About You Do Know
What is You Do Know?
Growing from my doctoral thesis What did I do? I don't know., this blog continues to explore how tacit maternal knowing can be theorised and legitimised so all can use it, practically and professionally, to support children, young people, and their families and as an approach to researching, teaching, and managing in this field of work. It will be of interest to professionals who practice as therapists, educators of therapists, researchers, or as managers of organisations who care. It may also be of interest to early years practitioners and to parents.
How does it work?
You Do Know is released on the first of every month. For each post I use a heuristic inquiry model, creating fiction to externalise, examine, and make sense of the tacit knowledge I use in my practice. I offer my thoughts and insights with the intention of encouraging a community of practice to develop the theory, philosophy, and ethics of working in a way that starts from the practical application of attachment theory expressed and embodied via tacit maternal knowing. I call this speaking with our m/other tongue. Radically and politically, by working out how to communicate our m/other tongue, our community of practice will seek to transform how the less powerful are cared for by professionals who choose to use their power in the service of the other to promote equality, justice, and peace.
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Research
From September 2024 these posts form part of a postdoctoral research project which has ethical approval from the Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge (Ethics_019_2324). In time, there will be invitations to participate in this research. If you are subscribed to the blog and respond in the comments, then you are assenting to your anonymised responses being part of the research. More specific invitations to participate in the research will have a consent procedure.
About me
Fiona Peacock, BACP Senior Accredited Counsellor/Psychotherapist, Certified Theraplay® Therapist, Supervisor, and Trainer.
My work has multiple strands: I’m not only a Theraplay practitioner, but a therapist educator, a clinical supervisor, a trainer of Theraplay practitioners, a course lead for training psychotherapeutic counsellors for children and adolescents, and a director of Theraplay UK.
In my practice, I work through the lenses of attachment theory and Theraplay, I work with children, their families, and, where appropriate, their wider networks of adults, to cultivate more secure attachment between the child and their primary caregivers. Where necessary, Theraplay is adapted with other modalities being integrated into Theraplay as my core model. I draw on sensory integration ideas, trauma processing via bilateral stimulation, therapeutic life story work, parental psychoeducation and/or therapy, and non-directive play based methods.
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