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This paper describes a systemic exercise for clinical staff facing multiple changes to team structure and threats to their sense of belonging. The exercise was adapted from a consultation intervention that addressed a team's resourcefulness in responding to behaviours that challenge in intellectual disabilities (Smyly, 2006). As clinical psychology trainees from outside the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS), we aimed to facilitate a context in which staff could share past experiences of collectively overcoming challenges, and in this way nourish a sense of belonging. Through building layers of dialogue, taking the observer perspective and reflection in the context of such threats to personal, professional and team identities, a shared direction may be claimed again. Practitioner points Providing space for teams to reflect on past experiences of overcoming challenging situations may empower teams and enhance a sense of belonging during difficult transitions Moving towards an explorative and interactive space for personal and professional selves, away from problem-saturated narratives, creates a context for innovation and change Exercises that develop layers of conversation can scaffold relational risk-taking, celebrate difference, and guide collaboration towards developing narratives of belonging

This essay sketches a postliberal account of scriptural interpretation as a process of formation in wisdom. Building on Lindbeck's claim that scripture constitutes exemplary utterances of Christian language, it argues that the sort of theological hermeneutics that results from this model depends upon one's philosophy of language. Against the conventionalist assumption that a community's norms for using language are distinct from the rules of rationality, it argues that linguistic and rational norms are intertwined, exemplified by the Biblical wisdom tradition and developed by contemporary philosophers like Peter Ochs and Robert Brandom. It suggests that reading scripture forms wisdom by correcting common sense. To make this process explicit, it examines how the book of Proverbs trains its readers, as beginners in the pursuit of wisdom, to learn to use proverbs by performing a reading of the proverb as “wounds from a friend can be trusted” and reflecting on the role of reasoning implicit in that process. It then draws on Brandom's inferential semantics and Grice's pragmatic theory of implicature to make this reasoning process explicit. Finally, it suggests that for theological readers of scripture, there can be no bounds to the process of reasoning: the full meaning of scripture can only be exhausted by one with complete knowledge and a perfect capacity to draw inferences.

Two novel tricyclic ring systems were designed as serine protease inhibitors and synthesized from oxindoles; the first series, 1,3-oxazino[6,5-b]indole-2,4-(3H,9H)-diones, were prepared from 2,3-dihydro-2-oxo-(1H)-indole-3-carboxamides and phosgene in tetrahydrofuran with triethylamine. The second, a 2H-1,3,5-oxadiazino[3,2-a]indole-2,4-(3H)-dione was made using a similar cyclization on 2,3-dihydro-2-oxo-N-phenyl-(1H)-indole-1-carboxamide.

Two novel tricyclic ring systems were designed as serine protease inhibitors and synthesized from oxindoles; the first series, 1,3-oxazino[6,5-b]indole-2,4-(3H,9H)-diones, were prepared from 2,3-dihydro-2-oxo-(1H)-indole-3-carboxamides and phosgene in tetrahydrofuran with triethylamine. The second, a 2H-1,3,5-oxadiazino[3,2-a]indole-2,4-(3H)-dione was made using a similar cyclization on 2,3-dihydro-2-oxo-N-phenyl-(1H)-indole-1-carboxamide.

Two novel tricyclic ring systems derived from 3-benzazepines were synthesized; the first, a 6,7,5-ring, 1H-imidazo[5,1-b][3]benzazepine-1,3(2H)-dione was obtained using an unusual Stiles reaction while the second, an analogous 6,7,6-ring, pyrimido[6,1-b][3]benzazepine-1,3,4(2H)-trione was prepared with base and oxalyl chloride.

Two novel tricyclic ring systems derived from 3-benzazepines were synthesized; the first, a 6,7,5-ring, 1H-imidazo[5,1-b][3]benzazepine-1,3(2H)-dione was obtained using an unusual Stiles reaction while the second, an analogous 6,7,6-ring, pyrimido[6,1-b][3]benzazepine-1,3,4(2H)-trione was prepared with base and oxalyl chloride.