Narrative Therapy Approaches to Trauma Intensive with Loretta Pederson & Angel Yuen
Narrative Therapy Approaches to Trauma Intensive with Loretta Pederson & Angel Yuen
Event Date:
May 4, 2020
Event Time:
9:00 am
Event Location:
Central YMCA
A message from the Narrative Therapy Centre on March 16, 2020 This 4-day intensive has been cancelled. It is our hope to reschedule to a future date.
Stories of trauma can contribute to a sense of hopelessness for persons of all ages, as well as the service providers they are consulting with. Narrative Therapy approaches to traumatic experience assist people to redevelop/develop a sense of personal agency and suggest that there is always another story. These are often subordinated stories of connection, hope, cherished values, and unacknowledged ways in which people respond to hardship.
This four-day intensive will:
• provide an overview of the ideas that shape Narrative Therapy
• delve into narrative practices (double-listening, re-authoring, re-membering and collective narrative practice) that bring stories of hope out of the shadows
• explore the taken-for-granted understandings of trauma and PTSD
• challenge the ‘no pain no gain’ trauma healing discourse
• offer ways to engage in conversations about trauma that are not retraumatizing
• discover people’s responses and resistance to violence and oppression
• share hopeful stories of persons reclaiming their lives from the effects of abuse
This program is for keen beginners to narrative practices, and those familiar with narrative ideas. It 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 private practice, hospitals, women’s shelters, sexual assault centers, schools, Violence Against Women (VAW) organizations, and other community-based and social service agencies.
10% discount for students and groups
Students please attach a copy of student ID and 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
Certificates of Participation will be available upon completion of the workshop and will state the number of hours of Narrative Therapy Training. Certificates may be used to qualify for eligibility for continued education credits from professional colleges and licencing boards. Please contact your own college or association to confirm requirements.
If you require accommodation during a workshop or event, take a look through our list of places to stay that are close to our venue in Toronto
Payments may also be made via fax registration or sending a cheque via post. If you wish to pay with this method, please email us and we send you a workshop flyer for you to complete and fax or mail with your info and payment.
Cancellations will be accepted if requested in writing at least 14 days prior to the event. 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.
Facilitators
Loretta Pederson - Master of Narrative Therapy and Community Work; BA (Welfare Studies)
Loretta from Sydney Australia has, for 20 years, worked with families and individuals who are responding to complex issues such as mental health struggles, family violence, sexual assault, and drug and alcohol issues. She worked for an Intensive Family Support Service as team leader and is now in independent practice offering counselling, supervision and training. Loretta is on the teaching team for Dulwich Centre, Adelaide and has facilitated workshops in Australia, China, Singapore, Qatar and Turkey. She also volunteers for Twenty 10/Gay and Lesbian Counselling Service. Narrative ideas have been an integral part of Loretta’s counselling and group work over the past 15 years. She is particularly passionate about meeting with people who are experiencing mental distress or responding to trauma. Loretta’s article ‘Sharing sadness and finding small pieces of justice: Acts of resistance and acts of reclaiming in working with women who’ve been subjected to abuse’ was published in the Narrative Therapy and Community Work Journal in 2015. www.narrativetherapyconnections.com
Angel Yuen MSW RSW
Angel works as a narrative therapist in private 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 for twenty-five years was in inner-city schools and communities. 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 by Dulwich Centre Publications titled '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).
Registration inquiries can be made at contact@narrativetherapycentre.com or by calling (905) 427-8239