MOVEMENT IN /AS SYSTEMIC PRACTICE

Everything is Connected Press

is pleased to host

9th International Systemic Practice & Research School

MOVEMENT IN/AS SYSTEMIC PRACTICE

9th - 12th October 2024, Salisbury Centre, Edinburgh

Speakers and workshops with:

Paul Miller, Karen Partridge, Leah Salter, Gail Simon, Joanne Hipplewith, Lorna Edwards, Karen Finn and more

WORKSHOPS

Dialogical movements in systemic practice

Cross-cultural talk through poetry in therapy

Using movement in systemic therapy

Systemic configurations with found materials

Weaving Theory and Practice as Fluid Transmaterial Worlding

Documenting Climate Change through Photography

Taking systemic practice into nature

Decolonising Systemic Practice

Breathing For Relaxation as Preparartion for Change and Wellbeing

Making and waving banners in therapy

Reflexivity as political movement

Remaking embodiment in virtual reality

Writing as movement - a publication

Additional workshops.

Titles subject to change.

MOVEMENT IN & AS SYSTEMIC PRACTICE

The theme for this year’s conference is Movement in and as Systemic Practice. As systemic thinkers, practitioners, trainees, supervisors, writers, researchers, we are always moving - and at many levels, meta and micro, inner and outer, across culture and risk. Frequently, we focus on talk, on activity but not so much on the embodied coordinations in our breathing, shifting position, gestures. We can appear still in chaos while inwardly, we may be thinking fast, trying to make sense of a range of feelings. Listening to our bodies, studying how we think-move-feel may be part of everyday reflexivity but how do we make space to learn about inner and out relational coordinations beyond the spoken word?

This connects with how different embodied knowledges channel cultural heritage. Movement does not take place outside of power relations. If we want to decolonise our practice relationships, we can also be curious about what movements are required by whom and how and which are considered "unprofessional". How do we culturally foreground (Hipplewith, 2023) ourselves with self and Others? Are there particular movements in particular spaces within particular structures that are sanctioned or outlawed? How does your place of work organise or dictate what inner or outer movements are possible, desirable, professional or not? We will hear stories of movement-in-place such as in forensic settings, care homes, community spaces, inpatient wards, traditional clinics or consulting room, or therapy outdoors? What is it that makes for the différance (Derrida, 1968) in how we account for, include, and relate to movements as/in our practice?

In this 9th edition of the International Systemic Practice and Research School, we are taking the time to be with/in movement in multiple ways. Together, we can explore the fluidity, drama, and emotion of the relational movements of our bodies, minds and spirit that transcend how we inhabit our past, present, and future.

PROGRAMME

Professor Paul Miller and Dr Gail Simon will offer keynotes presentations. There will be more keynotes, workshops and activities, and a walk to Arthur’s Seat.

The final session will be hosted by Murmurations: Journal of Transformative Practice to support participants to collaborate of producing some writing as a reflection on their responses to the conference presentations and workshops.

We will provide more details about the workshops and keynote speakers in the coming months. Watch this space!

TIMES AND DATES

The conference starts on Wednesday, 9 October, at 1:30 p.m. and ends on Saturday, 12 October, at 1 p.m.

PARTICIPANTS

The conference is suitable for all systemic therapists, organisational consultants, trainees, trainers, researchers, supervisors, and those curious about systemic ideas. It is not about what you do not know. It is all about bringing and sharing yourself and helping us think more about Movement in and as Systemic Practice

CALLS FOR WORKSHOPS

We invite all systemic and relationally attuned practitioners from across differnt areas of systemic practice to propose a presentation or workshop. This includes current and past students on systemic Master’s and Doctoral courses.

Please connect to the conference theme and ensure your presentation is accessible, embraces diversity and connects across lived experience.

Please send a one paragraph proposal to isprc@eicpress.com with a title, your name and practice context, what the focus will be, what activities will be involved, what participants might get from it. Include your email address. Send by 30th April 2024.

AN ADDITIONAL ONE DAY ONLINE CONFERENCE

If you cannot attend the main conference in Edinburgh, you are welcome to particpate in a one day online event. Click here.

WHERE

We are in Edinburgh!
The conference will be held at the Salisbury Centre, meeting rooms.

Salisbury Centre, 2 Salisbury Rd, Edinburgh EH16 5AB

Check out Edinburgh City Guide

ACCOMMODATION

There are many hotels and apartments within a twenty minute walk away in the city centre, some closer and many places on airbnb.

TRAVEL

Nearest train station: Edinburgh Waverley

Nearest airport: Edinburgh Airport

ANY QUESTIONS?

See FAQs below.

We look forward to seeing you there!

Joanne Hipplewith, Lorna Edwards and Karen Finn

The Organising Committee 2024

International Systemic Practice and Research School

THE PHOTO

The photograph by Hugh Palmer is of a Magpie and a Green Woodpecker seemingly having a squabble. We have looked at this image a few times, and find it tells a different story each time. Our non-human companions, with whom we share this planet, have encounters with each other which we either don't get to see or we guess at the meaning of a greeting. We rely on our human senses, making ways to interpret what we see as facts according to human narratives. In a world of climate decline, humans are now responsible for getting beyond human narratives to interpret non-human changes. Transmaterial movements and communication underly the theme of this conference too.

Photo Credit: ©Hugh Palmer, 2023. Green Woodpecker and Magpie have a squabble