Date Released: Tue, 28 June 2011 21:24 +0200

Re-telling Gender: African men’s Stories

We are inviting you to join us in a small group discussion on Re-telling Gender: African men’s stories. We want to have a discussion with eight African men on how they have come to learn to be a man. The group conversation will be recorded and with permission we will produce a DVD to be used for research, teaching and professional development purposes. The discussion is scheduled for Wednesday 27 July and will take approximately three hours. The project has the approval of the Ethics Committee of the Faculty of Education, University of Waikato, New Zealand. In 2007 we completed a similar project with P?keh? and M?ori men in New Zealand. The work produced many meaningful conversations and training opportunities for practitioners and participants in the project.

If you are interested to participate, please e-mail Elmarie Kotzé at elmariek@waikato.ac.nz to receive information on this project. Elmarie and Kim are available to answer any questions you may have. Kim Barker can be reached at kimelisebarker@gmail.com. Elmarie, Steve and Kim are the project leaders:

Elmarie is a staff member at the Faculty of Education, University of Waikato, New Zealand. She teaches and supervises master and doctoral students specializing in narrative therapy.

Steve lives in the United States and works as a narrative therapist and teaches narrative therapy at Boston College and Salem State College. He also founded and directs an independent training programme in narrative therapy. His e-mail is: srgaddis@mac.com.

Kim Barker is a pastoral therapist in private practice in Grahamstown, South Africa. She specialises in narrative therapy.