Transgenerational stories of hope across cultures; old wisdoms and new truths
Thursday 29 & Friday 30 September 2022, Queens Hotel Leeds
Programme
The AFT Conference 2022 is packed with informative and relevant content from renowned and up and coming speakers. We really hope you enjoy the programme. Please note that speakers, timings and subject to change.
Important Note for Virtual Attendees - Virtual tickets include all keynote and plenary sessions but only one workshop from each workshop session. This is due to logistical reasons. Please look out for the following symbols next to each session on the programme...
In-Person | Virtual - This session is included with both the 'In-Person' tickets and the 'Virtual' ticket.
In-Person Only - This session is only available to in-person attendees.
Day 1 - Thursday 29 September
08:30 to 10:00
Coffee and Registration
10:00 to 10:30
Welcome to the Conference
West Yorkshire AFT and Alison Lowe OBE, West Yorkshire Deputy Mayor for Policing and Crime
In-Person | Virtual
10:30 to 11:30
Keynote Presentation 1 - Adventures in time, gender and therapeutic practice: embracing a queer systemic way of working with gender expansive families
Amanda Middleton
In-Person | Virtual
11:30 to 12:00
Coffee Break
12:00 to 13:00
Keynote Presentation 2
Hendrix Hammond
In-Person | Virtual
13:00 to 14:15
Lunch Break
14:15 to 15:15
Workshop Session 1 (click here for abstracts)
Workshop 1 - Are you being systemic enough?
Phil Arthington and Kate Hall
In-Person | Virtual
Workshop 2 - Keynote Presenter Workshop
Amanda Middleton
In-Person Only
Workshop 3 - Between old wisdoms and new truths
Shaziyah Afzal with Dawn Walker
In-Person Only
Workshop 4 - The LUUUTT Model in relation to place: an exploration
Hazel Kent with Anne Oakes
In-Person Only
Workshop 5 - Voices of children in care: extending hope, exploring possibilities
Wendy Lobatto, Nicola Herring, Colin Waterman, Sabine Vermeire
In-Person Only
15:15 to 15:45
Coffee Break
15:45 to 16:45
Workshop Session 2 (click here for abstracts)
Workshop 6 - Keynote Presenter Workshop
Hendrix Hammond
In-Person | Virtual
Workshop 7 - Systemic Artivism – Creative Tussles of Social Justice
Anokh Goodman with Helen Turner, Nafeesa Nizami
In-Person Only
Workshop 8 - The perils of an ODD diagnosis
Pete Brown
In-Person Only
Workshop 9 - Urgent Family Intervention in First Episode Psychosis: Stories of 'Reconnection'?
Kevin Simmons with Diane Morrison
In-Person Only
Workshop 10 - ‘Everyday’ Acts of Resistance in the NHS: resisting practice that contradicts your values.
Becky Midlane
In-Person Only
17:30 to 18:45
AFT AGM
In-Person only
19:30 to Late
Conference Gala Dinner
Followed by music from 'Love Generation'
In-Person Only
Day 2 - Friday 30 September
08:30 to 09:45
Coffee and Registration
09:45 to 10:00
Welcome to Day 2
West Yorkshire AFT
In-Person | Virtual
10:30 to 11:30
Keynote Presentation 3 - Transgenerational trauma: reclaiming cultural identities within multicultural families
Reenee Singh
In-Person | Virtual
11:30 to 12:00
Coffee Break
12:00 to 13:00
Workshop Session 3 (click here for abstracts)
Workshop 11: Social, personal and professional GgRRAAAAACCEEEESSS...SSS across 3 generations of trainers: What are the differences that make a difference that matter?
John Burnham, Parveen Kaur and Abiola Jordan
In-Person | Virtual
Workshop 12: Three 20 minute presentations...
Presentation 1: Narrative Therapy & Continuing Bond Enquiry: a bridge between the past and the future
Presentation 2: Old Wisdom and New Truths: Bateson, Ecology and the Posthumanities
Presentation 3: Pregnancy, Miscarriage, PND and child loss from a cultural and faith perspective
Ana Draper (Presentation 1)
Elisa Marcellino (Presentation 1)
Hugh Palmer (Presentation 2)
Ansa eisa Ahmed (Presentation 3)
In-Person Only
Workshop 13 - A Dynamic Exercise around Gender Identity
Jacqueline Nicholson
In-Person Only
Workshop 14 - Virginia Satir Old Wisdom New Action
Martin Gill
In-Person Only
Workshop 15 - "What's in a name?"
Marie McGovern with Merinda Levi, Rifa Rahman, David Swinhoe, Anokh Goodman
In-Person Only
13:00 to 14:15
Lunch Break
14:15 to 15:15
Workshop Session 4 (click here for abstracts)
Workshop 16 - An international collaboration: Implementing and evaluating an attachment informed philosophy and practice to adolescent inpatient units with the ABFT and University of Exeter team
Hannah Sherbersky, Guy Diamond, Suzanne Levy, Ilse Devacht, Carl Bescoby and Bram Lambrechts
In-Person | Virtual
Workshop 17 - Research takes you (took me) to useful, strange and exciting places: a 50yr journey
Peter Stratton
In-Person Only
Workshop 18 - Keynote Workshop - Visual and Representational Practice with Intercultural Couples
Reenee Singh
In-Person Only
Workshop 19 - Using All Your Colours
Elaine Holiday with Chiara Santin
In-Person Only
Workshop 20 - Systemic means to working with conflict: Ideas from the Parenting Apart Programme
Paul Walton and Kam Kaur
In-Person Only
15:15 to 15:45
Coffee Break
15:45 to 16:45
Keynote Presentation 4 - Working in the Territory: A Duty of Care to Ourselves?
Helga Hanks and Arlene Vetere
In-Person | Virtual
16:45 to 17:00
Conference Close
West Yorkshire AFT
In-Person | Virtual