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Overcoming Oppressive Communications Sept 2012
- 1. Overcoming Oppressive Dysfunctional Communications inMental Health Communities Liam Mac Gabhann & Paddy McGowan School of Nursing & Human Sciences Dublin City University
- 2. The key toless dysfunctional oppressive communications? Power Expertise Diversity Multiple truths Collective journeying and determination Unknowing Seeing, hearing, understanding each other..
- 3. Open Dialogue As aform of open communication As a therapeutic approach Service Delivery As a process to aid organisational development As a process for community development
- 4. Open Dialogue ascommunication “where it is perceived as a joint action that joins people together in a temporary mutual world experience. Participants have to be willing to engage in this dialogue or a situation needs to be created where it can ensue” (Bakhtin 1981) Subject to subject (with,not to!) Co-creating and naming their world Don’t have to abandon beliefs or values
- 5. Characteristics of OpenDialogue Processes The dialogue is based on give and take as An argument can be rejected only after an opposed to one way communication investigation (and not for instance, on the All people concerned by the issue under grounds that it arises from a source with investigation should have the opportunity limited legitimacy) to participate All arguments to enter the dialogue must be Participants are obliged to help other represented by the actors (participants) participants be active in the dialogue present All participants have the same status All participants are obliged to accept that within the dialogue arena other participants may have better Experience is the point of departure for arguments than their own participation Among discussion issues can be the roles At least some of the experience the occupied by participants with no one exempt participant has when entering the from such a discussion dialogue is seen as relevant The dialogue should be able to integrate a It must be possible for all participants to growing degree of disagreement have an understanding for the topics The dialogue should continuously generate under discussion decisions that provide a platform for joint action (Gustavsen, 2001)
- 6. Mental Health TrialogueNetwork Ireland Liam Mac Gabhann,, Paddy McGowan Michaela Amering, Lorna Ni Cheirin, Anne Spencer Catherine, Martin, Jenny, Colette, Clem, Adrian, Kevin, Maeve, Damien, Lorraine, Michael Libby, Paul, Gerry, Evelyn, Vinnie, Sue, Joan, Josephine, Eoin, Susan, Cathy, Andrea, Steven, Bernie And all the rest of Trialogue co-participants……. www.trialogue.co
- 7. Mental Health TrialogueNetwork Ireland Emerged partly as a consequence of our national leadership programme Concern about people being stuck in our mental health bubble It was about community liberation How has it played out?
- 8. Is it Aboutme in my community or separated from my community….?
- 9. Moving beyond thebubble of the mental health community……… into ‘the community’ Community Liberation
- 10. How has itplayed out? South Tipperary Dublin South Central Galway Donegal Dublin South West Mayo West Cork And beyond…
- 11. Trialogue Meetings What doI/you bring to Trialogue What do I/you take from Trialogue We have to consciously make a decision to engage in Trialogue Communication and it is not for everyone…….
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Editor's Notes
- #5 Each person speaks and expresses their understanding or perception on the menaing of experience (therapeutic interaction) who are inturn listened to by the others who then get their turn Participants reflect on the whole picture an dtogether try and create some menaing that makes sense to them all or at least can be mutually understoood. The very act of putting each persons story into the equation, in itself creates new meaning. Through dialogue, people are in a positoin to explore ways of embracingdifferent perceptions or agreeing conjoint ones. Consesus is good but not necessarily as long as mutual understanding is on the way to being reached Don’t have to abandon beliefs as long as we understand and respect others perception.