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Review of The Heart's Narrative & Talk That SingsBook Review by Jane Speedy.
Published in the British Journal For Psychotherapy Integration, UK. 'The Heart's Narrative: Therapy and navigating life's contradictions' (2000) and 'Talk That Sings: Therapy in a new linguistic key' (2004) By Johnella Bird |
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Therapists in Continuous Education: a collaborative approachThis book recounts the learning processes and experiences of five family therapist colleagues from the Trondheim Family Therapy Center in Norway in learning to use challenging new conversational practices in their work with couples. These therapists undertook their learning together, adapting John Heron's Co-operative Inquiry to also make sense of the learning process itself. Through reading and viewing videotaped demonstrations, through team discussion and practice, from personal reflections, and through feedback from clients, these therapists learned to use Johnella Bird's relational language-making approach.
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Relational consciousness and the conversational practices of Johnella Birdby Dr Ottar Ness and Tom Strong
Published in Journal of Family Therapy (2014) 36:81-802 In this article we review Johnella Bird’s notion of relational consciousness, explaining it in terms of an ethnomethodologically informed social constructionist theory. We extend this notion to her conversational practices in therapy, examining first her general practice (and focus) on relational language-making. We then turn to describing three of her specific conversational practices – negotiating conflicting discursive positions between partners in a relationship, exploring a partner’s experience of hurt in a relationship, following unspoken assumptions, and negotiating power relations. We conclude by relating relational consciousness to an attendance to language as it is used by clients and by therapists in dialogue with clients. |
Dr Lesley Porter
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Crafting Practice in Trauma Therapyby Dr Lesley A Porter
A thesis submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy of the University of New England, 2012 This study utilised narrative inquiry to explore trauma therapists’ engagement with poetic, sacred, spiritual and unnamed moments in therapy. The research focuses on therapists, their therapeutic relationships and the ways they make their therapy practice and their practice ethics through the making and doing of their therapy. The thesis presents a poetic conceptual frame for the analysis of therapist’s experiences of making (poiésis) and the generative discoveries produced within their therapeutic relationships. |