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Training in narrative therapy and community work

 

For the last 25 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, our International Summer School, and year-long and Graduate Certificate programs. 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. (Don't forget to also check out our next International Narrative Therapy and Community Work Conference.)

 

Dulwich Centre Training calendar for 2010

 

Contents:

 


International Training Program: Narrative approaches to therapy and community work 2010–2011

 

Our most rigorous training program. Our international faculty includes: Jill Freedman, David Epston, Lorraine Hedtke, Carolyn Markey, John Winslade, Sekneh Beckett, David Denborough, David Newman, Cheryl White, Chris Burke, Jane Hutton, Chris Dolman, Sue Mitchell, & Barbara Wingard.

 


Special event: INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL OF NARRATIVE PRACTICE

March 3–5, Adelaide

Click here for an overview of the International Summer School of Narrative Practice!

Click here to view the latest program

 

Pre-summer school one day workshops:

 

Pre-summer school forums:

 

 

One and two day workshops on special topics

 


One week intensive workshops

 

Level One Narrative Therapy

  • February 8–12
  • April 26–30 with Carolyn Markey and the Dulwich Centre Faculty
  • June 7–11 with Chris Dolman and Sekneh Beckett

 

Level Two Narrative Therapy

  • February 22–26 with Carolyn Markey and Chris Dolman
  • June 14–18 with Carolyn Markey and Chris Dolman


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

  • February 15–19 with Cheryl White, Barbara Wingard, and David Denborough

 

 

 

Dulwich Centre International Events in 2010


BRAZIL

  • May 2010 (dates to be confirmed) workshops in the north of Brazil
  • October 29, 30, 31: Workshops in Sao Paulo, Brazil

 


CANADA

  • May 6–9: Cheryl White will deliver a keynote address at Therapeutic Conversations 9. Cheryl and David Denborough will also be running a one day workshop: 'Narrative practice: Receiving and responding to stories of trauma/social suffering'.
  • June 28–July 9: Second teaching block of Dulwich Centre International Training Program to be held in Toronto.
  • July 7–9: International Summer School of Narrative Practice in Toronto, Canada. Co-hosted by Dulwich Centre, Narrative Therapy Centre of Toronto and Oolagen Community Services.
  • July 15 & 16: An intensive in narrative practice. Hosted by The Narrative Project and Dulwich Centre. For more information, visit: www.thenarrativeproject.ca

 


CHILE

  • October (dates to be confirmed) David Denborough workshop. Contact: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

 


COLOMBIA

  • October 20–23: Keynote address at First International Conference on Systemic Thinking and Practice: Transforming Lives and Communities in Bogota, Colombia.

 

 

GREECE

  • May 8–9: Narrative therapy with children. Jane Hutton will present this seminar in Thessaloniki. It will be preceded by an open lecture on the same theme on Friday 7 May. For more information, contact Adam Harvatis, phone: +30 69 7436 1096 or email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

 


PALESTINE

  • March 21–31 Geir Lundby (Norway) teaching on behalf of Dulwich Centre at Treatment and Rehabilitation Centre for Victims of Torture and Trauma (TRC) in Ramallah, Palestine as part of three year formal training partnership between the TRC and Dulwich Centre

 


RWANDA

  • Dates to be announced: Special Training event in relation to Narrative responses to trauma (Stay tuned for further information)

 


SINGAPORE

  • Graduate Certificate in Narrative Therapy in Singapore 2009–2010: A whole series of training workshops and certification module, held in conjunction with the Academy of Human Development. Contact: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

 


SOUTH AFRICA

  • October (dates to be confirmed) Dulwich Centre Foundation International return visit to South Africa

 

 


International events in 2011


July 13–15: 10th International Narrative Therapy and Community Work Conference – Salvador, Brazil

 

 

  

 

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.