Sign up for the Graduate Certificate in Narrative Therapy (Approximately 1 year in length beginning - end of February each year)

Immerse yourself in narrative therapy ideas this year. This rigorous practice-based program has been developed specifically for Singaporean practitioners. Here is the 2021 program:

1. 10 days face-to-face training in Singapore with Dulwich Centre International Teaching Faculty members: required courses offered this year include: Introduction to Narrative Therapy - Level 1; Narrative Therapy - Level 2 - Part 1; Narrative Therapy - Level 2 - Part 2; and your choice of Family Violence Focused Narrative Therapy or Narrative Therapy for Young Children. Please note: Cost of these courses is in addition to the application and process fee of $2500 for the Graduate Certificate program.

2. A reading/writing program in which you relate the ideas of narrative practice to your own contexts and receive feedback from a Dulwich Centre tutor

3. Supervision on a taped interview of your work including two further Skype consultations

4. The creation of a written practice project and oral presentation regarding narrative practices within your particular context and online forum

Pathway to Master of Narrative Therapy and Community Work
Those who complete the graduate certificate program will have this recognised as the equivalent of one of three subjects in the Master of Narrative Therapy and Community Work (University of Melbourne and Dulwich Centre).

If you are a part-time or full-time student currently studying counselling or psychology online or mainstream, you can receive 50% off of the regular price of $1200 ($600 Net)!

About Your Speaker

Dr. Hayley Quinn PhD, is an experienced clinical psychologist, trainer and the current President of Compassionate Mind Australia. She runs her own private clinical practice, with a particular focus on Compassionate Focused Therapy, assisting people experiencing: anxiety, trauma related issues, chronic pain, grief and loss. As an expert trainer, she offers her clinical work experiences to deliver high-quality training that is meaningful and applicable for clinicians.

Prior to starting her own private practice, Dr. Quinn worked in community, multicultural and hospital based settings. Facilitating a day program within a specialised trauma and dissociation unit, she deepened her nuanced understanding of the harmful effects of fear, shame and loss of connection, clarifying the importance of compassion-focused work, especially with complex clients.

Dr. Quinn is passionate about the role of personal practice in assisting clinicians in cultivating a caring orientation towards suffering within themselves and others. She supports clinicians in incorporating compassion focused practice into their personal lives as well as in their clinical work, creating forced-multiplied outcomes, increasing overall capacity for caring, courage and wisdom offered to themselves and others!

What is Compassion Focused Therapy?

CFT is an integrative psychology model that focuses on the cultivation and application of compassion for both self and others. CFT integrates cognitive-behavioural therapy techniques with developmental and social psychology and affective neuroscience. The approach was originally developed by Professor Paul Gilbert for clients with high-levels of self-criticism and shame and has a growing evidence base for a variety of clinical disorders and presentations. Practicing compassion has been shown to have powerful effects on physiological, psychological and social processes, specifically in the regulation of threat-focused emotional experiences and the development of a caring orientation to suffering.

If you are a part-time or full-time student currently studying counselling or psychology online or mainstream, you can receive 50% off of the regular price of $950 ($475 Net)!

About Your Speaker

Dr. Ian Percy MSW PhD is a therapist, supervisor, consultant, trainer and published author in narrative and mindfulness approaches. He is an Accredited Mental Health Social Worker, a Clinical Member of the Australian Association of Family Therapy and an Accredited Psychotherapy Supervisor with The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists.

Ian teaches professional development courses in counselling and psychotherapy for social service agencies, universities and private organisations. He specialised in training colleagues in Narrative Therapy since 1997. 

Ian has taught internationally and given workshops and papers at state, national and global conferences. He was an invited Plenary Speaker on spiritualities at the 8th Social Work in Health and Mental Health conference in Singapore. He has received two university awards for academic excellence.

About the Training

Re-membering Conversations and Internalised Other Interviewing seek to reengage with significant people from personal history who have, in important ways, shaped who we have become. They belong to our life stories, to our prior selves. They contribute to a multi-voiced, multi-bodied and multi-storied sense of self. We will consider how people show this self to others and how they hold others in memory. Such explorations can have significant therapeutic implications.

