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ACA & NZAC Conference 2010

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Cross Cultural Hui/Gathering
Class 8.45am - 3.30pm
Venue : University of Auckland Tamaki Campus, cnr Merton and Morrin Road, Glen Innes.

Pacific Research Symposium: Cross-cultural Conversations about Pacific Identities, Mental
Health and Wellbeing

Of the many themes that interweave to shape Pacific people’s lives and wellbeing, particular strands that will be addressed in this symposium include identities, “in-betweenness” and connectedness; change, loss, grief and gain; resilience and joy; spirit and wellbeing. This one-day Pacific research symposium is an opportunity for dialogue among researchers and practitioners in fields related to the mental health and wellbeing of people of the Pacific— Máori, Pasifika, and Aboriginal—around these themes.

As well as a keynote presentation and papers presented in concurrent sessions, there will be an open space throughout the day for Máori as tangata whenua to meet and kórero with Aboriginal and other delegates.

Metiria Turei
Opening Address

The first keynote address will be given by Metiria Turei. An Aotearoa/New Zealand Green MP since 2002, Metiria was elected Green Party Co-leader in June 2009. Metiria’s focus is Social Equity, Children’s Issues and Electoral Law Reform. She’s been leading the campaign to save our treasured places from mining, protect the Mokihinui River, and has fought for greater protection for marine animals and the marine environment.
Metiria has also worked on Justice issues advocating for implementation of Te Tiriti o Waitangi, restorative justice, the rights of victims and effective rehabilitation of offenders. When able to escape the world of politics, Metiria spends time with her family in Dunedin.

Robina Otrupeck
Australian “Sorry Business” and culturally appropriate counselling.

The grief suffered across the generations by Indigenous Australians over the last 200 years is often the source of the current discontent that has lead to many mental health issues. The intention of this presentation is to look at important aspects of Aboriginal cultures to enable useful assistance in this grief. An attempt to understand and accept these differences and generate the respect that will improve the success rate in therapeutic approaches.

Meri Ormsby
Heart transplantation: A Mäori Whanau Journey

How we coped through this extremely traumatic experience. Three years post transplantation - dilemmas still arise. Communication, language and culture played an integral role in this process. However, our beliefs and experiences as instilled in our upbringing often could not be discussed openly with medical professionals, “They just wouldn’t understand …”. Spiritual questions still remain unanswered in regards to future developments, e.g. whakapapa – is the blood line altered? Should we be permitted to do as we like with our native organs. E.g. burying lungs under the rose bush? As organ donation becomes more common these questions will become more evident and will need addressing.

Claire Ferguson
Out of our comfort zone: Holistic counselling in a multi-cultural school

Effective pastoral services depend on leadership from the Prinicpal and the Board of Trustees, teamwork and trust among all involved in the pastoral network. The counsellor has a critical role in developing and maintaining the pastoral network as she or he is a nexus linking many ‘player’ in the school, community and key agencies.
In developing pastoral services our school has been guided by the vision, values and principles of the New Zealand curriculum. This paper describes the philosophy behind and the implementation of our pastoral services which embraced all aspects of student well-being and development, the counsellor’s role in the process and aspects of safe practice in a challenging environment.

Stan Korosi & Gabby Skelsey
Coming together discussing intimacy, sex and the fragility of life: how therapists respond to working with couples regardless of gender

Communication in relationships is paramount to the healthy continuation of a relationship. However, when intimacy and sex are discussed, this conjures up different meanings for individuals. Couples and therapists have to negotiate the paradoxical relationship between sex and intimacy, and male and female notions of these aspects of relationship. What is specially required of therapists to deal with sex and intimacy that is different from what they do now? This workshop discusses how to create a therapeutic relationship by exploring how therapists can locate themselves and facilitate the communication that is so paramount to the healthy continuation of a relationship.

Mike Williams
Using “Undercover Teams” to re-story Bullying Relationships

Traditional responses to bullying and harassment in schools usually focus on either punishment or exclusion of the person or persons who are bullying or by attempts to change the behaviour of the victim. The usual approaches schools make to bullying behaviour are punitive. Ironically, the message beneath the surface is that the right to bully is not so much wrong as it is reserved for those from the school authorities. Undercover Teams by contrast, use a relationally transformative and deeply respectful approach based on the principles of narrative mediation whereby those responsible for the bullying are recruited into a select team who make it their
mission to interrupt bullying behaviours.

