The Oral History Society's Psycho-Social Therapies and Care Environment Special Interest Group (PST&CE) presents:

"DIALOGUES 2017" Monday, November 6, 2017 Planned Environment Therapy Trust's Barns Conference Centre, Church Lane, Toddington, Glos GL54 5DQ 11.00 - 16.30 £20 students / £30 PST&CE and OHS members /£40 others Lunch and refreshments included Limited overnight accommodation available onsite, with breakfast £42.00 [RSVP with venue essential]

Join us in Toddington, Gloucestershire, for a day of dialogues about oral history and traumatic experience, oral history and psychotherapy, and your interests. FIXED SESSIONS: 1. Carolyn Mears in dialogue with Alan Dein. Trauma researcher and oral historian Carolyn interviews Alan about his work in radio and oral history, with special reference to his recent BBC Radio 4 "Aftermath" series. Alan interviews Carolyn. Discussion is thrown open to all. 2. Participants in pairs, throughout the building, in dialogue with one another. 3. Archivist and oral historian Craig Fees in discussion with psychiatrist and psychotherapist Adrian Sutton, kicking off with psychotherapy and oral history, in theory and practice, and opening up to all. 4. Facilitated small group dialogues, distributed around the building. 5. Facilitated whole group discussion session. Cheques only, please, made out to Oral History Society, and sent with the attcahed booking form to "Dialogues" Planned Environment Therapy Trust Church Lane Toddington, near Cheltenham, Glos GL54 5DQ For further information contact Dr. Craig Fees, [email protected], 01242 620125

Fixed-session principals: CAROLYN MEARS is an educator and parent whose son survived the Columbine High School shootings, and whose subsequent research into the impact of the tragedy on fellow parents and families led to an oral history approach described in her award-winning dissertation 'Experiences of Columbine Parents: Finding a Way to Tomorrow', published in 2009 as 'Interviewing for Education and Social Science Research: The Gateway Approach'. Her second book, 'Reclaiming School in the Aftermath of Trauma: Advice Based on Experience' was published in 2012. Carolyn is a member of the PST&CE Committee, a founder of the Sandy Hook-Columbine Cooperative, and holds a research appointment and is adjunct faculty at the University of Denver, where she is also on the Advisory Board of the Trauma Certification Program at the University's Graduate School of Social Work. ALAN DEIN is a freelance oral historian, Trustee of the Oral History Society, and a radio broadcaster whose pursuit of "the kind of radio that I'm passionate about - a heady, unconventional combination of voices, stories and the environments" - "Don't Hang Up", "Lives in a Landscape", "Don't Log Off" and the recent "Aftermath" series - has led to a number of major radio awards, including the Prix Italia, the Prix Europa, the Sony Radio Academy and US Third Coast". The discussion and review of "Aftermath" - his series about communities in the wake of nationally significant traumatic events - was titled "Why is Alan Dein so good at getting his interview subjects to talk?" In this context, see Alan's 2009 BBC Radio 4 'Archive on 4' programme on psychologist David Boder, who in 1946 recorded survivors in Europe of 'the world of Nazi concentration and death camps', "I Did Not Interview the Dead". ADRIAN SUTTON is a Child & Family Psychiatrist, previously at the Winnicott Centre of the Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital, who, having retired from clinical practice, now focusses his work on educational activities relating to child and family mental health and medical education. He is Director of The Squiggle Foundation, a charity dedicated to exploring and disseminating the work of Donald Winncott, with a particular emphasis on application; Visiting Professor of Psychiatry at Gulu University in Uganda; and holds honorary appointments as Professor at both Manchester University Medical School and the University's Humanitarian & Conflict Response Institute. CRAIG FEES is the founding archivist of the Planned Environment Therapy Trust Archive and Study Centre, a specialist resource dedicated to therapeutic communities and environments. He is a Trustee of the Oral History Society, committee member of the PST&CE Special Interest Group, course author and tutor in Oral History in the Centre for Archive and Information Studies at Dundee University, and an Honorary Research Fellow in the History of Medicine at the University of Birmingham. Oral history forms a core component of the work of the PETT Archive and Study Centre. Craig designed and directed the award-winning 2010-2011 Heritage Lottery Fund-supported project, "Therapeutic Living With Other People's Children: An oral history of residential therapeutic child care c. 1930 - c. 1940".