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The Golden Pig, Reflections As Ancestral Blessings: The Reflecting Process in Teaching Family Therapy
Author(s) -
Davis Judith
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
family process
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.011
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1545-5300
pISSN - 0014-7370
DOI - 10.1111/j.1545-5300.2012.01405.x
Subject(s) - attunement , dialogical self , social connectedness , postmodernism , family therapy , white (mutation) , transformational leadership , psychology , psychoanalysis , sociology , transformative learning , pedagogy , social psychology , epistemology , psychotherapist , philosophy , medicine , biochemistry , chemistry , alternative medicine , pathology , gene
This is an example of a postmodern, dialogical approach to teaching family therapy based on the work of such practitioners as Tom Andersen, Michael White, and Lynn Hoffman, among others. It demonstrates the way in which the reflecting process connects all of the participants in a web of meanings both educational and transformational. This particular consultation, which includes the author, her graduate students, the client, and guest participant Lynn Hoffman, ends with an unexpected ritual of intergenerational appreciation. Privileging the transcript, it is presented as a kind of theatre where the learning is revealed more through the dialogue than through authorial analysis. The experience is embedded in an “ethics of participation” (Hoffman, 1992) where social connectedness and attunement are key.