This is an experiential and practical two-day workshop. Though it is not therapy, trainees will attend with a willingness to explore certain aspects of their personal histories. They will take responsibility for their level of engagement and what they choose to discuss.

Workshop Curriculum

1. Producing the sense of a personal storied self

2. Witnessing each other's and our own story making

3. Performing and distributing the porous self: from autonomous being to becoming with others

4. Relational resonance and relational dissonance

5. Detailed guided exercises drawing from participants' lives

6. Narrative and neural creation: attention, intention, memory and repetition

Skills Acquisition will include:

1. How to introduce these special kinds of conversations

2. Understanding the importance of sequencing questions

3. Plotting the effects of relational connections through time and context

4. Creating agency within complex shades of meaning

5. Expanding future stories of preferred relational selves and life

As people learn in different ways, this training will be facilitated through a variety of teaching methods including:

1. Skills building demonstration interviews

2. Guided exercises

3. Small groups as supportive audiences

4. Large group discussions

5. Scenarios from therapy

If you are a part-time or full-time student currently studying counselling or psychology online or mainstream, you can receive 50% off of the regular price of $1200 ($600 Net)!

About the Speaker

Mohammed Fareez is the Senior Assistant Director of the Ang Mo Kio Family Service Centre and Graduate of the Masters in Narrative Therapy and Community Work in collaboration between Dulwich Centre and the University of Melbourne

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 the ways of re-authoring their stories collaboratively between the therapist and the people whose lives are being discussed. Key concepts and activities covered and used during sessions include:

1. Externalization of the Problem: Where the Person is not the problem - the problem is the problem

2. Re-authoring identity of the individual

3. working with Maps of Narrative Practices including Landscape of Action and Landscape of Identity

4. Re-membering through developing the idea that identity is shaped by social connections and the "Club of Life"

5. Use of case studies and other practical examples

6. Outsider witnesses in-session practice

7. Definitional Ceremonies

8. Personal Agency discussed

9. Gender issues discussed

10. Addressing trauma situations with narrative therapy

11. Absent but implicit concept discussed and used - enquiring into stories of the self beyond the problem saturated story of the individual

If you are a part-time or full-time student currently studying counselling or psychology online or mainstream, you can receive 50% off of the regular price of $800 ($400 Net)!

Your Speakers

Ms. Ong Pei Ni has been practising social work for the past fifteen years and is currently a Principal Social Worker in a community-based social service agency. She has prior experience in managing a team of social workers and counsellors. In her current position, she provides individual and group clinical supervision for staff and conducts regular training and clinical competency building programmes. She has vast experience over the last 15 years working with multi-stressed families and individuals with trauma. She had obtained a Master of Social Work (child welfare certification) with the University of Michigan Ann-Arbor, USA. For the past three years, Pei Ni had begun to incorporate and implement trauma-informed ideas and practices in her clinical practice and supervision.  

Mr. Moh'd Fareez is the Senior Assistant Director for the Ang Mo Kio Family Service Centre and a Graduate of the Masters in Narrative Therapy and Community Work in collaboration with the Dulwich Centre and the University of Melbourne. Fareez is the Narrative Therapist (NT) guru and will lead the course section on NT and trauma specifically on how trauma can affect identity and story, and how to work narratively in getting back within the recovery process.

Course Overview

Children in Trauma. It’s a very understated title for a workshop because few want to acknowledge it, or face up to it. The pandemic has made it worse.
But we need to, for the sake of unknown children, find ways to help them cope with abusive adults, parents, relatives and friends. These children need their story told and understood, and their trauma released from their bodily and emotional systems.

As this workshop shows, the way to healing is clear, but as therapists, discipline is needed, balanced with mutual trust, building respect with the child, advocates and the process. Together, we need to forge a sense of partnership that says “you are not alone in your suffering “.

Join Pei Ni and Fareez as they as they walk us through child development, somatic experiences and the proper discharge of trauma. Case studies in the Singaporean context will be used and an engaging session with you, the field person, will ensue. You don’t want to miss this!

