Hi!
Prue and I are planning to continue BNIM training for a while yet, but we
are also aware that at some time we will both no longer want to do this
(Prue probably a bit earlier than me).
On the other hand, we think that a BNIM training is a good thing to be
available to people, and demand for places (September in NZ, November in
London) continues buoyant.
So the only solution is for new people to learn to start to take over. For
this to work well, I think that anybody who would like to be a BNIM trainer
needs a bit of training-to-be-a-trainer to avoid making the many mistakes
that Prue and I made in the course of our learning to teach BNIM over a
number of years.
Our idea at the moment is that anybody who wants to be a trainer should (a)
sit in on and observe one of our current 5-day courses, to see what we're
doing now and how we do it, (b) spend a sixth day with Prue and myself and
any other would-be trainers discussing what happened and matters arising;
and then (c) act as co-trainer with Tom on a further 5-day course.
This is one model of training-to-be-a-BNIM-trainer: there may be others.
If you think you are or might be at all interested in the idea of being a
BNIM-trainer, please contact me.
Prue and myself will be off to France next Monday, but I'm hoping our email
will work!
Best wishes to all!
Tom
P.S. The last issues of the 'Journal of Social Work Practice' contain
BNIM-related articles in which some may be interested:
Stef Buckner. 2005. 'Taking the debate on reflexivity further: psychodynamic
team analysis of a BNIM interview'. JSWP vol.19, no.1, pp. 59-72
Shona Hunter. 2005. 'Negotiating professional and social voices in research:
principles and practice'. JSWP vol.19, no.2, pp. 149-62
Emma Snelling. 2005. 'Hungry researchers: the tensions and dilemmas of
developing an emancipatory research project with members of a Hearing Voices
group'. JSWP vol.19, no.2, pp. 131-48
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