ChildrenFamilies Toronto Sept 2012

Narrative Therapy Centre

Of Toronto

TORONT– Sept 28th 2012—9am to 4:00pm

Family Service Toronto Building

355 Church Street, Toronto

Toronto, Ontario.

Angel Yuen M.S.W., R.S.W. is a school social worker for the Toronto District School Board and a private therapist in Durham. She has had the joy of working alongside children and families for over twenty years. As one of the founding members and faculty of the NTC of Toronto, she has been teaching narrative ideas locally and internationally for the past decade. Angel is a member of the Dulwich Centre faculty team in Adelaide, Australia for their International Narrative Therapy and Community Work Training Program. She is co-editor with Cheryl White of the 2007 book “Conversations about gender, culture, violence & narrative practice: Stories of hope and complexity from women of many cultures”.

Narrative Therapy with

Children & Families

Throughout the workshop there will be an exploration of creative possibilities to difficult problems such as temper, worry, and loss in work alongside children. With respect to family therapy, the workshop will address the question… How can we as family therapists act so that the problem does not define the child’s identity, dominate the agenda, and set the tone for the introduction of a young person to therapy?

This workshop will be of interest to children’s mental health workers, school workers, social workers, private therapists, psychologists, child and youth workers and anyone working with children and families. It will be suitable for those new to narrative ideas, and also for practitioners who have familiarity and experience with narrative ideas. There will be an emphasis of putting narrative ideas into practice.

In this workshop participants will learn:

About playful approaches to serious problems from Freeman, J., Epston, D. & Lobovits, D. (1997)
How to engage in externalizing conversations
Getting to know the child apart from The Problem
Approaches that assist in dissolving family conflict
How to engage in re-authoring conversations which move Problem stories to Preferred stories of children’s lives and identities

This workshop will include experiential exercises, didactic theory, video and role play.