Feb 6 & 7, 2023 – Part 2: Narrative Therapy Approaches to Trauma
Feb 6 & 7, 2023 – Part 2: Narrative Therapy Approaches to Trauma
Event Date
February 6, 2023
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 4:30 PM Eastern Time | Convert to your time zone here
Facilitated by Angel Yuen with guest presentation by Mathura Thiagarajah
Early rate $220 until January 6 2023 ~ Regular rate $250 thereafter
Part 2 of our ‘Narrative Therapy Approaches to Trauma’ online training will extend participants learning following Part 1 and provide further opportunity to practice. Over two days participants will learn about and delve into three areas of narrative practice:
~ Therapeutic documents as ‘Rescuing the said from the saying of it.’ (White, 2000; Newman, 2008)
~ Elevating agency and resistance
~ Moving from individual to collective narrative practice (Denborough, 2008)
Therapeutic documents as ‘Rescuing the said from the saying of it’:
- Over two days together we will practice ‘rescuing’ people’s words and phrases to create narrative therapeutic documents (i.e. sticky-notes, poems and more) that can support people of all ages in reclaiming their lives from the effects of trauma
Elevating agency and resistance:
- 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.
- On Day 1 we will discuss and co-discover how it is possible to elicit descriptions and render meaning to small acts of resistance to traumatic events of violence, oppression, and injustice. Moreover, what might seem an ever-so-small form of resistance may not only be significant, but also can elevate personal agency.
Moving from individual to collective narrative practice:
- On day 2 there will be a focus on responding to trauma and hardship with collective narrative practices. We will discuss how it is possible to work with people individually while also linking their life to some sort of collective. Ideas and practices will also be shared for working with groups and communities responding to hardship.
Multiple modes of learning will be used to facilitate this online event including practice-based narrative exercises, video, breakout rooms and wider discussion.
About Angel Yuen
Angel works as a narrative therapist and clinical supervisor in alternative-private practice in Durham region of the Greater Toronto Area. She also offers tailored narrative trainings and consultation to many organizations. Angel’s previous work spanning three decades included experiences in school, community, and adult and children’s mental health settings.
Angel has facilitated several narrative workshops locally, internationally and more recently virtually. Within these spaces she continually is honoured to share hopeful stories, skills and wisdom of the people who consult with her. As a member of the Dulwich Centre international faculty in Adelaide, Australia Angel is part of their team for the Master of Narrative Therapy and Community Work program. Angel is the author of the 2019 book titled’ Pathways beyond despair: Re-authoring lives of young people through narrative therapy. She also 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).
About Mathura Thiagarajah
Mathura has fifteen years of experience working with children, young people, adults and families in schools, community health settings and private practice. In these roles, she has been able to use narrative approaches with diverse communities. Mathura has a special interest in collective narrative practices, and has had the opportunity to co-create multiple collective documents in Toronto, Canada and Vavuniya, Sri Lanka
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* – Completion of 2021 or 2022 NTC workshop titled ‘Less Pain More Gain: NT Approaches to Trauma’ or completion of NTC workshop/intensive titled ‘Responding to Trauma’ workshop or intensive from 2013 to 2020.
- If you are new to the ideas and practices of Narrative Therapy, you should first attend ‘Part 1 – Narrative Therapy Approaches to Trauma: Less Pain More Gain’ on January 26 and 27, 2023
- * 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 January 26 & 27, 2023 ‘Part 1 – Narrative Therapy Approaches to Trauma: Less Pain More Gain’ 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.
Certificates of Training can be requested at the end of the online workshop and will state 9.5 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.
STUDENTS – At checkout in ‘discount code’ enter STUDENT10. Also in the ‘additional info’ box please include your student info – i.e.: Name of institution and program of study
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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.
Part 1 - Narrative Therapy Approaches to Trauma: Less Pain More Gain on January 26 & 27, 2023
Click here for workshop details and registration for Part 1