Feb 28, 2022 – Elevating Resistance and Agency: Narrative Therapy Approaches to Trauma
Feb 28, 2022 – Elevating Resistance and Agency: Narrative Therapy Approaches to Trauma
Event Date
February 28, 2022
Event Time
10:30 am
Event Location
This is an ONLINE EVENT, Hosted on Zoom, Eastern Time (CANADA & US)
Event Description
10:30 AM to 3:30 PM Eastern Time | Convert to your time zone here
Early rate $110 until January 28, 2022 - Regular rate $125 thereafter
People suffering from the ongoing effects of trauma often experience a diminished sense of agency. We may hear statements such as ‘There was nothing I could do to stop the violence.’ ‘I’m messed up from my childhood abuse.’ However, there are many acts of resistance that we can be on the lookout for. These acts of protest, refusal and resistance are not necessarily grand or overt actions, but more often are hardly visible.
In this workshop, we will discuss how it is possible to elicit descriptions and render meaning to small acts of resistance to traumatic events of violence, oppression, and injustice. These subtle acts/actions/thoughts are different than open opposition, rebelling or fighting back that are often less possible. Moreover, what might seem an ever-so-small form of resistance may not only be significant, but also can elevate personal agency.
In this workshop together we will:
- Explore double-storied accounts – i.e., alongside each story trauma and suffering there are stories of resistance, refusal, and protest that we can be on the lookout for
- Develop skills in bringing subordinated stories out of the shadows – i.e., stories of values, hopes, dreams, commitments, skills, responses and more…
- Discuss how people’s acts of resistance were/are also acts of survival in response to trauma
- Explore how narrative therapy approaches to trauma can assist people of all ages in reclaiming their lives from the effects of trauma
About the facilitator…
Angel works as a narrative therapist in private alternative practice in Durham region. She is also a faculty member and narrative supervisor for the NTC of Toronto, and a member of Dulwich Centre international faculty in Adelaide, Australia. Her previous work was school social work at the TDSB for over twenty years. Many children, young people and adults Angel has worked alongside have been subjected to abuse, violence and oppression. In her faculty roles she has had the privilege of sharing double-storied accounts that honour the injustices that many of them have experienced as well as their skills, knowledges, acts of resistance and responses.
Angel is the author of the 2019 book ‘Pathways beyond despair: Re-authoring lives of young people through narrative therapy’, and she is co-editor with Cheryl White of the 2007 book ‘Conversations about gender, culture, violence and narrative practice: Stories of hope and complexity from women of many cultures’. Angel has also published the following papers re: narrative ideas and responding to trauma: Discovering Children’s Responses to Trauma: a response-based narrative practice (2007) and Less Pain More Gain: Explorations of responses versus effects when working with the consequences of trauma (2009).
This program will be relevant for a diversity of service providers including counsellors, therapists, community workers, child protection workers and mental health practitioners working in settings such as victim and crisis services, private practice, hospitals, women’s shelters, sexual assault centers, schools, Violence Against Women (VAW) organizations, and other community-based and social service agencies. This workshop is relevant to those working with adults (including adults who are survivors of childhood sexual abuse), young people and children
- Prerequisite* – Anyone who has attended the past workshop titled ‘Less Pain More Gain: NT Approaches to Trauma’ [January or May 2021] or any previous ‘Responding to Trauma’ workshop or intensive from 2013 to 2020 can register for this online workshop.
- If you are new to the ideas and practices of Narrative Therapy, you should first attend ‘Less Pain More Gain: Narrative Therapy Approaches to Trauma’ on February 7 and 8, 2022
- * Exception to the prerequisite – If you are already familiar with and using narrative practices, but have never attended a previous Narrative Therapy Centre ‘Trauma’ workshop, you can still register for this workshop. We still however would suggest attending the February 7 & 8, 2022 ‘Less Pain More Gain: Narrative Therapy Approaches to Trauma’ workshop for the refresher on the ideas that shape narrative therapy and to also participate in the beginning conversations about trauma discourse, and the ideas of co-discovering people’s responses to trauma.
Lunch from 12:15 to 1:00 PM [ET] and there will also be an afternoon break
Certificates of Training can be requested at the end of the online workshop and will state 4 hours of narrative therapy training. Certificates can be used to qualify for eligibility for continuing education credits from professional colleges and licensing boards. Please contact your own college or association to confirm requirements.
10 % discount for students and groups.
Students- at checkout in ‘discount code’ enter STUDENT10
For groups of 3 or more, please register together in one transaction and at checkout in ‘discount code’ enter GROUP10. One main person can be registrant, and please type info (name, email, address) for other group members in additional info box
Cancellations will be accepted if requested at least 14 days prior to the event via email to contact@narrativetherapycentre.com. A 10% admin fee will be deducted from the amount to be refunded.
We regret that a refund cannot be offered after the cancellation date, but a colleague may be substituted for attendance.