Murmurations Journal

“The body suffers and the soul gets tired and doesn’t want to keep trying to retain life or to hold on to life anymore.” Brilliant piece by Smaro Markou! murmurations.cloud/ojs/index.php/…

"Travelling through the unknown conditions of my illness and recovery, who I am and who I am becoming personally and professionally, have been in constant movement and intra-action." Smaro Markou shares a personal testimony of her experience with Covid19. murmurations.cloud/ojs/index.php/…

“I also feel these stories should be told and heard. I feel the same about the relational stories I share about my family.” Please, read Leah Salter’s brilliant paper “Failing health. Exploring tensions.” murmurations.cloud/ojs/index.php/…

Leah Salter writes: "I have also struggled with the tension about telling my own stories of ill health, because I might then be defined by "patienthood” rather than by my professional identity. As if these two things cannot co-exist. But they do." murmurations.cloud/ojs/index.php/…

"When you try to write with uncensored honesty, more emerges than can first be seen or known." Read Gail Simon's paper in @MurmurationsJ recent issue on therapists living with illness. @SystemicInquiry @MurmurationsEds murmurations.cloud/ojs/index.php/…

“These stories map important ethical choices and challenges about how we view ourselves and make sense of our professional identities, our roles as therapists and our relationships with illness, pain and loss that, at times, cannot be ignored.”

A restart to the Video Introducers! linkedin.com/posts/sarah-he…

Ethical Non-Monogamy and Emerging Relationship Structures - Amanda Middleton, Denise Joseph, Niki D A workshop for therapists on polyamory, supporting innovative, ethical and practical choices people are making in their relationships. 14th July - Online ethicalnonmonogamy.eventbrite.co.uk

From the Editorial of our latest issue: "These are daring, first-person stories from professional practitioners, written from within and about our most “human”moments, when we traverse unknown and scary personal paths with health conditions in tow." murmurations.cloud/ojs/index.php/…

New issue of Murmurations: Journal of Transformative Systemic Practice is out! It’s a special issue on therapists living with illness or health conditions that affect their practice and all contributions are powerful! Check it out! murmurations.cloud/ojs/index.php/…

So happy and proud that my paper features in the new issue of Murmurations: Journal of Transformative Systemic Practice with the theme of therapists living with illness or health conditions! murmurations.cloud/ojs/index.php/…

Check out Leah Salter’s brilliantly written paper - stories from her own life as a therapist with life/health issues, her relationship with her dying father - all against a backdrop of the NHS failing its staff. “Failing health. Exploring tensions” murmurations.cloud/ojs/index.php/…

Check out @karenmpartridge paper on poetry as reflexive writing and living theory. "Poetry is described as a way to challenge traditional knowledge and honour alternative knowledges." murmurations.cloud/ojs/index.php/…

Here is the link: us02web.zoom.us/j/83592350618?… Meeting ID: 835 9235 0618 Passcode: 515632 Please join us or if you can’t make that time you can contact us by email: editors@murmurations.cloud

We’re holding a couple of online drop-ins for people to run any ideas by us for papers. These will take place on Thursday 3rd and Thursday 24th November at 9 -10am UK time.

Would you consider writing about your own experience of living with an illness or health condition that has impacted your work as a therapist? @MurmurationsJ Murmurations: Journal of Transformative Systemic Practice is bringing out a special issue on this subject.

Are you aware of transmaterial worlding? It offers hope with responsibility. Many of us are in pain- social injustice, economic inequalities, pandemics, natural disasters. We crave deep systemic changes, bit.ly/3LSw4lZ @MurmurationsJ #inequality #pandemics #pain

@MurmurationsJ, we are proud to present the new Systemic Lives Podcast, a series of videos to meet and connect with the systemic people behind the work! In the first video of the series, Laura Fruggeri talks with Gail Simon @SystemicInquiry about her work. murmurations.cloud/ojs/index.php/…

From the Deputy Co-editor of @MurmurationsJ Dr Joanna Michopoulou @JMichopoulou, whose paper appears in the current issue! murmurations.cloud/ojs/index.php/… #creativewriting #writingfrompractice #systemicpractice

“I think that in the therapy profession we are still grappling with the issue of what ‘indicates’ what, and what else could be a better ‘indication’ of certain ‘things’ we value.” @JMichopoulou #creativewriting #systemicpractice #writingfrompractice