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VANCOUVER SCHOOL FOR NARRATIVE THERAPY PRESENTS Therapeutic Conversations 12 New Ideas in Narrative Therapy
April 29- May 2, 2015 | Vancouver, Canada
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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 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 in Narrative Therapy: 3.How Neoliberalism Shapes Our Lives, And 8. Contemplating Hip-hop, Social Media, What Costs We Pay For Allowing It To Do So and The Narrative Revolution New Ideas in Narrative Therapy: KEYNOTE Colin Sanders (Canada), Tom Strong (Canada), Travis Heath (USA) 5.Shifting our relationships with time and John Winslade (USA/New Zealand) space in Re-membering Conversations The overarching aim of this workshop is to connect Respondent: marcel polanco (USA/Columbia) New Ideas in Narrative Therapy: with Grief and Loss innovative approaches to working with young people to narrative ideas in a way that is accessible and encourages Decolonizing Narrative Therapy in the In this conversation, Colin, Tom, and John discuss the Lorraine Hedtke (USA) Borderlands people to take a stand in their work moving forward. influence of the neoliberal agenda operating within a global Travis will discuss his use of hip-hop music as a way The first task in a re-membering conversation is to introduce marcela polanco (USA/Columbia) context on modern forms of life and also point out alternative to help marginalized youth stand up against problems the person who is no longer alive. While this is a critically theories and practices to such a neoliberal agenda. They and dominant descriptions. An insider of the work important first step in a narrative conversation about grief, From a perspective of the geopolitics of knowledge, marcela highlight the kind of person neoliberalism seeks to construct, will perform and - social media as a tool to facilitate it is not the only goal. We need to consider what happens critically explores her adoption of narrative therapy into her the therapeutic dilemmas and struggles arising from preferred identity development will also be examined. Colombian culture. At the borderlands between English individualism, the entrepreneurial model of life, surveillance, next and shift our relationship with proximity and time. As WORKSHOPS and Spanish, she attempts to decolonize narrative therapy the control society, and the panopticon experience. In this we challenge linear time, we can collect stories from the by delinking it from its ‘Englished’ mapped practices. conversation, the thinking of Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze, past to edit them, embellish them, relocate them, and move Eva Illouz, Svend Brinkman, Maurizio Lazzarato, Michael them into new futures. As we do so, our relationships with Bamberg, Henry Giroux, David Harvey and others whose those who have died also shift and the identities of the DAY 2 MORNING SESSIONS thinking provides counter-cultural and preferred alternatives living and the dead begin to borrow from each other. The SATURDAY MAY 2ND: to normalizing and prescriptive individualistic practices. workshop will showcase video clips and invite reflections on questions that have the effect of entering into a time TC12 DAY THREE 1. Recuperating Michael White: warp to story new lives for the deceased and for the living. From 1995 To 2007 New Ideas In Narrative Therapy: KEYNOTE Linda Moxley (Canada) 4. A New Form Of Apprenticeship: Supervision Through The Three-Way New Ideas in Narrative Therapy: Engaging Our Team and Families Through Linda attended workshops of Michael White and recorded Mirror. How Can Therapists Move Beyond 6. Understanding Narrative Therapy’s verbatim notes of everything Michael taught. Now six years Disruptive Influence on Policy and Practice Therapeutic Letter Writing since his death, Linda has begun to re-read the archives of Their Craft Into Improvisational Artistry? Jonny Morris (Canada/England) Nina Tejs-Jørring (Denmark) his notes only to discover how much Michael ‘left behind’ David Epston, Kay Ingamells (New Zealand) and - just how much he did complete. This workshop This interactive workshop explores what becomes I would like to tell the story of how our ‘team’ implemented highlights this one-of-a-kind narrative therapy archive to How can therapists move beyond their craft into possible when narrative ideas and practices intersect with ‘therapeutic letter writing’ as a matter of course in our Child assist the transition from this earlier work and discover improvisational artistry? In Engaged Supervision, the supervisor the practices of social policy making. In the same ways Adolescent Mental Health Services in Denmark. We took where others may like to take up where Michael left off. is invited into the very heart of the sessions by retrospectively narrative ideas resist individualization and privatization of advantage of recent legislation requiring us to provide almost For participants who never met Michael White, Linda ‘doing the interview’ all over again. Looking through the problems, how might they also help to call into question the immediate access to ‘patient’s medical records’ and set about hopes they receive a taste of both the courage and the lens of the supervisor’s amended version of the transcript, dominant, and often constraining, discourses that underpin doing so early in 2013. I will discuss how this practice engaged wide scope of his thinking and practice from 1995-2007. the supervisee is gifted with a window into the questions social