CFP: Orienting Solutions 2013
Submission deadline: June 15, 2013
Conference date(s):
September 19, 2013 - September 20, 2013
Conference Venue:
University of Hertfordshire
Hatfield,
United Kingdom
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Solution-focused, enactive and narrative practice research conference: Theory in action, practice in focus
This conference explicitly connects the existing non-pathologising and language focused practices of solution-focused (SF), narrative and discursive therapies with recent theoretical developments in enactivism, Wittgensteinian, narrative and discursive psychology.
SF therapy has been seen in the past as a neat practical twist for working with clients. This conference is about setting SF work in a wider landscape of ideas, to show this simple practice in a richer and more compelling light. We also seek connections with academics and others looking for practical aspects of post-structural linguistics and enactive/embodied cognition. We invite academics, practitioners, managers and policy makers to see both practice and theory in a new light. The event is a collaboration between SFCT and the philosophy and nursing/social work departments at UH. This event is a start to building better and more useful connections between theory and practice.
The conference will present and build dialogues around these topics:
- The future of therapeutic practice from non-pathologising, enactive and post-structural perspectives
- The latest research into SF work in all fields – therapy, social work, educational and organisational contexts
- Different conceptions of ‘theory’ and how it can play a role in the famously atheoretical world of SF practice
- Different modes of research which can be applied in this area
- Latest developments in enactive, embodied and narrative thinking
- Issues for future policy in health and other circles
- Further ways to develop connections between academic s and practitioners for the benefit of all concerned.
Invited speakers, already attending, include:
- Dr Alasdair Macdonald (former research co-ordinator, EBTA): The fast-expanding field of SF outcome research
- Prof Dan Hutto (University of Hertfordshire): Radical enactivism and narrative practice
- Prof Gale Miller (Marquette University, Milwaukee)
- Prof Janet Bavelas (University of Victoria): Microanalysis of therapeutic conversations (tbc)
- Chris Iveson (BRIEF, London): From solution to description
- Michael Durrant: (University of Sydney)
- Dr Mark McKergow: SF work and the emergence of narrative
- Rayya Ghul (Canterbury Christchurch University): Research methodologies
- Dr Daniele Moyal-Sharrock (University of Hertfordshire): SF work as applied Wittgenstein
We invite presentations/sessions of 30 and 45 minutes, and also poster presentations. Please submit an abstract of up to 500 words to https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sfct2013 by June 15, 2013. Presenters will not be required to submit papers in advance of the conference. We are intending to offer publication of papers later in a special issue if the SFCT journal InterAction (http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/sfct/inter) and possibly elsewhere.
Potential topics for sessions might include:
- New research or work-in-progress into solution focused practice in any field
- Historical developments of SF work from different perspectives
- Frameworks of how we might view and understand what happens in SF work – from a variety of perspectives
- Engaging policy makers and other professionals in seeing the benefits of SF work
Conference committee:
- Prof Dan Hutto, Dept of Philosophy, University of Hertfordshire
- Prof Brian Littlechild, School of Nursing, Midwifery and Social Work, University of Hertfordshire
- Dr Mark McKergow, Dept of Philosophy, UH and SFCT Board member
- Louise Doel, Lecturer, Nursing and Social Work, UH
- Kirsten Dierolf, President, SFCT
- Dr Daniele Moyal-Sharrock, University of Herfordshire and British Wittgenstein Society
The conference is now online at: