International Family Therapy Association Conference, Adelaide, Australia, 11 to 13 March 2027
Call for proposals by 31 October 2026
The International Family Therapy Association (IFTA) Congress is dedicated to interactional and systemic methodologies. Through a wide range of presentations, the congress will explore how these approaches foster meaningful and lasting change for couples, families, and the wider networks that shape their lives.
Bringing together professionals from around the world, the Congress will highlight systemic approaches that emphasise relationships, networks, and organisations in addressing relational challenges and strengthening resilience.
Participants interested in making presentations or poster displays are invited to submit an abstract. Proposals must be submitted via the congress website, between May 1, 2026 and October 31, 2026.
Presentations on Family Therapy Founders or Teaching Systemic Therapy are of high interest to the reviewers, but you can submit on any topic. There is space for poster presentations as well.
Conference information: https://www.ifta-congress.org/2027/
Submissions: https://www.ifta-congress.org/2027/abstract_submissions.php
ANZSWWER Symposium, Darwin, Australia, call for abstracts by 10 July 2026
The Australia and New Zealand Social Work and Welfare Education and Research (ANZSWWER) Symposium will be held at Ch.arles Darwin University (Danala, Education and Community Precinct, Larrakia Country) on 25-27 November 2026.
This year the symposium will explore creative, ethical, and inclusive responses to the complexities shaping social work and welfare education and research, with particular attention to place‑based learning, Indigenous knowledge, and relational approaches.
They encourage contributions from researchers, educators, practitioners, and students to help foster meaningful discussion and knowledge exchange.
Full details of the themes, subthemes and abstract submission process can be found here.
When you are ready to submit, please visit the portal by following this link.
UK Institute of Narrative Therapy Conference, Liverpool, 9 to 11 July 2026
Conference theme: “Discovering resistance, building community”
At this year’s conference we are especially encouraging poster presentations as a way to talk about your work in an interactive and informal setting. We will be having a conference session dedicated to poster presentations and we expect there will be a lot of interest from delegates.
We already have a number of excellent proposals, but we are keeping the window open for further ideas, so if you would like to present a poster please let us know using the form on the website.
Details and submissions at https://www.theint.co.uk/conference-2026/
Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy: Special issue on leadership and family therapy
Submissions April 2026
Contributions are invited for a forthcoming Special Issue of the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy (ANZJFT), Leadership and Family Therapy.
This special issue arises from growing interest in the intersections between family therapy thinking and leadership practice across clinical, organisational, and professional contexts.
While the work of Dr Murray Bowen has significantly shaped conversations about leadership and systems, the editorial team warmly welcomes contributions drawing on a broad range of theoretical orientations, models, and leadership experiences within family therapy and related fields.
Timeline
Mid-April 2026: Receipt of abstracts
August 2026: Receipt of initial submissions
August–December 2026: Review process
March 2027: Revised papers submitted
September 2027: Publication of collated Special Issue and Editorial
Journal of Systemic Therapies: Special issue on writing as resistance
Submissions April 2026
This Journal of Systemic Therapies Special Call for Papers invites manuscripts that expose and challenge the violent social injustices and wave of authoritarianism that is currently sweeping the United States. White supremacy, patriarchy, authoritarianism and other forms of social injustices are increasingly on the rise. As we are experiencing this violent attack on our fundamental values and beliefs, we are facing daunting fears, distress and hopelessness. JST is offering a critical platform for writing as a political undertaking in order to bear witness to people’s responses to the injustice in ways that we can reclaim our strongly held values and beliefs from the grips of authoritarianism. This opens possibilities for healing, learning from our collective responses, and contributing to the amplification of marginalized voices. What are the real effects on families, communities and helping professionals experiencing these hardships? How do we maintain peaceful and firm resistance in the face of this violence without humanity? What have we learned through our own lived experiences and collective responses to the relentless and ruthless onslaught of aggression? How can we reclaim safety and purpose while we build a community of concern? What knowledges and practices do we have that we can bring to bear on these dark times? We look forward to your submissions.
Submit to journal editor Jim Duvall jimduvall@jstinstitute.com
Instruction for authors: https://www.guilford.com/periodicals/jnstinst.pdf
DEADLINE: April 30, 2026
Australian Association of Family Therapy Conference, in-person, Melbourne, July 2025
After a pause in its regular annual conferences, AAFT is inviting submissions for its 2025 conference.
When: Thursday 3 July and Friday 4 July 2025
Where: LaTrobe University, Bundoora, Victoria, Australia
The theme of the Australian Association of Family Therapy 2025 Conference highlights the profound importance of reconnecting as individuals, as a community, and as a profession.