DAY ONE
• Child Development
• The Changing Family Scene
• Upheavals & Social Care Organisations
• Scars of Trauma: Physical, Mental, and Emotional

DAY TWO
• Case Studies & Practical Situations
• The Polyvagal Theory
• The Yellow, Green & Red Zones
• How Trauma is Stored in Humans
• Group Work and Questions

About Your Speaker

Dr. John Philip Louis holds a PhD from the UK in Clinical Psychology. His research uncovered 14 positive schemas and he developed and psychometrically validated several parenting scales which were published in peer reviewed journals. He was trained by Dr. Jeffrey Young, the founder of schema therapy and is a Certified Schema Therapist, Supervisor and Trainer. John and his wife, Karen are also developers of a schema therapy-based parenting programme called “Good Enough Parenting” and an accompanying marriage programme called “I Choose Us”. 

About Schema Therapy Certification Program

Louis Counselling & Training Services Pte Ltd and The SEL Network are jointly organizing an individual Schema Therapy Certification Programme (Level 1) in Singapore which is accredited by the International Society of Schema Therapy (ISST). Upon completion of both Levels 1 and 2, clinicians and mental health professionals will be qualified to pursue ISST membership and accreditation as an ISST-certified schema therapist.

Schema Therapy Professional Training (Basic) - Schema Theory, Concepts and Techniques - Level 1 - LEARNING OUTCOMES:

• Schema therapy concepts such as negative and positive schemas, coping styles and modes, core emotional needs
• Use of assessment tools needed to measure positive as well as negative schemas and post parenting patterns in both research and clinical practice
• Use of evidence-based intervention such as imagery, chair work and other strategies
• Use of therapy relationship to meet needs not met in childhood that are usually problematic in adulthood
• Pattern breaking strategies and conceptualization

A Schema Therapy Brief Outline

Research in Schema Therapy has uncovered 18 negative schemas and 14 positive schemas (”long lasting patterns of emotions, cognitions and memories”), which have been shown to be associated with a number of personality disorders such as borderline and narcissistic personality disorders. Schemas have also been shown to be linked with substance abuse, eating disorders, depression and anxiety as well as being road blocks in romantic and family relationships. At the core of Schema Therapy is the belief that needs not met adequately in childhood become sources of problems in adulthood. These needs have been identified to be Connection and Acceptance, Healthy Autonomy and Performance, Reasonable Limits, Healthy Responsibility and Standards. Clients work to find out what specific needs were not met in childhood as well as the specific schemas that are the driving force behind their dysfunction. Through collaboration with the therapist, client’s negative schemas are gradually weakened but their positive ones are strengthened, and wounds from childhood are gradually healed.

If you are a part-time or full-time student currently studying counselling or psychology online or mainstream, you can receive 50% off of the regular price of $950 ($475)!

About Your Facilitator

Mallika Kripalani is the Founder and Director of  The Conscious Zone. As a Mindfulness, Acceptance & Commitment Trainer (ACT) and certified Prosocial Matrix facilitator, she runs training sessions for corporate clients, and conducts school and public workshops on ACT with mindfulness techniques to reduce stress and boost resilience.

Mallika also runs ACT with Mindfulness and Parenting with Mindfulness Courses at SMU. She aims to help people identify problems and integrate mindfulness practices into the workplace and at home, to build greater peace of mind and healthier relationships. to better engage patients within hospitals and polyclinics.

Course Outline

People in Singapore face many challenges, and in order for individuals to grow and develop in this volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous (VUCA) world, we need to learn how to increase our well-being in order to thrive. Using a combination of formal and informal mindfulness practices, as well as Acceptance and Commitment Training (ACT) strategies, this course is designed to help you understand ACT in a practical and experiential way. Understanding our own values in the different domains of life can help us develop psychological flexibility and resilience, where our behaviours and actions can determine how we live.

If you are a part-time or full-time student currently studying counselling or psychology online or mainstream, you can receive 50% off of the regular price of $900 ($450 Net)! If you are a teacher, let us know which school or institution you work for in the comments section and attend for $600 Net!

About Your Speakers

Anny and Prema are experienced Social workers living and working in Singapore, spending their time serving in a Family Service Centres. They are constantly in touch with children and their families and know first-hand their developmental struggles and respective life-stage experiences. They are proponents of Narrative Therapy having studied at Dulwich Centre and Melbourne University and have an exquisite knack for showing how relevant and effective narrative therapy is for children clients, their families, and why it is so core to their professional work!