policies? In what ways might narrative questions our team as a team as well as how it engaged us with the families and practices of the supervisor’s art. Modeled on the idea open up new possibilities of crafting social policy that and their young people somewhat differently than before. of the ‘master class’ given by senior musicians to junior resists the individualization of problems? How might the 2. Evidence-Based Narrative Practice: In musicians, this live demonstration of ‘Engaged Supervision ways in which narrative invites people to gather, witness, Practices’, will use transcripts from Kay’s practice which will and respond help us with the critical analysis (e.g. power, DAY 3 MORNING SESSIONS Therapy, Forensics, Consulting and be amended ‘live’ by David. Prepare yourself for something as race) required to transform social policy for the better? Community Work strange as ‘outsider witnessing practices’ must have seemed in the early 90’s when Michael White introduced them. Walter Bera (USA) New Ideas in Narrative Therapy:
Walter demonstrates how narrative therapy has become New Ideas in Narrative Therapy: 1. Imagining New Possibilities with Young accepted as an evidence-based practice in therapy, forensics, 7. Conversations on Non-Normativity People and their Families
consultation and community-work in the USA. Learn ethical David Nylund and Julie Tilsen (USA) Laurie Markham & David Marsten (USA) and professionally respected Narrative Forms for creative
approaches to so-called assessment, diagnosis, treatment Imagine a letter from a cherished storybook character sailing The workshop explores the ways that dominant norms plans, charting, insurance, reports, supervision, and more. through an enchanted mail slot and into a young person’s life, exert influence on us. For example, people who embody Learn how you can participate on a major collaborative or a magic shelf, upon which books produce secret letters fluid genders and sexualities often experience overt narrative therapy based approach to evaluation and addressed to their young readers. In these mystifying cases, oppression from these norms. Dave and Julie will articulate research. These practices will be illustrated with videotaped readers not only follow the plights of storybook protagonists. a move from queer narrative practice to queering a narrative examples, detailed handouts and interactive practice. Protagonists peer from their well-worn pages and into practice, one which reflects therapeutic conversations the lives of their most devoted readers. This workshop will in motion that are reflexive and attend to the small but significant acts of resistances to these norms. Practices demonstrate the benefits of linking the real with the imaginary in narrative therapy with young people and their families. By its such as double listening, attending to relational ethics, conclusion, a few lucky workshop participants may just receive and crafting therapeutic questions will be explored. letters themselves from beloved storybook heroes/heroines.
6 THERAPEUTIC CONVERSATIONS 12 THERAPEUTIC CONVERSATIONS 12 7 WORKSHOPS New5. Ideas In Narrative Therapy: DAY 3 AFTERNOON SESSIONS PRESENTER BIOS 2. Working With Couples To Re-Story Notions Love, Communication, And New Ideas in Narrative Therapy: Accountability Rosa Elena Arteaga David Epston 5. Working with Discourses and Rosa Elena Arteaga is wildly passionate Together with Michael White, David Epston Tom Stone Carlson & Amanda R. Haire (USA) Deconstruction about her work in gender violence that originated what came to be known as she frames within a narrative, feminist, Narrative Therapy. David was awarded a The workshop highlights a reimagined approach to narrative Jill Freedman (USA) anti-oppression practice. She is an active D.Lit (1996) by John F. Kennedy University couples therapy that seeks to help couples intimately apply agent of change towards eradicating and the Special Award for Distinguished the ethics of narrative ideas by helping partners gain an An important idea that distinguishes narrative therapy from violence against girls and women and is Contributions to Family Therapy from appreciation for the shaping effects of their actions on one more traditional therapies is that problems are located in a faculty member with the Vancouver School for Narrative the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy. another’s stories of self and to engage in intentional relationship discourses, rather than in people. Deconstruction involves Therapy. Rosa has been the Manager of Direct Service He is the most well published author in narrative therapy. practices that nurture positive stories of self in one another. unpacking problems so that people can see beyond and Clinical Practice with Battered Women’s Support them to other possibilities and may also involve exposing Services in Vancouver, Canada for the past ten years. discourses so that people can choose how to relate to them. PRECONFERENCE Traditional forms of deconstruction in narrative therapy Engaged Supervision/Consultation And Engaged New Ideas In Narrative Therapy: include “externalization” and “statement of position” that THURSDAY, APRIL 30TH AFTERNOON SESSION Classrooms 3. Evidenced Based Practice Meets Social are highlighted by maps, however other deconstructive Unearthing Women’s Knowledge From Resistance — With Kay Ingamells (New Zealand) Construction—Dialogic Practice Parading practices seem to be used less frequently. In this workshop, Responding To Gendered Violence we will consider other deconstruction