Workshops and Training
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Level I Five-Day Intensive Workshop
With Jill Freedman & Gene Combs
Monday, July 26th - Friday, July 30th, 2010 WORKSHOP FULL (Early Registration by June 18th)
Tuition: Early Registration, $600; General Registration, $675; Student Registration, $500
Limited to 12 participants.
This small-group intensive workshop immerses participants in narrative ideas and facilitates experience with narrative practices. The format is interactive, with opportunities to practice the ideas. Videotape and live interviews are used to demonstrate the work. Our focus includes:
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Thinking in terms of the narrative metaphor
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Situating problems in larger political and cultural contexts
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Engaging in conversations that externalize problems
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Asking questions to generate experience
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Developing alternative, thickly described life stories
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Working as a member of a reflecting team/outsider witness group
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Using documents, letters, and teams to spread the news of preferred developments
Level II Five-Day Intensive Workshop
With Jill Freedman & Gene Combs
Monday, August 2nd - Friday, August 6th, 2010 WORKSHOP FULL (Early Registration by June 25th)
Tuition: Early Registration $650; General Registration $725; Student and Repeat Participant Registration, $550
Limited to 10 people who have completed a Level I Intensive or Year-Long Training.
This workshop is designed to help people take the next steps in using narrative ideas and practices in their particular contexts. In this 5-day experience, we collaborate with participants in sharing the joys and difficulties of narrative work in a variety of settings. Each participant will have a block of time that we will organize and shape according to his or her own special interests and projects. We imagine that during this week of collaboration we will interview each other; look together at videotapes, transcripts, documents, or other records of our work; and participate in skill-building exercises. We will consider ways to apply narrative practices in participants' particular work contexts.
Each level 2 workshop is a unique experience. Because of the improvisational and collaborative format, we are always extending each other’s narrative skills and understanding. This means that many people have found it valuable to attend more than one level 2 intensive.
Advanced Intensive in Tuscany, Italy
With Jill Freedman & Gene Combs
Monday, October 4th, 2010 - Friday, October 8, 2010 WORKSHOP FULL
Location: Ponte a Nappo, a bed and breakfast just outside San Gimignano, Tuscany, Italy
Tuition: Early Registration $625 (before July 4); General Registration $700
We plan to join together with up to 15
experienced practitioners of narrative therapy from October 4th
through 8th 2010, just outside
We plan to meet from 9
to 12 and from 4 to 7 each day, leaving a long siesta period for
walks in the town or countryside, excursions to
Year-Long Training
With Jill Freedman, Gene Combs & Klaus Boettcher
2010 Dates Currently Being Developed
Limited to 12 people.
4 days every other month, 20 days total: [2010 - 2011 dates not set yet. Contact us if you desire more information]
Tuition: Early Registration, $2000; General Registration, $2,250
The training group will meet in four-day blocks (Friday - Monday) approximately every eight weeks. This format offers the advantage of four days of intensive experience followed by time for reflecting, reading, and trying out the ideas between meetings. The small group size insures supervised practice and makes it possible to tailor our program to fit participants' interests and work contexts. Our focus will include:
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Learning narrative practices and gaining skills through exercises and
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Understanding the theoretical and philosophical positions that support narrative work
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Appreciating the people we work with as the privileged authors of their own stories
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Exploring the role of culture, both in problematic stories and in preferred stories
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Appreciating the importance of communities in which alternative stories can circulate and take on meaning
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Thinking about ethics as ways of being that we embody rather than as rules we must follow to avoid punishment
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Focusing on particular problems and applications of the work tailored to the interests and contexts of group members
Completion of the year-long training qualifies participants for alumni events, such as presenter conferences.
2nd Year Training: Live Supervision
With Jill Freedman & Gene Combs
Limited to 6 people who have completed the year-long training
16 days total: by arrangement
Tuition: $2000
The second-year training meets one Saturday and Sunday, every other month in a very small group. This is a chance for therapists who are engaged with narrative ideas and practices to have an ongoing team tailored to their specific concerns, interests, difficulties, and growth. During each two-day meeting, each participant will have a block of time devoted to his or her choice of experience and focus. The format can include live or videotaped supervision, exercises designed to work with particular skills, consultation, coaching, and collaboration, and interviews about participants ongoing stories of their development as therapists.
Group and Individual Supervision
We offer both group and individual supervision by personal arrangement. Contact us if you are interested.
Consultation
We offer consultation to individuals and to agencies. This, too, is by individual arrangement.
Housing/Accommodations
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