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Narrative Therapy: Foundational Skills for an Anti-Oppressive Approach to Clinical Practice

March 14 @ 9:00 am - 4:00 pm

$180

Audience: Ideal for therapists, social workers, and mental health practitioners in various fields of practice seeking to develop narrative therapy skills to apply to their practice.

Description: As clinical and helping professionals, we are tasked to support people in many different contexts. What is clear across all of these contexts is that we are helping people face both personal and social/systemic challenges. Whether working in hospitals, child protection, youth and family centres, in private practice, or other areas of practice, Narrative Therapy skills can help practitioners support their clients to make lasting and sustainable changes in their lives. Narrative Therapy is a collaborative and anti-oppressive therapeutic approach that centers people as the experts in their own lives. Narrative practice focuses on supporting people to step away from problem identities and to connect with their values, hopes, competencies and abilities – while also helping them to explore how the problems they face are located within a larger economic, social and political context. This training will provide an introduction to the theory and practices of Narrative Therapy and support participants to explore ways they can bring powerful therapeutic questions into their own work context.