding talk. Thanks Mark

By: Andrew

Andrew — Wed, 08 Jan 2020 06:31:47 +0000

Thank you for your fascinating presentation (it was my first time watching a Friday afternoon talk). I am hungry for more. Please let me know if you do a part 2 or update it.

By: Fiona

Fiona — Tue, 27 Aug 2019 05:01:47 +0000

Thank you, this talk has been absolutely brilliant. It has given me insight and has helped me to understand structuralism and its affects.

By: Natalia Jerzmanowska

Natalia Jerzmanowska — Mon, 12 Aug 2019 11:31:16 +0000

I trained with you a few years back and how you de-constructed the concept of “needs” always stayed with me. I came back here specifically to find it and am not disappointed. Thank you for the work you do.

By: kerry

kerry — Mon, 22 Jul 2019 21:30:10 +0000

Very interesting how what is happening in society changes how we view ourselves and our reality. illustrates to me the importance of seeking to understand the client’s frame of reference and where that comes from as each person’s perception is their own.
thanks for a great talk

By: Carolyn

Carolyn — Sun, 07 Jul 2019 02:17:30 +0000

Just watched your video as part of my WK1|SEM2 homework for a Bachelor of Counselling. Brillantly thought provoking. Thank you 🙂

By: Limor Ast

Limor Ast — Sun, 03 Feb 2019 17:43:06 +0000

Thank you Mark for explaining and clearly presenting some of the foundational values of narrative practices. Always appreciate learning from you!

By: Mark Hayward

Mark Hayward — Thu, 27 Dec 2018 22:14:23 +0000

In reply to Amy Murray. :-)

By: Dorit Tomandl

Dorit Tomandl — Wed, 05 Dec 2018 13:39:09 +0000

Mark, this talk was freeing to me. I don’t measure up with society’s norms and have been feeling like a loser. Now I am starting to see that as soon as I find my own truth, there is no need to adapt or live up to something. I am an ok person right now!!!

By: Valerie Liske

Valerie Liske — Fri, 29 Jun 2018 17:44:33 +0000

Thank YOU Mark…this talk really resonated with me and the angst I’ve felt in performing social work duties throughout my career…it always felt just a little bit smug of me to suppose that I could understand, ‘help’, guide or problem-solve with clients. I also felt that the more direct the service work I did the more ability I had to be able to really have a glimpse of the other person’s reality and view…and how they coped with their realities. Wonder if this could be taught in social work, medical, therapy and nursing course work to remind us what the ‘helpers’ bring in their ‘tool kit’?

By: Amy Murray

Amy Murray — Tue, 19 Jun 2018 22:10:32 +0000

In reply to Mark Hayward. Thank you for your helpful response Mark. I understand about the onion and the orange layer metaphor. So long as I don't get them confused in cooking ;)

By: Mark Hayward

Mark Hayward — Sat, 16 Jun 2018 20:25:38 +0000

In reply to Amy Murray.

Hi,
Sorry for the slow reply – I’ve been away. Some communities have never embraced structuralism but seem to manage ok. But maybe some people think they’d fall apart without it? The references to onions and the peeling of an orange is meant to reflect a layer metaphor.

By: Amy Murray

Amy Murray — Tue, 05 Jun 2018 15:03:30 +0000

Hi Mark

Thanks for an interesting talk. Don’t you think we’d fall apart without structuralism?! I was intrigued by your reference to ‘onion theory’ whilst referencing the peeling of an orange. is this significant? I ask this, as the structural nature of onions and oranges is clearly quite different.

Amy