I recently participated in the Peakcare Confronting Silence Conference as a Keynote Speaker and in delivering a Masterclass which all participants were able to attend.
I'm sure that those who attended would agree that it was a marvellous conference and I certainly learnt a lot from the participants and from the other Keynote Speakers - Allan Wade and Hugh Mackay.
The focus of my Keynote Address was on change - more particularly, why pressing social issues like those that were the central concern of this conference, domestic violence and child protection, do not change. Why we still continue to live with these issues despite the fact that socially we know that they are unacceptable.
This is, of course, part of a broader issue about social change generally and the ways in which we might deepen our understandings about the processes of change so that we can address these issues more effectively.
i am currently working on a book that addresses some of these issues. My interest is in the relationship between subjectivity and social change. I am particularly interested in how experiences of childhood trauma impact on how we feel about ourselves and our capacity to live our lives freely. I believe that this in turn affects our capacity to create social change. And of course, we live in a society that seems to discourage our sense of connection with ourselves and with others.
Even though I know that these issues are very complex in their origin, I do think that we could be doing much more to create some change.
I'd love to hear your views, opinions, thoughts, etc.
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Jenny
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