Some context I brought these words together in 2022 following a weekend I spent with my younger sister, Annemarie, and my younger brother, James, who came to visit me together, something that hadn’t happened before and I was left humbled by their visit. The conversations we created as the remaining elder generation of our family were moving and it was the first time such conversations took place. The context for this coming together was triggered by a chemotherapy treatment phase following my recent diagnosis of cancer. This weekend became an important event in our lives thus far, and as I was exploring poetry as an antidote to patient-hood, as well as making my voice find its relationship to myself inhabited by cancer, I try to capture our conversations and share them with you here. My sister and brother have given me permission to publish this. I honour them as “us” and our experiences we have shared.
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Practitioners undertaking research into their professional practice and those involved in evaluating it often struggle to identify distinctions between the professional practice under investigation and the research practice used to study it. This paper identifies ten areas of distinction between professional practice and research practice. It provides some example questions under each of the ten categories. These questions can be adapted for practitioner researchers as both a preparation exercise and to develop documentation to submit with research proposals or research ethics applications. The paper starts with a definition of practitioner research and then gives a brief history of practitioner research followed by reflections on the relationship between academic and professional knowledge and decolonising practitioner research. The material in this paper was originally delivered at the 7th International Conference on Professional and Practice Based Doctorates, UKCGE, 25th February 2021 (Simon, 2021).
{"title":"Distinctions in Practitioner Research between Professional Practice and Research Practice","authors":"G. Simon","doi":"10.28963/5.2.8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.28963/5.2.8","url":null,"abstract":"Practitioners undertaking research into their professional practice and those involved in evaluating it often struggle to identify distinctions between the professional practice under investigation and the research practice used to study it. This paper identifies ten areas of distinction between professional practice and research practice. It provides some example questions under each of the ten categories. These questions can be adapted for practitioner researchers as both a preparation exercise and to develop documentation to submit with research proposals or research ethics applications. The paper starts with a definition of practitioner research and then gives a brief history of practitioner research followed by reflections on the relationship between academic and professional knowledge and decolonising practitioner research.\u0000The material in this paper was originally delivered at the 7th International Conference on Professional and Practice Based Doctorates, UKCGE, 25th February 2021 (Simon, 2021).","PeriodicalId":422770,"journal":{"name":"Murmurations: Journal of Transformative Systemic Practice","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125993945","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}
L. Edwards, A. Breden, Chiara Santin, Justine Van Lawick, Erik Van der Elst
I hosted a workshop on the subject of reclaiming the relationship with bodily knowing through movement in nature at Brathay Hall, Ambleside in May 2022. The idea was to create a space for therapists to explore and deconstruct binaries that connect and separate us and nature. While we are nature, I am referring to the human/nature binary created by us humans.
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In 2020, I started to write a PhD proposal. My interest is, how art-based communities can foster social justice for people with intellectual disability/ learning disability. As an art therapist and as a graduate student, I wondered how visual art could be integrated in my research project, if seen from different perspectives. Underlying to the idea of appreciating art in my research project is literature that indicates that art-based approaches are helpful to explore, understand, and transform complex social issues (McNiff, 1998; Barone and Eisner, 2012; Savin-Baden and Wimpenny, 2014; Leavy, 2015; Goopy and Kassan, 2019), and that opportunities of art in research projects are expanding, inviting a clearer, embodied praxis (Bresler, 2006, 2018; Visse, Hansen and Leget, 2019). In this story, firstly, I share my thoughts about social justice from a care ethics perspective, reflecting on the ideas of moral philosopher Margaret Urban Walker (1998, 2007). To her, social justice is a practice of responsibility in relationships. Secondly, I reflect on visual art as a medium in my art therapy practice and my PhD project inspired by German artist Joseph Beuys, and art therapist and researcher Shaun McNiff. To them, art is ahead of-, and challenging societal conventions, making way to new -so called- social sculptures. This story is a quest of visual art being a medium to connect and built relationships.
