Advanced (Level 2) Intensive - in person in Evanston

With Jill Freedman and Gene Combs
Dates: August 6 - 10
Limited to 12 participants
Tuition: $750
Schedule: Doors open at 9:00am Central Daylight Time. We meet from 9:30am – 5:00pm with a 1 ½ hour lunch break at 12:30. 
Location: 1212 1/2 Elmwood Avenue, Evanston, IL 60202. View map here. Street parking available. 

We have designed this one week intensive training for people who have already attended a Level One intensive or its equivalent and would like to more richly develop their knowledge and skills of narrative therapy. Many of the past participants have completed a yearlong program. Because we limit attendance to a small group, we can tailor this skill-building workshop to the interests and contexts of each group member. Areas we have addressed in past workshops include:

  • Working with multiple ways of moving from problematic to preferred stories, including asking about the absent but implicit and focusing on initiatives and agency

  • Creating documents and linking lives to enhance the development of preferred stories

  • Developing experience-near questions to expose normalizing judgments and discourses

  • Using outsider witness practices

  • Using narrative ideas in a variety of contexts — individual, couple, and family therapy, and community work

  • Weaving practices together in ways that follow the preferences of those we work with

  • Slowing down interviews during the workshop to explore the effects of different practices and to expand our understanding of the micro-practices of narrative therapy.

  • The philosophical underpinnings of narrative work

  • The ethics of narrative work

  • Using narrative practices in a structuralist work context

 Our time together will include skill-building exercises, reviewing videos and transcripts, engaging in interviews together, and group discussion. Because this intensive workshop is limited to 12 participants Jill and Gene can respond to the questions, interests and contexts of each group member.

Note: Participants must have attended a Level One intensive (or its equivalent) in order to attend this workshop. Contact us for more information about this intensive.