This workshop uses real-life stories to describe how the school counsellor uses the Undercover Team Approach in a strategic way to disrupt a story of bullying relations in a secondary school classroom and rewrite an alternative story of support for the victim. It includes a description of the process beginning with the notification of the bullying event and describes the creation of the team. Its progress is tracked to show how the team eliminates the bullying. It shows how the Undercover Team Approach opens up an expanded range of positions for the members of the undercover team, how these changes occur and how the team members and the counsellor co-author a new story of peaceful relations in a high school classroom.

Richard Hill
Therapy and the Brain

We will overview the brain and mind especially examining the neurobiological processes of stress and anxiety and their effect on behaviour; The social brain; Mirror neurons and interpersonal neurobiology. We will look at behaviours such as ADHD, Alexithymia, Compulsive Disorders and Learning Difficulties borrowing from the teachers of Daniel Siegel (IPNB); Lou Cozolino; Ernest Rossi; And Matthew Leiberman amongst others. The information is presented in simple, understandable language that provides a foundation for those who wish to include an understanding of the brain and mind into their practice.

Marilyn Raffensperger
A rewarding but complex practice environment

Clients with an intellectual disability are an underserved client group in our profession. They experience the same range of emotional and mental health needs as the general population, but numerous barriers impede their engagement in counselling. Counsellors have an opportunity to build bridges across these barriers and promote positive outcomes. Unfortunately, many counsellors are unfamiliar or uncomfortable with working with clients with an intellectual disability. Questions and concerns abound. This presentation is based on a multiple case study of six clients with an intellectual disability, their counsellors and their support people. Some positive outcomes were noted in each case. This presentation will provide a description of this rewarding but complex field of practice. This paper is co- authored with Associate Professor Judi Miller and Dr. Brigit Mirfin-
Veitch.

Beverley Flitton
FRIENDS for Life in North Canterbury

FRIENDS is a 10 week programme with 2 booster sessions for young people who are experiencing anxiety. The programme has a parenting component and is designed to build resiliency and to teach children about feelings, body awareness, coping skills and problem solving skills. This was a collaborative piece of work between a government agency, Canterbury District Health Board (CDHB) and a non government agency, Family Works (FW) North Canterbury. The presentation will discuss the findings of the study and will include a discussion on the experience of working across agencies; delivering a programme in North Canterbury; working with young people who are experiencing anxiety/depression and their families and the pros and cons of a prescribed
intervention.

Cherie Martin
A Therapeutic Intervention for Separated Parents in High Conflict

A therapeutic framework to work with complex issues around separation. A case study will be followed that will help practitioners to identify blockages that may need to be worked through. The children are also seen in this model and the impact on them is fed back to parents strategically. This is a model that helps practitioners feel grounded in what is often rigorous work.

Alastair Crocket
“A very fractured thing” or “searching for a place to stand”? Exploring connections
between settler identities in Australia and Aotearoa.

In Aotearoa New Zealand and Australia both political action and inaction invite practitioners who identify with settler heritages to consider our commitment to postcolonial counselling praxis.

The starting point for this presentation is an observation that white Australians and Pakeha New Zealanders frequently name many commonalities, such as sporting rivalries and the ANZAC tradition. However, the fundamental commonality of our colonising heritages is seldom named. An introductory paper will foreground a facilitated conversation among participants who will be invited to speak from their experiences of holding an identity that has been shaped by connection to a colonising heritage or by contact with a colonising tradition and practices.

Monika Jephcott and Jeff Thomas
Counselling Children Using Play & Creative Arts Therapies

Many adult problems addressed by Counsellors, Psychotherapists, Psychologists and other mental health professionals have their origin in childhood. 20% of children have emotional, behaviour and mental health issues. Neuroscience tells us that the ability to change our mind is easier when we are young. The presentation will demonstrate a model for alleviating these problems. It will also include the latest clinical outcomes, drawn from over 3000 cases, including evidence that our view of Maslow’s hierarchy should be revised. Although focussed on children, the workshop will also provide participants with ideas for using these skills with adults and adolescents.

Jason Dixon
Introduction to Structured Relapse Prevention: An integrative approach to working with
alcohol and other drug problems

Wellness is a way of life oriented to optimal health and living fully within the human and natural community. Clients struggling with alcohol and other drug problems are seeking an improvement wellness and quality of life. Structured Relapse Prevention (SRP) is a program of integrated counselling strategies that includes Motivational Interviewing, cognitive-behavioural treatments, and a variety of coping skills strategies that are organised to meet clients’ different needs and treatment goals. Clients are met where they are in their current substance use and autonomy for change remains with the client. This presentation is an introductory overview for Counsellors who wish to expand their skills repertoire for working with clients presenting with
alcohol and other drug problems.

