Oct 23, 2024 -Responding to Trauma: Narrative Approaches to Sexualized Violence
Oct 23, 2024 -Responding to Trauma: Narrative Approaches to Sexualized Violence
Event Date:
October 23, 2024
Event Time:
9:00 am
Event Location:
This is an ONLINE EVENT
9:00 AM to 4:00 PM Eastern Time (CAN) | Convert to your time zone here
People suffering from the ongoing traumatic effects of sexualized violence (self-blame, worthlessness, self-hate and more) often experience a diminished sense of agency. We may hear statements such as ‘There was nothing I could do to stop the sexual assault’ or ‘I’m messed up from my childhood sexual abuse.’
Narrative Therapy approaches assist people in reclaiming their lives from the effects of sexualized violence and suggest that there is always another story. These are often subordinated stories of skills in living and the many unacknowledged ways in which people respond. There are also stories of small acts of resistance that we can be on the lookout for. These acts of protest and refusal are not necessarily grand or overt actions, but more often are hardly visible. Moreover, what might seem an ever-so-small form of resistance may not only be significant, but also can elevate personal agency.
During this one-day in-person training together we will:
- review the ideas that shape Narrative Therapy
- explore the taken-for-granted understandings of trauma and PTSD
- offer ways to engage in conversations about the trauma of sexual violence that are not retraumatizing
- learn and co-create questions that can be asked to elicit a person’s responses to sexual violence
- discuss and co-discover how it is possible to elicit descriptions and render meaning to small acts of resistance.
Multiple modes of learning will be used to facilitate this workshop including practice-based narrative exercises, video and wider discussion.
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About the facilitator…
Angel (she/her) works as a narrative therapist, supervisor and consultant in alternative-private practice in Durham region of the Greater Toronto Area. Angel’s previous work in the public sector spanning three decades included experiences in school, community, and adult and children’s mental health settings. Angel facilitates narrative workshops locally, internationally and 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. 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).
- All practitioners seeking hopeful and effective ways of working together with people affected by the effects of sexualized violence
- Anyone interested in or already familiar with narrative therapy ideas and practices
- 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 and also other allied health professions.
Workshop – 9 AM to 4 PM
Lunch will be from 12:00 to 1:00 PM and there will be a morning and afternoon break.
Certificates of Training will be provided at the end of the workshop and will state 6.0 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.
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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.