practices and THURSDAY, APRIL 30 KEYNOTE as Empiricism engage together in constructing deconstruction questions Keynote: Mapping The Unmapped: Re-Imagining The Julie Tilsen (USA) and learn when it is important to expose discourses. Walter Bera Future Walter Bera is the Founder and Director In this day of evidence-based practice and the demand for of the Kenwood Therapy Center, “outcomes,” what’s a Foucault-fearing narrative therapist to FRIDAY, MAY 1ST MORNING SESSION New Ideas in Narrative Therapy: in Minneapolis, USA. Walter founded the do? Feedback Informed Treatment, an EBP that centers on 6. Collective Discussions On The Learners Kenwood Center in 2000 and in 2014, A New Form Of Apprenticeship: Supervision Through relational responsiveness, will be explored as an elaboration Walter co-authored an empirically-validated The Three-Way Mirror. How Can Therapists Move of therapy as social construction. Clients and therapists Therapeutic Conversations 12 Learning study of narrative therapy entitled “A Pilot Beyond Their Craft Into Improvisational Artistry? co-construct emergent meanings and collaborate in the Experience as Live Action Research Examination of the Use of Narrative Therapy with Individuals With Kay Ingamells (New Zealand) process of determining the effectiveness of therapy in a Stephen Madigan (Canada) and Ottar Ness (Norway) Diagnosed with PTSD”. His current personal writings and videos relationally responsive, dialogical process, one in which “data” include Narragrams: Visualizing Narrative Therapy; Evidence- is engaged with as flexible, discursive productions. Julie will Ottar and Stephen co-direct the Vancouver School for Based Narrative Practice; Trauma: Narrative, Collaborative and demonstrate the integration of client feedback into narrative Jill Freedman Narrative Therapy-Norway. They host a close up, and open Restorative/Transformative Justice Approaches and Buddhist therapy practice that privileges client preferences and Jill Freedman is the director of Evanston discussion with TC 12 conference participant learners and Psychology, Mindfulness, Narrative and Creativity demands therapist accountability through deliberate practice. guide them through a social action research study – live! Family Therapy Center, the co-author with Gene Combs of 3 books--Symbol, Participant learners will have the opportunity to intimately FRIDAY, MAY 1ST MORNING SESSION discuss their TC 12 conference learning experiences. This story, and ceremony: Using metaphor in Evidence-Based Narrative Practice: In Therapy, individual and family therapy, Narrative New Ideas in Narrative Therapy: discursive social research will be compiled as the backdrop for: distributing the findings to all the presenters and conference Forensics, Consulting And Community Work therapy: The social construction PRESENTERS 4. The Beauty of Discovery Learning participants and form the basis for inventing the new ideas in of preferred realities, and Narrative Stephen Madigan (Canada) and David Nylund (USA) narrative therapy Therapeutic Conversations 13 conference. therapy with couples... and a whole lot more! She has a therapy practice in Chicago and teaches internationally. Discovery Learning is a powerfully new narrative therapy Tom Stone Carlson practice designed to help the participant listen, learn New Ideas In Narrative Therapy: Tom Stone Carlson is a professor and SATURDAY, MAY 2ND AFTERNOON SESSION and develop an archive of relational based therapeutic 7. Local And Alternative Responses To The director of the Couple and Family Working With Discourses And Deconstruction questions. Through David’s live supervision of Stephens Increasing Medicalization Of Social Life Therapy program at North Dakota State work, the workshop explores the beauty and craft of creating University. He is also the Co-Director therapeutic questions; the artful congruence between And Relationships: A Conversation About of the Stone Center for Relational theory/practice; the elegance involved in double listening Navigating The Hegemony Of The DSM Accountability. Tom has been practicing and what constitutes a ‘good’ relation based anti-individualist Amanda R. Haire And Evidence Based Practices (EBP) and teaching narrative ideas for over 20 years and is a licensed narrative question. The workshop will include teaching Amanda R. Haire is in private practice in Colin Sanders (Canada), Tom Strong (Canada), John marriage and family therapist in the state of Minnesota. the learner a few key therapeutic letter-writing practices. Fargo, North Dakota and is an instructor in Winslade (USA/New Zealand) the Couple and Family Therapy Program SATURDAY, MAY 2ND MORNING SESSION at North Dakota State University. She This conversation will critique the DSM-5 and EBP with regard is also the Co-Director of the Stone Working With Couples To Re-Story Notions Love, to the sort of person constructed by diagnostic categories and Center for Relational Accountability. Communication, And Accountability the standardized and manualized practices accruing from EBP. With Amanda R. Haire (USA) They describe how to navigate the DSM/EBP phenomenon, SATURDAY, MAY 2ND MORNING SESSION and alternative practices in response to local dilemmas. Working With Couples To Re-Story Notions Love, The thinking of Karl Tomm about interactional patterns Communication, And Accountability within interpersonal relationships will be explored as an alternative to DSM technology. Finally, they discuss practices With Tom Stone Carlson for facilitating preferred identities with struggling others.