Vi Woolf, Te Ahi Kaa and memebrs of the Nat ional Maori Roopu
National Maori Roopu Hui

Members of the National Maori Roopu will take time to caucus together about the issues relevant to them. Please indicate if you will be attending this hui.

Jeannie Wright, Brent Gardiner, Steve Lang, Catherine Love and Kitt Coomber
Counsellor education in Aotearoa New Zealand: moving towards change

This presentation tracks the revision of a counsellor education programme; the modifications to which are informed by results of research into graduate student counsellors’ experiences of their training some years on. In response to these findings and other research we propose a pluralistic culture-centred model of counsellor education which furthermore responds to the intent of Te Tiriti O Waitangi. The revised programme merges the work of Durie (2007) and McLeod (2009) to create a collaborative model of counsellor education and practice. The authors argue that this approach is fitting for contemporary counselling practice as the field confronts a critical time in its history.

Judi Miller
Taking a walk on the light side: interpreting humorous representations of counselling in cartoons and graphic art in popular print media

In this paper I will present an illustrated description of cartoonists’ representations of counselling and interpret them in the context to two elements of intellectual and practical professional activity. The first focuses on counsellors’ and psychotherapists’ enthusiastic alignment of their work with research that emphasises the health benefits of humour and the impact of such adaptive strengths as optimism, faith, courage and humour on outcomes in therapy. The second element focuses on the potential benefits, or not, of using humour as a medium to promote the profession of counselling and psychotherapy. Given current research confirming the impact of expectancy on therapeutic outcomes I expect the paper to encourage discussion of the place of
humour in our profession.

Ann Moir-Bussy
Engaging Diversity in Counsellor Education through dialogic teaching – A model
developed with Hong Kong Students for creating space for transformative learning

It is a challenging task to engage students in a dialogic encounter where they can tap into their rich implicit cultural knowledge and transform what the ‘received’ from lectures and books into either an amalgamation of Eastern and Western ideas, or an appreciation of their unique Chinese perspective. This paper explores the dialogic process taken with Chinese students and will examine the nature of the dialogic encounters and what the students themselves learnt and felt about this journey. It is hoped that this experience of these Chinese students will be an example of engaging with diversity in counsellor education.

Joane Goulding
Developing a Child’s Emotional Resilience – The Minds Firewall

Joane is a published author and engaging speaker who has delivered papers at conferences around the world. She offers health professionals and parents an absolutely safe, ethical solution in creating happy, calm and stress free home environments. The process taking only a few moments is presented by parent’s whist the child sleeps. It’s endorsed by members of the medical and psychological professions. Devolved in the 1970’s, it’s a self empowering process helping to balance children’s behaviour issues, anxiety, stress and relationships. Joane will discuss the positive down line ramifications of change and calmness that SleepTalk™ creates, which
permeates throughout the entire family.

Jeannie Grant
So You Think You Can’t Juggle: reclaiming experiences of success in the moment.

Juggling has been around for centuries bringing entertainment and delight to many. Most research associated with the benefits of juggling involve brain plasticity, metaphorical applications and motor skill development. My experience has been that virtually all people can learn the classic three-ball cascade and that it is in the learning experience that another form of therapeutic magic takes place. I have found that when people are given permission to play with failure and even rename and re-experience it as a vital tool moving towards ‘success’ that anxiety reduces as well as a reconnection with enthusiasm for trying. Trust is woven into the process by developing an identity as a ‘juggler’ through the telling of stories about the ways jugglers see each other that is different to ‘outsiders’. By becoming part of the juggling ‘culture’ there are certain entitlements to the mysteries and magic of the success experience. This is a practical workshop where you will experience this magic first hand and become part of the juggling family. You do not need to bring anything with you, except the hope of a unique experience.

Clive Jones
Sport Counselling: Bringing social and emotional factors into the mix of elite sporting performance, healthy athletic development and the individual athlete’s wellbeing.

Sport Counsellors’ are specialists in psychotherapeutic intervention who aim to enhance performance of the elite athlete through facilitating positive mental health. Recent events in Australia Sport have shown a pressing need for greater involvement of the sport focused counsellor due to a noticeable increase in reported incidents of drinking binges, illicit drug use, violent acts, sexual assault and other forms of extremely destructive behaviours by high profile elite competitors. Counsellors working in the sporting community are strategically placed as specialists in the filed to address this issue head on. This workshop highlights five key areas of influence in the aetiology and treatment of poor behaviour in elite sport. These areas include; confused boundaries with
aggression, limited self image, poor emotional regulation, deficiencies in emotional intelligence, and an excessively narrow mental focus that are cultivated through destructive sport specific sub cultural influences. Sport based counselling approaches are discussed to establish how the sport focused counsellor can help facilitate healthy athletic development and optimum sporting performance through enhancing the athlete’s overall psychosocial wellbeing.

