Narrative therapy training in Singapore!
A partnership between Dulwich Centre and the Academy of Human Development (Singapore) is soon to enable a series of narrative therapy training events to take place in Singapore.
These public workshops began in October 2009 and will be held over the course of one year. Separate workshops will take place on the following topics:
Introducing narrative therapy
Carolyn Markey & Chris Dolman
12–15 October 2009
Carolyn Markey has considerable experience and great interest in counselling children, young people and their families or caregivers in relation to a broad range of problems that are affecting their lives. She has particular experience in the areas of family separation, effects of violence and abuse, school-related difficulties, and working with people affected by concerns about anxiety or depression. Carolyn also enjoys using narrative ideas in group settings where people come together to talk about similar issues they are facing. These have included groups in which people wish to talk about sole parenting, living with the effects of violence and abuse, or groups of men wanting to take responsibility for abusive actions. Carolyn also has considerable experience supervising other practitioners in narrative therapy.
Chris Dolman values and enjoys working with individuals, couples, children, and families who are responding to a broad range of problems and concerns in their lives and relationships. Chris works both in private practice and for a non-government organisation. In addition to having considerable experience in working with people facing issues of violence and abuse, he has worked with people around family separation, parenting, grief, addictions, mental health concerns, and relationship matters.
Working with relationships
John Stillman
29–30 January 2010
John Stillman is a clinical social worker at Kenwood Therapy Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States. He uses narrative therapy when working with children, adolescents, and adults who are facing a wide range of problems. John has practiced narrative therapy since 1999 and obtained extensive training with Michael White, starting as a member of the first diploma program offered by the Dulwich Centre in Adelaide, Australia, in 2002. He is currently a member of the Dulwich Centre’s international training staff and has provided training in Australia, Bangladesh, India, Mexico, Russia, South Korea, and the United States.
Working with children & young people
Sekneh Beckett and Lisa Johnson
23–24 March 2010
Sekneh Beckett lives in Sydney, where she is part of the teaching team at Macquarie University’s Social Health course. Sekneh enjoys working with people from diverse backgrounds and holds a position of curiosity from which to explore and honour people’s creative acts of resistance.
Lisa Johnson is a psychologist who has great interest in counselling children, young people, and adults in response to a range of concerns or problems. Lisa has worked in a number of roles in community-based organisations and schools, recently joining Dulwich Centre in private practice. Much of Lisa’s work has been in supporting women, children, and young people – especially around the effects of trauma and violence, mental health concerns, and grief. Lisa has also enjoyed and appreciated the work she has done to support children and families effected by disabilities.
Working with groups & communities
Cheryl White & David Denborough
26–27 April 2010
Cheryl White is the Director of Dulwich Centre and the founder of Dulwich Centre Publications where she works as publisher, editor, training co-ordinator, conference host, and initiator of projects. Cheryl is the co-editor of various books, including Conversations about gender, culture, violence & narrative practice: Stories of hope and complexity from women of many cultures. More information about the work of Dulwich Centre Publications can be found in the book A community of ideas: Behind the scenes. Cheryl is particularly interested in finding ways to support the work of practitioners in challenging contexts. She has recently launched the Dulwich Centre Foundation which is vitally interested in the interface between narrative therapy and work with wider groups and communities.
David Denborough, co-founder of Dulwich Centre Foundation, works as a writer/editor for Dulwich Centre Publications and community practitioner and singer-song writer for the Dulwich Centre Foundation. He is the editor of six books: Collective narrative practice: Responding to individuals, groups, and communities who have experienced trauma; Beyond the prison: Gathering dreams of freedom; Family therapy: Exploring the field's past, present and possible futures; Queer counselling and narrative practice; A community of ideas: Behind the scenes; and Trauma: Narrative responses to traumatic experience.
Responding to trauma
Angel Yuen
10–11 August 2010
Angel Yuen is a school social worker and private practitioner in the multicultural context of Toronto, Canada. She has a particular interest in finding and co-discovering hopeful and creative ways of responding to hardship. She is also a founding member and faculty of the Narrative Therapy Centre of Toronto. In 2006 Angel joined the Dulwich Centre team to become a faculty member for their international courses. She is coeditor with Cheryl White of the 2007 book Conversations about gender, culture, violence and narrative practice: Stories of hope and complexity from women of many cultures.
Certification module for Graduate Certificate in Narrative Therapy (Singapore)
23–24 September 2010
For more information, visit this page on the Academy of Human Development's website.
For a detailed course outline, click here (pdf, 316 KB).
For more information
For more information for any of the above events, click on the individual links above, or visit the narrative therapy training and events page at the Academy of Human Development.
To register
To register for any of the above events, contact Gina Goh:
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Phone: direct line: (+65) 6593 5283, main line: (+65) 6425 2422
Fax: (+65) 6223 8667
