Narrative Therapy Level 2 Part 2 - 7-9 June 2023 - ZOOM

About Your Speaker

Chris Dolman is a social worker who has been engaging with narrative ideas and practices for the past 20 years. He lives and works in Adelaide, South Australia, and values and enjoys working with individuals, couples, and families who are responding to a broad range of concerns in their lives and relationships. Chris currently works as a narrative therapist in a government mental health service, and also with the National Workforce Centre for Child Mental Health, developing resources to support practitioners’ skill development. He holds a Master of Narrative Therapy and Community Work and since 2009 he has been a member of the Dulwich Centre Teaching Faculty with teaching assignments in Beijing, Hong Kong, Istanbul, Kigali, Singapore, and Australia.

Course Brief

Based on the work of Michael White and David Epston, Narrative Therapy involves ways of understanding the stories of people’s lives and ways of re-authoring their stories collaboratively between therapist and the people whose lives are being discussed. With more in-session guidance and practice, this Level 2 Part 2 course continues with the coursework from the Level 2 Part 1 course guiding participants in refining their skill compentencies as a practicing NT therapist.

• Externalization of the Problem: Where Person is Not the Problem, the Problem is the Problem
• Re-authoring Identity
• Working with Maps of Narrative Practices: Landscape of Action & Landscape of Identity
• Re-membering: Developing the Idea that Identity is Shaped by Social Connections and the ‘Club of Life’

• Use of Case Studies and Other Practical Examples
• Outsider Witnesses
• Definitional Ceremonies
• Personal Agency
• Gender Issues
• Addressing Trauma with Narrative Therapy
• Absent and Implicit: Enquiring Into Stories of Self Beyond the Problem Saturated Story

Important Payment Remarks

Course cancellations occurring one week or less before the course will be charged a $200 cancellation fee. Also, we no longer allow switching registrants with work colleagues. Thank you for your understanding.

All cheques are made payable to 'The SEL Network LLP' Please note that payment needs to be made in full for all registrants for confirmation of seats - 2 weeks before course begins.

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The SEL Network LLP

UBEN No. T10LL0140K

FORMAT: ZOOM - We will send you instructor dispensed reading materials and a Zoom invitation before the course as confirmation.