A Voice for a Different Future
Now is the time to sit, reflect, and grieve a lost opportunity, and to acknowledge the feelings of hurt, distress…
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Why is it so Hard to Talk?
‘Just don’t think about it,’ ‘Stiff upper lip is best,’ What the mind doesn’t know the heart won’t grieve over’…
Read moreThe Disability Royal Commission – Where to from Here?
The Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with Disability handed down its final report on Thursday 28 September…
Read moreWe Should Research but How?
The early pioneers of family therapy emphasized the importance of research to improve practice and it was under its guise…
Read moreWhose Responsibility is it?
There is no such thing as a human problem, symptom, or dilemma that is not about the politics of inequality…
Read moreGetting a Grip – Parent or Child Centered Emotion Regulation
A key parenting challenge and one often referred to those who work with children is “What do I do when…
Read moreSilenced Voices Fuel Fracture
On 14 October 2023, Australians will vote in a referendum ‘To alter the constitution to recognize the First Peoples of…
Read moreWhat and Where is the ‘Gap’?
Do you know who said this? ’When we believe schools will fix everything, parents abdicate their responsibilities and politicians handball…
Read moreWho Should the Children Live With?
When working with distressed individuals and couples the possibility of separation is often raised and with it the implications for…
Read moreTherapy is not a Chat with Friends – the Place of Strategy
Watching an experienced systemic practitioner at work makes the work look easy. They listen, enquire, and respond and somehow magic…
Read moreThe Politics of Education
Fundamental social change from the 1980’s to the present day has altered the boundaries of responsibility and authority in education,…
Read moreTeaching at the Edge
Welcome to education(note), a monthly newsletter with insights into systems thinking, wellbeing, and culture in education and schools. bower(schools) is…
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