ABSTRACT
This chapter summarizes the main themes which emerge. The themes identified here are summaries condensed from many conversations with colleagues and workshop participants from diverse cultures and work settings. Their responses reflect the range of settings, cultural differences, and professional experiences on how they act in face of constraints on their creativity. If political expression only offers strident criticism without creative action, it becomes tiresome rhetoric. The creative edge of practice is to remain irreverent, dissident, and an experimentalist. One Swedish colleague expressed his concern and lack of belonging within practice contexts in which positivistic model of mental health was dominant discourse. The chapter considers that the principles of ethical, systemic humanist practices have been covered over by waves of policies and procedures that overly simplify social and political dimensions of much human distress. Thus, humanising principles for practice are, more than ever, in need of recognition for riches they contain, like rock pools visible only when the tide recedes.
