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Training in narrative therapy and community work


For the last 26 years, Dulwich Centre has offered and co-ordinated a wide range of training options for practitioners who are wishing to develop their own skills in narrative practice. This narrative therapy training is skills-based and seeks to be accessible to practitioners from a range of disciplines, including social work, counselling, therapy, teaching, community work, nursing, medicine, psychology, psychiatry, psycho-social work, child-care, and so on.


The training we offer includes one-day to week-long intensive workshops, online courses, International Summer Schools, and Spring Festivals,  year-long and Graduate Certificate programs, an International Training Program, and we are currently developing a Clinical Masters Program. For people wanting an introduction to narrative therapy and community work, through to experienced people regularly using narrative ideas in practice, we have something to offer. 


NEWS:

* On-line narrative therapy courses now available!! Click here for more information



Dulwich Centre Training calendar for 2013

 

Contents:


  • Masters program in Narrative Therapy and Community Work
  • International Training Program
  • One week intensive workshops
  • International events


 For more information about all of these events, please read on!


Masters Program in Narrative Therapy and Community Work


When we recently announced that we are in discussions in relation to creating a joint clinical Masters Program in Narrative Therapy and Community Work, we didn't anticipate the response we received. Within 24 hours we had received over 100 expressions of interest from a wide range of countries: Canada, Chile, Hong Kong/China, Belgium, UK, Israel, Spain, Denmark, USA, Ireland, Singapore, South Africa, New Zealand, Mexico, Uganda, Italy, India, Romania, and Sweden! We are now more determined than ever to make this a reality. This program would be taught by an international faculty. It would take place in two intensive blocks (of two weeks each) and the rest of the program will take place on-line. So it will be possible for both Australian and international practitioners to participate. Participants will complete 20 sets of readings and written responses, two papers of a publishable standard and submit two tapes of their narrative practice. It would be very helpful to us to get some idea of the numbers of people who may be interested in enrolling in such a Masters Program. If you would consider enrolling in such a program, please contact us via This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . We will then stay in touch with you as things develop. Thanks.



 
One week intensive workshops


Level One Narrative Therapy


Level Two Narrative Therapy


Responding to hardship: Narrative ways of responding to individuals, groups, and communities who are experiencing hardship

  • Dates for this workshop, presented by Cheryl White, Barbara Wingard, and David Denborough, will be available soon for 2013. For more information, click here. 
  • The final day of this 5 day workshop will be dedicated to 'The Tree of Life Narrative Approach: latest developments'. It is possible to register for this one day workshop separately


Special events in Adelaide


When stories clash: Re-authoring the relationship story through narrative mediation
John Winslade (New Zealand/USA)
2-day workshop 25-26th July


Resisting “Burn Out” with Justice-Doing in Counselling and Community Work with Vikki Reynolds  (Canada)
Vikki Reynolds
2-day workshop 15-16 October
Those working with people struggling with poverty, violence and oppression are often told that they will "burn out”.  The compassionate care of the workers is seen as naïve, immature, unprofessional, and something they will “get over”. We're also told that clients are responsible for harming us with their pain, when most workers tell me that's not the case-and that they suffer from structural issues of injustice that don't allow for us to provide the care required to address suffering. Contrary to this is the story of sustainability; how our collective work sustains us, nourishes our hope, invites us to honour the resistance and strength we witness in the people we work alongside, and allows us to work congruently with our ethics. This experiential workshop will address our collective ethics and practices of Collective Care as opposed to self-care. Workers will be invited to begin to build their own “Solidarity Team”; examining who stands alongside them, what ideas and practices sustain them, and how they might access support when burnout attacks. Vikki Reynolds is a Canadian therapist/activist interested in liberating justice, resistance, and solidarity from the margins of our work into the ethical centre. Her visit to Adelaide last year was warmly embraced. Book online here!