Course Brief

Children in Singapore grow up in a unique environment. With no natural resources, Singapore’s thrust has always been to drive brainpower to the highest . Hence the gifted program and powering high PSLE scores. But this yields a cost within the social and mental world, especially for those below the age of 16.

Narrative Therapy helps get the balance right, using the story as the key metaphor in understanding and guiding the young child’s developmental life. As teachers, counsellors, therapists and psychologists, we need an embracing picture for us to understand school-going children. This is the time when their perceptions of the world and themselves are formed. Culture and history form the interpretive lenses which shape their lives into adulthood - who they become, who they marry if they choose, and who they hold dearest and love. All of these are formed at the tender age of seven and thereafter. With all this, we need narrative ideas and therapy to give us insight into their formative individual and social lives.

Who are the main figures in your life? How have they influenced you? Is there a need to “ re-author “ your life and how do you go about it? These and other issues will be discussed in detail within this essential 2-day workshop.

2-Day Course Outline

DAY 1
• Understand the concept of “Wonderful” and its usefulness in therapy
• Understand the child’s natural use of the story metaphor and how it relates in helping children in therapy
• Understand how most things are seen through cultural lenses and its relationship to Narrative Therapy
• Understand how cultural norms settle into young children
• Learn and use Narrative Therapy Map 1: Position Map
• Learn and use the Landscapes of Action and Identity in therapy with children

DAY 2
• Reauthoring conversations as applied to young minds and hearts
• Map 2: Getting into Details
• Addressing the unique situation the Singapore context raises for children
• Addressing the influences of social pressure to excel
• Confronting self-identity and finding the authentic self
• Re-Membering conversations as trigger mechanism

If you are a part-time or full-time student currently studying counselling or psychology online or mainstream, you can receive 50% off of the regular price of $1000 ($500)!

About Your Speaker

Evan George is a founding member of BRIEF, an independent training therapy and consultation agency in the practice of solution focused brief therapy. BRIEF delivers training in Solution Focused Therapies for over the past 25 years all over the UK, Europe and further afield.

Course Brief

This course will provide a thorough introduction to the principles and practices of solution focused therapy including: the development of the approach, the theoretical underpinnings, and the therapeutic process with a full set of adaptable and practical skills to be used for working with clients as well as for personal self-development.

The training is structured around a series of short presentations of PowerPoint, recorded examples from private practice, experimentation and discussion. Programmes are clearly structured starting with an experience of the approach, moving on to an overview of the model and then an examination and exploration key elements of SFT practice before considering how those elements can work together in a stand-alone approach. There will also be ample time for discussion throughout the course.

Who Should Attend

Healthcare staff, Welfare and Education staff, counsellors and therapists. This course also covers working with children, teens and adults, and skills are adaptable to group work as well.

Solution Focused Therapy

More front-line professionals are using solution focused therapy as it is a strengths-based and future-focused modality making it ideal for therapeutic situations requiring rapid engagement and cooperation. By concentrating on a preferred future rather than a regretted past, and focusing on resources rather than deficits, solution focused therapy as proven a useful addition to the therapist's resources.

About Your Speaker

Chris Dolman is a social worker who has been engaging with narrative ideas and practices for the past fifteen years. He lives and works in Adelaide, South Australia. He values and enjoys working with individuals, couples, and families who are responding to a broad range of concerns in their lives and relationships. Chris is currently working as a narrative therapist in a government mental health service, and is also manager for a family counselling service for a community services organization. He holds a Master of Narrative Therapy and Community Work and since 2009 has been a member of the Dulwich Centre Teaching Faculty with teaching assignments in China, Singapore, Turkey and Australia.

Family Violence Narrative Therapy - Level 1

Like other Narrative Therapy courses offered, this course is undergirded by concepts from literary theory, social anthropology, and modern vs. traditional power and gender politic discourses. This particular workshop also gives special attention to the sensitive work of addressing family violence within the particular context of Singapore. (This course also counts towards the Graduate Certificate in Narrative Therapy).