Autoethnographic narratives are ways of normalising and giving meaning to the human experience, allowing the reader to resonate with what is relevant and important in the writer’s experience, while generating new insights and knowledge we would not otherwise access. Using my doctoral journey of striking moments and the shifts created in me, in this paper, I argue that human experiences must be valued as equal to diagnostic and objectivist approaches in the pursuit of knowledge. By juxtaposing my autoethnographic narrative with the Theory of Autopoiesis, acting as both a framework of analysis and metaphor, I offer my emotional process as a political representation, a questioning of power paradigms and a source of knowledge and support to other researchers. The rendering of my journey, from working in and believing in organisations governed by a business logic and rational economic theory, to daring to challenge such discursive powers, shows what is possible through conscious noticing, embracing, and transformation. I argue that by combining scientific theories with analytical autoethnography, we can bridge sciences and communities of practice, and open doors for the application of autoethnography in new professional domains, thereby significantly contributing to an adjustment of research practices and to what counts as knowledge.
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{"title":"A Letter from the Future to Ourselves","authors":"Psychotherapists and Counsellors of 2026","doi":"10.28963/7.1.8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.28963/7.1.8","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":422770,"journal":{"name":"Murmurations: Journal of Transformative Systemic Practice","volume":"61 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139797362","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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This article takes a slight detour from this edition's theme – decolonising systemic practice – by suggesting that systemic practices can be used to decolonise dominant discourses, such as Western-centric management and its associated form of knowledge production. My views are voiced from an insider–outsider, intersectional positionality – a person from the Global South now working as a Human Resource Practitioner in the United Kingdom. The article posits management and human resource management as Western in their cultural roots and neoliberal in their economic worldview and proposes that underlying assumptions embedded in these discourses have resulted in epistemic othering and subjugation on an international scale. It suggests that decolonising management could begin with making the paradigm shift from a diagnostic to a dialogical understanding of organising human systems. It holds up this epiphany as an example of embracing indigenous knowledge and practices. The article also suggests, through a case story, the use of a systemic practice known as Social GRACEs (Burnham, 1992), that systemic reflexivity and the re-constitution of language games are paramount for making such a paradigmatic shift to decolonised practice.
{"title":"Decolonising Management. Reflections of a Human Resource Practitioner from the Global South","authors":"Patrick Goh","doi":"10.28963/6.2.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.28963/6.2.3","url":null,"abstract":"This article takes a slight detour from this edition's theme – decolonising systemic practice – by suggesting that systemic practices can be used to decolonise dominant discourses, such as Western-centric management and its associated form of knowledge production. My views are voiced from an insider–outsider, intersectional positionality – a person from the Global South now working as a Human Resource Practitioner in the United Kingdom.\u0000The article posits management and human resource management as Western in their cultural roots and neoliberal in their economic worldview and proposes that underlying assumptions embedded in these discourses have resulted in epistemic othering and subjugation on an international scale. It suggests that decolonising management could begin with making the paradigm shift from a diagnostic to a dialogical understanding of organising human systems. It holds up this epiphany as an example of embracing indigenous knowledge and practices. The article also suggests, through a case story, the use of a systemic practice known as Social GRACEs (Burnham, 1992), that systemic reflexivity and the re-constitution of language games are paramount for making such a paradigmatic shift to decolonised practice.","PeriodicalId":422770,"journal":{"name":"Murmurations: Journal of Transformative Systemic Practice","volume":"45 3 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138973138","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
In this paper, we position ourselves as Indigenous educators, involved in the creative healing arts, through filmmaking and community-based therapy. We discuss through an ongoing conversation our decolonising approaches to teaching and education, with a view to upholding student well-being and creating ‘communities of care’ in the classroom. This approach includes integrating the natural world into the process, encompassing Indigenous worldview, values and relationality with Mother Earth.
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This paper offers a first-person, post-positivist qualitative study of what race means to me as an individual, professional and systemic practitioner attempting to inhabit decoloniality. I explore how systemic teaching methods fail to open up spaces for exploring cultures during training which leaves trainees, tutors and clients vulnerable to the cultural dominance of western societies and to the marginalisation of Other cultures. I present the conceptual terminology of i) “cultural foregrounding” and ii) “intra-face” to illustrate political and societal discourses about Otherness (colonised and marginalised) in a posthuman and, hopefully, a decolonised world. I show and discuss my internal struggles, cultural reflexivity in writing about my experiences as a colonised Other. This writing is part of a process of decolonising my many selves. On this journey, I travel with a range of scholars who connect with my research and enrich my writing journey. Three sections make up the paper. The first section examines the language of race as a social and political construct. In the second section, I introduce and discuss cultural foregrounding and intra-face. In the final section, I discuss praxis and a working definition of culture. In each of these sections I thread connections to practice.