8 THERAPEUTIC CONVERSATIONS 12 THERAPEUTIC CONVERSATIONS 12 9 Travis Heath Kay Ingamells Travis is a psychologist who has practiced A Narrative Social Worker, Counsellor and in Los Angeles, California and Denver, Family Therapist, Kay teaches Narrative Colorado in the United States since 2003. Therapy to social workers and counsellors Stephen Madigan David Marsten Much of his work focuses on helping to at Unitec New Zealand and works with Stephen Madigan has been the Director David Marsten has been a student and facilitate preferred identity development children, young people and families. Kay has of the Vancouver School for Narrative teacher of Narrative Therapy since 1991. in typically underserved populations. been supervised by David Epston since 2003. Therapy since 1992. He opened VSNT as He has co-authored several articles and the first narrative therapy training centre is currently nearing the completion of the FRIDAY, MAY 1ST AFTERNOON SESSION in the Northern Hemisphere. Stephen’s book: Narrative Therapy in Wonderland: PRECONFERENCE practice imagination guides the beauty Contemplating Hip-Hop, Social Media, And The Imagining New Possibilities with Young Engaged Supervision/Consultation And Engaged and craft of therapy away from individualist science and People and their Families with David Epston and Laurie Markham. Narrative Revolution Classrooms towards relational art. Stephen’s recent book Narrative With David Epston Therapy-Theory and Practice published by the American SATURDAY, MAY 2ND MORNING SESSION Psychological Association – is now on the best selling list. Lorraine Hedtke Imagining New Possibilities With Young People And THURSDAY, APRIL 30TH MORNING SESSION Their Families Lorraine Hedtke is the program coordinator PRECONFERENCE and an associate professor of counseling From ‘Learning The Scales’ To Improvisation: A With Laurie Markham and guidance at California Sate University, Journey To Becoming A Narrative Therapist Working Relationally With Conflicted Couple San Bernardino, USA. She is also the Relationships proprietor of The Fabula Center in Redlands, California, a counseling and FRIDAY, MAY 1ST MORNING SESSION THURSDAY, APRIL 30TH AFTERNOON SESSION marcela polanco training center. Lorraine teaches workshops on narrative marcela polanco, was born and raised in A New Form Of Apprenticeship: Supervision Through Working Relationally with Conflicted Couples in approaches to death, dying and bereavement internationally. The Three-Way Mirror. How Can Therapists Move Bogotá, Colombia, land of her Muiscan Relational Mediation ancestors. Currently, she directs the Her narrative work represents an exciting and unique Beyond Their Craft Into Improvisational Artistry? PRESENTERS departure from the conventional models of grief psychology. Psychotherapy Services for Spanish With David Epston SATURDAY, MAY 2ND MORNING SESSION Speaking Populations Certificate and THURSDAY, APRIL 30TH AFTERNOON SESSION the Master’s in Family, Couple and The Beauty Of Discovery Learning Individual Psychotherapy at Our Lady of the Lake University, Working With College Students Impacted By Suicide Nina Tejs-Jørring With David Nylund (USA) San Antonio, Texas. She is member of the international Respondent With Krystal Howard & Caryn Kruse & Nina Tejs-Jørring is a child and adolescent faculty team at the Dulwich Centre, Adelaide, Australia. John Winslade Psychiatrist and trained as a narrative SATURDAY, MAY 2ND AFTERNOON SESSION therapist. She has had David Epston as a Collective Discussions On The Learners Therapeutic THURSDAY, APRIL 30TH MORNING FRIDAY, MAY 1ST AFTERNOON SESSION mentor for too many years to count (!). Conversations 12 Learning Experience As Live Action Engaging Solidarity In The Development Of Magical Shifting Our Relationships With Time And Space In She considers William Madsen’s book: Research Realist Testimonios Re-Membering Conversations With Grief And Loss Collaborative therapy with Multi-stressed With Ottar Ness (Norway) families the ”textbook” for their work in the Family Therapy Team in the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Center in FRIDAY, MAY 