Stretching ourselves and the field: A 3-day narrative practice seminar
11-13 November
Due to many requests, we are delighted to hold this advanced practitioner practice seminar which will include:
•    Latest therapeutic explorations from Jill Freedman 
•    Theoretical stretching: from critical heritage studies to re-engaging with Michel Foucault
•    Ensuring the politics remain on the map: Key lessons from the past by Cheryl White
•    The tensions, possibilities and creativities between narrative therapy and collective narrative practice: David Denborough
•    Opportunities to delve into the Michael White archives 
If you are an advanced narrative practitioner and are interested in a stretching few days, we welcome your participation. The faculty for this event will include a range of experienced Australian and international narrative practitioners. Book online here!


Dulwich Centre international events in 2013


AUSTRIA

  • April 2013: Three days of workshops on the narrative approach in working with individuals, groups, and communities – Vienna. For the European Systemic Business Academy

  

BRAZIL

  • A program of narrative therapy courses are taking place in Salvador, Brazil during 2013. This is a collaboration between Nucleo de Estudos das Terapias (Salvador, Brasil) and Dulwich Centre (Australia). Workshops to take place:
    LEVEL 1: April 30 – May 4  Narrative therapy intensive learning with Mark Hayward (UK)
    LEVEL 2: July   23 – 27 Narrative responses to violence and bullying with Ruth Pluznick (Canada)
    LEVEL 3: November 12 – 16  Narrative mediation and conflict coaching with couples, families and communities with John Winslade Click here for more information  


CHILE

  • 2013 Santiago, Chile. In collaboration with Universidad de Chile. More information available soon.

 

CHINA

  • As part of a series of workshops in China, the next events are planned for Anyang in July (featuring john Stillman, USA) and Beijing in August (featuring Yael Gershoni, Israel). For more information Email: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it Phone: +86-0-1355-2693-859.  


DENMARK

  • April 15-18 David Denborough teaching for LOS - The National Organisation of Residental Homes Group Homes and Special Schools. For more information: www.los.dk 


GREECE


HONG KONG

  • March 2013: a One Year Post Graduate Certificate in Narrative Practice is to being held in conjunction between The Centre for Youth Research and Practice at Hong Kong Baptist University & Dulwich Centre. To be taught in Cantonese and English by local experienced narrative practitioners and Dulwich Centre International Faculty.For more information click here

  

PALESTINE


SINGAPORE


SPAIN

  • April 2013: David Denborough is offering a series of workshops in Madrid and Valencia. These are being organised by the Spanish Narrative Therapy Association and Carlos Chimpen

 

THAILAND/BURMA

  • In May 2013, Dulwich Centre Foundation International, in collaboration with International Women's Development Agency, is offering a series of workshops in Thailand for Burmese women's organisations.


 

 

 


Training workshops delivered in your organisation, town, or country!


 

If you and others in your workplace or local community are interested in learning more about narrative approaches, then it may be possible for us to arrange a training event in your location. This often saves considerable expense in relation to airfares and accommodation. Topics for these workshops include:

 

  • Introduction to narrative therapy (one day, two day, or five day events)
  • Introduction to narrative approaches to working with individuals, groups, and wider communities (two day, three day, or five day events)
  • Tree of Life: A narrative approach to working with vulnerable children
  • Responding to trauma: narrative approaches to working with individuals, groups, and communities

Or a custom-made topic depending on your area of interest and the availability of skilled trainers on that particular topic!

 

Outside Australia:

Over the last ten years, Dulwich Centre has co-ordinated training workshops that have taken place in a wide range of countries. We have a network of experienced and highly-regarded practitioners/trainers who are available for teaching assignments across the globe. Sometimes it is possible for these trainers to visit a country on their way to another destination - this saving considerable expense. We are used to arranging low-cost but highly-professional training events in places from Mongolia, India, East Timor, South Korea, Hong Kong, Bangladesh, USA, Canada and many others ...


If you are interested in an experienced trainer/practitioner in narrative approaches visiting your local community, please write to us at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it Because we have links with practitioners in every continent (except Antarctica), you never know what might be possible!

 

 

Further information related to training

 

To learn more about Dulwich Centre's philosophy to training, read the article 'Developing training programs congruent with narrative ideas' (an extract from the book A community of ideas by Cheryl White and David Denborough).

 

Accommodation

For information relating to accommodation while in Adelaide for training, please click here.

 

 

 

 

SINGAPORE