Miriama Tolo, Mercy Drummond, Leka Farquhar, Susan Singer, Ruta Etuale, Peter Tia
An experiential journey

Halo olaketa, Mauri, Kia Orana, Ni sa bula vinaka, Talofa lava, Malo Ni, Malo e lelei, Fakaloha lahi atu, Kia Ora and warm Pacific greetings. Six Wellington based Counsellors of Pacific Island heritage, part of an on-going peer group, share their experiences on their journey to become Counsellors in Aotearoa/New Zealand. Collectively we represent over 60 years of experience in working alongside children, adolescents, adults, couples, families and groups covering a range of issues such as anxiety , depression, addictions, relationships, families, abuse, violence and clinical and cultural supervision, working for agencies, schools, private practice, contracts and voluntary.

Our journeys are varied and different – and some of the issues we will be looking at will be referral for mainstream, equity, distribution of resources, allocation, positives and strengths, developing culturally relevant counsellors, respect and perception. In sharing we hope to impart to others our unique way of working and give some understanding and clarity of what it is to be specifically Pacific.

Averill Waters
Bridging between home and school for Tongan students

As a school counsellor I became aware that a group of Tongan students were not positioned well within the school community. While the school has an ethos of care the practices have not had the effect of being inclusive as intended. This paper outlines the personal impact of my small research project into the challenges Tongan students face on a daily basis as they negotiate between different sets of cultural values. My research aimed to consider how, as a school, we might do better in serving the educational interests of these students. This paper focuses on the shaping effects of the research for my professional and personal life. Its argument is that my researcher experiences have profoundly shaped my counselling practice.

Byron Seiuli
Trauma and grief counselling following the Tsunami in Samoa. A first hand account of the recovery work with families affected by the devastation.

Trauma and grief is synonymous with personal tragedy and loss. The Tsunami of September 2009 that devastated the small islands of Samoa and Tonga brought a wave of unprecedented trauma, grief and loss to the small islands and her people they had never experienced previously. This paper is a personal reflection and assessment of the therapeutic services and procedures provided to the victims and families of those affected by the tsunami by a Samoan counsellor who was part of the ‘psycho-social’ response team in the first two weeks after the tsunami in Samoa.

Nickei Falconer
Sharing Common Ground: Sustainable Practices in a warming world

We practice as counsellors and psychotherapists in a world experiencing environmental change and crisis and are currently faced with major considerations of ecological sustainability. Individuals can easily feel overwhelmed by their insignificance and be paralysed to take effective action when there is an environmental crisis on such a global level. However, sustainability can also be built from personal levels; in fact this is crucial to wider sustainable change. How you relate to yourself and the internal balance you create with(in) yourself will change your relationship with yourself, and by association with others, and your physical environment. Sustainability is about relating; the inter-relatedness you have with your self and your interdependence
with something other than yourself.

This 90 minute interactive, workshop will be an opportunity to take some time to recharge. We will take some breathing space to reconnect with ourselves personally and to consider sustainability on personal and professional levels. What contributes to your self support and your environmental support? How can you honour your relationship more as a human on our shared Earth, as you work with others?

Jane Harkness
From “a giant leap of faith” to “a rekindling”

In 2008, as part of the Master of Counselling programme from the University of Waikato, New Zealand, I completed my research project. The research focused on investigating my own counselling practice, as a pakeha counsellor, with three Maori women, Huia, Mihi and Nikki. In the research I was interested to investigate the effects of the counselling conversations where we had included tentative explorations about aspects of their Maori identity. I will talk about those counselling practices, such as narrative co-researching and tentative inquiry (and their effects) that supported me to engage in such inquiries. I will include the kinds of questions and ideas that were useful to me as a practitioner in beginning these explorations. Workshop participants will be invited to engage in discussion about their own experiences of tentative inquiry, when working with people
whose ethnicity / culture might be different from their own.

Judith Morgan
The Mirror Cracked – Attachment and the Therapeutic Relationship

The therapeutic relationship has been widely regarded as important, even central, to the work of psychotherapy. However, the role of the attachment in the therapeutic process, much less within the therapeutic relationship itself, is something which is almost never discussed. Yet, when a child is referred for therapy it is common, even usual, to discover that the child has experienced disruption to a significant attachment relationship, or multiple such experiences which impact in serious ways on his or her life. This presentation will draw upon a number of actual cases, as well as utilise experiential techniques in order to explore the topic.

