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Shona: Is there anything you wish your local AFT branch did more of? Sarah: Maybe we could we do one more professional development event a year. It is so easy; they are amazing. The professional development is handed to you on a plate. You turn up, someone really interesting comes to speak, and it’s good value and it’s local. Shona: Do you think Oxford and Chiltern AFT thinks about social graces in the way it works? Sarah: We haven’t had specific workshops about intersectionality or social graces. These ideas feel more implied – we have a wide variation of speakers, and the membership of the committee is diverse in relation to ethnicity, gender, class and culture. All the topics we have explored have engendered conversations of diversity. Shona: What norms do you think we have created around power discourses? Sarah: We are self-governing so, in committee meetings, everyone can talk; in workshops everyone talks, so it feels the norms are that people need to be sensitive to that and, of course, sometimes some people are not. It is predominantly women who attend. Your question is making me think about how we could be explicit about this, to challenge power practices. We could use a reflecting-team approach in the reading group, and use turn taking.


Note added in proof Since writing this update, the global


COVID-19 pandemic has impacted on all our lives. Oxford and Chiltern AFT journal club and the work of the membership have moved to the virtual space as part of physical distancing. This will bring new challenges for family therapy, and no doubt part of the work of our AFT meetings will be to support us all as we grapple with these changes and implement safe practice, supported by local and national AFT guidelines. Any other users of Oxford and Chiltern


AFT who have ideas or feedback, please contact Shona Reed-Purvis on shona52rp@gmail.com


AFT news In the changing landscape of


COVID-19, at AFT we are continually reviewing and revising our clinical and training guidelines. We appreciate the pressure our training courses and trainees are under, and are working towards guidelines and protocols that are creative and yet maintain our training standards, encompassing both “rigour and imagination” (Bateson, G. 1979 Mind and Nature: A Necessary Unity. New York: Dutton). The latest training guidelines can be found at on the AFT website at: https://www.aft.org.uk/about/view/ COVID-19-Info.html listed under ‘AFT Remote Training courses Working Guidelines’. In the last fi ve weeks since lockdown


began, it has been wonderful to hear from so many of you about your own clinical and training dilemmas, and the specifi c guidelines you are developing in your own work contexts, summarised in a later section of this newslet er. All the material you send us is used to enhance our Covid-19 pages, which are here: ht ps:// www.aſt .org.uk/about/view/COVID-19- Info.html


AFT resources In light of the current Coronavirus


crisis forcing the cancellation of the Bristol Symposium, the AFT board is working to bring forward a long-term plan for online presentations, aiming to begin this summer on a monthly basis. More news will follow as this initiative develops. As AFT’s contribution to Mental


Health Awareness Week (18 to 24 May), we launched two podcasts: In the fi rst Philip Messent interviews


Arlene Vetere about lessons to be drawn from her extensive work with family violence regarding the stresses and strains likely to be placed on families during lockdown, and how these can best be understood and minimised. In the second he interviews Barry Mason about his article published this year in the Journal of Family T erapy: ‘Family of origin scripts in dealing with diversity: a question’. Barry describes how this question can be used both by therapists and family


Context 169, June 2020


members with one another in a way that allows tensions to be eased and new possibilities for mutual kindness and more co-ordinated responses to emerge. T is can be found on: ht ps://www.aſt .org.uk/ media/view/digital-resources2.html T is article and Arlene Vetere’s 2001


Journal of Family T erapy article ‘Working systemically with family violence: risk, responsibility and collaboration’ will be available to download free on the Journal website during Mental Health Awareness week.


AFT digest AFT have launched a pilot monthly-


digest of events and books to assist in keeping members up to date that will be sent out via email. Any member of AFT can submit an application for an event or new systemic book to be included. Entries will appear once and may


include: • Brief title • Provider or author (as applies) • Date of event (if applicable) • Web link or contact detail • Details of any discounts (if applicable) Acceptance is subject to review and


applications should be sent to L.Norris@aſt .org.uk, including the above details for consideration for the next digest.


Journal of Family Therapy news Journal business has largely continued


as usual during the Coronavirus lockdown but our publishers, Wiley, have now alerted us to the diffi culties they are having in operating as normal during the current crisis. T ey have writ en as follows: “T e move to work-f om-home practices in


many regions globally, oſt en in combination with country-wide lockdowns, is leading to disruption throughout the publishing workfl ow. Right now, the most acute challenge relates to the distribution of print content. In many countries, distribution of print materials is suspended, making it impossible to ensure copies reach intended destinations. Fewer passenger fl ights and the need to prioritise medical supplies has also reduced the availability of air f eight. And


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