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Writing

Kaethe Weingarten, alone and with co-authors, has written about aspects of witnessing for over a decade. The following articles and chapters are a sample of that work.

• Common Shock: Witnessing Violence Every Day: How We Are Harmed, How We Are Healed, by Kaethe Weingarten, Dutton, 2003
• Kotzé, Elmarie & Morkel, Elize 2002. Matchboxes, butterflies and angry foots. Pretoria: Ethics Alive. Price: US $ 20 + $ 5 postage. FAX credit card orders to the Family Institute of Cambridge, (617)924-5111.
• Weingarten, K. (2006). Hope in a Time of Global Despair, Paper given at XV IFTA, Reflection, Hope and Resilience, Reykjavick, Iceland, October 4-7.
• Weingarten, K. (September 11, 2006). From Fear to Hope: Individual and Collective Contributions to a Post-September 11 World. Public Address at Eastern Mennonite University, Harrisonburg, Virginia.
• Weingarten, K. (2006). On Hating to Hate. Family Process, 45: 277-288.
• Weingarten, K. Compassionate witnessing and the transformation of societal violence: How individuals can make a difference. In Busch, SL Circle of Stages – Perspectives on Peace. Submitted. Also see humiliation studies link http://www.humiliationstudies.org/publications/publications.php#advisoryboard
• Weingarten, K. (2005). Trauma, meaning, witnessing and action: An interview with Kaethe Weingarten by David Denborough. The International Journal of Narrative and Community Work. Adelaide, Australia. Nos 3 & 4. www.DulwichCentre.com.au
• Weingarten, K. (2005) Cancer, Meaning-Making and Hope: The Treatment Dedication Project. Family, Systems & Medicine, 23:155-160. http://www.apa.org/journals/fsh/
• Weingarten, K. (2004). Witnessing violence in clients’ lives. Counselor. February; 2004:70-74.
• Weingarten, K. (2004). The ripple effect. Hope. 44:34-37.
• Weingarten, K.(2004) Commentary on Candib: What is at the center, and what at the edges, of care? Family, Systems & Medicine, 22:151-157. http://www.apa.org/journals/fsh/
• Weingarten, K. (2004). Witnessing the effects of political violence in families: Mechanisms of intergenerational transmission of trauma and clinical interventions. Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, Vol 30, No. 1, 45-59.
• Weingarten, K. (2002).A walk on American soil after a trip to South Africa. In Kotze, D & Myburg, J. Ethical Ways of Being. Pretoria: Ethics Alive. 35-54.
• Weingarten,K. (2000). Making Sense Of Illness Narratives: Braiding Theory, Practice and the Embodied Life. Adelaide, Australia: Dulwich Centre Publications, 2000:111-126. http://www.dulwichcentre.com.au/
• Weingarten, K. ( 2000). Using the internet to build social support: Implications for illness, disability, well-being and hope. Families, Systems, & Health: The Journal of Collaborative Family Health Care. 18;157-160. http://www.apa.org/journals/fsh/
• Weingarten, K. (2000). Witnessing, Wonder and Hope. Family Process, 39:389-401.
• Weingarten, K.(1999). Stretching to meet what's given: Opportunities for a spiritual practice. In Walsh, F. (Ed.) Spirituality in Families and Family Therapy. New York: Guilford. 140-155. http://www.guilford.com/cgi-bin/cartscript.cgi?page=pr/walsh4.htm&dir=pp/fac&cart_id=865775.24985
• Weingarten, K. (1999). The politics of illness narratives: Who tells, who listens and who cares? Narrative Therapy and Community Work: A Conference Collection. Adelaide, Australia: Dulwich Centre Publications, 1:13-26.
• Weingarten, K. & Worthen, M.E.W. (1997). A narrative analysis of the illness experience of a mother and daughter. Families, Systems, & Health: The Journal of Collaborative Family Health Care. 15:1, 41-54. http://www.apa.org/journals/fsh/

Teaching

• Keynote speeches and lectures
• Workshop formats ranging in length from two hours to three days
• Customized workshops
• Five-day intensive trainings in witnessing practices, for adults only

Research

• Assistance with the design and conducting of research projects that utilize witnessing principles

Consultation

• Custom-designed consultation related to applications of the witnessing model

• On-line consultation for international professionals engaged in applying the witnessing model

• Liaison services to frontline workers, such as educators, health care professionals, police, members of the judiciary, clergy and journalist. See Restorative Justice Seminar held at the Boston Research Center in May, 2003 on the Wounded Witness: Police, Lawyers, Judges and Community,
  http://www.brc21.org/resources/restore_justice/connorweingarten.html

• Curriculum development related to the witnessing model

Design and Implementation of Witnessing Events

• Customized witnessing events for individuals, couples, and families
• Customized witnessing events for organizations and communities

Provision of Witnessing by a Therapist

• Assistance with life-cycle transitions, including births, deaths, separation, divorce, leaving home and illness

Supervision

• Offered to professionals who wish to learn the witnessing model