Learning from migrants, marginalized, minority communities, because of their particular culture or gender expression, invites us to rethink our relationship to otherness as well as our relationship to knowledge.
Jean-Claude Métraux will explore the concepts of « gift of speeches » and « precious speeches », which are the words that reveals the speaker and that contain the value he is giving to the relationship with his interlocutor. This allows to think and translate in our clinical practices principles like reciprocity and horizontality, with, as a major profit, the co-creation of a mutual recognition relationship between therapists and families. Effective response which influences so many social determinants. Some exemples from our clinical experience will show it. Healing the other one, who could be rather far or close from where we stand, has also to do with the recognition of our fundamental similarities. Among other things, the fact that we are all migrants, transiting, if not in space at least into time. The speakers will tell their own transformative stories, real tales of their practice’s and thought’s migration, made of precious speeches and learnings from youngsters, parents, migrants or home-born met in a therapeutic context.