About Your Speaker
Since beginning her professional life in Adelaide South Australia as a school teacher, Carolyn has always worked to provide ethical and just services to children and their adult care givers. This work was informed by the philosophy of Narrative Ideas. Carolyn was trained and supervised by Michael White and David Epston the cofounders of Narrative therapy in the 1990s.
Carolyn’s work contexts include:
- School Counselling (children 5-19)
- Child and Family therapist – home based work in Non-Government organisations
- Child and family counsellor responding to the effects of COVID, family violence and abuse
- Working with fathers who are facing up to acts of abuse
- Tertiary Lecturer in Community Services and Youth work using Narrative Ideas
- Senior Faculty member of the Dulwich Centre, Adelaide – training Narrative ideas throughout Australia and Internationally
Carolyn is drawn to Narrative Therapy because of its commitment to nonblaming questioning styles, and attention to the politics of life and commitment to Feminist ethics. Narrative ideas are also strongly influenced by Indigenous and First Nations ethical understandings of community and Justice. Practically this means enabling children who feel like they are the problem to become aware of their skills and knowledge through skillful questioning and attention within the sociopolitical context in which they reside.
This Course Will Equip and Build on Your Skills to:
Have conversations with children and caregivers about traumatic events that do not traumatise them
How to bring children and caregivers (i.e. teachers) together against the problem rather than seeing the child as the problem
How to think about ideas of Power and expertise as a professional working with children
How to involve other systems: schools, community to sustain the changes a family wants
Understand how neurobiological impacts of trauma can contribute to narrative ideas
This online course is energetic and practice based so come ready to try out the skills!
DAY 1
1. Introductions and accountability to our clients
2. Ideas that underpin Narrative Philosophy
3. Overview of the Maps of Narrative practice
4. How to build safety so young people and children will talk
5. Practice and reflection
6. Transcripts and roleplays
7. Talking about Problems – Statement of Position Map
DAY 2
1. Problems that are Collective that never affect just one child
2. Listening for preferred stories using roleplays, transcripts and practice exercises
3. Listening and asking about how children respond to traumatic events
4. Transcripts and practice
5. Review of the 2 days and what will you put into practice