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Narrative Therapy
One Week Trainings at Dulwich Centre
With
Carolyn Markey and other members of the Dulwich Centre Faculty - Sekneh
Beckett, David Newman and Chris Dolman
Level One and
Level Two one week intensives now
available
LEVEL ONE
Dates
April 20th – 24th 2009
June 29th – 3rd July
September 14th – 18th
Cost:
$660 (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
LEVEL TWO: Extending Narrative Therapy
Date:
Sunday the 5th July to Thursday the 9th of July
2009
Cost:
$660 (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. Within
this week, participants will have a chance to thoroughly explore ways of
weaving and moving between the different maps of narrative practice:
externalising
conversations,
re-authoring
conversations, the absent but implicit, re-membering conversations, and so on.
Opportunities to share creative ways in which people can provide an
audience to preferred stories will also be included. A range of
different teaching approaches will be used throughout the week
including:
- the sharing of ideas and
stories
- demonstrations of practice via
video-tapes, transcripts and digital stories
- collaborative stop-start
interviews to illustrate and extend practice skills
- specifically developed
practice-based exercises
This week will be focused on
skills development. Opportunities will also be provided for engaging
with the dilemmas and complexities of narrative therapeutic practice.
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 will be 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, please contact the
Course Co-ordinator Dulwich Centre
Email: dulwich@dulwichcentre.com.au
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.
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