When I was stilldoing social work I ran a workshop for professionals at a
conference. One of the social workers in my workshop was herself a
survivor, several others were children of survivors. They no way wanted to
cop to this. And no one in the profession ever seems to talk about it. Is
your coordinator aware of it?
At 06:02 PM 11/28/2005, you wrote:
> > The lowest on the
>hierarchy, of course, was me, which was awkward, because my position of
>authority was in itself a breach of the rule.<
>
>Mark - that is a telling point.
>
>I've been workshopping with drug-addicted Mums in a live-in rehab program
>recently, and this status awkwardness came up a couple of times. I'm a
>recovering alkie but by so many years, it was hardly relevant. Whenever they
>brought their current circumstance into their writing (and they were 'meant'
>to, if only by the coordinator's wishes and not mine) I was closed out and
>they all nodded in sympathy/empathy with the author.
>
>Thanks for putting it so succinctly.
>
>Andrew
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