Coast Plaza Hotel 1763 Comox Street Vancouver, BC 604.688.7711 VANCOUVER SCHOOL FOR NARRATIVE THERAPY PRESENTS Therapeutic Conversations 13 Narrative Therapy: Lets Start All Over Again April 27- April 30, 2016 | Vancouver, Canada WWW.THERAPEUTICCONVERSATIONS.COM CONFERENCE SCHEDULE “I am hoping TC13 will take off from where TC12 left off in April 27th, 2016: Pre-Conference highlighting the re-imaginings of narrative therapy and - provide 8:00 am - 9:00 am Registration open inspiration for the third generation of ‘students’ and newcomers 8:00 am - 8:45 am Optional yoga or meditation while offering sustenance for veterans of our practice.” 9:15 am - 4:15 pm Preconference workshops - David Epston April 28th, 2016: Day 1 7:00 am - 8:00am Registration open 8:00 am- 8:30 am First Nations welcome and opening THERAPEUTIC CONVERSATIONS 13 PRESENTERS 8:30 am - 8:45 am Discussion groups - Chené Swart REGISTRATION Makungu Akinyela – Atlanta, USA 8:45 am - 9:45 am Keynote Tom Stone Carlson – Fargo, USA 10:00 am - 12:30 am Morning workshops Student Rosa Elena – Vancouver, Canada 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm Lunch break Preconference only $150 Erling Fidjestol – Oslo, Norway 2:00 pm - 4:30 pm Afternoon workshops David Epston – Auckland, New Zealand 3 days, excluding preconference $400 4:30 pm - 5:15 pm Small group discussions 4 days, including preconference $500 Arthur Frank – Calgary, Canada Jill Freedman – Chicago, USA Helene Grau Kristensen – Copenhagen, Denmark Lorraine Grieves- Vancouver, Canada April 29th, 2016: Day 2 Early Bird General (ends March 17, 2016) Travis Heath – Denver, USA 7:30 am-8:15 am Optional yoga or meditation Preconference only $150 Lorraine Hedtke – Redlands, USA 8:45 am-9:45 am Keynote 3 days, excluding preconference $450 Kay Ingamells – Auckland, New Zealand Ian Law – Brisbane, Australia 10:00 am - 12:30 pm Morning workshops 4 days, including preconference $525 Stephen Madigan – Vancouver, Canada 12:30 pm - 2 pm Lunch break Bill Madsen – Boston, USA 2:00 pm - 4:30 pm Afternoon workshops Laurie Markham – Los Angeles, USA General (after March 17, 2016) 4:30 pm - 5:15 pm Small group discussions David Marsten – Los Angeles, USA Preconference only $200 Todd May-Clemson, South Carolina, USA 3 days, excluding preconference $525 Elize Morkel – Cape Town, South Africa 4 days, including preconference $600 Aaron Munro – Vancouver, Canada April 30th, 2016: Day 3 Ottar Ness – Trondheim, Norway 7:30 am-8:15 am Optional yoga or meditation David Nylund – Sacramento, USA 8:45 am - 9:45 am Keynote Sasha Pilkington – Auckland, New Zealand marcela polanco – Bogata, Columbia/San Antonio, USA 10:00 am - 12:30 pm Morning workshops Jack Saul – New York City, USA 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm Lunch break Tom Strong – Calgary, Canada 2:00 pm - 4:30 pm Afternoon workshops Chené Swart – Pretoria, South Africa 4:30 pm - 5:15 pm Small group discussions Nina Tejs-Jorring – Copenhagen, Denmark Karl Tomm – Calgary, Canada John Winslade – Redlands, California All of our presenters’ bios may be found online 2 THERAPEUTIC CONVERSATIONS 13 THERAPEUTIC CONVERSATIONS 13 3 WORKSHOPS WEDNESDAY, APRIL 27TH: THURSDAY APRIL 28: DAY ONE G. Thinking, Theory and Practice: J. Recapturing the Heart and Beauty of Discussions on Gilles Deleuze, Narrative Practice through Narrative PRE-CONFERENCE Neo-liberalism, and Relationally Generosity and Embodiment: A Living KEYNOTE 8:45AM-9:45AM Interviewing Couple Relationships Ethics Approach to Teaching Narrative A. Walking In The Footsteps Of Stephen Madigan (Vancouver, Canada), Practice David Epston: An Off-Road Guide. Narrative Therapy On The Fringes Todd May (Clemson, USA) Tom Carlson (Fargo, USA) Kay Ingamells ( Auckland, New Zealand) marcela polanco ( Colombia/ USA) John Winslade (Los Angeles, USA) Chene Swart (Pretoria, South Africa). Discussant Erling Fidjestol (Oslo, Norway) Have you ever marvelled at the magic of David Epstons When problems can talk, dead people can speak, hope Three guys walk into a bar . Philosopher Todd May opens therapeutic questioning and longed to be able to bring his can taste, and heart, soul and mind can dance together the workshop with a fascinating discussion on the ideas of This workshop draws on our recent explorations of narrative practice into your own? More of an orienteering course in - a new discursive space is brought to life. In her keynote, French post-structuralist Gilles Deleuze. Narrative therapy generosity and narrative embodiment to help therapists to adventurous territory than a walk on a well-trodden route, the marcela will seek to transgress mainstream visual theorist John Winslade follows this up and connects the move beyond the limitations of ‘maps’ and move toward workshop will traverse specific practices viewed as foundational