Mani Mitchell
Therapy outside the counselling room

An interactive lecture about one counsellor’s public journey with world-renowned
photographer Rebecca Swan.My name is Mani Mitchell in 1996 I became the first person in New Zealand to go public and visible as an intersex person. I once worked in emergency anagement during which time I received extensive media training. I am also a counsellor. In 1997 I agreed to work with artist, photographer, cancer survivor, twin Rebecca Swan on a project she was developing exploring gender variance.

This paper will explore that journey, collaboration this extraordinary journey/project has become. A high end photography book called Assume Nothing, 6 major exhibitions, workshops, 2 films, that have both won multiple international awards trips overseas. Assume Nothing has become for me the most powerful life-changing thing I have done, as I say outside the counselling room. Together Rebecca and I will talk in detail about the process, the collaboration.

A very private process has become for me something very public. As a counsellor it has taken me to explore a new evolving place as I have sort to hold ethical professional realities most people most counsellors never have to. In this paper I will seek to draw conclusions and offer a conversation about what this could mean for
counselling in general.

Sue Cornforth
Sustaining the international whanu/family in a warming world: recent thinking in psychology and ethics

Psychologists have become increasingly concerned about their role and responsibilities where global warming is concerned, and are encouraging research into various aspects of the human-nature relationship (e.g. American Psychological Association, 2009). At the same time, many writers are increasingly framing global warming as an ethical problem, stressing the urgent need for a shift from anthropocentrism to ecocentrism through acknowledgement of interdependence with natural environments. This shift is considered a prerequisite to addressing issues of exploitation and social justice. This paper discusses some recent thinking and research findings and considers the relevance of these to the counselling profession.

Wendy Talbot
‘Audiencing as practice: Performing reflexive relationships’

In this paper I discuss the guided reflexive audiencing process that I have developed as part of a doctoral research project. The ethos of inquiry and theoretical stance taken up in reflexive audiencing, produce a conversational space in which people can engage in a reflexive, recursive process of viewing, re-viewing, evaluating and developing relationships. The visual/audio component, made available through the use of video, makes visible the relationship, its process and practices for reflexion and review. The implications and potential of reflexive audiencing for personal, therapeutic, supervisory or professional relationships will be explored.

Vivianne Flintoff and Shirley Rivers
Our Responsibilities in shaping our counselling curriculum: What do we teach counselling students in Aotearoa/New Zealand and why do we teach in these ways.

We have begun to take a critical approach to ‘universal’ (Western) therapeutic approaches and are developing models of teaching where we acknowledge the influence of non-Mäori by Te Ao Mäori and kaupapa Mäori Practice.

We will describe our emerging counselling curriculum where we use specific local metaphors that allow counselling students to consider their relationship with Aotearoa, tangata whenua, and each other. We will detail the weaving of Mäori and Western practice frameworks. In re-developing the curriculum, our hope is that students will intentionally shape their emerging counselling practice for Aotearoa and in the future.

Ron and Kath Cronin-Lampe
Restorative Practices an opportunity for Relational Connection.

This workshop outlines our school’s journey towards developing a restorative culture, our place within this context, and the subsequent work required to ensure that practices, pathways and systems within were relationally sound, restorative and enhancing of relationships. To introduce our understanding of the restorative paradigm we make visible our personal and professional journey. Our premise for this paper is the belief that restorative philosophy is a relational philosophy, and that the key to relationships is engagement and connectedness. This philosophy draws on narrative assumptions for building restorative conversations. This article promotes the view that in blending our personal with our professional selves, relationships are likely to achieve greater depth and connection. It discusses the natural evolution of a training package that shares the excitement of introducing restorative ways of thinking and practicing with others.

John Dalimore
Workfella - Where we meet in the workplace

Workfella is about accessing identity and empowerment. We are Aotearoa Maori, Solomon Islander and Australians of Aboriginal, Anglo and Celtic descent. Walking the journey together we will demonstrate the Workfella model designed to prepare for the life changes and the issues that surround workplace. What does it mean to be Aboriginal? How far have we come in accepting our difference? Just what is the little club called “other”? This interactive workshop will demonstrate our way of working.

THE LANGHAM HOTEL AUCKLAND - 5 STAR
Conference Venue

Run of House Room NZD 199.00

QUEST AUCKLAND - 4 STAR

Studio Room NZD 160.00
One Bedroom NZD 200.00