{"title":"Disrupting colonialist language to find knowing in praxis. Cultural Foregrounding and Intra-face.","authors":"Joanne Hipplewith","doi":"10.28963/6.2.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.28963/6.2.1","url":null,"abstract":"This paper offers a first-person, post-positivist qualitative study of what race means to me as an individual, professional and systemic practitioner attempting to inhabit decoloniality. I explore how systemic teaching methods fail to open up spaces for exploring cultures during training which leaves trainees, tutors and clients vulnerable to the cultural dominance of western societies and to the marginalisation of Other cultures. I present the conceptual terminology of i) “cultural foregrounding” and ii) “intra-face” to illustrate political and societal discourses about Otherness (colonised and marginalised) in a posthuman and, hopefully, a decolonised world. I show and discuss my internal struggles, cultural reflexivity in writing about my experiences as a colonised Other. This writing is part of a process of decolonising my many selves. On this journey, I travel with a range of scholars who connect with my research and enrich my writing journey.\u0000Three sections make up the paper. The first section examines the language of race as a social and political construct. In the second section, I introduce and discuss cultural foregrounding and intra-face. In the final section, I discuss praxis and a working definition of culture. In each of these sections I thread connections to practice.","PeriodicalId":422770,"journal":{"name":"Murmurations: Journal of Transformative Systemic Practice","volume":"19 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139002801","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The theme of this edition on decolonisation inspired me to remember, rethink and reclaim my relationship with a philosophical and political idea and movement: anarchy and anarchism. Despite having tried to distance myself from this label in the past due to its negative connotations, I now move towards it and embrace it. Finding connections in my own history, I roughly outline anarchism’s history and some of the diversity of the ideas labelled as anarchist. I will explore how these ideas, particularly the concepts of ontological and political anarchism and the idea of assemblages of power, directly influence my therapy and leadership coaching practice. I believe that some ideas within anarchism align well with systemic theory and can be an inspiring companion in our processes of decolonising our practice.
{"title":"Towards anarchy?","authors":"Mark Huhnen","doi":"10.28963/6.2.5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.28963/6.2.5","url":null,"abstract":"The theme of this edition on decolonisation inspired me to remember, rethink and reclaim my relationship with a philosophical and political idea and movement: anarchy and anarchism. Despite having tried to distance myself from this label in the past due to its negative connotations, I now move towards it and embrace it. Finding connections in my own history, I roughly outline anarchism’s history and some of the diversity of the ideas labelled as anarchist. I will explore how these ideas, particularly the concepts of ontological and political anarchism and the idea of assemblages of power, directly influence my therapy and leadership coaching practice. I believe that some ideas within anarchism align well with systemic theory and can be an inspiring companion in our processes of decolonising our practice.","PeriodicalId":422770,"journal":{"name":"Murmurations: Journal of Transformative Systemic Practice","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138972956","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Reflexivity guides our everyday relational ethics but always takes place within a cultural loop. We find what we recognise. Reflexive practice is a commitment to ethical practice but it isn’t a safety net which stops us from reproducing the same dominant discourses of who or what counts and structures which maintain inequalities. In this paper I explore the question, “How can systemic therapists develop reflexivity in their practice to intentionally change and connect personal struggle with wider systems which reproduce power and inequality?” I describe some differences between what I call Reflexivity 1, Reflexivity 2 and Reflexivity 3 to show the impact of ideology on theory, method and what we (think we) notice and act on. I share some reflexive questions, stories from practice and research and examples of wider systemic activism. These working ideas are a response to concerns that the clinic and the organisations which host them are oppressive, colonial structures which limit the progress members of the public can make within them and restrict opportunities to develop practice-theory which takes into account and challenges social, historic and material inequalites and injustice.
{"title":"Reflexivity 3. Breaking out the Reflexive Loop to Decolonise Practice","authors":"Gail Simon","doi":"10.28963/6.2.4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.28963/6.2.4","url":null,"abstract":"Reflexivity guides our everyday relational ethics but always takes place within a cultural loop. We find what we recognise. Reflexive practice is a commitment to ethical practice but it isn’t a safety net which stops us from reproducing the same dominant discourses of who or what counts and structures which maintain inequalities.\u0000In this paper I explore the question, “How can systemic therapists develop reflexivity in their practice to intentionally change and connect personal struggle with wider systems which reproduce power and inequality?” I describe some differences between what I call Reflexivity 1, Reflexivity 2 and Reflexivity 3 to show the impact of ideology on theory, method and what we (think we) notice and act on.\u0000I share some reflexive questions, stories from practice and research and examples of wider systemic activism. These working ideas are a response to concerns that the clinic and the organisations which host them are oppressive, colonial structures which limit the progress members of the public can make within them and restrict opportunities to develop practice-theory which takes into account and challenges social, historic and material inequalites and injustice.","PeriodicalId":422770,"journal":{"name":"Murmurations: Journal of Transformative Systemic Practice","volume":"167 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139002352","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Exegesis Like so many in my community, and around the world, I experienced COVID-19 – as a community member, as a student, and as someone who contacted the virus. While navigating the illness was difficult, for me the aftermath, and the arrival of insomnia as a symptom of Long COVID-19 is where my story begins. I was a Master of Social Work student, integrating my learnings into practice to become a therapist. I had to learn how to show up authentically and with competence, while having not slept, sometimes for days. Walking this line so often invited the question: How can I show up fully, when I am so empty? Beyond being able to show up, how could I hold space for all my family’s stories of COVID-19, while simultaneously having such a predominant story myself. Now, a year later, this poem is my journey of building an ongoing relationship with insomnia and my COVID-19 story so that I may hold my family’s stories as a family therapist – and for both to be tended to with gentleness and love.
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