A tale of reluctance, ambivalence, reassurance and restoration on the journey towards creating a Systemic Interventions Service for Older people

Abstract

PHOTO CREDIT: vlada KarpovichThis is a brief tale of two systemic practitioners describing their journey from Foundation-Level systemic training, initially using it to help older clients clinically, followed by journeying towards Systemic Practitioner status and creation of an Older People’s Systemic Service. Whilst the authors were initially pushed outside their own professional zone of proximal development, sourcing of adequate professional parenting facilitated emergence of a ‘good enough’ systemic service for clients.