Interrogating the Narratives of Academia: Evoking Community Knowledge to Build Transformative Practices
Join ThinqStudio, and our co-sponsor SEHD, for the annual ThinqStudio Unconference. Dr. Travis Heath will give an interactive ‘Un’keynote guiding Unconference participants in an exploration of the harmful or limiting narratives of academia. The Unconference participants will use community knowledge to move ideas and philosophies into transformative practices to put up against common problems.
Date: March 8th, 2024
Location: 3rd floor, Learning Commons, 1191 Larimer St, Denver, CO 80204
Time: 8:30 – 2:00 pm
‘Un’keynote: Dr. Travis Heath – Department Chair and Associate Professor of the Counseling and School Psychology Program at San Diego State University. Dr. Heath is a licensed psychologist and has been in community practice for nearly two decades. His scholarship has included looking at shifting from a multicultural approach to counseling to one of cultural democracy that invites people to heal in mediums that are culturally near. Some of his other writings have focused on the use of rap music in narrative therapy, working with persons entangled in the criminal injustice system in ways that maintain their dignity, and narrative practice stories as pedagogy. He is co-author, with David Epston and Tom Carlson, of the first book on Contemporary Narrative Therapy released in June 2022 entitled, “Reimagining Narrative Therapy Through Practice Stories and Autoethnography.”