Narrative Therapy  Centre

P.O. Box 31030, Westney Heights RPO

15 Westney Road N.

Ajax, Ontario. Canada.  L1T 3V2

 Narrative Therapy Centre

Of Toronto

MAGGIE CAREY

From the Narrative Practices Adelaide,

Australia

Workshops in Durham & Toronto

Phone: 905-427-8239

Fax: 905-427-8231

E-mail:  contact@narrativetherapycentre.com

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Maggie Carey from Adelaide, Australia

Maggie Carey has been practicing and teaching narrative ways of working since the early 90’s. She is with the newly established Narrative Practices Adelaide which has its history based in the Adelaide Narrative Therapy Centre, the centre that Michael White established in January 2008 a few months before his sad and untimely death in April 2008.

 

Having worked for many years in an agency that responded to the effects of violence on women and children, and with families who were involved with the state welfare system, Maggie has maintained a commitment to incorporating a political analysis of people’s experiences of life, particularly of marginalisation, into her counselling and therapeutic work. She has also been keen to engage whenever she can in practices of counselling that move toward a narratively - informed community response.

 

Teaching and writing about narrative practice has taken Maggie on some interesting journeys and she continues to appreciate the opportunity that this affords her to engage with people in a range of settings around their own commitments in their work. Her 2004 book ‘Narrative Therapy: Responding to your questions’ was compiled with Shona Russell in response to questions that are commonly asked about the practice of narrative therapy. 

One-day workshop in Durham

Tuesday October 14th

 

AN INTRODUCTION TO NARRATIVE THERAPY

 

This workshop will be suitable for anyone who is interested in getting to know more about the narrative approach.  In this one day workshop there will be the chance to also explore ways in which a narrative approach might be useful in responding to mental health issues.

This approach uses the idea that we all have stories about who we are and it is through these stories that we make sense of life. 

 

In this workshop participants will explore ways of separating people from the problem stories that can take over the storyline of their lives.

 

Once there has been some space created between the person and the problem we can then begin to bring forward some of the stories of self that have been subjugated by the problem.  In the exploration of these practices of the ‘storying’ of experience,  consideration will be given to their use in the particular situation of responding to people living with mental health issues.

 

Maggie will use examples of her work to introduce some of the core concepts of narrative practice. There will also be the opportunity to get a feel for the narrative approach through structured exercises that can then form a basis for discussion and learning.

Two-day workshop in Toronto

Th. Oct. 16th & Fri. Oct. 17th

 

EXTENDING NARRATIVE PRACTICE

 

 The intention of this workshop is to take participants on a two day journey of exploring narrative practice.  There will be a focus on the ‘doing’ of narrative therapy and it is hoped that a context will be offered that extends participants sense of being able to use the narrative approach in their own work context.

 

Part of this journey will involve Maggie sharing examples of her work and the ways in which the narrative approach and the story metaphor can shape therapeutic conversations. Explorations of some of the ‘maps’ of narrative practice will take place through the experience of structured exercises.

 

The emphasis in this workshop will be on more recent developments in the exploration of the Narrative approach, but will re-visit more familiar territory as required. These include:

 

· The ‘absent but implicit’ which is a practice that makes it possible to ‘double listen’ to people’s experience of the concerns and problems in their lives and to enquire into what is beyond the expression of the problem that makes sense of why it is problematic. 

· Skills in the ‘scaffolding’ of our questions so that the people who consult us are invited  to think beyond what they already know about their lives, and to step into new and preferred experiences of themselves.

· Ways of engaging with audiences to the preferred stories that are developed in our conversations.

 

CLICK HERE TO REGISTER FOR DURHAM SESSION

CLICK HERE TO REGISTER FOR TORONTO SESSION

Both Events...   Registration:     8:30am-9:00am

                          Workshop:        9:00am-4:30pm