Maggie and Shona have been involved in the teaching of narrative therapy and community work for many years, both in Australia and internationally Maggie and Shona have been active members of Dulwich Centre teaching faculty and have played a primary role in the development of the skills practice component of the International Training programme at Dulwich Centre.
Shona and Maggie along with Sue Mann and Carolyn Markey formed the Narrative Teaching Partnership in Adelaide in 2002 enabling a team of teachers to work collaboratively to develop skills in the teaching of narrative therapy and community work.
The focus of Rob’s training relates to his extensive practice of working in the area of gender violence and abuse, inviting men to take responsibility for the violence they engage with and to find ways to ensure the safety and well being of people they had abused.
Rob continues to seek ways of further ensuring that intervention with people who have perpetrated abuse is practiced in ways that are consistent with, and that promote, responsibility, respect, fairness and accountability. A counselling approach which is consistent with these ideas entails the development of practice as an ethical journey.
Rob has shared these explorations of practice in many seminars and workshops, and, as an associate of the Adelaide Narrative Therapy Centre, he looks forward to further collaboration in the development of these practices.
Workshops outside Adelaide in 2010 with...
Maggie Carey has been involved in the practice of narrative therapy since the early 90's and in the teaching of it for the past 10 years. Maggie's therapeutic practice has seen her working alongside young people at risk, with women and children who live with the effects of violence and abuse, and with people having experienced trauma, particularly as refugees.
Shona Russell has worked as a teacher of narrative approaches to therapy and community work for many years.She finds the intersection of therapeutic work and teaching very energising and enjoys these explorations with workshop participants. Shona has been an active faculty member of the Dulwich Centre International programme, a Diploma course in Narrative approaches for Aboriginal people and the Narrative Teaching Partnership.