Barriyay seeks to deconstruct the problematic story and demonstrate how the story was constructed in the first place so it can be seen that an event is often more than what we are told, or what we tell ourselves.
They come to me with what they believe is a limited story and my notion that someone, somewhere along the line may have been mistaken, fuels a desire within them, if sometimes only a slight raise of the eyebrow, to know more. And not just more about themselves or their past or their people but also this process called Narrative Practice. This strength, this tool that flattens the space, makes everything equal again and removes distortion so all of the story can be seen.
THEY TEND TO CONSTRUCT PHOTOGRAPHIC IMAGERY AND PRACTICE AS A SET OF AUTHORITATIVE AND ESSENTIALISING TRUTHS THAT SIMPLISTICALLY REPRESENT INDIGENOUS PEOPLE THROUGH THE WEST'S DISCURSIVE STRATEGIES OF POWER AND KNOWLEDGE submission information for the Dulwich Centre says * STRETCHING OUR THINKING AND INVITING NEW CONVERSATIONS * CARE WITH THE POLITICS OF REPRESENTATION: WE WANT PEOPLE TO HAVE ACHANCE TO REPRESENT THEIR OWN EXPERIENCE IN THE WRITINGS RATHER THAN AUITHORS REPRESENTING THE EXPREIENCES OF OTHERS. AT THE VERY LEAST THIS MEANS THAT WHEREVER APPROPRIATE, ANYONE REFERRED TO IN THE WRITINGS HAS A CHANCE TO READ AN DREFLECT ON THE WAYS IN WHICH THEY HAVE BEEN REPRESENTTED. WE ALSO AIM TO TAKE CARE WITH THE POLITICS OF REPRESENTATION IN RELATION TO ISSUES OF GENDER, CLASS, RACE, SEXUAL PREFERENCE, CULTURE, ABILITY AND AGE. Responding to power issues 519 However, seminal authors and researchers in multicultural psychology, Sue et al. (1998), state that ‘‘many multi-cultural psychologists have begun to believe that the focus on empirical reality is overly restrictive, narrow, and represents only one world view’’ (p. 4). I 519 Social constructionist theory also recognizes the role of language in the construction of meaning, Reread 111 on counter documents 518 to deconstruct dominant problem stories, to incorporate previously neglected stories into the overall life story of the person . while this method aims to set aside the initial deconstruction to incorporate the previously neglected stories of the researched. McLeod 2011: QUALITATIVE RESEARCH IS WELL PLACED TO CAPTURE THE MULTILAYERED COMPLEXITY OF MEANING THAT IS CONVEYED DURING STORYTELLING EPISODES All information is given and received within a place of personal understanding regardless of the primary, secondary, empirical, ??? method utilised. Researchers can still reach different conclusions because the decisions made about methodology are made by us, flawed humans (APS, 2018). I think the best of the best practice that can be expected in Research is to be aware of our own agenda, and continually check to see how it may be limiting the research journey. be aware of our own agenda, and continually check to see how it may be limiting the research journey. - focused on single message - graphs and images tell story - sequence is ordered and obvious research knowledge is that, potentially at least, it’s the sort of accumulation of wisdom from lots of people who, you know, tried to understand things and tried to get evidence about things so there’s these different sources of knowledge. For my research to be of benefit, there needs to be agreement on what the problem is? **The relationship between research and practice in counselling and psychotherapy: points of contact and direction of travel** window 4 is the acceptance of the new possibility - Explain why your work is important - set the context and pre-empt the question "So what?"Describe the objective(s) of your work. What are you adding to current knowledge?Briefly explain the methods. Unless the research is about methods, this should not be a major focus of your abstract (or your poster).Succinctly state results, conclusions, and recommendations. This is what most people want to know. Do not say "We present the results of our study and recommendations for action" - tell them what you found and recommend! **some well known info from decades ago that we can apply the windows to, to make it really obvious** - **demonstrating knowledge of relevant practice research literature/resources/sources of knowledge (including but not limited to the reading list and the field of narrative practice research)** - **describe a practice research methodology that could be used to research and further contribute to this practice innovation (i.e. the presentation) - poster link to and acknowledge relevant practice research literature/resources/sources - discuss the implications of the research – how it will contribute to practice and the field of narrative therapy and community work? - discussed the preferred means to disseminate/publish the findings in creative ways that are congruent with the practice innovation BUSCH 245 