Digital Seminar
Narrative Therapy - Re-Authoring Stories Towards Agency, Dignity and Hope: A one-day workshop of core concepts and key skills to enrich your clinical repertoire.
Re-authoring Stories Towards Agency, Dignity and Hope
- Average Rating:
- 305
- Faculty:
- Merle Conyer, M. Counselling & Applied Psychotherapy, M. Narrative Therapy & Community Work, M. Education, Dip. Somatic Psychotherapy, Dip. Energetic Healing
- Duration:
- 5 Hours 59 Minutes
- Format:
- Audio and Video
- Copyright:
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Nov 30, 2021
- Product Code:
- AUD022077
- Media Type:
- Digital Seminar
Description
“The person is not the problem; the problem is the problem”. – Michael White
This formative statement is a core principle for narrative-oriented therapists. Something becomes “a problem” when it gets in the way of a person’s life, visions, and hopes. How we approach the problem shapes how we look at it, what we will find, and how we might act in response.
A client may come to you in the grip of a problem-saturated story about themselves or some aspect of their life. Narrative therapy approaches invoke curiosity about the meaning of the problem to them, how this informs their thoughts and actions, and ways in which these are, or are not, helpful.
As an alternative to defining the person according to the problem or locating the problem within the person, a narrative-oriented therapist is guided by ‘positioning’ theory which suggests we come to know and experience ourselves through relationships located within specific histories, cultures, and political systems.
Informed by this orientation, therapist and client work collaboratively to co-research, deconstruct and reauthor the problem-saturated story. This can help the client to reclaim their life from the effects of a problem, and to discover or find their way back to preferred identity conclusions.
This in turn can open hopeful possibilities which honor valued relationships and treasured aspects of their history and culture.
This workshop includes illustrative examples, practical exercises, case study reflections, journal articles, handouts, and ample presenter-attendee dialogue.
Register today for this transformative training!
Credit
Handouts
| File type | File name | Number of pages | |
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| Narrative Therapy Nov'21 Presenter slides (1.05 MB) | Available after Purchase | ||
| Handout 2 - WorkBook (2.69 MB) | Available after Purchase | ||
| Handout 3 - List of Handouts and Video Links (10.51 MB) | Available after Purchase | ||
| Handout 4 (0.11 MB) | Available after Purchase | ||
| Handout 5 (0.32 MB) | Available after Purchase | ||
| Handout 6 (2.79 MB) | Available after Purchase | ||
| Handout 7 (2.69 MB) | Available after Purchase | ||
| Handout 8. (0.15 MB) | Available after Purchase | ||
| Handout 9 (0.10 MB) | Available after Purchase | ||
| Handout 10 (0.72 MB) | Available after Purchase |
Faculty
Merle Conyer, M. Counselling & Applied Psychotherapy, M. Narrative Therapy & Community Work, M. Education, Dip. Somatic Psychotherapy, Dip. Energetic Healing Related seminars and products
Psychotherapist, Clinical Supervisor
Merle Conyer supports individuals, teams, organisations and communities responding to interpersonal, institutional, political, cultural and environmental trauma, healing and justice. Contexts in which she contributes include mental health, legal, government, academic and community sectors, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander services, organisations facilitating redress for institutional abuse, and those contributing to human rights, social justice and environmental justice.
Her track record includes board, management, service delivery and volunteer roles. Through her independent practice she currently offers counselling, supervision, debriefing, training, groupwork, wellbeing support and consulting services. She interweaves interdisciplinary wisdoms such as somatic psychotherapy, trauma-informed practice, narrative therapy, ecological psychotherapy, focusing and mindfulness practices, and is guided by both clinical and cultural supervision. Merle is an Accredited Supervisor and Clinical Member with the Psychotherapy and Counselling Federation of Australia. She holds a Master of Narrative Therapy and Community Work, Master of Counselling and Applied Psychotherapy, Master of Education, Graduate Diploma of Communication Management (Human Resource Development), and Diplomas of Somatic Psychotherapy and Energetic Healing.
Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Merle Conyer maintains a private practice and has an employment relationship with Blue Knot Foundation. She receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Merle Conyer has no relevant non-financial relationships.
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Objectives
- Build an understanding of language, discourse and power relations within the therapeutic context.
- Build an understanding and develop how to work with the ‘normalizing gaze’ and the significance of power relations.
- Develop an understanding into the value and application of double listening.
- Develop the skills of deconstruction and re-authoring.
- Build an understanding of the value of eliciting clients’ ‘insider knowing’ and attending closely to hopes, visions, values and commitments.
- Build an understanding of the power dynamics of the therapeutic relationship and potential influences on both therapist and client
Outline
Introduction
Overview
What is narrative therapy
- Stories
- Metaphors
- Theoretical roots and influences
- Social constructionism
- Discourse
- Normalizing gaze
- Post-structuralism
- Problems
- Scaffolding
- Questions
- Double listening
Flow of narrative conversation
- Hear the story
- Externalizing
- Map the problem’s influence
- Explore alternative meanings and exceptions
- Develop preferred stories and re-authoring
Therapist’s orientation
- Therapeutic posture
- De-centered and influential
Reflexive practice
Resources
Themes
Reflection
Target Audience
Counselors Psychotherapists Coaches Psychologists Hypnotherapists Social Workers Case Workers Pastoral Care Workers Community Workers Mental Health Nurses Psychiatrists
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Total Reviews: 305
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