About the Workshop
This workshop will provide a contextualised and research-based understanding of how to enhance and support the emotional health and well-being of Unaccompanied Asylum-Seeking Children. It will bring alive Ana Draper, Elisa Marcellino and Samantha Thomson’s recent book on Systemic and Narrative work with Unaccompanied Asylum-Seeking Children. Please see link below should you wish to order the book.
We will weave together the stories told by these children and the things that make a difference. It is from the narratives told, that an exploration took place about new ways of being together.
Workshop Objectives
- Exploring the LDR Framework as a lived experience in the here and now
- Consider how the framework is positioned and the theory behind the practice
- Exploring techniques that support and enhance well-being
- Addressing political positioning and the implication of linguistics to this positioning.
Integrating Perspectives
This workshop will offer:
- Systemic and Narrative stories of relocation
- CBE as a way of being resource focused on the enquiries made.
Why Attend?
This workshop provides practical insights and reflective opportunities for practitioners working:
- With refugee and looked after children
- Within NGO’s working with refugee children
- To enhance personal and professional growth through shared learning.
Let’s come together to foster understanding, to explore this approach, method and techniques, with the child’s needs at the centre of well-being.
Dr Ana Draper is a consultant systemic psychotherapist and is the discipline lead for systemic psychotherapy at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust. She is a doctor in systemic psychotherapy and a clinical supervisor. She has worked in the field of childhood bereavement and palliative care, in asylum with unaccompanied asylum-seeking children, as well as adoption and looked after children. Her research has been recognised at an international level and she has presented her clinical work with children in Ecuador, Malawi, Sierra Leone, Australia and Europe. In her work with Unaccompanied Asylum-Seeking Children, she has developed a systemic and narrative framework called Location, Dislocation and Relocation, as an approach that is linked to her therapeutic practice. This way of working has gone on to be used across the UK and in Europe.