SCHEDULE OF TRAINING FOR 2012
Certificate Course in Narrative Practice 2012
Februrary - October 2012. Shona Russell, Maggie Carey & Rob Hall: $2,300.00.
Registrations are open for this intensive 10 month course involving 4 blocks of 3 days training and participation in online learning. It is designed for practitioners who wish to immerse themselves in the ideas and practices of the narrative approach to therapy and community work. The focus of the training is a combination of online interactive learning and face to face workshops. This course has been developed in response to our work as practitioners and through our experience in the coordination and teaching of one year skills based courses over many years. We encourage applications from practitioners in the fields of social work, psychology, community health, welfare and organizational contexts who wish to develop and extend their use of narrative practices.
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Level 1 Intensives – Introduction to Narrative Practice
March 26 - 30, 2012 with Shona Russell: $760.00.
August 6 - 10, 2012
with Shona Russell: $760.00.
An energetic and rigorous introduction to narrative practice that will leave participants keen to explore more. All of the central practices of the narrative approach (as described by Michael White) will be explored, along with an accessible introduction to the thinking that informs the practice. This introduction is relevant for a range of contexts including counselling, groups and communities. 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
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Level II Intensive - Advanced Practitioner Training
April 16 - 20, 2012 with Maggie Carey: $760.00.
Having attended introductory workshops many people are keen to progress their skills in using the narrative approach. This week long intensive will take participants from a sense of being a beginner on their journey of learning the narrative approach to feeling that they are comfortable to begin applying these practices in their own work context. Skills development will be enhanced through engaging in live interviews with participants, exercises, and reviewing tapes and transcripts. Participation in a Level One Intensive (or equivalent) is a prerequisite.
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Using Narrative Ideas in Supervision
3 Day Workshop: August 29 - 31, 2012 with Shona Russell and Sue Mann: $385.00.
This 3 day workshop has been designed for practitioners who wish to bring the skills of narrative therapy into supervision. Narrative approaches offer many possibilities for exploring complex concerns and challenges, enlivening ways of supporting workers and a range of practices that contribute to a re- invigoration of professional identity. We will focus on the organisational contexts within which work occurs as well as relevant skills development.
The following specific themes and practices will be explored:
- Negotiating supervision
- The position we take as supervisors
- Re-storying professional identity through rich story development
- The role of externalizing conversations in interrupting internalized accounts of professional identity
- The absent but implicit
- Creating audiences for re- storying professional identity
Whether you are an experienced supervisor, new to supervision or interested in furthering your understanding of narrative approaches to supervision there will be something of interest for you!
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Therapeutic Conversations in Responding to Violence.
October 22 - 26, 2012 with Rob Hall: $760.00.
This one-week workshop will provide an engaging and thorough focus on the ways in which a narrative approach can be used in responding to violence. It will be a dynamic week of exploration that takes in the experience of those who have been subject to violence and those who use violence in their family relationships, and it will explore how we, as practitioners, can respond. This interactive week will include a mix of theoretical ideas and practice of the skills involved in therapeutic conversations.
Flyer/registration form coming soon.
Exploring New Directions and Developments in Narrative Practice.
October 29 - November 2, 2012 with Maggie Carey: $760.00.
This workshop will provide an opportunity for experienced practitioners to reinvigorate their skills of narrative practice and to extend their thinking through exploration of recent developments in the narrative approach. Each day we will explore recent developments coming from the work of a number of narrative therapists, provide a context where workshops participants become an audience for these developments and then focus on putting the ideas into practice. This will provide a lively and energising experience for practitioners to share work with each other, and to discover new possibilities together. PREREQUISITE: completion of at least two weeks of training with Narrative Practices Adelaide or similar prior to attending this intensive.
Flyer/registration form coming soon.