OUTCOME EVALUATION Narrative therapy (White & Epston, 1990) is epistemologically based around social constructionist and post-structuralist concepts of language and power relations which (in)form client experiencing and what is real through knowledge. Starting with the assumption that realities are discursively produced, fluid and multiple, is to start from a different point of reference. This contrasts with positivist theories of knowledge, where experimentalism, measurement, and calculability are assumed legitimate ways of determining what counts as knowledge. reintroduce that POWER SHARING RELATIONSHIP (BUSCH 245) where CO-AUTHORING A COUNTER PLOT Like discourse analysis, there are no standardised procedures for applying narrative validation, but plausibility and coherence can be “appropriate criteria for comparative case studies” (Reissman, 1993, p. 69). Coherence criteria were set around three levels: global (goals the author is trying to accomplish), local (linguistic devices used to relate events to another), and themal (themes predominantly present in chunks of text) where interpretation is reinforced if the three levels of the text are understood (Agar & Hobbs, 1982; Reissman, 1993).
xxAS IT IS KNOWN It contains all those things that we have learned since the event. Things that can now be considered up against the original event" AS IT IS TOLD "At what window are we starting to build a preferred story of identity? Barriyay not only seeks to deconstruct the problematic story but also demonstrate how the story was constructed in the first place so it can be seen that an event than simply what we are told, or what we tell ourselves. Barriyay aims for more than the therapeutic ???, in understanding how a reality is constructed, Clients can then see how their enemy/abuser/etc constructed their reality, for example ... Why my Mother was ashamed when I fell pregnant ... Barriyay didn't directly provide the support for those challenges but the exploration put us both in a better place to find that support, now that the dominant story is different. Barriyay encourages people to view events from four different ""windows"" of time and being so all of a story can be seen" Barriyay is more than an aid to truth-telling, i see it as truth gathering, stepping from side to side to top to bottom, looking at all the avenues before deciding which one is the best for the client. There is no wrong avenue, there are lies or deception clients are encouraged to look into each of these windows to uncover as much of the story as possible by calling on the memories, the truths and the perceptions from different vantage points. In episode xxx of Mr Inbetween, our antihero Ray is reading Jack and the Beanstalk to his 8 year old daughter. At the end of the story, his daughter questions jack's motives and morals and Ray opens the book exclaiming he had missed the last page which reads .. the giant's family rang the police who caught jack and jailed him for murder and burglary. Ray says goodnight, goes out to his mate on the couch and says that jack was a .... looking from now and investigating what has happened since the event, against the dominant discourse, how has adulthood changes the way we view the event Point where person we are supporting makes conscious decision, intentional choice around meanings of new stories, acceptance of a new possibility, how story will be told going forward The Environment that held discourse: What people were saying, what society was saying, What was making people hold onto this idea of themselves, How was the dominant plot maintained to remember what was discussed - ponder in their own time To use that analogy with Barriyay would be … the person isn’t the problem, the problem is the current limited view of the story. what happened
xx"According to you, what caused ???? Are there any other causes that you think played a role? " AS I KNEW IT THEN & AS I KNOW IT NOW ... finding the contradictions** "YAAMAANDA YANAYB ARRIYAYGU(?B arriyay for short) is a practical tool that invites exploration of these versions. Informed by Narrative Practice, Standpoint Theory and Indigenous Knowledge methods, Barriyay seeks the political, social, and experiential constructions that influenced the giving, receiving and translating of original materials. Barriyay does this by building a collective trust where people lean on multiple senses, stories, histories and individual particularities to connect to and build upon collective traditions by prioritising in-place relations of research work and keeping active the social practices of kin that keeps knowledge what it is." "When engaging in Barriyay, people do not speak for their Ancestors but contribute alongside them making visible their social, material, and semantic configurations. This introductory workshop introduces four vantage points (or windows) of