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A memorial for Michel White will be held on Monday 16th June at 2.00pm at the Friends Meeting House here in Manchester. The address is 6 Mount Street, Manchester M2 5NS. It is just behind the central library.

Afterwards there will be the opportunity for social interaction at a venue close by.

We warmly welcome everyone, whether you knew Michael personally or were touched by his work, to join us in celebrating Michael’s life and work at this event. To help us with planning it we would be appreciated it if you can RSVP by email if you are intending to come.

One local response to Michael’s death has been the initiation of a collection in his memory honouring of his connections with the local community. The funds from this collection will be donated to the Wish Centre, a small voluntary project addressing issues of domestic violence. Michael visited the Wish Centre, characteristically providing free consultation. It was a project that was close to his heart.

The Wish Centre will be represented at the memorial and donations can be made on the day or via the Centre for Narrative Practice.

We appreciate that not everyone who wishes to will be able to attend the memorial, and if you would like to send a brief message about how Michael has touched your life then we will display it at the memorial. It would help if this is in the form of an attachment to an email.

A memorial was held for Michael in Adelaide on Friday April18th. Maggie Carey, from the Adelaide Narrative Therapy Centre, which Michael established shortly before he died writes:

Dear friends and colleagues,

I am just writing to let you know that the Adelaide Narrative Therapy Centre web site www.adelaidenarrativetherapycentre.com.au has some photos and words from the public memorial for Michael that took place here in Adelaide last Friday.

It was a very significant event for all of us and was a real tribute to Michael's connections to so many people in many different ways.

Warmest thoughts,

Maggie

The sad news is that following a heart attack earlier in the week Michael died last night, Friday April 4th, in San Diego.

Michael was with those who he loved and who loved him through his last hours and his passing was peaceful.

There are so many of us for whom Michael has been an abiding inspiration and whose lives have been changed for knowing him or his work. Words cannot express how much we will miss him. Equally, we may all celebrate what he has abundantly contributed and may continue to honour him and maintain connection with him in the living of our lives.

We will announce any plans there may be for a formal event of remembrance and gratitude here in the UK.

ALAN JENKINS (author of 'Invitations to Responsibility') presents two one day workshops in London, Manchester and Glasgow (one workshop only in Glasgow) in May 2008. Click here for details.

EUROPEAN CONFERENCE OF NARRATIVE THERAPY AND COMMUNITY WORK July 9th & 10th 2009. We are proud to announce that we will be hosting this, the first European Conference of Narrative Therapy and Community Work, in London. Further details as they become available.

Level 1 in Nottingham, Leeds and Newcastle-u-Tyne (as well as Manchester, of course!) starting 2008 click here for information

The Narrative Forum is an email magazine published 3 or 4 times a year. It provides an informal space for you to write about (and read about) your experiences of using narrative ideas in whatever setting, or for you to write about workshops you have attended, books or articles you have read, or almost anything else! To receive the Narrative Forum email Hugh Fox on narrativefox@googlemail.com with a line or two about where you work and what you do. To contribute to the Forum please email Sarah Walther on forum@narrativepractice.com First time writers are particularly welcome and Sarah will be happy to discuss your ideas with you if this would be helpful.

We are an independent organisation in Manchester UK. We offer training in narrative therapy, supervision and counselling/therapy for families and individuals as well as organising workshops and conferences and providing inservice training and consultation.

Since our inauguration in 2002 we have hosted a number of events notably, along with Dulwich Centre, Adelaide, the 5^th International Conference of Narrative Therapy and Community Work in Liverpool in July 2003.

As well as two further conferences of narrative therapy and community work, in March 2005 we hosted a conference Beyond Multi-culturalism: addressing issues of 'race' and privilege and a two day workshop with the Just Therapy Team from Wellington, New Zealand. The key note address by Suman Fernando is on this site (articles).

The Centre also provides inservice training packages on a range of subjects including narrative therapy, counselling, family therapy, family mediation and solution focused work. We are available for consultations with agencies and community groups on a range of issues including team development and cohesion, working with race and gender and also considerations of social justice in therapy.

We are committed to ways of working that separate the person from the problem, avoid practices of power or expertise over those we work with and which open space for those whose lives are marginalised in our culture.

We also seek to support those practising in line with these principles and to further the spread of ideas that are consistent with these principles.

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