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Writing (As) Systemic Practice WRITING (AS) SYSTEMIC PRACTICE Gail Simon Professional Doctorate in Systemic Practice 2011 University of Bedfordshire & Kensington Consultation Centre Page 2 of 396 WRITING (AS) SYSTEMIC PRACTICE Gail Simon 2011 Professional Doctorate in Systemic Practice University of Bedfordshire Page 3 of 396 WRITING (AS) SYSTEMIC PRACTICE ABSTRACT GAIL SIMON This doctoral portfolio is a collection of papers and pieces of creative writing arising out of therapeutic, supervisory and training conversations and in relation to a wide range of texts. I have wanted to find ways of writing ethically so as to avoid objectifying people and appropriating their words, their life stories. I find ways of writing in which the values and practices of a collaborative, dialogical and reflexive ways of being with people are echoed in the texts. I show how writing and reading are relational practices in that I speak with the participants in the texts as well as with the reader and also with other writers. To do this, I experiment with a variety of written forms and employ literary devices so as to speak from within a range of practice relationships, from within inner dialogue, with real and fictitious characters. Technically and ethically, I try to write in a way which not only captures the sound of talk but which also speaks with the reader who would be reading, and perhaps hearing these accounts of conversation. By sharing a rich level of detail from my polyvocal inner dialogue, I invite the reader into a unique and privileged alongside position as a participant-observer in my work. Inspirational research methodologies include: writing as a method of inquiry, reflexivity, autoethnography, performance ethnography and transgression interpreted by many areas of systemic theory and practice. To support this innovative work, I offer several theoretical and practical papers offering novel developments on systemic practice theory. I situate systemic practice as a research method and demonstrate many family resemblances between systemic inquiry and qualitative inquiry. I offer a reflexive model for systemic practice and practice research which I call Praction Research which regards therapy and research as political acts requiring an activist agenda. Linked to this I politicise ideas of reflexivity by introducing local and global reflexivity and create a political connection with a concept of theorethical choices in theory and ethics in practice research. I propose a new form of ethnography suited to systemic practice, Relational Ethnography in which I draw attention to reflexive relationships between writer and readers, between the voices of inner and outer dialogue in research texts. KEYWORDS: Systemic therapy, Writing, Relational, Dialogical, Qualitative Inquiry, Autoethnography, Systemic research. WRITING (AS) SYSTEMIC PRACTICE Gail Simon 2011 Professional Doctorate in Systemic Practice University of Bedfordshire Page 4 of 396 My mother, the scientist. WRITING (AS) SYSTEMIC PRACTICE Gail Simon 2011 Professional Doctorate in Systemic Practice University of Bedfordshire Page 5 of 396 LIST OF CONTENTS Paper Page Title Page 1 Abstract 3 Dedication 4 List of Contents 5 List of Figures 8 List of Appendices 9 Acknowledgements 10 Author’s Declaration, Examination, Copyright 13 PART 1: FOOTHILLS A Description of the Papers in this Portfolio 15 1 Blencathra 21 2 An Overview of the Research 28 i. Research Focus ii. Research Questions iii. Issues Leading to the Formulation of the Research Questions iv. Research Methodologies v. Criteria for Producing and Evaluating the Research vi. Presenting the Research vii. Products of the Research viii. Possible Practical Consequences of the Research for Others PART 2: METHODOLOGICAL PAPERS 3 Dublin Description of this Doctorate 50 Introduction to three papers on methodology 61 4 Praction Research: A Model for Systemic Inquiry 63 5 Systemic Inquiry as a form of Qualitative Inquiry 81 6 Writing (as) Systemic Practice 101 WRITING (AS) SYSTEMIC PRACTICE Gail Simon 2011 Professional Doctorate in Systemic Practice University of Bedfordshire Page 6 of 396 PART 3: REFLEXIVE, DIALOGICAL WRITING RELATIONSHIPS Introduction to Reflexive Dialogical Writing Relationship papers 112 7 WhoYou? 113 8 Writing Practice 114 9 Writing as Talk 136 10 Inner and Outer Talk 155 PART 4: DIALOGICAL WRITING FOR READERS Introduction to Dialogical Writing for Readers papers 162 11 Who We? 163 12 Writing for Readers: Some Challenges for Practitioner-Researchers 164 13a Writing Time - Space for The Reader – The Place of The Writer 184 13b The Chronicle v Curatorial Acts – Writing in Time – Visibility as a Writer 187 14 Introduction to ‘Writing for a Public Audience’ (Appx VII) 194 15 Writing like this 196 16 Taking Leaps: Time - Place - Signposting and Initiative 198 17 Listening to Write in a Training Context 204 18 A Radio Panel on Writing 215 19 Power - Ownership - Parody and Irreverence 221 PART 5: PERFORMATIVE WRITING AND READING FOR LISTENING WRITERS & READERS An introduction to the Performative Reading and Writing papers 230 20 Reading Desperado: a story about performative reading 231 21 Carpe Diem 240 22 Reading Out Loud the Writer’s Writing for the Listening Writer 241 23 The Sound of Talk for the Listening Reader 247 24 Writing Voices from Practice with a Social Justice Agenda Part 1 253 Writing Voices from Practice with a Social Justice Agenda Part 2 264 WRITING (AS) SYSTEMIC PRACTICE Gail Simon 2011 Professional Doctorate in Systemic Practice University of Bedfordshire Page 7 of 396 PART 6: WRITINGS TO END WITH 25 Connecting 286 26 While writing my doctorate….. 