Just Listening: A Just,Dialogical Approach in Listening to A Person's Story

The workshop will explore the Just Listening approach, providing an overview of the core theories and moments of connection that lead to a just process of listening to any person who wishes to share their story of being in the world.

The workshop will also detail the impact of providing an entire 'mental health' therapeutic community and health services based on the psychotherapeutically informed Just Listening approach especially to those in psychotic or suicidal dissociachotic states.

Learning Objective Participants Can Expect From This Event

• Understand the potential outcomes in challenging social constructs and norms of psychotic and suicidal states of distress as disorders and internal (individual brain) problems.
• Develop awareness of the mutual impact of focussing on connection and justice as an alternative to 'interventions'.
• Develop understanding of the potential in developing new models and approaches for entire health services that include building community members involvement in supporting other community members.

Who is This Workshop Appropriate For?

• professionals, public, commissioners

How May This Workshop Impact Your Practice?

• Challenge understanding of value of attending to listening as the primary approach to therapeutic work.

RECORDING 

This event will be recorded and you can use the ticket function to pre-purchase the recording before the event. This will be useful for colleagues who are not able to attend the event live and also for those who attend the event live and want to watch it again.

ZOOM 

This event will be hosted on the Zoom meeting platform where we will use our cameras and microphones to interact with each other as a group.

SELF-SELECT FEE

The self-select fee is a radical inclusion policy to open learning for all colleagues. The guide price for this event is £20.00, however, we appreciate that income varies greatly in different locations and circumstances. Please contribute what you can to help us maintain inclusive professional training.

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At Onlinevents, we and the presenters we collaborate with are committed to working in a way that aligns with the ethical codes and frameworks of our respective professional organisations. We expect all colleagues attending our events to uphold the ethical principles of their professional membership.

If you are not a member of a professional organisation, we ask that you participate in a way that is both authentic and respectful, fostering a space of mutual learning and professional engagement.

By registering for this event, you agree to be present and interact in a manner that reflects these principles.

Matt Ball

Matts primary interest is in being with persons understandable human experiences, often labelled as mental illness, and holding space for the wisdom of each person to both narrate and direct their own journey.

Matt is a Nurse Practitioner, Psychotherapist and founder of Humane Clinic, and Co Director of Just Listening Australia. He is a trainer and public speaker, and developer of Dissociachotic, Suicide Narratives and Just Listening approaches. He recently opened the Just Listening Therapeutic Community with colleagues.

Matt's passion is being in human-to-human relationship with those in altered states in acknowledgement of the non-psychotic states any person experiences.

Matt teaches, consults, supervises and speaks nationally and internationally.

Website | www.justlisteing.com.au

Facebook | Just Listening Therapeutic Community

LinkedIn | Just Listening (Just Listening Australia)