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Dulwich Centre announces new Master’s Program in Narrative Therapy and Community Work in coordination with the University of Melbourne!

The Master of Narrative Therapy and Community Work provides formal training and recognition for narrative therapy and is delivered as a joint initiative of the Department of Social Work (The University of Melbourne) and The Dulwich Centre, Adelaide.

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Re-authoring Teaching, Inc. is a consortium of narrative practice teachers, practitioners and enthusiasts from around the world who seek to promote training and continuing education in a narrative approach to therapy, organizational, and community work. The term, “Re-authoring Teaching” is a play on the term “Re-authoring Conversations” that Michael White and David Epston coined in their original description of narrative therapy.

 

The Family Centre of Wellington Aotearoa (NZ)

Just Therapy is a reflective approach to therapy developed by workers at the Family Centre. A fundamental feature of Just Therapy is the attention paid to the broad cultural, gender, social, spiritual, economic and psychological contexts underlying the problems experienced by those with whom therapists work. It expresses the Family Centre philosophy and commitment to cultural, gender and socio-economic equity.

This philosophy underlies the Family Centre’s commitment to the eradication of racism, sexism and poverty. In all it’s therapy, field work activities and research, the Family Centre endeavours to expose the marginalisation of different sectors of the population and facilitate change to their advantage. Embodied in it’s work is a commitment to the Treaty of Waitangi, Justice for the Pacific Nations’ peoples, gender equity and the interdependence of economic and social policies.

Interest in Just Therapy has grown within the international therapeutic community and Family Centre workers are actively involved in conducting workshops, seminars and conference presentations internationally on all continents.

 Johnella Bird 2017 Trainings (NZ)

 

I bring a relational consciousness to both my work and my life. Relational consciousness has enabled me to access an imaginative capacity that assists me to shine a light on obscured and often lost narrative paths. This in turn illuminates alternative ways of constructing and drawing people’s attention to resources, thus challenging a focus on the individual and/or the family as ill, damaged and needing treatment for this illness or disorder.

Sally Ann Roth (US)

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Sallyann Roth, MSW, was co-director and a core trainer at the Family Institute of Cambridge for over 16 years; taught for many years in the graduate programs in social work at both Smith and Simmons Colleges; and is an Associate of the Taos Institute. A member of the Public Conversations Project (PCP) since its inception, she has presented PCPÕs work and her own therapeutic work widely in the U.S. and abroad. Her published work has focused on narrative inquiry, communication issues, couple therapy, and the work of PCP. Common to all of her work is a commitment to design, cultivate, and support ways for people who have been disconnected to connect. She is on the editorial boards of Family Process, The International Journal of Narrative Therapy and Community Work, and Sistemas Familiares.

  The Public Conversations Project (US) WORKSHOPS

   Jill Freedman and Gene Combs, Evanston Family Therapy Center (US)
Evanston Family Therapy Center has been dedicated to teaching narrative therapy for more than two decades. EFTC is a nonprofit organization that offers workshops, consultations, and supervision in narrative ideas and practices. Our consultation sites include Cook County Hospital, the Cancer Wellness Center, and a number of alternative schools. We also collaborate with other community groups working on particular problems and projects.

Walter Bera (US)

 Walter Bera, Kenwood Therapy Center in Minneapolis (US)

Walter will share his, and his colleagues experiences, in the development of what may be called “Evidence-Based Narrative Practice” which began with his first introduction to narrative ideas and practices after a Michael White (co-founder of Narrative Therapy) workshop in 1991. Walter immediately began to employ these ideas and practices in his roles as a licensed psychologist, family therapist, counselor and consultant in a variety of court, legal, policy and organizational settings addressing clergy and professional sexual misconduct of youth and vulnerable adults.

Victoria Dickerson (US)

Caroline Tremblay, Jim Duvall(US)

JST INSTITUTE is a threshold to training and education in Brief Narrative Therapy, for professionals, communities and organizations, integrating therapeutic ideas and practices with social justice values and principles. It is also the home of the Journal of Systemic Therapies

 

collaborativepsychiatry.org (Auckland)

The key to practising collaborative psychiatry is to make our knowledge and expertise available to people in a way which increases their sense of empowerment, autonomy, strengths and personal effectiveness. This can support people to develop a sense of our “expert” knowledge as existing alongside their personal knowledge – to be taken up by them as it enables them to live their lives by their ideas. The knowledge and expertise we offer becomes a resource they can make use of in their recovery journey. There are special challenges in doing this in mental health work. This is partly because the context we work in sets us up to be experienced as dis-empowering and also because of the fragility of holding of personal knowledge from a patient role.

Tania Windelborn  and Josephine Stanton

 

 

Marie-Nathalie Beaudoin, Ph.D. (US)

 

Here’s a list of other links to some great narrative therapy resources, training courses, therapy centers, and information about body image/ anorexia bulimia.