Introduction to
Re-membering conversations
Narrative practices believes that, all the problems are rooted in oppressive structures rather than in communities, beings and people's bodies and identities. Communities and people are experts of their own life and exist in relationship with each other. We all are performing our stories or being made to perform them and that stories are how we make sense of our experience, of our world and of ourselves. Stories from our everyday lived experience help us in co-creating maps to navigate story-lands.
“Remembering conversations can act as an antidote to the powerfully isolating understandings of identity that are so pervasive in contemporary Western culture. Considering life as an association with a membership, and introducing practices that specifically shaped by the acknowledgement that identity is wrought by important figures of a person’s past and present and opens diverse possibilities for the reconstruction of identity in the context of therapeutic conversations”
- Michael White
In this workshop
We will explore:
the understanding of identities as multi voiced and socially constructed in two way relationships with others, with institutions and broader relations of power
We will also pay careful attention, learn the scaffold and practice the maps of Externalisation and Re-authoring Conversations through didactic teaching, practising interviews and listening to stories of application in diverse context.
Dates: 2nd (sat) and 3rd (sun) September 2023
Saturday - 2pm to 6pm IST
Sunday- 10am to 5pm IST
Venue- ZOOM
Fees - 6,000 INR for individual registrations; 5,000 for people registering in groups of three or more; 4,500 for students.
Language of instruction: English
The workshop is for social workers, mental health practioners, therapists, students, doctors, educators, writers, story-tellers, library educators, and anyone who is interested in the idea of stories.