09 Feb

DOUBLE LISTENING REAUTHORISING NARRATIVE PRACTICE TRAINING 29 APRIL 2022

DOUBLE LISTENING Narrative Reauthoring Practice 29 April 2022The One-day workshop will focus on DOUBE LISTENING narrative re-authoring practice.  It is a practice skill opening up spaces to explore territories that exist side-by-side to problematic experiences.DOUBLE LISTENING is more than active listening. According to David Pare (2013), double listening is “the practice of staying open to hopeful possibilities always on the other side of the struggle” and listening for words that may be “a hinge around which two stories can swing”.  Monk and Winslade (2013).DOUBLE LISTENING is a particular way of listening with our eyes, our senses, our ears, our imagination and curiosity.DOUBLE LISTENING practice skill training will be a step-by-step experiential teaching and learning ways to listen, and what to listen for in the process of co-creating double storylines running parallel in client/people’s lives.DOUBLE LISTENING practice skill may be applied in therapeutic conversations in clinical and non-clinical settings.  The one-day workshop...

21 Jun

DOUBLE LISTENING NARRATIVE RE-AUTHORING PRACTICE

DOUBLE LISTENING - NARRATIVE RE-AUTHORING PRACTICEFriday 15 October 2021The One-day workshop will focus on DOUBE LISTENING narrative re-authoring practice.  It is a practice skill opening up spaces to explore territories that exist side-by-side to problematic experiences.DOUBLE LISTENING is more than active listening.  According to David Pare (2013), double listening is“the practice of staying open to hopeful possibilities always on the other side of the struggle” and listening for words that may be “a hinge around which two stories can swing”.  Monk and Winslade (2013).DOUBLE LISTENING is a particular way of listening with our eyes, our senses, our ears, our imagination and curiosity.DOUBLE LISTENING practice skill training will be a step-by-step experiential teaching and leaning ways to listen, and what to listen for in the process of co-creating double storylines running parallel in client/people’s lives.DOUBLE LISTENING practice skill may be applied in therapeutic conversations in clinical and non clinical settings.  The one-day...

31 Jan

Talking about Abuse

- (Reference from an Interview with Michael White 1995 'Naming Abuse and Breaking from its Effects') "…How amazingly great it can feel to gently and lovingly touch the skin of or otherwise get close to someone who wants to be close with us…[however], there continues to be so much of these other kinds of damaging touching. So much violent, violating and insensitive touching…" "…One of the scariest effects of Abuse can have is to blur our vision of what good contact looks like. The effects on discernment, the way experiences of Abuse can leave behind a legacy of not noticing abuse may be the most insidious of this problem's effects. When we lose touch with our ways of telling apart different kinds of experiences, we are extremely vulnerable "…There is lots of evidence to support the idea that this vulnerability is born of difficulties in the area of discernment - difficulties in distinguishing abuse from...

31 Jan

Relationship with Self and Others

BLOCKS that get in the way of preferred relationships with SELF and Others Some examples: INJURIOUS (Harmful) CONVERSATIONAL HABITS self-surveillance/audience A step towards undoing these debilitating internalised conversations is to begin NOTICING THE TALK, CONTENT, and EFFECTS OF THE DIALOGUE In order for a problem to survive and be very successful it must recruit a dialogic (conversational) audience of support. The habit of self-surveillance/audience make us believe that we are psychic - that we know another's -ve thoughts about us (I think that you think that I think that you think that I am a bad person) without actually speaking to them. illegitimacy Experiences of less-than-worthy citizens, parents, children, workers, partners etc Persons who feel illegitimate, unworthy, and fraudulent: The child who has been violated sexually, the employee who feels left out; the gay person who is forced to hide his/her identity; new mother who sees herself as selfish; the shy person who is afraid to speak, The habit...

Child & Family Therapy Counselling Service is an independent counselling and family therapy centre operated by Angela Ranallo, a qualified Clinical Social Worker, Child & Family Therapist and accredited Mental Health Social Worker specialising in Children and Young People Counselling - Parenting Support and Family Counselling - Relationships & Couples Counselling - Adult Mental Health - Trauma Therapy and Clinical Supervision and Training.