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stays with me as an important reminder of how we meet and what we meet
about in conversations, therapy, supervision, and other meetings and processes.
I collect experiences and examples of meetings that do not blindly follow
standards and conventional logic just because they are conventional. I collect
experiences and examples that dare to try something different.
A Tribute to Poetry
And finally, a tribute to poetry and the work of poetic renderings. At the
beginning of this article, I asked if we notice the small moments of everyday life
when something perhaps a little magical or surprising happens. Do we have time?
Do we take time? Do we dare to stop and make room for the possible amidst all
the procedures, plans, standards, and things we must do?
We live in an era of efficiency and acceleration, where there is a strong focus on
what is sensible, rational, and controllable. Here, poetry and poetic expressions
can create space for more and for something different, making it possible to
connect with one another and with expressions that have not yet found a place in
our more familiar narratives and stories about life and us acting, thinking, feeling,
and judging ourselves and others. Poetry and poetic expressions can save not only
words but also the more messy, powerful, and tentative descriptions of what
happens in everyday life.
References
Behan, C. (2003). Rescued speech poems: Co-authoring poetry in narrative
therapy. Narrative Approaches.
https://narrativeapproaches.com/resources/narrative-therapyarchive/345-2/
Biesta, G. J. J. (2021). World-centred education: A view for the present. Routledge.
Christie, N. (2009). Små ord for store spørgsmål. Universitetsforlaget.
Holmgren, A. (2010). Fra terapi til pædagogik, pp. 43-56. Hans Reitzels Forlag.
