Workshops and Training
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A 2-Day Introduction to Narrative Therapy
With Klaus Boettcher
August 16 - 17, 2008
Tuition: paid by July 31, $145; after July 31, $195; student rate $100
This workshop is designed to introduce the basic concepts and ideas of narrative therapy and to provide an opportunity to try out some narrative practices. Our focus includes:
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A conversation about the narrative worldview and how people make meaning of their lives
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The difference between structuralism and post-structuralism
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How the techniques and practices of power can influence people's lives and their perception of themselves
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Some experience with externalizing problems and separating the problem from the person
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Experience with collaboratively mapping a statement of position
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How to recognize unique outcomes and develop subordinate stories
Level I Five-Day Intensive Workshop
With Jill Freedman
September 22 - 26, 2008
Tuition: paid by July 30, $600; after July 30, $675; student rate $500
These small-group intensive workshops are designed to immerse participants in narrative ideas and facilitate 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
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 may 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.
Year-Long Training
With Jill Freedman, Gene Combs & Klaus Boettcher
Limited to 12 people.
4 days every other month, 20 days total: [2008 - 2009 dates not set yet. Contact us if you desire more information]
Tuition: before June 15, 2008, $2000; after June 15, $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 small group consultations with Michael White and 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: September 2007 - July 2008
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.
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