time and being which are then leaned on to unpack dominant discourses in several historically collected languge examples. Participants work together to negotiate alternative content, including different requirements for authorisation of, and continuation of stories." "Barriyay began as a narrative therapy based tool to support people revisiting historical and intergenerational trauma and is now being utilised as a research methodology in a PHD setting. Barriyay is not a specific Indigenous method but an idea developed by a Yuwaalaraay and Muruwari Australian for other Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples and Histories using traditional and modernised community methods of yarning and collaboration. More information on the tool and the research study can be found at https://www.hobajing.com.au/barriyayyaamanda/." "Yaamanda yanay barriyaygu? (Barriyay for short) invites participants to engage with historical language collections and explore what other understandings could have been possible at the time of translation. Working from multiple perspectives, Barriyay expands original colonised assumptions, giving way to new, possibly multiple, and more appropriate stories that both add to existing knowledge, and recognise separate Indigenous interpretations of historical research. Delivered by Yuwaalaraay and Muruwarri woman and Aboriginal Counsellor Jedison Wells, the workshop provides a practical experience in deconstructing historical documentation and collaborating with other peers on new possibilities." In 2017, the New South Wales Government enacted the Aboriginal Languages Act, proclaiming the right of its First Nations peoples to control the growth and nurturing of languages. But from what form are we now nurturing? While it is celebratory that our data warriors have made known the damage of colonised research and historical language publications, the availability of unsubstantiated findings continue to be delivered as truth. For us that lean on such knowledge to support language re-ignition, it has meant a pervasive ontological journey, regularly questioning whether we are carriers of a condensed colonised version of our people? What methods could be used to know more about a particular event or thing What other questions could I have asked Acmena to uncover more subplots What other questions could I have asked to know more about that era and time? What other sorts of questions do you think I could have asked? What preparations did you make before Sal's birth? What previous experience did you have in looking after children? What questions do you think we could ask here? what the total experience was actually about rather than just the one view What was it you were hoping for, seeking out? What was making people hold onto this idea of themselves What was the social meaning attached to being a pregnant teenager in the 60s - How was that ??? in language and communication - e.g. Single Mothers [as opposed to a single father] What we got, was something truly solid, Acmena's chosen story of strength and persistence .. tedra What were some of the things you were thinking about at the time that made it easier? WHAT WILL BE IMPORTANT WILL BE SHOWING ENOUGH EXAMPLES OF QUESTIONS SO THAT OTHERS COULD BE GUIDED TO USE THIS APPROACH IN THEIR OWN CONTEXT What your questions are doing What is happening with the client? find a new word for client? when I ask clients Yaamanda yanay barriyaygu?, I am asking them to come to the window Yawu, yanay ngay barriyagu, yes i will come to the window What do you think made this possible? What do you think spurred you on to make these preparations, and to take this step? What do you think was guiding you in taking this step – what was it you were hoping for, seeking out? What do you think was guiding you? What does [POPULAR LABEL] mean to you? 23. What usually happens to people who have [POPULAR LABEL]? 24. What is the best treatment for people who have [POPULAR LABEL]? 25. How do other people react to someone who has [POPULAR LABEL]? 26. Who do you know who has had [POPULAR LABEL]? 27. In what ways is your (HP) similar to or different from that person’s health problem? 28. Is your (HP) somehow linked or related to specific events that occurred in your life? 29. Can you tell me more about those events and how they are linked to your (HP)? What does [POPULAR LABEL] mean to you? 23. What usually happens to people who have [POPULAR LABEL]? 24. What is the best treatment for people who have [POPULAR LABEL]? 25. How do other people react to someone who has [POPULAR LABEL]? 26. Who do you know who has had [POPULAR LABEL]? 27. In what ways is your (HP) similar to or different from that person’s health problem? 