fi nally, but perhaps most importantly, we feel that it is important to reduce pressure on our printers and other supply-chain vendors to send their employees to work and increase their risk of exposure to the virus. Given these obstacles and concerns, Wiley


has made the decision to suspend all printing and distribution of journals until further notice. T e majority of print customers have access to Wiley Online Library already and we are working hard to help those users relying on print only to access publications digitally.” At least our next edition of the Journal,


due out in August (42.3), will not therefore be published as a paper journal. It will of course be available digitally to all members through the AFT and Wiley websites, and we are discussing with Wiley other ways in which access to members could be made more straightforward. I am keener than ever that this next edition will be widely read despite not appearing in a paper version, and will include news of what it will include, and any up-dates on access in this newslet er in the next months.


Philip Messent (Journal of Family Therapy editor)


AFT one-day symposium with AFT AGM, in association with Manchester AFT


T e theme of the symposium, planned


for Friday 18 September 2020 and to take place at the Renaissance Hotel Manchester city centre is ‘Trauma –the emotional demands it makes on us as clinicians and the resources we draw on in our systemic practice to support families’. In the same way that trauma leaves


traces in the neural pathways to the brain, its traces run through relationships in families, professional relationships within the clinic room and within organisational systems, all subject to geopolitical change and uncertainty. At each of these levels, there is also the capacity for repair and regeneration – the sites for trauma are also sites for hope. T is symposium will include a choice of workshops addressing the issue of trauma. Keynote speakers: • Ben Furman • Gerrilyn Smith • Jeremy Woodcock Workshops presenters: • Ben Furman • Dzmitry Karpuk and Tom Stoneham


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• Gillian Hughes, Arlet e Kavanagh and Pat Gray


• Mariangels Ferrer-Duch • Arlene Healey T e current situation and government


guidance is being monitored and members will be notifi ed as soon as booking for the event may open. Please continue to check the AFT conferences page on the website.


Lennox Thomas We were saddened to hear of the passing


of Lennox T omas in April. Lennox made an important contribution to our fi eld in voicing issues of race and culture and this is a huge loss. A full appreciation of the life and work of Lennox appears in this issue.


COVID-19 resources T ere are a number of resources and


information relating to COVID-19 on the AFT website (ht ps://www.aſt .org. uk/about/view/COVID-19-Info.html), including AFT Remote Working Guidance and Systemic Psychotherapy Training Course Arrangements and Covid-19.


Resources our members have shared with us


• T anks to David Kenny for sharing this useful information for those working in adult mental health and specifi cally with psychosis: ‘Family work and Video- calling in EIP’ (ht ps://i.emlfi les4.com/ cmpdoc/8/7/6/3/1/fi les/663278_family- work-and-video-calling-in-eip.docx)


• T anks to Percy Agget for sharing NPR, a music performance platform from the US well worth checking out; it also has an interesting podcast series on race and culture. T e latest is ‘Why the coronavirus is hit ing the black communities the hardest?’ T e whole sequence of podcasts is available here (ht ps://www.npr.org/podcasts/510312/ codeswitch?t=1586605629701)


• T e Coronavirus Series: Holding the f ame and sense of connectedness during the pandemic (ht ps://www.confer.uk.com/ presenting.html) In this series of interviews, Alice


Waterfall asks psychotherapists and those working in the fi eld of mental health about their experiences of clinical work during this time of global crisis. As both patients and practitioners at empt to manage unprecedented collective trauma, these conversations cover such issues as fi nding one’s way to a new therapeutic


frame, regulating feelings in a virtual encounter, negotiating reactivated trauma and loss to technophobia and techno-tips. How can we create a sense of going-on- being in the therapeutic relationship, she asks, when there is such existential uncertainty? Interviewees include Judith Anderson, Doris Brothers, Pierre Cachia, Roz Carroll, Janina Fisher, Graham Music, Stephen Porges, Joy Schaverien and many more. Reenee Singh will be speaking on ‘Family Breakdown or Breakthrough in time of Coronavirus?’ on 12 June 2020.


• AFT members, Steve Lit lewood and Mark Hurst, have produced a series of videos that feature interviews with family and systemic therapists. T ey are available to view on YouTube here: ht ps://www.youtube.com/channel/ UC3ZDo8Yfi Xs9EFD0F1izurw


ASPENS news T ere is a new but on advert on the AFT


website home page directing potential clients to any online events specifi cally for clients/service users and to the AFT directory of therapists. T is sits next to the but on advert linking through to information on COVID-19. If you have recently started off ering


online therapy, please make sure your directory listing includes this so that potential clients fi nd you within the search. If any AFT members working in


independent practice have found innovative ways of working during the current crisis that you would like to share in the AFT email newslet er and on the AFT website online therapy events page, please contact L.Norris@aſt .org.uk


How you can help: Free wellbeing support-service for our healthcare workers


T ousands of coaches and mental health


practitioners have signed up to off er evidence-based support to support the national healthcare team. T is is a not-for- profi t community-interest company led by clinicians and coaches, linking staff in need to professionals with the skills to assist at a time of crisis. Project5 (ht ps://www. project5.org/) is a bespoke acute-crisis response service, designed by experts and delivered at clinical standards. Wellbeing volunteers If you are wellbeing specialist and would


like to get involved, please register here to off er free mental-wellbeing support


Context 169, June 2020


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