|
23rd – 24th November:
Narrative
therapy in action and reflection:
Two
day workshop with David Epston
Participants should have
some familiarity with Narrative Therapy to fully participate in this
somewhat unconventional two day-long Intensive Training. It will draw upon
ideas of 'situated learning' (Lave and Wenger: Situated Learning) or
apprenticeship learning. David will teach through the live interviews he
will conduct with one considerable difference - the problems discussed will
be 'over and done with' and therefore such interviews will permit persistent
'stopping and starting'. David will take time 'to reflect-on-action' (Schon,
1983, The Reflective Practitioner) in almost present time. The attendees as
well as the interviewee will be enabled to 'look into' David's thinking
'thought for thought' and even 'word for word'. From moment to moment, David
will 'situate' his practice, and attendees will be invited to query him in
order to satisfy their curiosities. Responses to these questions usually
lead to wide ranging discussions.
At some stage, attendees will 'join' David in trying out similar practices
privately and then 'compare notes' with particular aspects of the ongoing
interview. In addition, if interviewees agree, they will also make
themselves available to enquiries about their experience of any particular
question or line of enquiry, adding another rich layer to any discussions.
The clear intention of this workshop format is to be generative of the
learning of new formats of questions and lines of enquiry that excite the
imagination, provoke curiosity, and go beyond that which has already been
considered. Two themes will be addressed throughout - firstly, 'what is a
good question?' and secondly, 'what lines of enquiry lead to the novel and
previously unconsidered?'
This workshop format is an attempt to bring all present into the 'thinking'
behind the very practice, at the same time as making the practice both
visible and clear as a form of 'doing'. The 'master class'- in which a
senior practitioner or craftsperson works closely with others to pass on the
fruits of his/her experience- is the prototype for this format. It is hoped
that everyone will get as close as they wish to the very 'doing' and
intimate practicalities of narrative therapy practice as exemplified by
David..
This workshop format can be as useful and stimulating for an advanced
narrative therapy practitioner or trainer/consultant as well as for a
student who has recently engaged with the theory and ideas of narrative or
indeed post-modern therapies.
Back to conference
|