28. Is your (HP) somehow linked or related to specific events that occurred in your life? 29. Can you tell me more about those events and how they are linked to your (HP)? What does it say about you, do you think, that despite the effects of being an unmarried mother, you were able to ??? this morning? What does this new information tell you about your ability to be a Mum? What effect did it have on your life What effect did shame have on your relationship with others? Family? Friends? 2nd to recognise the discourses that influenced the Author’s collecting at that time. Not what I know now, but only what I would have known then 2nd window .. why they thought it was warranted - The politics of blame, let's start with sexuality of blame, I am very familiar with . I got pregnant when I was teenager, whereas the father of my children was dealt a raw card. How does that work? When I left, he was patted on the back for being such a great dad. When I was raising them on my own, it didn't matter whether I was doing a good job or a bad one. I was just a single mother, a loser ... What, how did that work? The power is the concept of what an unmarried mother can do and cannot do 2nd window .. why they thought it was warranted - The politics of blame, let's start with sexuality of blame, I am very familiar with . I got pregnant when I was teenager, whereas the father of my children was dealt a raw card. How does that work? When I left, he was patted on the back for being such a great dad. When I was raising them on my own, it didn't matter whether I was doing a good job or a bad one. I was just a single mother, a loser ... What, how did that work? The power is the concept of what an unmarried mother can do and cannot do This window that I brought Pitavia too … is called AS IT WAS TOLD Throughout my conversations with Acmena, she strongly supported the idea of herself as a Mum. At this window, I wanted to see if there was any particular influence for her during those years Together Pitavia and I had investigated what happened, what was said about what happened and any additional information given in the last decades. With all that evidence, Pitavia could decide how he would go forward. That meant narrating an alternative interpretation that he could take into his future, and improve the relationship that he had with his brother. A relationship where they were still very close but Pitavia didn’t feel he owed his brother anything. I called this place: AS IT IS TOLD. "key feature of both postmodernism and poststructuralism is the distrust of “grand narratives,” those explanations that are assumed to provide a comprehensive or global explanation for “the way things are.”" "dominant cultural narratives that stand as truth claims serve to dislodge and disempower the local and particular knowledge that resides in individual and relational experience." POSSIBLE QUESTIONS is it contradictory re-authoring "exceptions to the problem story (unique outcomes) or to gaps in the story where an alternative story is evident by its absence. This invites a story to emerge that offers new and preferred ways for a counselee to understand himself or herself" "acknowledgment and retelling rather than evaluation or advice-giving" "purpose of a definitional ceremony is to add more voices and more layers to the retelling of an emerging, alternative story. In the telling, re-telling, and telling again, the story gains strength and richness, making it more likely to stand productively alongside the problem story and provide the necessary identity, agency, and meaning to generate new directions for the one seeking counseling" "Definitional ceremonies provide people with the option of telling or performing the stories of their lives before an audience of carefully chosen outsider witnesses. These outsider witnesses respond to these stories with retellings that are shaped by a specific tradition of acknowledgment. . . It is not the place of outsider witnesses to form opinions, give advice, make declarations, or introduce moral stories or homilies. Rather, outsider witnesses engage one another in conversations about the expressions of the telling they were drawn to, about the images that these expressions evoked, about the personal experiences that resonated with these expressions, and about their sense of how their lives have been touched by the expressions.11" "This emphasis on multiple voices participating in the training context helps to destabilize the hierarchical power of the trainer by inviting a variety of local knowledges into the room." "the supervisor needs to work against the tendency to take on the problem story as their focus or to be drawn into the narrative the problem story expects." SUPERVISION - enhance professional practices - direct reflection on immediate work and all areas of life that are impacting - impact of your assumptions on your particular work practices through ???, ???, laughter and feedback "- shed a critical light on the stories we tell ourselves about counseling supervision and on the cultural traditions of these ‘common sense’ professional practices.” 