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A method for building relational projects with families, groups and communities
Product: Book
Trim size in cm: 17x24cm
Pages: 168
ISBN: 9788859033547
Publication date: 01/11/2024
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This book presents and explores the innovative and effective methodology of Future dialogues. This approach aims to construct, through a dialogic and relational lens, a series of support projects on various levels and areas of social work — and beyond — enabling people to imagine a better future for themselves.
The volume examines the principles and key concepts on which this methodology is based and provides methodological suggestions and concrete examples of how facilitators operate within dialogue sessions. These sessions are useful to plan and conduct project meetings at the levels of casework, group work, and community work, actively involving professionals and those directly involved.
Presentation
Introduction
FIRST PART – Theoretical framework
Chapter 1 – Building relational projects for social change: the theoretical framework of reference
• The Relational Social Work method: principles and key concepts
• Looking at the positive: strengths-based and solution-focused approaches
Chapter 2 – Dialogic methods for addressing concerns
• On the concept of concern
• The subjective nature of concerns: different levels, different nuances
• Concerns obstruct dialogocity
• Dialogic methods: a general framework
Chapter 3 –Future Dialogues: «paradoxical» dialogues to initiate desired changes
• How a dialogue on the future works
• Facilitators: relational guides of the dialogic process
• The setting of dialogic sessions
• The leap into the future
• Collaborative writing of the project
SECOND PART – Operational considerations
Chapter 4 – Dialogues on the future for building support projects with individuals and families
• Future dialoguesin case work
• Initiating a dialogue on the future
• Preparing for the dialogic session
• The moment of the dialogic meeting: guidance and tips for facilitators
Chapter 5 Future dialogues in group work
• Groups and group work in social work
• Future dialogues: designing and deciding with and for the group
• Future dialogues in a social mediation project
• Team in Dialogue: anticipatory dialogues to overcome professional obstacles and promote collaboration
Chapter 6 – Community Future Dialogue for designing collective interventions
• Community social work: a brief theoretical framework
• The steps to implement community projects
• Community future dialogue for planning community social work interventions
• Initiating a community future dialogue
• Preparing for the dialogic meeting
• Present-future back and forth: facilitating the dialogic session
• Community future dialogue, and then?
Conclusions
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