1ST KEYNOTE the Capital Region of Denmark, that she is the Director of. Decolonizing Narrative Therapy In The Borderlands Krystal Howard & Laurie Markham Caryn Kruse (USA) Laurie Markham has presented on PRESENTERS Krystal and Caryn THURSDAY, APRIL 30TH MORNING SESSION hierarchies of power and published in FRIDAY, MAY 1ST MORNING SESSION will graduate in June Bridging Narrative Therapy and Mainstream Public Family Process and The Journal of Feminist How Neoliberalism Shapes Our Lives, And What 2015 with an M.S Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services in Family Therapy. Her fondness for young Costs We Pay For Allowing It To Do So in Counseling and Denmark. people and their families dates to her 10 Respondent to Colin Sanders (Canada), Guidance from Cal State years as a public school teacher. She is Tom Strong (Canada) & John Winslade (USA/New San Bernardino in. Under co-author of the soon to be completed Narrative Therapy in the mentorship of Lorraine Hedtke and John Winslade, they SATURDAY, MAY 1ST KEYNOTE Zealand) Engaging Our Team And Families Through Wonderland: Imagining New Possibilities with Young People have been studying and discovering their personal and and Their Families with David Epston and David Marsten. professional passion for narrative therapy and the power Therapeutic Letter Writing of re-membering conversations. They are both invested Jonny Morris SATURDAY, MAY 2ND MORNING SESSION in understanding the important narrative research and to Jonny Morris has used post structural and continue exploring the impact of those whose lives have Imagining New Possibilities With Young People And narrative ideas in his up close analysis of been changed as a result of another person’s suicide. Their Families youth suicide. More recently, his work With David Marsten (USA) is focused on social policy and mental THURSDAY, APRIL 30TH AFTERNOON SESSION health, and he has infused narrative practices into National and Provincial Working With College Students Impacted By Suicide policy-making spaces, in an effort to call attention to the With Respondents: Lorraine Hedtke & John Winslade dominant discursive frames that underpin current policy directions. Through a collision of social artistry, narrative interviews, and outsider witness teams, Jonny has worked with insiders, service providers, and policy makers to re- imagine possibilities for change in policy and practice.
FRIDAY, MAY 1ST AFTERNOON SESSION Understanding Narrative Therapy’s Disruptive 10 THERAPEUTIC CONVERSATIONS 12 THERAPEUTIC CONVERSATIONS 12 11 Influence On Policy And Practice
Linda Moxley Julie Tilsen Linda Moxley is a clinical psychologist, Colin Sanders Julie Tilsen is the author of Therapeutic registered marriage and family therapist and Colin Sanders is the Director of the Conversations with Queer Youth: supervisor (AAMFT) and practiced narrative Canadian Master of Counseling Programs Transcending Homonormativity & ideas since 1991. She completed the for City University of Seattle, where he Constructing Preferred Identities International Narrative Therapy Community has taught since 1998. Colin initiated and (Rowman & Littlefield, 2013). She Work training the year Michal White died and took the lead in creating the theoretical is the Director of Ethics & Practice the first Masters of narrative therapy (University of Melbourne). direction of Vancouver’s “Peak House” for the International Center for Clinical Excellence, an community between the years 1989-2004 where he associate of the Taos Institute, Community Faculty at the FRIDAY, MAY 1ST MORNING SESSION ushered in narrative, collaborative, liberation psychology and University of Minnesota Youth Studies Program, and the Recuperating Michael White: From 1993 To 2007 social justice ideas and practices. Colin is a past Associate 2011 recipient of the Distinguished Service Award from Director of Yaletown Family Therapy, and taught with the the Minnesota Association of Marriage & Family Therapy. Vancouver School of Narrative Therapy from 1993-2013. FRIDAY, MAY 1ST AFTERNOON SESSION Ottar Ness FRIDAY, MAY 1ST MORNING SESSION Conversations On Non-Normativity Ottar Ness is an Associate Professor in How Neoliberalism Shapes Our Lives, And What With David Nylund mental health care at Buskerud and Vestfold Costs We Pay For Allowing It To Do So University College in Norway, an Associate With Tom Strong (Canada) & John Winslade (USA/New SATURDAY, MAY 2ND MORNING SESSION Professor at the counseling Masters Zealand) program at the Norwegian University of Evidenced Based Practice Meets Social
