Training

Level One - Narrative Therapy Certificate Course
Level Two - Supervision Course

Level One - Narrative Therapy Certificate Course

The foundational work of Michael White and David Epston is reviewed through a close up investigation of their key theoretical ideas. Theory is then linked to practice through the use of recent DVD's, 'live' therapy sessions, transcripts, and therapeutic letters. Students develop their own therapeutic skills through numerous participatory training exercises and interactive reflecting teams.

Instructors: Stephen Madigan PHD and David Nylund PhD.

Stephen Madigan holds an MSW, and an MSc and PhD in MFT. He is an AFTA award-winning family therapist who teaches narrative therapy workshops worldwide. Since 1992, he has served as the training & clinical director of Yaletown Family Therapy in Vancouver, Canada, and directs the Toronto Narrative Therapy Project (since 1995). He is a creative partner in the wildly novel and soon to be launched first-ever video streaming CE workshop/interview/live session site www.therapeuticconversations.com

David Nylund is the co-author of Narrative Therapies with Children and Adolescents, and the author of the acclaimed book Treating Huckleberry Finn: A New Narrative Approach with Kids Diagnosed ADD/ADHD. His latest book is Beer, Babes, and Balls: Masculinity and Sports Talk Radio is published by SUNY Press.

Schedule for 2009 Level One Narrative Therapy Certificate Course

September 25-27 & November 6-8, 2009
$575 CDN | Student Rate $475 CDN
9:15am Ð 4:15pm each day
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For questions and/or more information, please email narrative@telus.net

Level Two - Advanced Narrative Therapy Training & Supervision

Stephen Madigan PHD

“I find the beauty and craft in narrative therapy is found within the therapeutic questions a narrative therapist asks . . . and does not ask”
- Michael White, personal conversation, 1991

Stephen Madigan spent many long years documenting and discussing therapeutic questions with David Epson and Michael White. Their conclusions were always unanimous - therapeutic questions are all we have to work with in therapy. Questions are viewed as the ‘tools’ of our narrative trade - our paintbrush, our pen, our protest sign.

The advanced narrative therapy workshop offers therapists an opportunity to slow down long enough to think about the questions we ask in therapy – each and everyday. Therapeutic questions are discussed regarding their purpose, structure, direction, social location, temporality; the theoretical views they may benefit and how to better craft and shape them.

Stephen uses ‘live session’ teaching interviews (alongside an archive of taped work) to help therapists:

1. identify the problem’s relationship with the person
2. reveal the person’s response to the problem
3. assist in externalizing internalized problem discourse
4. bring forth histories of loss in relationship to problems
5. promote subordinate/alternative stories and re-remembering conversations,
6. account for the absent but implicit and,
7. create communities of concern through therapeutic letter writing.

To view a sample of Stephen’s teaching references, please got to: stephenmadigan.ca

Instructor: Stephen Madigan holds an MSW, and an MSc and PhD in MFT. He is an AFTA award-winning family therapist who teaches narrative therapy workshops worldwide. Since 1992, he has served as the training & clinical director of Yaletown Family Therapy in Vancouver, Canada, and directs the Toronto Narrative Therapy Project (since 1995). He is a creative partner in the wildly novel and soon to be launched first-ever video streaming CE workshop/interview/live session site www.therapeuticconversations.com

Schedule for 2009 Level Two - Advanced Narrative Therapy Training & Supervision Course

Toronto - TBA
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Vancouver November 20-22/09
Three Day Cost: $325 | Students: $250
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Send cheque to:
Yaletown Family Therapy
2025 West 16th Ave, Vancouver, BC, Canada V6J-2M6

Questions??
phone - 604-688-7860 | fax - 604-688-7865 | email - narrative@telus.net

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