August 2019, Issue No. 164, ISSN 0969-1936 Issue Editor: Lizette Nolte General Editor: Brian Cade, 11 Beresford House, Shepherds Way, Cirencester, Gloucestershire GL7 2EX Email:
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Contents
Editorial Lizette Nolte
T e politics of practice and the state we are in Jim Wilson
Towards systemic praxis for social change: T e politics of practice and practices of hope Jan Parker
Privilege and struggle: A personal journey towards anti-oppressive and anti-racist
practice Pieter W Nel
“T e ‘us’ and ‘them’ situation… it’s been a humanitarian failing since the oldest time”:
When one’s very sense of self is a political mat er Victoria Cantons and Lizette Nolte
Making an art of failure: ‘T ese are not ordinary lives’ Hamilton Kennedy
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Refl ections on the value of trauma-informed care in a refugee-camp set ing in Greece Jacqui Scott, Lotus Warren, Alex Sonkin and Batseba Asefaw
T e professional, political and personal self: A faith-based indigenous psychology service in the context of disaster and loss, grief and trauma work. Grenfell Tower Fire,
14 June 2017. Nasima Khanom
Political PIEs: Learning f om f ontline housing services Rachel Brown, Coral Westaway and Clare Watson
Triumph in the face of adversity Anonymous
Providing a humanising service for our dehumanised clients Jessica Saff er
T e Zone of Fabulousness: Resisting vicarious trauma with connection, collective care
and justice-doing in ways that centre the people we work alongside Vikki Reynolds
Holding onto hope in the midst of austerity: A staff response to serial cuts and
restructuring of a CAMHS Elizabeth Boyd
Supporting people with intellectual disability and autism – resisting burnout and
Navigating turbulent waters with hope to co-create islands of safety Afrah Abdullahi, Sureya Ali, Lauren Canvin, Kim Coulson and Shirin Mustafa
“T e strong do what they can and the weak suff er what they must”: Palestinian
families under occupation Gwyn Daniel
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preventing sleepwalking: A conversation between systemically minded psychologists Nina Viljoen, Helen Ellis-Caird, Louisa Rhodes and Annabel Head
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‘Going out towards Hackney by coach for the ayre’: Walking and talking together Jacqui Henry, Bruce Edwards, Anita Finch, Stephanie Monteilh, Jessica Muir and Angela Byrne 18
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