Over the past few years, each of us has navigated a unique path in growth and resilience. This conference provides a space to honour the challenges faced and strengths discovered along the way and, together, we will share how these themes might inform the future of systemic and family therapy in Australia. We will celebrate the resilience of our profession as we strive toward a future of continued progress and deeper connection.
AAFT extends a warm welcome to practitioners in complementary fields, and all those who work with families.
- Explore innovative approaches that foster healing within families and communities
- Leading keynote speakers, hands-on workshops and interactive panel discussions
- Engaging networking events to build connections with like-minded professionals
- Opportunities to earn professional development credits.
Submission deadline: 10 January 2025
Queries: Kristen@kecreative.com.au
The Qualitative Report 16th Annual Conference, online and in-person, March 2025
The Qualitative Report warmly invites submissions from narrative practitioners and researchers for its 16th annual conference to be held in-person in Florida, USA, on 5–6 March 2025 and online on 27–28 March 2025.
What if we took the notion of co-research seriously and invited people in the communities in which we hope to produce significant social change to help co-create the research questions, co-design the studies, co-analyze the data, co-discuss the impact, and co-author the reports? What if they identified their needs, what if they helped to define the gaps in knowledge, and what if they helped us via their calls to action?
The theme of the 16th Annual Conference of The Qualitative Report is “Co-creating our impact: Invitations to change.” With this call, we are asking those among us who have already taken this collaborative turn to share their wisdom and experiences so we can accelerate this “difference that makes a difference” (thanks, Gregory Bateson) in all the communities in which we live and for which we care.
Co-creating means that we do not act alone or in isolation and the most productive impacts come from collaborative efforts. Change is not imposed, it is invited and welcomed. We invite you to join us under this “big tent” as we encourage all qualitative researchers to conceptualize and conduct their work by stretching method as well as the content areas, using democratic processes to uplift people in their lives.
In these invitations to change, can we also consider other ways we can share the reports of our collaborative inquiries beyond the traditional media of scholarly journals, books, chapters, and conferences? How can we utilize alternative means such as blogs, podcasts, and other social media channels to invite collaboration and communicate these tales of change and justice?
At TQR2025, we invite you to come share your impactful collaborations as researchers, teachers, and communicators and contribute to our vibrant qualitative research community. Maybe we can help change the world in the process!
Submission deadline: 2 August 2024
Queries: tqr@nova.edu or via Facebook or Twitter/X
NPRN's inaugural research symposium, 30 November 2023
We are excited to invite you to our first ever event – a narrative practice and research symposium to develop papers for a special issue of The Qualitative Report.
Kaurna Country (Adelaide, Australia)
30 November 2023.
Conference theme: Narrative practice and research
The symposium will bring the spirit of collective narrative practice to developing papers for the special issue. It will be open to people working on a paper for the special issue, and to volunteer session facilitators and respondents.
Submission deadline: 22 September 2024
Download call for submissions (pdf)
Queries: convenor@narrativepracticeresearch.org
UK Institute of Narrative Therapy Conference, Liverpool, 9 to 11 July 2026
Conference theme: “Discovering resistance, building community”
At this year’s conference we are especially encouraging poster presentations as a way to talk about your work in an interactive and informal setting. We will be having a conference session dedicated to poster presentations and we expect there will be a lot of interest from delegates.
We already have a number of excellent proposals, but we are keeping the window open for further ideas, so if you would like to present a poster please let us know using the form on the website.
Details and submissions at https://www.theint.co.uk/conference-2026/
Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy: Special issue on leadership and family therapy
Submissions April 2026
Contributions are invited for a forthcoming Special Issue of the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy (ANZJFT), Leadership and Family Therapy.
This special issue arises from growing interest in the intersections between family therapy thinking and leadership practice across clinical, organisational, and professional contexts.
While the work of Dr Murray Bowen has significantly shaped conversations about leadership and systems, the editorial team warmly welcomes contributions drawing on a broad range of theoretical orientations, models, and leadership experiences within family therapy and related fields.
