About Your Speaker
Carolyn Markey has considerable experience and great interest in counselling children, young people, and their families and caregivers in relation to a broad range of problems affecting their lives. She has worked in a variety of therapeutic contexts including major non-government welfare organisations, supporting accommodation for young people, and has also used narrative ideas in tertiary and adult education settings. Carolyn also has experience in the areas of family separation, effects of violence and abuse, school-related difficulties, and working with people affected by concerns about anxiety and depression. Carolyn enjoys using narrative ideas in group settings where people come together to talk about similar issues they are facing. These have included groups in which people wish to talk about sole parenting, living with the effects of violence and abuse, or groups of men wanting to take responsibility for abusive actions. Carolyn also has considerable experience supervising other practitioners in narrative therapy as well.
A Course Brief
This level 2 Narrative Therapy (Part 2) course with Carolyn Markey takes your existing knowledge of NT to a deeper level, providing a holistic framework reviewing theory, and using transcripts, video and live stop-start interviews to give practical help. Topics to be covered include: extending externalizing conversations; extending re-authoring conversations from problem to preferred stories; delving deeper into the absent but implicit concept; responding to trauma; scaffolding conversations; stop-start interview practice; and outsider witness practices.