Jan 12, 2024: Queering Your Therapy Practice – Julie Tilsen
Jan 12, 2024: Queering Your Therapy Practice – Julie Tilsen
Event Date
January 12, 2024
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
Presented by Author Julie Tilsen
Early rate $160 until December 15, 2023
Regular rate $180 thereafter
Registration is closed for this event
About The Workshop
In this interactive workshop, Julie will introduce you to a queer theory-informed narrative practice. The activities and discussions will focus on cultivating a relationally responsive approach to work with trans and queer young people, adults, and families.
By linking conceptual resources from queer theory with narrative practices, Julie will help you put queer theory into therapeutic action. The workshop will place particular emphasis on queering the prevailing discourses surrounding “coming out” and parental grief and loss in response to a trans child.
The workshop includes case vignettes, reflexive questions, and practice-based activities that encourage participants to examine the discourses that influence their ideas about gender, sexuality, identity, and family through a critical, intersectional lens. These activities also provide opportunities to apply and practice using the concepts and skills presented.
Learning Objectives
Participants will:
- Explain concepts and terms fundamental to queer theory and related theoretical resources;
- Deconstruct through self-reflexive activities their ideas about gender and sexuality and the role of cultural narratives (e.g., medicine, psychology, religion, media) on these ideas;
- Learn conversational practices informed by queer theory for a respectful, inclusive, and intersectional practice with trans and queer people and their families.
- Demonstrate integration of a queer theory-informed practice into their particular practice context.
About Julie Tilsen
Julie Tilsen, Ph.D. is the author of Queering Your Therapy Practice: Queer Theory, Narrative Therapy, and Imagining New Identities (Routledge, 2021; Winner of the AASECT 2022 Book of the Year Award), Narrative Approaches to Youth Work: Conversational Skills for a Critical Practice (Routledge, 2018), and Therapeutic Conversations with Queer Youth: Transcending Homonormativity & Constructing Preferred Identities (Rowman & Littlefield, 2013) as well as a variety of professional articles and book chapters.
She is proud to be a graduate of the Minneapolis Public School system. Julie is community faculty in the Youth Studies Program of the University of Minnesota, an associate of the Taos Institute, and recipient of the Minnesota Association of Marriage and Family Therapy Distinguished Service Award.
Her work is featured in several counselor training videos produced by Alexander Street Press and Sage/UPG Media. Julie is a hard-core fan of the University of Minnesota Gophers Women’s Hockey team and likes drinking cold press. She is probably outside throwing a ball for her dog, Bumper.
View free video by Julie Tilsen Queer Theory as a Resource for Therapists from Dulwich Centre’s Friday Afternoon Videos
Click here to find a collection of resources – including articles and books – that relate to Julie’s work.
Purchase Julie’s 2021 book ‘Queering Your Therapy Practice: Queer Theory, Narrative Therapy, and Imagining New Identities’ with 20% discount here and enter EFL04. Download Introduction and chapters 2 and 5 of book.
Join the NTC as we read and reflect on Julie Tilsen’s book Queering Your Therapy Practice: Queer Theory, Narrative Therapy, and Imagining New Identities.
Book club conversation 1 – Feb 9, 2024 to discuss Chapters 1 and 2
Book club conversation 2 – April 12, 2024 to discuss Chapters 3 and 4
Book club conversation 3 – June 14, 2024 to discuss Chapters 5 and 6
Book club conversation 4 – Sept 13, 2024 to discuss Chapters 7 and 8
Time: 7:00 to 8:30 PM Eastern Time
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If you are new to the ideas and practices of Narrative Therapy we suggest first readingWhat is Narrative Therapy?(2000) by Alice Morgan .
20 minute break and 40 minute 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.
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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 the ‘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.