epistemological traditions of evidence to situate narrative ideas to neoliberalisms influence on therapists lives and a practice that is informed by a personal embodiment to the magic of David’s narrative therapy questions. An ideal therapy on the fringes. She will bring to the forefront of therapy. Stephen Madigan then guides their theoretical of the spirit, beauty, and ethics of narrative ideas and the workshop for students and newcomers to narrative therapy, but the discussion the ordinary weirdness of narrative therapy ideas into the practice of narrative therapies relational artistry that it inspires the artistry of narrative practice. will also appeal to experienced practitioners eager to invigorate conversations via her colombian magical realism. She will interviewing work with conflicted couple relationships. and expand upon the craft of their therapeutic questioning. stage the discussion in her colombian Macondo to speak the unspeakable, to locate the unlocatable, to touch the untouchable, to hear the inaudible, and to utter the ineffable. K.Remembering Ethics: Writing DAY 1 AFTERNOON WORKSHOPS 2PM-4:30PM Therapeutic Letters to Conflicted Couple B. Who Said They Are “Empty Vessels?” DAY 1 MORNING WORKSHOPS 10:15AM-12:45PM Relationships Detecting Moral Agency In Children Stephen Madigan (Vancouver, Canada) Laurie Markham & David Marsten (Los Angeles, H. Affirming The Ongoing Story Of Life Discussants Karl Tomm (Calgary, Canada) California) And Love In The Face Of Death And Grief. D. Crafting Poetic Counter-stories Ian Law (Brisbane, Australia) Kay Ingamells (Auckland, New Zealand) Lorraine Hedtke (Los Angeles, USA) Children are often made out as vulnerable through a Sasha Pilkington (Auckland New Zealand) “discourse of innocence”. A resulting obligation falls onto the Discussant David Nylund (USA) Through a new form of relationally interviewing relationships, shoulders of caregivers and professionals to do the important Discussant Tom Strong (Calgary, Canada) Stephen demonstrates a counter-practice to individualisms thinking and decision making for young people, at least until Drawing on David Epston’s unique narrative therapy influence on working with conflicted couple relationships. The their apprenticeship as ‘adults in the making’ is finally over. practice and using an aspect of your own life as our sketch A narrative approach to grief challenges conventional workshop highlights one specific piece of relational interviewing Ethicist John Wall suggests that “children perhaps more than pad, we will play with how to bring counter-stories to life. concepts like “denial” and the insistence on “acceptance” - the practice of writing letters of invitation directly to the any other group are prone to having their ‘saying’ capabilities that enfeeble and limit responses. Affirming legacies conflicted couples relationship. Through video examples, he overshadowed by what is ‘said’ by others about them. They and strength for those who are dying opens territory to shows participants how recollecting the relationships ethical are the most easily marginalized segment of society”. With the E. Recovery: How to Engage Communities stand personally and politically where grief can take on history from the relationships point of view, acts to transport use of video and transcript, this workshop will challenge such a in Mental Health Care life and love sustaining meaning before, and after death. the relationship away from dialogues of conflict and towards ethical reconstructions and newly found relational possibilities. marginalizing view and call young people forward as intentional Ottar Ness (Trondheim, Norway) – Discussants Tom agents capable of moral deliberation and decisive action. Carlson (Fargo, USA), Tom Strong (Calgary, Canada) I. Cultural Democracy, Hip-Hop, and Ottar lead a unique three-year collaborative action research C. Insider Witnessing Practices project on collaborative practices in community mental health Cultural Variation in Narrative Practice David Epston (Auckland, New Zealand), and substance abuse care with a municipality in Norway. The Makungu Akinyela (Atlanta, USA) workshop highlights how he co-researched his work alongside Tom Stone Carlson (Fargo, USA) Travis Heath (Denver, USA) an entire municipality (including families, politicians, teachers, insiders, students etc), as a way to create communities of Insider Witnessing Practices are the counterpoint to Michael As cultural diversity increasingly becomes the norm, narrative care and concern. He discusses a variety of novel practices White’s Outsider Witness Practices. The actual method of therapy and other modes of therapeutic practice must move the community invented and continue to engage in. Insider Witnessing Practices will be demonstrated for the past inclusion and towards a model