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Therapeutic Conversations 12 New Ideas in Narrative Therapy Coast Plaza Hotel 1763 Comox Street Vancouver, BC 604.688.7711 VANCOUVER SCHOOL FOR NARRATIVE THERAPY PRESENTS Therapeutic Conversations 12 New Ideas in Narrative Therapy April 29- May 2, 2015 | Vancouver, Canada WWW.THERAPEUTICCONVERSATIONS.COM CONFERENCE SCHEDULE WORKSHOPS April 29th, 2015: Pre-Conference 8:00 am - 9:00 am Registration open 9:15 am - 4:15 pm Preconference Sessions 4:15 pm Drinks April 30th, 2015: Day 1 7:00 am - 8:00am Registration open 8:00 am- 8:30 am First Nations welcome and opening 8:45 am - 9:45 am Keynote 10:00 am - 12:30 am Morning session 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm Lunch Break 2:00 pm - 4:30 pm Afternoon sessions 4:45 pm Riffs PRESENTERS 5:45 pm Drinks May 1st, 2015: Day 2 8:45 am-9:45 am Keynote 10:00 am - 12:30 pm Morning session 12:30 pm - 2 pm Lunch Break 2:00 pm - 4:30 pm Afternoon sessions 4:45 pm Riffs May 2nd, 2015: Day 3 8:45 am - 9:45 am Keynote 10:00 am - 12:30 pm Morning session 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm Lunch Break 2:00 pm - 4:30 pm Afternoon sessions REGISTRATION FORM REGISTRATION 4:45 pm Riffs 8:00 pm Closing Party RIFFS RESEARCH OPPORTUNITY RIFFS are amusing 20-30 Ottar Ness PhD from Norway will be conducting a Live Action Based minute uplifting Research Study thoughout the TC12 conference about: what and how observational talks at the learners are learning narrative therapy – in real time. If you’d like to end of each day. participate in this fascinating insider narrative therapy research project please contact Lara at: [email protected] or Ottar at: Ottar.Ness@ hbv.no. This is one research project that could prove to be a lot of fun! 2 THERAPEUTIC CONVERSATIONS 12 THERAPEUTIC CONVERSATIONS 12 3 WORKSHOPS WEDNESDAY, APRIL 29TH: THURSDAY APRIL 30: DAY ONE New Ideas in Narrative Therapy: New Ideas in Narrative Therapy: 3. Bridging Narrative Therapy and 6. Working with College Students PRE-CONFERENCE Mainstream Public Child and Adolescent Impacted by Suicide KEYNOTE Mental Health Services in Denmark. Krystal Howard & Caryn Kruse (USA) New Ideas in Narrative Therapy: Nina Tejs-Jørring (Denmark) Respondents: Lorraine Hedtke & John Winslade 1. Engaged Supervision/Consultation and Mapping the Unmapped: This workshop will tell the story about how a narrative Krystal and Caryn graduate in June 2015 with an M.S in Engaged Classrooms Re-Imagining the Future psychiatrist and a very small team of colleagues, have Counseling and Guidance from Cal State San Bernardino. David Epston, Kay Ingamells (New Zealand) David Epston (New Zealand) brought narrative therapy practices into a public service Under the mentorship of Lorraine Hedtke and John in Denmark. We have built a metaphorical bridge in Winslade, they have been studying and discovering their Engaged supervision and consultation practices were As Narrative Therapy recruits its third generation of order to close the otherwise huge expanse that so personal and professional passion for narrative therapy originated in a decade long supervision/consultation practitioners (1985-1999; 1999-2014), it is time to consider many therapists experience trying to practice narrative and the power of re-membering conversations. They relationship between David and Kay. They were conceived doing what Michael and I had planned to do prior to his death- psychiatry in a biomedical world. We have been aided by will discuss this important narrative research and to our legislative requirements for ‘structure and accountability’ continue exploring the impact of those whose lives have along the lines of an apprenticeship or ‘master class’ where ‘starting all over again’. My address intends to review the past WORKSHOPS the senior practitioner and the junior practitioner ‘practice’ and re-imagine the future of narrative practice according to its to implement writing therapeutic letters; by the demands been changed as a result of another person’s suicide. side by side so that each practice can be ‘compared and ‘histories’. I am not referring to the history Postman refers to: for written reports, and finding ways to produce ‘evidence’ contrasted’ to the other. Kay and David will demonstrate this “At the very least we may say that the best histories of anything which can be, at the same time, responsive to the practice live, discuss ‘insider witnessing practices’, which are produced when an event is completed, when a period hopes and requirements of each family. I will also speak New Ideas in Narrative Therapy: are complementary to ‘outsider witnessing practices’ and is waning, when it is unlikely that a new and more robust how perseverance and sharing the hopes of helping 7. Unearthing Women’s Knowledge from show you filmed and transcribed examples of such phase will occur. Historians usually come not to