Uploaded: December 2019, Issue 36
Keywords:
Systemic Practice, Applied Social Research, Murmurations.
Gail Simon
Gail Simon, D. Prof, UKCP reg., AFT reg., Principal Lecturer in Systemic Practice, Institute of Applied Social Research, University of Bedfordshire. Programme Director, Professional Doctorate in Systemic Practice www.beds.ac.uk/pdsp.
Papers: https://beds.academia.edu/GailSimon. Editor, Murmurations: Journal of Transformative Systemic Practice. www.murmurations.cloud
Latest Publications • Simon, Gail & Salter, Leah (2019). Transmaterial Worlding. Beyond Human Systems. Murmurations: Journal of Transformative Systemic Practice, 2, 2, 1-17. https://murmurations.cloud • Simon, Gail; Evans, Mairi; Urbistondo Cano, Francisco; Helps, Sarah & Vlam, Ingrid (2020). Autism and Systemic Family Therapy. Chapter in Handbook of Systemic Family Therapy, Eds. Karen Wampler, Renee Singh et al. London: Wiley. • Simon, Gail & Salter, Leah (2020). Transmaterial Worlding as Inquiry. Chapter in The Sage Handbook of Social Constructionist Practice. Eds. Mary Gergen, Sheila McNamee et al. London: Sage Publications.
Abstract
It was year four. 2010. Lisen and I went to Dublin to get some consultation from Imelda McCarthy on our dissertations. It was all quite heady: intellectually and physically ready. We were not doing traditional doctorates. We were developing new dialogical methodologies to show systemic practice in action. We spent half a day bent over our notepads on the train travelling along Dublin Bay in the pouring rain, working out each of our time frames to final submission. That evening we went out for dinner with Imelda and Michael. When they dropped us later at the bus stop, we went to two, maybe three pubs and gate-crashed someone’s wedding where we danced until the early hours. The next morning when I woke up, I sat upright in the hotel bed and wrote this story of my systemic practice doctorate at KCC.