This special issue is on the experiences of systemic practitioners who live with serious health conditions, life threatening or life shortening illnesses and how it affects their lives and practice.

Systemic practitioners have much to say about the intricate activities of their working relationships.  Every breath or intonation is a decision, infused with ethical, cultural, aesthetic and practical considerations. These papers show different forms of storytelling to engage readers in learning about the lives and practice of others and in reflexivity about their own practice.

Autism and Intersectionality: Implications for Systemic and Relational Psychotherapeutic Practice and Research

As we face both ecological and western social narrative collapse, this issue explores the forgotten ecological roots of systemic practice and shares ideas and experiences. Systemic psychotherapies now recognise the social issues of race, gender and the need for the decolonial turn, but the current ecological crisis also requires an urgent need to reimagine our relationship with the Earth itself. The ecosystemic return is an invitation to reclaim our relationship with subjugated Indigenous ecological wisdom and epistemologies to build a future based on both ecological and social justice.

The Pandemic as Systemic Flux writing project is part of a wider initiative by the Murmurations Journal of Transformative Systemic Practice to get the systemic community writing and reading things that feel directly connected to their practice. The Pandemic as Systemic Flux website systemicflux.com invited poetry, flash tales and papers for peer review on the systemic life and work during this pandemic era.