praise but families have helped bring narrative and psychiatric interviews. They will then demonstrate how such practices to bury”(1994, p. 5). I am referring to ‘histories for the future’. thinking together in our team and in our public service. Resistance — Responding to Gendered have been incorporated in to ‘engaged classrooms’ in MA/ Violence Phd university programs with their colleagues around the Rosa Arteaga (Canada/Mexico) world: UNITEC Institute of Technology (Auckland, New DAY 1 MORNING SESSIONS New Ideas in Narrative Therapy: Zealand); Texas State University (San Marcos, USA) and Nova How could the notion of women’s knowledge and resistance Southeastern University (Ft. Lauderdale, USA) with whom 4. Therapeutic Letter Writing Practices 1. From ‘Learning the Scales’ to be reimagined in order to better understand the manner in they are collaborating on this experimental pedagogy. David Nylund (USA) which women assert themselves in order to survive a wide Improvisation: A Journey to Becoming a spectrum of gendered violence? Rosa demonstrates a co- The workshop explores some of David’s recent practices Narrative Therapist operative narrative therapy inquiry model of relational double in Narrative Letter Writing. He will share the theory, history, New Ideas in Narrative Therapy: Kay Ingamells (New Zealand) listening that acts to reveal and thicken diverse stories of and purpose behind narrative practices of the written women’s resistance in response to gendered violence and, 2. Working Relationally with Conflicted word. Examples of innovative therapeutic documents will ultimately, bring to light women’s agency and knowledge. Couple Relationships In this workshop I will re-trace my steps through the first be explored including the use of narrative letters in group ten years of my journey to become a narrative therapist as Stephen Madigan (Canada) supervision and group therapy via letter writing. Participants David Epston’s supervisee. I will present a cache of transcripts join in the practice of writing a therapeutic letter in response amended by David, in an attempt to ‘see’ how I have learned to David conducting a live interview during the workshop. New Ideas in Narrative Therapy: Stephen offers participants a guided relation based narrative what I have learned. I will be looking for those moments when by 8. Working Relationally with Conflicted therapy learning experience that highlights his work with comparing and contrasting my practice to David’s I transformed conflicted couples who come to couple therapy for relationship Couples in Relational Mediation my own therapeutic questions. I will also be discussing how reunification and/or separation/mediation. He outlines the this ten-year-rich treasure trove of transcripts may assist in Stephen Madigan (Canada) neo-liberal cultural pressures of individualism and their negative DAY 1 AFTERNOON SESSIONS developing a new pedagogy for teaching narrative therapy. influence on relationships and demonstrates 8 new practice Stephen offers participants a guided relation based ideas on working relationally with couple relationships. Stephen narrative therapy learning experience that highlights his teaches his therapeutic work with conflicted couples (as well New Ideas in Narrative Therapy: relational mediation work with conflicted couples. He as his Relational Mediation practice) through recent live video New Ideas In Narrative Therapy: 5. Doing Action Research with People demonstrates 8 new practice ideas on working relationally taped couple sessions conducted in Norway and Canada. 2. Engaging Solidarity In The Development Ottar Ness (Norway) with couple relationships. Stephen teaches his therapeutic work with conflicted couples through recent live video Of Magical Realist Testimonios taped couple sessions conducted in Norway and Canada. marcela polanco (USA/Columbia) This presentation will be an interactive workshop about how to do research as a daily practice. Participants will explore and experience how to do action research and Attempting to contribute to “dewesternizing discourse”, co-research with clients and communities. Examples marcela introduces a Colombian practice of solidarity informed from collaborative action research in Norway will be by decolonial and border thinking paradigms. She situates this given where citizens are involved in the research and practice as an alternative to working alongside families for development of mental health and addiction services. purposes of our moral restitution. marcela presents numerous elements involved in this work, including an artesanía of co- constructing magical realist testimonios together with families. 4 THERAPEUTIC CONVERSATIONS 12 THERAPEUTIC CONVERSATIONS 12 5 WORKSHOPS FRIDAY MAY 1ST: TC12 DAY TWO New Ideas In Narrative Therapy: DAY 2 AFTERNOON SESSIONS New Ideas
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