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Welcome to Narrative Connections: an international network of narrative practitioners.
This network assists narrative therapists to:
seek out others who are interested in
narrative ideas in their own area
build a sense of community of practice
find narrative supervision and teaching
options in their own area, and
seek out other people to refer to in
other parts of the country and/or world.
As you can see we already have
members from Australia, Austria, Bangladesh, Brazil, Canada, China,
Denmark, France, Greece, Ireland, Israel, Japan, Mexico,
Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Russia, South Africa, Trinidad and
Tobago, the UK,
Italy,
Lithuania, Romania, Sweden, Switzerland, Zambia and the USA!
And we are consistently hearing from
therapists from other places who are making links through this
website.
The rationale for Narrative Connections
Each day we receive emails, phone calls or
faxes from narrative practitioners from different parts of Australia and around
the world who are hoping to make connections with other people who are
interested in narrative ideas in their city or state, or are seeking information
about a narrative therapist elsewhere to whom they can refer someone they know.
For many years we did the best we could with such requests in an informal
manner but at times the frequency of requests were a bit overwhelming so
it seemed time to create a new process to link people together. This
is what Narrative Connections is all about. Many years ago, when the Dulwich
Centre Newsletter first began, one of its most popular columns was the section
in which therapists wrote a small description of themselves and their workplace
and indicated whether they would be happy to receive visitors, referrals, etc.
Through this column, therapists began to visit each other, make links in their
own neighbourhoods and cities, and when travelling overseas could link up with
people with a common interest. This proved enormously popular and contributed
significantly to building a community of ideas.
With new technology we have now created a
similar system. We are inviting practitioners (you!) from different parts of the
world to send to us a short description of your links to narrative ideas and
your hopes in connecting with other practitioners, a long with information as to
whether you are willing to meet with visitors who may be passing through your
area, whether you can take referrals, and whether you offer teaching or
supervision. You can also send us a photograph if you choose and we will place
all this information on this Narrative Connections section of our web site which
anyone can then access. We believe that over time a rich tapestry of
practitioners will be created.
TO BECOME A MEMBER:
We hope you will become a member of Narrative
Connections and assist in building links between those interested in narrative
ideas in different parts of the world.
To become a member please email us:
newsandconnections@dulwichcentre.com.au
University
Courses Information
Please also see the information we
have included about university programs that involve
narrative therapy approaches. This information will be updated as we
receive further information.
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