You Can Go Home Again: A Genogram Journey Toward Transforming Life Narratives | Monica McGoldrick

This lecture is part of the Ackerman Distinguished Family Therapy Lecture Series, designed to contribute to conversations on advancements and opportunities in family therapy training. You Can Go Home Again: A Genogram Journey Toward Transforming Life Narratives: Context, Connection and Appreciating Our Legacies, will discuss an orientation to systemic family history that views our lives in the context of what came before and what lies ahead. Taking account of the cultural and societal context in which all of our lives evolve, we will consider how we can pay attention to the truth that, as Jorge Juis Borges put it: “we ourselves are the embodied continuance of those who did not live into our time and others will be and are our immortality on this earth.” The focus of this presentation will be on the everyday relevance in our clinical work of this systemic understanding of who we are. www.ackerman.org