Vancouver School For Narrative Therapy VSNT
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“The Irish are not embarrassed about death.” - Dinner table conversation, Castletownbere, West Cork, Ireland, May 13, 2022 Given the...
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Vancouver School For Narrative Therapy VSNT
- Mar 20
- 11 min
Kindness of Strangers, The Body Enters Advanced Training, Bergen Norway Narrative Therapy conference
The Rose That Grew From Concrete Did you hear about the rose that grew from a crack in the concrete? Proving nature's law is wrong it...
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Vancouver School For Narrative Therapy VSNT
- Dec 8, 2021
- 20 min
A Faculty Transcript, Are We Multi-Storied? 2021 Hellos and Goodbyes
The Seine in Flood at Vetheuil, Claude Monet, 1881 Hello Everyone . . . Hoping all remains interesting and healthy where you are. Today’s...
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Vancouver School For Narrative Therapy VSNT
- Oct 24, 2021
- 8 min
Alternative Historians, Hard Won Optimism, 3rd Nordic Narrative Therapy Conference
I do not see how anyone can go very far . . . who is not ready to risk complete failure. - T. S. Eliot It would be fair to say I’m not at...
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Vancouver School For Narrative Therapy VSNT
- Aug 17, 2021
- 19 min
Relational Supervision, Poet Leadings, Transcripts, Reshuffling, Anorexia Makes It's Move
Girl Reading, Harold Knight, 1932, Harris Museum & Art Gallery Photographs that compel us never overpower or coerce; they attract us...
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Vancouver School For Narrative Therapy VSNT
- Jul 4, 2021
- 8 min
Documenting Stories, Indigenous Children, Summer Sweating
Children Swimming, Ivy Smith, 2000 Source: www.ivysmith.co.uk Hello Everyone: Vancouver, British Columbia recently found itself living...
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Vancouver School For Narrative Therapy VSNT
- Mar 25, 2021
- 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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Vancouver School For Narrative Therapy VSNT
- Feb 12, 2021
- 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, 2021
- 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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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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Vancouver School For Narrative Therapy VSNT
- Oct 12, 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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Vancouver School For Narrative Therapy VSNT
- Oct 12, 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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Vancouver School For Narrative Therapy VSNT
- Oct 12, 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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Vancouver School For Narrative Therapy VSNT
- Oct 12, 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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Vancouver School For Narrative Therapy VSNT
- Oct 12, 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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Vancouver School For Narrative Therapy VSNT
- Oct 12, 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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