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Editorial – Brian Cade

Remembering Robin Skynner and what I learned from what he taught me – Liz Burns

The Unconference – a process-driven alternative to the AFT conference – Piers Newman

Interconnections: The use of coordinated management of meaning from clinical practice to teaching systemic hypothesising – Joana Ribeiro and Chandra O’Connor

Change and COVID-19: An example of a response to the challenges on wellbeing and connections within the workplace – Olivia Harris, Natalie Slay, Charlotte Jones, Andy Busfield, Daisy Twigger and Vuokko Wallace    

The power of words unspoken – Peter Jones, Aileen McMullin and Jade Rawlins

Supporting frontline safeguarding social workers during COVID-19 using a virtual platform: Food for thought – Anna Diers

Family intervention in forensic mental health services – Andy Cook and Julie Payne

The tree of life continues to bear fruit in the terrain of south Oxon CAMHS: A narrative of a narrative process – Shona Reed Purvis and Sarah Coles

This sounds a lot like therapy: Inviting dialogues, connection and change in research – James Randall, David Wellsted and Lizette Nolte

Harry Procter and David Winter (2020) Personal and Relational Construct Psychotherapy. London: Palgrave/Macmillan. Reviewed by Andy Treacher

IFT virtual workshop: 1.5-order therapy: On knowing, certainty and the conundrum of power in the therapy room, presented by Ged Smith, 25 September 2020 – Report by Eleanor Osman

Life appreciation of John Byng-Hall – John Hills

Tributes to John Byng-Hall

Alan Cooklin and Gill Gorell Barnes (eds.) (2021) Building Children’s Resilience in the Face of Parental Mental Illness. London: Routledge. Reviewed by Gwyn Daniel.

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Brian Cade: 19 August 1942 – 23 February 2021 – Bebe Speed and Kate Daniels

Editorial 2.0 – Susan Mary Benbow and Carole Payne

Riding the merry-go-round in mental health services: Stepping on and stepping off – Madelaine’s story – Angela Shanly and ‘Madelaine’

Towards a systemic model of risk in independent practice – Percy Aggett and Philip Messent

A framework for collaborative working in independent practice – Katrina Waller

Establishing an ethical private practice – Randall Horton and Sarah McConnell

Is mother-daughter therapy a thing? – Rosjke Hasseldine

My therapy chair – Chiara Santin

My favourite pen – Susan Mary Benbow

My path to independent practice – Elaine Holliday

Multiple streams of service: Collaborative-independence as systemic marketplace ministry – Maureen Greaves

Zen mind systemic mind – exploring connections that enhance practice… – Chris Hannah

Developing an ‘internalised representation of significant influencers’ (irosi) as a method and technique, within practice of systemic self-supervision – Kinga Sylwestrzak-Grochulska

The loneliness of the expert witness: Private law where parental alienation is alleged – Myrna Gower and Chip Chimera

Cinderella versus lady knights on horseback – Kate Lewis

Challenges and opportunities in private practice – Hazel Ann Hyslop

Hitch-hikers’ guide to private practice – a practitioner’s tale – Victoria Sharman

Branching out: West Yorkshire AFT – a story of development from birth and early childhood to adolescent yearnings – Carole Hunt

AFT webinar series

Notions of home within a CAMHS inpatient unit – a webinar presented by Hannah Sherbersky, 17 December 2020 – Reviewed by Dianne Russell

AFT AGM and ‘A solution-focused approach to trauma’ – a workshop presented by Ben Furman, 19 October 2020 – Reviewed by Fawzia Kauser

Couples work in the context of the NVR approach – a webinar presented by Erica Pavord and Sarah Rogers, 1 December 2020 – Reviewed by Colin O’Doherty

ASPENS 2021: Relationships in the time of pandemic

Ethical independent practice in a coronavirus world, webinar presented by Chiara Santin and Susan Mary Benbow, 19 January 2021 – Reviewed by Gill Wallis and Julie Shankly

Working differently in a coronavirus world: Affordances and constraints, webinar presented by Gill Goodwillie and Nicola McCarry, 27 January 2021 – Reviewed by Kate Creedy

Maintaining closeness at a time of distancing, webinar presented by Victoria Sharman and Elaine Holliday, 4 February 2021 – Reviewed by Rubi Salam-Ahmed

AFT webinar series

Living in a Zoom world: Assessment and risk assessment in the online environment, moderated by Richard McKenny, 10 February 2021 – Reviewed by Jennifer McKinney

‘ISLAMOPHOBIA and beyond?’, presented by John Hills and Nasima Khanom, 18 February 2021 – Reviewed by Jenny Tozer

Information for employers and commissioners – AFT professional affairs committee

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Editorial – Rav Khela and Joanne Buchmüller

Thinking theory and talking ordinary – An interview with John Burnham

One perspective on NVR – Karl Tomm

An interview with Haim Omer

Interview with Dan Dulberger

Non-violent resistance-based interventions in residential care with teenage refugees: Finding new ways – Kerstin Thys and Annelies Huybrechts

Regulating the emotion of shame: A key factor in helping family members reconnect – Uri Weinblatt

Highly dependent adult children (‘failure to launch’) – Eli R Lebowitz

NVR and resource-oriented practice: An empowering pair – Sven Bussens

Beyond parenting: Therapeutic integration of non-violent resistance and narrative therapy – Peter Jakob and Sarah

The chicken or the egg: Anger, aggression and anorexia – Joanne Buchmüller and Jill Lubienski

Connections which pattern: NVR feeds an eating disorder programme – John Burnham, Beki Brain (co-leaders) and ‘Juanella’ (graduate parent)

Why we (also) need non-violent resistance: When the ‘gold standard’ service offered by early intervention in psychosis services is not always enough – Mark Batterham, Michelle Mogg, Luke Cousins and Nat Burgess

NVR: A whole system approach – Nicky Maund and Lydia Stafford

A thousand battles – Sarah Cole and Carole Payne

Making positive changes for supporters in NVR practice – Stephanie Hicks

NVR UK; Past, present and future: Reflections – Aimi Willmer, Dawn Oliver, Elisabeth Heismann, Liz Day, Julia Jude, Sue Dromey, Michelle McCarthy, Margaret Smith and Denise Wilson

‘Dysgu’ – teaching, learning and embodying NVR – Kiran Flynn and Ann Jones

The differences between traditional parenting and NVR parenting from the viewpoint of different family members – Dawn Oliver, Rachel Braverman and Sophie Doswell

Creative use of personalised interventive interviewing reflexive questions – TK Vincent

Tributes to Pat Gray

Narratives of forgiveness: A tribute to Pat Gray (from the webinar ‘Trauma – the emotional demands it makes on us as clinicians and the resources we draw on in our systemic practice to support families’ presented by Pat Gray and Gillian Hughes at the Manchester AFT symposium, ‘Working with trauma: Building stories of hope and resilience’), 17 March 2021 – Kate Campbell

Both/and: Relational resilience, traumatic disruption – webinar presented by Gerrilyn Smith at the Manchester AFT symposium, ‘Working with trauma: Building stories of hope and resilience’, 15 March 2021 – Kate Campbell

AFT webinar series: A couple in transition: The ultimate challenge? – a webinar by Ruth Yudkin and experienced experts, 26 February 2021 – Emma Balogun

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