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Springing Forward, Relationship Ecologies and New Advanced Course Line-up

Vancouver School For Narrative Therapy VSNT

Mar 26
17 min

Springing Forward, Relationship Ecologies and New Advanced Course Line-up

Conor O'Leary, Irish Photgrapher, from series 'An Island Through a Fence.' Hello Everyone: Welcome back. Warm wishes to all of you - from...

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Working Class Families, Free Therapy & Narrative Values

Vancouver School For Narrative Therapy VSNT

Feb 12
6 min

Working Class Families, Free Therapy & Narrative Values

SCAMPI, Wellington, New Zealand Hello Everyone: Hoping all is going well and you’re finding all sorts of ways to keep relational living,...

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Vancouver School For Narrative Therapy VSNT

Jan 7
7 min

As the World Spins

Hello Everyone: As you already know, the year of 2020 all happened. Way back when in March the world did not actually stop – it just felt...

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Flirtations, Not Knowing and Couple Therapy

Vancouver School For Narrative Therapy VSNT

Dec 4, 2020
12 min

Flirtations, Not Knowing and Couple Therapy

“Doubt is an uncomfortable condition, but certainty is a ridiculous one.” - Voltaire Edvard Munch, Melancholy, 1891 Hello Everyone, We...

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Lockdown Drift, Teaching Across the Skies, and Things that Might Possibly Break your Heart

Vancouver School For Narrative Therapy VSNT

Oct 13, 2020
15 min

Lockdown Drift, Teaching Across the Skies, and Things that Might Possibly Break your Heart

The task is clear: to create a culture of caretaking in which no one and nowhere is thrown away, in which the inherent value of people...

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(August 2020) Bad Manners, High Vanity and an Ecology of Therapeutic Receiving Contexts

Vancouver School For Narrative Therapy VSNT

Oct 13, 2020
12 min

(August 2020) Bad Manners, High Vanity and an Ecology of Therapeutic Receiving Contexts

Finding beauty in a broken world is creating beauty in the world we find. – Terry Tempest Williams UMMERTIME BLUES Since COVID-19 became...

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(July 2020) Protest, Story Telling Rights, and Crossing the Rubicon

Vancouver School For Narrative Therapy VSNT

Oct 13, 2020
10 min

(July 2020) Protest, Story Telling Rights, and Crossing the Rubicon

The real political task in a society such as ours is to criticize the workings of institutions that appear to be both neutral and...

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(June 2020) Dancing on the High-wire, Empathy, and Michelangelo

Vancouver School For Narrative Therapy VSNT

Oct 13, 2020
9 min

(June 2020) Dancing on the High-wire, Empathy, and Michelangelo

The one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it. – Oscar Wilde As many of you know, I am the father of twin daughters. A week ago, the...

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(April 2020) 8 Habits of Highly Effective Problems, Foucault and a personal reckoning.

Vancouver School For Narrative Therapy VSNT

Oct 13, 2020
16 min

(April 2020) 8 Habits of Highly Effective Problems, Foucault and a personal reckoning.

The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice there is little we can do to change...

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(March 2020) Desire, the Unknowns of Narrative Practice, and a Coronavirus Poem

Vancouver School For Narrative Therapy VSNT

Oct 13, 2020
10 min

(March 2020) Desire, the Unknowns of Narrative Practice, and a Coronavirus Poem

During this time of the coronavirus pandemic, we must stand together while standing apart. (Irish politician, 03/2020) I’m often asked...

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