University of Toronto

Participants will leave with:

• Ways of thinking and being that will make it possible to take narrative ideas and practices into your everyday work.
• Clear understandings of how to enrich your practice using theory from Foucault, Vygotsky, Bruner, James and Gadamer.
• How specific ways of being curious can create more useful and meaningful therapeutic conversations within any therapy approach.
• A uniquely detailed map for therapy conversation that can be used in any setting with any presenting concern including diagnoses and histories of trauma.
• A broad range of applications for outsider witness practices including how to situate people in therapy sessions as witnesses to each other.
• How to use these practices in brief settings.
• What clients have reported in new research about what is meaningful and useful in narrative therapy.

The process will involve: presentation of ideas, conversation, handouts, reading, experiential practice exercises, a unique process for the review of video-taped sessions of the trainer's work which involves the participants in the art of question development, letter writing practice, and participation in outsider witness practices.

Location: Burlington Campus, Brief Therapy Training Centre - International/Hincks-Dellcrest Institute at Halton Child and Youth Services.

Practice Sites: (Optional) Interested participants may apply to practice what you are learning at walk-in therapy clinics in Burlington at HCYS or Caledonia at REACH. The format for this is to work alongside the course instructor and walk-in clinic staff as an outsider witness and co-therapist for an agreed upon frequency and duration of time.

Please register for this program directly with the Hincks-Dellcrest Centre - Gail Appel Institute at:
114 Maitland St.
Toronto, ON     M4Y 1E1
Tel: 416.972.1935 x3345;    Fax: 416.924.9808
eMail: training@hincksdellcrest.org