17" "listens to the problem story but at the same time listens for the other stories (exceptions, unique outcomes) that are hidden by the problem story." "explore other aspects of the counseling that have been pushed aside by the power of the problem story" "As Doan and Parry note, “In this version (Narrative), the supervisor is seen as an editor, a catalyst— as one who helps ‘call forth’ the type of therapist the trainee wishes to be, rather than as one who defines the type of therapist she/he should be.”22" "what resonated for them about what they heard, what images emerged for them in the hearing, how they were moved by the conversation" I want to make more possibilities for your work This paper represents ‘work in progress’ and invites you to consider someof the ideas, experiences and practices that I have been adopting anddeveloping. These questions open up opportunities to reect on the stories we have habitually told ourselves "not just to make room for re-authoring stories but also to have rich retellings of those stories through the definitional ceremony work of group members." "In the group supervision model, after the re-authoring conversation has occurred between supervisor and supervisee, the group members serving as outsider witnesses would have a discussion about what they had heard. The discussion would follow the guidelines of definitional ceremonies (what resonated for them about what they heard, what images emerged for them in the hearing, how they were moved by the conversation). This retelling helps to enrich and “thicken” the alternative story developed in the supervisor/supervisee conversation and make it more available and lasting for the counselor as they move back into the work with their counselee. Finally, the supervisor interviews the supervisee about what they heard in the outsider witness conversation and what they will be taking with them. All of these conversations are taped. In this kind of supervision model, the counselor will take the material that surfaced about their work with a particular counselee and invite the counselee to reflect on it, particularly in light of ideas about other directions that the counseling conversation might take." they call it supervision, our cultural competency in understanding the colonised culture and strengthening our skills to ??? understanding of the clients worldview and the ability to develop appropriate interventions based on this. acknowledgement of the impacts of colonisation and the impacts these have on the experiences of clients difficult to distinguish between clinical and cultural issues in practice established, site-specific norms may be reinforced and may not be challenged. there is no focus on any one aspect of practice. process allows for movement in the discussion about practice and can focus and refocus as needed, as part of the process. promoting respectful uncertainty encouraging multiple perspectives explore how our sense of self is influenced by social interaction facilitates no-blame cultures and the idea of ‘vulnerable competence’, which does not expect workers to get it right all the time, given the complexity of practice. what struck them from the presentation, and to reflect on what it brought up for them. fabling Stories in supervision were seen as providing an opportunity for exposure to various cultural values and customs that supervisees may otherwise not have been exposed movement connection banlance uncertainty intolerance of uncertainty cognitive distortion learning to live with uncertainty—means learning how to cope with their FCs in the same way they cope with their non-OCD potential life disasters. learning to live with his or her particular uncer-tainties possibility of coping and living with FCs constant concern and attention plays a major role in ruining their lives AS YOU ARE REPEATEDLY EXPOSED TO THE OBJECT OF FEAR AND NO NEGATIVE CONSEQUENCES OCCUR, THE FEAR WILL BEGIN TO DISAPPEAR EXPOSURE REQUIRES YOU TO TOLERATE YOUR ANXEITY BEING HIGHER THAN YOU ARE USED TO. HOWEVER ONCE THIS SHORT TERM DISCOMFORT PASSES, IN THE LONG TERM YOUR FEAR WILL SUBSIDE AND YOU WILL NO LONGER NEED TO ENGAGE IN THE RITUALS OF AVOIDANCE
- use the technique to check on other info, that we can then check to see if technique works, i.e. current information
- Barriyay is more than an aid to truth-telling, i see it as truth gathering, stepping from side to side to top to bottom, looking at all the avenues before the client decides which view is best for them. There is no wrong avenue, there may be lies or deception, but I would argue that those elements are just as important to the story, not the content of the lies but the reasons by which they were created
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