Presenters:
Carina Håkansson, author of "Ordinary Life Therapy" and
Lina Lundquist from Family Care Foundations

We will talk about our experiences from a collaborative systemic practice involving people we call clients, family homes and professional helpers.

Our shared vision is to create a good space for people to be in, to combine an ordinary life with a therapeutic thinking and being. Therapy is a part of life. Things important in life are also important in the therapeutic work.

• How to include that which is a part of human life in a therapeutic context?
• What needs to be around each of us in order to make us brave and motivated enough to contribute with things important to us?
• How to talk in a way that is possible to understand and make useful?

These questions have always been important to us and influence our culture, structure and spirit in work. We will share experiences, thoughts, questions and reflections with the participants. We will tell stories from practice what might happen when people from seemingly different backgrounds come together and share life for a while. We hope to tell about the necessity of keeping a hope, recognition, love, articipation and how to do when doubts and fear nearly overwhelmes.