Tony Muñoz-Hillard Practitioner
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Interview with Tony Muñoz-Hillard (Practitioner, Parachute NYC — New York, USA), recorded at the 30th International Meeting on Dialogical and Reflective Approaches in Treatments of Psychosis, Reykjavik, August 25–30, 2026.
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So, Tony, please tell us your name and where you're from.
My name is Tony Muñoz-Hillard, and I'm from the United States — New York.
Thank you for accepting this interview. What struck you most at this meeting in Reykjavik?
I think the welcome — seeing some of the same people, and continuing to build connections and the network. I think it's important to be with others who are practicing in this way, and learning new ways, new thinking about what works and what doesn't. — Is there an idea, a word, or a phrase that you'll bring back home into your work?
I think it's important to acknowledge, and to keep thinking of it as not having answers — it's not about solving anything, or providing an outcome for the people we work with. It's the human part of it that happens through conversations, so that individuals can see and maybe hear things differently — which will help make their lives a little bit easier and a little more understandable. Not only for the network, their families and the teams they work with, but for themselves — starting to make meaning of their experience, and meaning of their way of being, that can help them move through life.
Okay, this is the last one: where do you think Open Dialogue will be in 2030?
In 2030... Well, I certainly hope that it's more diverse. I certainly hope there are more people of color practicing — from professionals to experts by lived experience — and that it's more sustainable for more practitioners, with a more robust and connected network of practitioners who can help each other. I mean, we live in a world where we're all Zooming all over the place.
So maybe doing Open Dialogue from Argentina, and another one from Reykjavik, right?
And still being able to bring Open Dialogue, hope, and connections to everybody.
Thank you, Tony. Would you like to add anything else?
No — I'm just very happy to be here, and to continue our relationship through Open Dialogue and beyond, continuing to hold each other in these spaces — to grow, with you as a retired psychiatrist, with the understanding that we're all humans doing the human thing together. — Thank you. — Thank you.