Comments on: Mindfulness and Narrative Therapy By Ian Percy

By: Sarah

Sarah — Tue, 14 Mar 2023 10:19:34 +0000

Hi Ian,

I have really enjoyed listening to this presentation. I have attended training on this topic previously and I am beginning to make sense of the information. My intention of revisited this is that I would like to explore this more with parents with babies and young children.

Thank you for the presentation.

Warm regards
Sarah

By: Ian Percy

Ian Percy — Mon, 03 Sep 2018 03:46:51 +0000

In reply to Jean Marie Pearce.

Apologies for taking so long to respond Jean Marie! I much appreciate your interest.
Great question about how to transition into mindfulness/narrative. Like narrative questions, there have to be certain conditions before inviting people into these practices. There is a necessary timing and a receiving context. And like narrative therapy questions, mindfulness can be embraced, modified or declined. There is no assumption that attending to somatic expressions of the problem or the preferred will be helpful. Well, there’s a lot more of course 🙂
All the best
Ian

By: Ian Percy

Ian Percy — Mon, 03 Sep 2018 03:36:01 +0000

In reply to Jude Mann.

This reply has been a long time coming Jude! Apologies. I much appreciate your interest.
I am writing on this work and hope to publish in the nearish future. Also I have been offering training for many years on this kind of integration. Please do get in touch at narrativetherapy@hotmail.com if you want to keep in contact.

By: Jean Marie Pearce

Jean Marie Pearce — Sun, 17 Dec 2017 17:01:06 +0000

Thank you so deeply for this meaning making between the body/ soma and narrative. I very much like the idea of how the body is part of the story and thinking about how so often it is left behind.. It is so helpful to link these concepts as I am a beginning therapist working to learn both these ways of having conversation and have them be integrated in meaningful and ethical way. I am interested in hearing more about how you arrive in collaborative conversation at these mindful moments early on in your dialogue with people, without using it as a “expert”way of engaging? I hope that question makes sense, and I’m happy to rephrase if it doesn’t.

By: Jude Mann

Jude Mann — Thu, 09 Nov 2017 14:20:29 +0000

Thanks, Ian, for sharing ways that you are ‘mingling’ Mindfulness and Narrative therapy practices.
I’m a keen student of both Buddhist-inspired meditation practices and Narrative practices, and I often think they have a lot in common – that my interest in both comes from the same place, a concern for a kind and respectful exploration of people’s local and particular experiences and knowledges. I do agree that Mindfulness and Narrative practices can support each other. In fact, I really think we’re missing something if we don’t enquire about what our body ‘knows’! This reminds me of a couple of workshops at the 2nd European conference of Narrative therapy in Barcelona, 2016, that described ways of bringing together body/ movement and narrative; also of Sarah Walther’s ideas about ‘re-membering our bodies’.
I’d be interested to know more about how you do the moving back and forth between the somatic and storying, and what effects this has for the person at the centre. Have you, or are you thinking of writing up any accounts of this work?
Thanks, again. Your talk encourages me to keep on exploring ways to bring mindfulness of body to narrative, and narrative to body.

By: Ian Percy

Ian Percy — Fri, 22 Sep 2017 23:56:08 +0000

In reply to Emmae.

I appreciate it Emmae. Please do get in touch again if you have any further thoughts on the presentation or other aspects of mindfulness and narrative practices.
Best wishes
Ian

By: Emmae

Emmae — Tue, 12 Sep 2017 19:00:14 +0000

Thanks for the video presentation on mindfulness. I have been asked to explain mindfulness to those I meet in various grieving stages and also in domestic violence work. I will refer others to this link.

Atlanta, Georgia, USA

By: Ian Percy

Ian Percy — Sat, 09 Sep 2017 01:15:43 +0000

Thanks so much Linda for your interest in the integration of mindfulness and narrative. As you may know, I recently presented with David Pare at the Re-authoring Teaching gathering in Vermont on this topic. I believe this direction fits well with re-imagining narrative practices. I am not sure about questions for the group but here are a few questions I constantly ask myself (there are many others too!):

In what ways can mindfulness be depicted and what effects could a particular depiction have on the therapist, the person attending and the aspiration for collaborative practices?

How can mindfulness support narrative approaches and narrative support mindful attention?

In what ways can mindfulness contribute to understanding the effects of problems, to recognising various shifts in positioning, and to the development of beneficial and preferred storylines?

How can various discourses and applications of mindfulness and narrative be connected while staying committed to the ethico-politics of practice?

Hope this is helpful?
Best wishes
Ian

By: Linda Moxley-Haegert

Linda Moxley-Haegert — Wed, 06 Sep 2017 16:51:43 +0000

We have thought that it would be helpful to bring notice to this video to the Facebook Narrative Practice Group. We have been discussing in our leadership group the idea of re-imagining narrative practices as David Epston has been encouraging and thought of this as an example. Are there any particular questions you think could be useful to give to the group regarding your integration practice of mindfulness and narrative therapy. Thanks for your presentation.