2021 Yearlong Online Narrative Therapy Program
This workshop is currently filled.
If you would like to be placed on a waiting list,
please write to us at eftc@narrativetherapychicago.com
with Jill Freedman, Gene Combs, and Suzanne Gazzolo - joined by guest faculty Makungu Akinyela, Allison McCracken, and David Denborough
Dates: January 11 - 14, February 15 - 18, April 9 - 11, May 10 - 13, June 7 - 10, August 23 - 26, October 11 - 14, November 29 - December 2
Times: Except for the April weekend, we will meet via Zoom from 4 to 7 pm Central Time, Monday through Thursday. April 9 through 11, our guest speaker, Makungu Akinyela, will do a special section on decolonizing practices in therapy. Times for this weekend workshop will be Friday 1 to 4 pm, Saturday morning and afternoon 9 to 12 and 1 to 4, and Sunday afternoon 1 to 4. (all times Central Standard)
Our yearlong narrative therapy program offers you the opportunity to immerse yourself in narrative ideas and practice over the course of a year. In these sessions, you will explore narrative therapy through discussion, carefully crafted practice activities, and interviews. Between live online sessions, you will be reading articles and book chapters as well as trying out your new knowledge and skills in your own context. We will set up smaller (3 to 6 person) ongoing between-times study groups in which you can reflect on the readings and on your experience in using the practices.
We will focus on:
• Learning narrative practices and gaining skills through exercises and supervised interviews
• Understanding the theoretical and philosophical positions that support narrative work
• Appreciating the people we work with as the privileged authors of their own stories
• Exploring the role of cultural norms and discourses, in both problematic stories and in preferred stories
• Appreciating the importance of recognizing and building communities in which alternative stories can circulate and take on meaning
• Approaching ethics as ways of being that we embody in bringing forth a just world (rather than as rules we must follow to avoid punishment)
• Focusing on particular problems and applications of the work tailored to the interests and contexts of group members
CEU’s (Illinois Social Work & MFT): 100 total CEU’s will be awarded. Certificate of completion will be provided to each participant at the end of the training.
Tuition: $2,000
Tuition may be paid in installments. Please contact us if you are interested in setting up installments.
If you are interested in our program, please fill out the application below.
Once we have received it, we will set up an online interview to be sure that expectations and “fit” are appropriate in both directions.
Application:
A $300 deposit—which will be refunded if you do not attend—is due as part of the application process. This will count toward your tuition once you are accepted.
Please pay the $300 deposit using the PayPal button below.
Masters Degree Option
The yearlong course, with an additional module, counts toward completion of the Master of Narrative Therapy and Community Work degree from Dulwich Centre and the University of Melbourne. If you enroll in the Masters program you will receive recognition of prior learning for “Advanced Narrative Skills Development.”
The extra module has two components: The first is to record 2 sessions of work, transcribing at least 15 minutes of each of those 2 sessions, and then to engage with a mentor in supervision around these 2 pieces of work.
The second component is to write a 5000 word report of a focused project in which you apply narrative ideas in your context over the course of the yearlong program.
For more information about the Dulwich Centre Masters program visit the Dulwich Centre website at: http://dulwichcentre.com.au/masters.
Although this module has been designed to satisfy some of the requirements of the Master program, it is available to any members of the yearlong program who desire this extra level of mentoring.