2020年，我开始写博士论文。我的兴趣是，以艺术为基础的社区如何促进智障/学习障碍人士的社会正义。作为一名艺术治疗师和研究生，我想知道如果从不同的角度来看，视觉艺术如何融入我的研究项目。在我的研究项目中，欣赏艺术的想法背后是文献，这些文献表明，基于艺术的方法有助于探索、理解和转变复杂的社会问题(McNiff, 1998;Barone and Eisner, 2012;Savin-Baden and Wimpenny, 2014;多叶的,2015;Goopy and Kassan, 2019)，并且艺术在研究项目中的机会正在扩大，邀请更清晰，具体化的实践(Bresler, 2006, 2018;Visse, Hansen and Leget, 2019)。在这个故事中，首先，我从关怀伦理的角度分享我对社会正义的看法，反思道德哲学家玛格丽特·厄本·沃克(Margaret Urban Walker, 1998,2007)的观点。对她来说，社会公正是关系中责任的实践。其次，在我的艺术治疗实践和我的博士项目中，我反思视觉艺术作为一种媒介，灵感来自德国艺术家约瑟夫·博伊斯和艺术治疗师兼研究员肖恩·麦克尼夫。对他们来说，艺术是超前的，是对社会习俗的挑战，为新的所谓的社会雕塑让路。这个故事是对视觉艺术作为连接和建立关系的媒介的探索。
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Recognising the historical development of systemic theory and practice from its radical roots, I reflect on my positioning as a systemic therapist within the National Health Service (NHS) in the UK in 2020, and describe my journey from family therapist into community based systemic activism which seeks to directly address structural inequality. The concept and practice of Poverty Truth Commissions are examined through a systemic lens, and I outline the design influences in its set up locally, mapping those against historic and current systemic thinking. In the process, I examine my own relationship to money, status, voicing and work.
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In this paper we write about our collaboration setting up and running expressive writing groups, which became workshops, in a Child and Adolescent Mental Health service in a National Health Service in London. Thivvia was a psychiatry core trainee on placement and Dawn the lone family therapist. The idea for the group arose during lockdown when we were in the office, and in a chance corridor conversation, we discovered we shared a love of journalling and poetry. Dawn related this to narrative therapy ideas, which resonated well with Thivvia’s cultural storytelling traditions. Creativity sparked between us and together we were able to navigate the power structures in the service and evidence base discourses to get management permission to do this. Thivvia drew on her knowledge of poetry to create prompts to facilitate others to write creatively as a form of self-expression. In this writing, We write in a poetic style congruent with the poetic expression being developed in the workshops. We practice and write with decolonising intent, differentiating our voices, so that our separate nuances can come through as a resistance to dominant white western academic co-writing practices of seeking consensus, which can drown out alternative ways of knowing. Dawn reflects on the decolonial stance she actively adopts to support Thivvia’s instinctive storytelling and ways of knowing that had been suppressed by her medical training. We reflect on the experience throughout, include some of the poems we created and conclude by encouraging others to be bold in bringing in creative practices, offering suggestions of prompts to use to encourage expressive writing.
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This interview took place 15 years ago on 26th January, 2007 when Peter Lang was visiting Smaro Markou’s centre in Athens. It was originally published in Metalogos, The Greek Systemic Therapy Journal and we thank Fany Triantafillou and team for their generosity in allowing us to re-produce it here. The interview has a new introduction and conclusion by Smaro Markou in which she offers some context and recent reflections on this meeting and on Peter’s contribution to the systemic field.
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This paper is an adaption of a keynote address delivered at the Association of Family Therapy Conference 2022. Gender attracts our attention. The reference points for this living and lived concept are changing as people inhabit new truths and reclaim ancient wisdoms of gender. Therapists face the challenge of holding multiple and heart-felt truths about what gender can be in the context of increasingly polarised views of what gender should be. In this paper, I examine how binary gender, created by pathologising colonial practices restricts the psychotherapeutic imagination of what gender and sexuality can be. I encourage practitioners to leave what Hare-Mustin calls the mirrored room (1994) in which dominant socio-political discourses limit possibilities. I discuss how installing a mirror ball, a symbol of queer joy and celebration, in practice spaces would create a fracturing and queering of discourses reflecting wider lived experiences, communities and language practices.
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How can I tell a personal story which finally feels ready to emerge and be written about? Can the composing of a reflexive, autoethnographic account help me to better understand my own experience? In this article I describe how I feel impelled to listen to my embodied feelings and to pause in my research writing to allow this need to be met. Responding to those urgings leads me to write a poem, The Kite, which becomes the reflexive core of my writing. Sharing the poem with my daughter results in challenging conversations which cause me to reflect on my motivation and to doubt whether I can consider writing this article. I explore my ethical position as a mother and a gran who needs to tell her story before continuing with her research study while remaining constantly aware of those things which are not mine to tell. I make use of reflexive, rhetorical questions to consider the dilemmas involved in obtaining consent and respecting the wishes of all those involved. I develop in the process a greater awareness of the ongoing effects of the serious illness of a child on a family, and I reflect on the many hidden voices of those undergoing the same experience. The creative telling of my story, incorporating both poetic writing and reconstructed dialogue, changes and deepens my understanding of what it means to write reflexively. And leads to an unexpected and deeply moving creative response.
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