287 27 A Review of this Research Journey: Creating a Continuity of Learning 288 APPENDICES 307 REFERENCES 380 WRITING (AS) SYSTEMIC PRACTICE Gail Simon 2011 Professional Doctorate in Systemic Practice University of Bedfordshire Page 8 of 396 LIST OF FIGURES Page Fig. 1 Levels of Context in Systemic Practice - Leppington 1991 73 Fig. 2 Approach Method Technique - Burnham 1992 74 Fig. 3 Combination of Burnham and Leppington Diagrams - Simon 2011 75 Fig. 4 Praction Research - A Model for Systemic Inquiry - Simon 2011 78 WRITING (AS) SYSTEMIC PRACTICE Gail Simon 2011 Professional Doctorate in Systemic Practice University of Bedfordshire Page 9 of 396 APPENDICES I Professional Doctorate in Systemic Practice Programme Handbook 307 Excerpt of Description of Course Ethos II Research Proposal 308 III Research Ethics Committee Submission Update 316 IV Professional Indemnity Insurance 322 V Research Agreement Form 323 VI Wild Garlic: Some thoughts about undergrowth (Methodological 325 Reflections) VII Writing for a Public Audience (Paper) 327 VIII Self-Supervision, Surveillance and Transgression (Paper) 351 IX Transgressive Lives, Transgressive Practices (Article) 365 X Conference Presentations, Teaching & Publications 2006 – 2011 372 WRITING (AS) SYSTEMIC PRACTICE Gail Simon 2011 Professional Doctorate in Systemic Practice University of Bedfordshire Page 10 of 396 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS When Peter Lang of the Kensington Consultation Centre first dreamed up this doctorate, he had an idea about the values and creative possibilities that such a programme might offer but, as he said to us in this first cohort, “We don’t yet know what a Systemic Practice Doctorate can look like”. He said that a few times over the first couple of years as if he was determined not to pre-empt any one structure which would narrow the definition of what might count as form or content of such a doctorate. I was struck by the openness of this invitation, the preparedness to just go forwards without a pre-pared path and see what would emerge. This trust, this hope has helped me to create a body of work which echoes some of the rule-creating, contextually responsive and playful discursive practices within systemic practice relationships. I am truly grateful for this opportunity and for the vision of Peter Lang in making this programme happen. When I first attended the series of seminars by John Shotter on Dialogically Situated Action Research at the Kensington Consultation Centre in 2005, I could not grasp the meaning of any of the texts we read and discussed. Not one. Really. But I experienced a feeling of paradigmatic vertigo and excitement, as if I was standing on the edge of something new, something important. John Shotter has played such an important role in steering this doctorate with his generous provision of his writings, his time, his introducing of other authors and in his writing for research students in his book, Getting It. My relationship with ‘the writings of John Shotter’ go back further than that. His work on social accountability and the construction of ‘you’ was theory which changed my ways of seeing and being very deeply during my therapy training in the early nineties and during my masters research and beyond. I have very much appreciated the creative and inspiring conversations with Professor Ravi Kohli at the University of Bedfordshire who has done much to make this research process enjoyable. Thanks to Martin Little and the staff of the Kensington Consultation Centre for supporting the innovative community of learning and practice conversations for as long as it was possible to do so. I owe much of my motivation for this body of work directly and indirectly to the people with whom I have the opportunity for many varied conversations through the practices of therapy, supervision and teaching. I want to express a heartfelt thanks to so many people: people coming for therapy, students of counselling and counselling research, supervisees and colleagues. I have also been reflecting on the opportunities afforded to me over the years by those who were kind enough to invite me or allow me to contribute to books and journals. WRITING (AS) SYSTEMIC PRACTICE Gail Simon 2011 Professional Doctorate in Systemic Practice University of Bedfordshire Page 11 of 396 Conversations with ‘Susan’1 provided the original springboard for this research. Our conversations, her signposting, have inspired new practices in all areas of my practice and research. I hope these writings do our conversations justice.
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