PRESENTERS Construction—Dialogic Practice Parading As Science and Technology (NTNU) and a SATURDAY, MAY 2ND AFTERNOON SESSION family therapist at Trondheim Family Therapy Centre,. Ottar Empiricism is also a Taos Institute Associate and a faculty member Local And Alternative Responses To The Increasing with the Vancouver School for Narrative Therapy-Norway. Medicalization Of Social Life And Relationships: A Conversation About Navigating The Hegemony Of John Winslade THURSDAY, APRIL 30TH AFTERNOON SESSION The Dsm And Evidence Based Practices (Ebp) John Winslade is a Professor at California With Tom Strong (Canada) & John Winslade (USA/New State University San Bernardino where Doing Action Research With People Zealand) he teaches counseling. John has co- authored ten books on narrative therapy, SATURDAY, MAY 2ND AFTERNOON SESSION narrative mediation and multicultural Collective Discussions On The Learners Therapeutic counseling, as well as many articles and Conversations 12 Learning Experience As Live Action Tom Strong book chapters. His work has been translated into Japanese, Research Tom Strong is a Professor with the Korean, Chinese, Russian, Spanish, German and Danish. With Stephen Madigan (Canada) Educational Studies in Counselling He is an experienced presenter who has taught narrative Psychology Program within the Faculty therapy and narrative mediation in North and South
of Education, and the Associate Dean of America, Europe, the Middle East, Asia and Australasia. PRESENTERS Research. He remains active as a part- David Nylund time family therapist with the University of THURSDAY, APRIL 30TH AFTERNOON SESSION David Nylund is a full professor of Social Calgary Psychiatry Department’s Family Therapy program Work at California State University, administered by Dr. Karl Tomm. He has focused his career on Working With College Students Impacted By Suicide Sacramento, California and the Clinical studying and advancing the critical, collaborative, generative Respondent with Lorraine Hedtke & Krystal Howard & Director the Gender Health Center potentials of therapeutic dialogue. Tom most recently co- Caryn Kruse (working primarily with an underserved edited a book with Karl Tomm, Sally St. George and Dan Wulff trans community). He is a faculty member entitled Patterns in Interpersonal Interactions (Routledge). FRIDAY, MAY 1ST MORNING SESSION of the Vancouver School for Narrative Therapy and the How Neoliberalism Shapes Our Lives, And What author of three books and 35 articles on Narrative Therapy. FRIDAY, MAY 1ST MORNING SESSION Costs We Pay For Allowing It To Do So How Neoliberalism Shapes Our Lives, And What With Colin Sanders (Canada) & Tom Strong (Canada) THURSDAY, APRIL 30TH MORNING SESSION Costs We Pay For Allowing It To Do So Therapeutic Letter Writing Practices With Colin Sanders (Canada) & John Winslade (USA/ SATURDAY, MAY 2ND AFTERNOON SESSION New Zealand) Local And Alternative Responses To The Increasing FRIDAY, MAY 1ST AFTERNOON SESSION Medicalization Of Social Life And Relationships: A Conversations On Non-Normativity SATURDAY, MAY 2ND AFTERNOON SESSION Conversation About Navigating The Hegemony Of With Julie Tilsen (USA) Local And Alternative Responses To The Increasing The Dsm And Evidence Based Practices (Ebp) Medicalization Of Social Life And Relationships: A With Colin Sanders (Canada) & Tom Strong (Canada) SATURDAY, MAY 2ND MORNING SESSION Conversation About Navigating The Hegemony Of The Beauty Of Discovery Learning The Dsm And Evidence Based Practices (Ebp) With Colin Sanders (Canada) & John Winslade (USA/ With Stephen Madigan (Canada) New Zealand)
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