SCHEDULE OF TRAINING FOR 2011

Level 1 Intensive – Introducing a Narrative Approach

Februrary 7th - 11th, 2011. Shona Russell & Maggie Carey.
August 8th - 12th, 2011. Shona Russell & Maggie Carey.

The focus of this intensive training is to provide an opportunity for practitioners from a range of fields including social work, psychology, and community work to explore narrative therapy approaches to their work. The Level 1 workshop will provide a sound base for those who are new to narrative practice as well as an opportunity to build on skills and understandings for people who have previous knowledge. The course will include explorations of:

• Key ideas of narrative therapy
• Locating narrative therapy in a context
• The narrative metaphor and how stories shape us
• A review of the micro maps of narrative therapy
• The role of externalising conversations with individuals, families and groups
• Re- Authoring conversations through rich story development
• Intentional understandings of identity
• Creating an audience for preferred story development
• The narrative approach in work with individuals, families, groups and communities

This intensive workshop will offer participants a thorough immersion in the application of the micro maps of narrative practice as described by Michael White. Maggie and Shona will use illustrations from their own work along with structured exercises and group discussion as a way of supporting participants to engage with narrative practice. The emphasis will be on developing skills in using the narrative approach and how this might apply in a variety of settings.
These intensives will have a maximum of 12 participants as we aim to foster a spirit of collaborative exploration in our teaching and to maximize opportunity for questions and discussion.

Flyer coming soon.

Level II Extending Narrative Practice

Februrary 14th - 18th, 2011. Shona Russell & Maggie Carey.

This 5 day intensive workshop is planned to provide opportunities for participants to extend on ideas and practices of narrative therapy they have gained through previous training. The features of this intensive include prioritizing the particular interests of participants which will actively shape the agenda of the intensive. There will be ongoing exploration of the skills of narrative therapy including

• Putting narrative ideas into practice through collaborative interviewing
• The use of letter writing and documents to support emerging stories
• Scaffolding  the absent but implicit
• Elaborating on specific practices of the narrative approach

 The focus of the intensive will be on the development of skills applicable in work with individuals, families, groups and communities. The teaching methodology will include live interviews, review of therapeutic conversations, sharing stories of work, gaining experience through structured exercises, descriptions of specific maps of narrative practice and group discussion. We hope to create a rigorous and lively learning experience where participants can further develop their ideas and skills in collaboration with others. There will be maximum of 12 participants.

Flyer coming soon.

Supervision

Dates to be Announced. Shona Russell.

This workshop is for people in a supervisory role who are interested in using narrative practices to support the work of the people that they supervise. A range of roles and responsibilities related to supervision will be explored as well as ideas and practices that can enliven supervision. The workshop programme will include;

• Narrative approaches to supervision – options and possibilities.
• “Practices that reinvigorate our work”
• Intentional state inquiries – an exploration
• Exploring the “absent but implicit”
• The position we take as supervisors
•  Supervision as a negotiated relationship.
• Re- storying professional identity through  rich story development
• Creating audiences for re-storying professional identity

Flyer coming soon.