Timeline
Mid-April 2026: Receipt of abstracts
August 2026: Receipt of initial submissions
August–December 2026: Review process
March 2027: Revised papers submitted
September 2027: Publication of collated Special Issue and Editorial
Journal of Systemic Therapies: Special issue on writing as resistance
Submissions April 2026
This Journal of Systemic Therapies Special Call for Papers invites manuscripts that expose and challenge the violent social injustices and wave of authoritarianism that is currently sweeping the United States. White supremacy, patriarchy, authoritarianism and other forms of social injustices are increasingly on the rise. As we are experiencing this violent attack on our fundamental values and beliefs, we are facing daunting fears, distress and hopelessness. JST is offering a critical platform for writing as a political undertaking in order to bear witness to people’s responses to the injustice in ways that we can reclaim our strongly held values and beliefs from the grips of authoritarianism. This opens possibilities for healing, learning from our collective responses, and contributing to the amplification of marginalized voices. What are the real effects on families, communities and helping professionals experiencing these hardships? How do we maintain peaceful and firm resistance in the face of this violence without humanity? What have we learned through our own lived experiences and collective responses to the relentless and ruthless onslaught of aggression? How can we reclaim safety and purpose while we build a community of concern? What knowledges and practices do we have that we can bring to bear on these dark times? We look forward to your submissions.
Submit to journal editor Jim Duvall jimduvall@jstinstitute.com
Instruction for authors: https://www.guilford.com/periodicals/jnstinst.pdf
DEADLINE: April 30, 2026
Australian Association of Family Therapy Conference, in-person, Melbourne, July 2025
After a pause in its regular annual conferences, AAFT is inviting submissions for its 2025 conference.
When: Thursday 3 July and Friday 4 July 2025
Where: LaTrobe University, Bundoora, Victoria, Australia
The theme of the Australian Association of Family Therapy 2025 Conference highlights the profound importance of reconnecting as individuals, as a community, and as a profession.
Over the past few years, each of us has navigated a unique path in growth and resilience. This conference provides a space to honour the challenges faced and strengths discovered along the way and, together, we will share how these themes might inform the future of systemic and family therapy in Australia. We will celebrate the resilience of our profession as we strive toward a future of continued progress and deeper connection.
AAFT extends a warm welcome to practitioners in complementary fields, and all those who work with families.
- Explore innovative approaches that foster healing within families and communities
- Leading keynote speakers, hands-on workshops and interactive panel discussions
- Engaging networking events to build connections with like-minded professionals
- Opportunities to earn professional development credits.
Submission deadline: 10 January 2025
Queries: Kristen@kecreative.com.au
The Qualitative Report 16th Annual Conference, online and in-person, March 2025
The Qualitative Report warmly invites submissions from narrative practitioners and researchers for its 16th annual conference to be held in-person in Florida, USA, on 5–6 March 2025 and online on 27–28 March 2025.
What if we took the notion of co-research seriously and invited people in the communities in which we hope to produce significant social change to help co-create the research questions, co-design the studies, co-analyze the data, co-discuss the impact, and co-author the reports? What if they identified their needs, what if they helped to define the gaps in knowledge, and what if they helped us via their calls to action?
The theme of the 16th Annual Conference of The Qualitative Report is “Co-creating our impact: Invitations to change.” With this call, we are asking those among us who have already taken this collaborative turn to share their wisdom and experiences so we can accelerate this “difference that makes a difference” (thanks, Gregory Bateson) in all the communities in which we live and for which we care.
Co-creating means that we do not act alone or in isolation and the most productive impacts come from collaborative efforts. Change is not imposed, it is invited and welcomed. We invite you to join us under this “big tent” as we encourage all qualitative researchers to conceptualize and conduct their work by stretching method as well as the content areas, using democratic processes to uplift people in their lives.
In these invitations to change, can we also consider other ways we can share the reports of our collaborative inquiries beyond the traditional media of scholarly journals, books, chapters, and conferences? How can we utilize alternative means such as blogs, podcasts, and other social media channels to invite collaboration and communicate these tales of change and justice?
At TQR2025, we invite you to come share your impactful collaborations as researchers, teachers, and communicators and contribute to our vibrant qualitative research community. Maybe we can help change the world in the process!
Submission deadline: 2 August 2024
Queries: tqr@nova.edu or via Facebook or Twitter/X
NPRN's inaugural research symposium, 30 November 2023
We are excited to invite you to our first ever event – a narrative practice and research symposium to develop papers for a special issue of The Qualitative Report.
Kaurna Country (Adelaide, Australia)
30 November 2023.
Conference theme: Narrative practice and research
The symposium will bring the spirit of collective narrative practice to developing papers for the special issue. It will be open to people working on a paper for the special issue, and to volunteer session facilitators and respondents.
Submission deadline: 22 September 2024
Download call for submissions (pdf)
Queries: convenor@narrativepracticeresearch.org
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