Narrative therapy one week training at Dulwich Centre
With members of the Dulwich Centre Faculty - Carolyn Markey, Sekneh Beckett, David Newman, and Chris Dolman
Level One and Level Two one week intensives are an in-depth and hands-on way to train in narrative therapy.
Dates for 2012
January 30 - February 3
More dates to be announced soon
Cost:
$880 (includes GST)
These one week intensive trainings will provide an immersion in the practices of narrative therapy. Narrative therapy centres people as the experts in their own lives and views problems as separate from people. Narrative approaches assume that people have many skills, competencies, beliefs, values, commitments and abilities that will assist them to reduce the influence of problems in their lives. The word ‘narrative’ refers to the emphasis that is placed upon the stories of people’s lives and the differences that can be made through particular tellings and re-tellings of these stories. Narrative therapy involves ways of understanding the stories of people’s lives, and ways of re-authoring these stories in collaboration between the therapist and the people whose lives are being discussed. It is a way of working that is interested in history, the broader context that is affecting people’s lives and the ethics or politics of this work. It is a hopeful approach. When using narrative approaches, it is often possible to address serious problems in playful and respectful ways.
These one week workshops have been specifically designed for those who are relatively new to narrative ways of working or those who have had some exposure to the ideas and would now like the opportunity to more rigorously engage with narrative practices. This course will feature a review of key narrative ideas and practices, including recent developments, including:
- Externalising conversations: the person is not the problem, the problem is the problem
- Re-authoring conversations: telling our stories in ways that make us stronger
- Outsider-witness practices: linking lives and the use of audiences
- Re-membering conversations: considering the memberships of our lives
- Listening for alternative storylines
- Documenting change: The use of letters and certificates
Stories of therapeutic conversations, videotapes, transcripts and therapeutic letters will be shared that relate to work with adults, children and families. Detailed descriptions and illustrations of maps for therapy will be given. What is more, during the week, many opportunities will be provided for participants to develop their own skills in narrative questioning through training exercises. We have found this to be particularly helpful in order for participants to then be able to use narrative practices in their own work context. This intensive workshop will be relevant to counsellors, therapists, psychologists, social workers, welfare workers… indeed anyone who is working with the stories of people’s lives.
Course timetable
Monday 10am to 4:30pm
(but please come early to register, meet people and have cups of tea from 9am onwards)
Tuesday 9:30am to 4:30pm
Wednesday 9am to 1pm (Wednesday afternoons are free)
Thursday 9:30am to 4:30pm
Friday 9:30am to 4:00pm
For more information
For more information, and to register for this workshop, contact Dulwich Centre:
Email:
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Hutt St PO Box 7192
Adelaide 5000 South Australia
Fax: +(61-8) 8232 4441
Phone : +(61-8) 8223 3966
LEVEL TWO: Extending Narrative Therapy
Dates for 2012
To be announced soon
Cost:
$880 (includes GST)
This one week training program is designed for those practitioners who have already attended a Level One intensive or its equivalent and would like to extend their knowledge and skills of narrative therapy. This skill-building workshop will be tailored to the interests and contexts of group members. Areas we will address include:
- The clinical implications of what is absent but implicit
- Creating documents to enhance the development of preferred stories
- Developing experience-near questions to expose normalising judgments and discourses
- Using narrative ideas in a variety of contexts — individual, couple, family, and group therapy, and community work
- Weaving practices together in ways that follow the preferences of those we work with
- Slowing down interviews to explore the effects of different practices and to expand our range of possibilities.
Our methods will include:
- Reviewing videotapes
- Engaging together in interviews
- Exercises designed to practice skills and engage more fully in the narrative worldview.
For more information
Registrations for this course have now closed.
Dulwich Centre is an internationally renowned narrative therapy training institute, a counselling centre, and an organisation which is regularly engaged in community projects. Dulwich Centre has a long history of offering these one week intensive workshops. Michael White offered these events at Dulwich Centre since the mid-1980s. We hope now to continue this tradition. This training will be offered by Dulwich Centre Faculty members who work as both therapists and teachers and who trained and worked alongside Michael White over many years. Dulwich Centre has a training philosophy that ensures that those teaching narrative therapy are also maintaining a therapy practice themselves. We have found that this leads to rich and rigorous training conversations. These training events are organised by the Dulwich Centre Faculty and the primary teacher is Carolyn Markey. For a number of years, Carolyn has been a narrative therapist here at Dulwich Centre, a member of the Dulwich Centre Teaching Faculty (including the Dulwich Centre International Training Program), and a member of the Narrative Teaching Partnership. She also currently works in a school-based context. Carolyn will be joined in these intensive trainings with other members of the Dulwich Centre Faculty.
To register
To register your interest for upcoming intensive workshops, contact the Course Co-ordinator, Dulwich Centre:
Email:
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Hutt St PO Box 7192
Adelaide 5000 South Australia
Fax: +(61-8) 8232 4441
Phone : +(61-8) 8223 3966
Cancellation policy: Please note, in the event of a participant needing to cancel their registration, it is possible to exchange your place with another person, or to transfer your place to a future training event at no cost. If you need to cancel your place (and cannot exchange or transfer it) then up to one month prior to the course there will be an administrative fee of $55. If you cancel your place less than one month prior to the training there will be an administrative fee of $110. If you cancel with less than one week’s notice we will not be able to offer any refund.
