TREE OF LIFE.. - oeas.at · The creation of the ‘Tree’ is just the ... - Drawing a Tree of Life...
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The Tree of
Life narrative
approach
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One of a range of folk cultural
narrative methodologies
Cross cultural inventions
A meeting between post-structuralist narrative
approaches and practitioners and communities in
which non-structuralist understandings of identity
still hold sway
And where ‘therapy’ is often not culturally
appropriate/resonant
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These young people love trees
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• Born from a collaboration between
REPSSI and Dulwich Centre Foundation
and between Ncazelo Ncube & David
Denborough
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Sporting metaphor:
The Team of life
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‘What about kites?’
Thilika Xavier
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The strong winds that affect families
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Special skills in flying through strong winds
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‘People speaking
through us
not just to us’
‘Enabling
contribution’
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Key principles:
* ‘Riverbank’ position
* People always respond
* Implicit in responses are skills, values,
abilities and special knowledges
* There is always a social history to these
* Rich story development
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There are 4 parts to the process:
The creation of the ‘Tree’ is just the
beginning
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Part One
- Drawing a Tree of Life
- ‘Riverbank’ position
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Roots: Where we come from
– rich textual heritage
Or:
– our deep rooted survival skills
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Ground:
Where we live, what we choose to
do each day
The present / landscape of action
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Trunk: What is valued / skills
- what people value/care about
- think collectively
- through the eyes of others
- trace the histories
- rich stories
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Branches – horizons
“The branches to me are about how I want to do this thing. To
love and be loved.”
Our hopes, dreams & wishes
- combination of big hopes and smaller
- self, family, community
- hopes have a history (trace them!)
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Leaves: Re-membering lives
Those who are special to us
- Alive or no longer living
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Fruits: Legacies bequeathed to us
What those special people have given to us
Seeds: Legacies we wish to leave
Gifts we wish to give to others
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Part Two: Forest of life
- Moving from individual to
collective
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‘the invention of unity in diversity’
Paulo Freire (1994, p.157)
Pedagogy of hope: Reliving Pedagogy of the oppressed.
New York: Continuum.
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‘communitas’ Victor Turner
a shared sense of unity among individuals which …
‘preserve individual distinctiveness’
‘is not a merging in fantasy’
do not depend on ‘in-group versus out-
group’ opposition
Turner, V. (1969). The ritual process: Structure and anti-structure. New York: Aldine de Gruyter.
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Part Three: The storms of life - Externalising the problem
- Collective disclosure
- Eliciting responses
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1. The name of a special skill, knowledge, practice or value that gets you or your family through hard times
2. A story about this skill, knowledge, practice or value
3. The history of this skill, knowledge, practice or value. Who did you learn it from/with? Who would be least surprised to hear you talk about this?
4. Is this linked in some way to collective traditions (familial/community) and/or cultural traditions? Are there proverbs, sayings, stories, songs, images from your family, community and/or culture with which these skills and knowledges are linked?
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Part Four: Celebration,
certificates & song
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Innovations / New developments
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* Exchanges of collective documents: Australia,
Nigeria, Palestine
* Family work from Sweden
* Couple work from Uganda
* Linking to spiritual/cultural traditions
* Roebourne Growing strong children parenting
program
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Tree of Life
Theatre
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Tree of Life / Team of
Life combination
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