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International Summer School Presenters
We are pleased to announce that the following presenters have been confirmed for our summer event in July 2010! There will be a broad range of narrative topics and we look forward to keeping you informed of additional presenters over the next few weeks... Please stay tuned for the Summer School program which will be available soon...
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JODI AMAN (USA) founded the Center for Narrative Practice in 2005 and has provided narrative training locally and internationally. She has been counseling and consulting with children and adults since 1994. She is constantly meeting new people and is a witness to how their values and beliefs help them get through hard times. She is inspired everyday by their skill and abilities. Jodi gives special attention to working with children, teens, couples and families and adults struggling with the effects of trauma and anxiety, including panic, flashbacks, childhood physical and sexual abuse, victim of violence, combat/refugee experience, grief and loss, school anxiety, peer abuse and eating disorders. |
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GENE COMBS (USA) is an associate professor of psychiatry and Family Medicine at NorthShore University Health System, a teaching affiliate of the University of Chicago and consults to programs for people with HIV and to schools. Together with his partner, Jill Freedman, he has authored three books—Symbol, story, and ceremony: Using metaphor in individual and family therapy; Narrative Therapy: The social construction of preferred realities, and Narrative Therapy with couples...and a whole lot more! - and more than 25 book chapters and articles. |
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DAVID DENBOROUGH (AUS) works as a writer/editor for the Dulwich Centre Publications and community practitioner and singer-song writer for the Dulwich Centre Foundation. He is the editor of five books: Collective narrative practice: Responding to individuals, groups, and communities who have experienced trauma: Beyond the prison: Gathering dreams of freedom; Family therapy: Exploring the field’s past, present and possible futures; Queer Counselling and narrative practice: A community of ideas; Behind the scenes; and Trauma: Narrative response to traumatic experience. His writing about work with young men in relation to issues of violence has been published in Australia and in the USA and he has offered keynote addresses at a range of conferences. David’s songs in response to current social issues have received airplay throughout Australia and Canada. |
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JIM DUVALL M. Ed, RSW (Canada) Jim Duvall is the Director of Training at the Hincks-Dellcrest Centre, Gail Appel Institute and Director of Brief Therapy Training Centres-Internalional, which includes a year-long therapy training program that has been operating for 27 years. Jim also serves as the Senior Editor of the Journal of Systemic Therapies and has served as a reviewer on numerous other professional journals. He is co-investigator on a narrative therapy research project with Laura Beres at University of Western Ontario, Kings College, in which they study the effects of narrative practices in training and therapy. He has authored and co-authored numerous publications, which include a chapter co-authored with Laura Beres entitled; Movement of identities: A conversational map for working with sexual abuse and trauma, released in a book with Sage Publication entitled Narrative Therapy: Making Meaning Making Lives. Jim and Laura are presently co-authoring a book entitled Innovations in Narrative Therapy: Connecting Practice, Training and Research under contract with W.W.Norton and Company, which is scheduled for release in 2010.
Jim consults and teaches on a regular basis, locally, nationally and internationally. He lives on Georgian Bay, which is part of the Great Lakes in Canada, with his partner and their dog, Banjo. They enjoy boating and playing music with their friends. |
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JILL FREEDMAN (USA) is director of Evanston Family Therapy Center in North America, where she has a therapy and consulting practice. Together with her partner, Gene Combs, she has authored three books—Symbol, story, and ceremony: Using metaphor in individual and family therapy; Narrative Therapy: The social construction of preferred realities, and Narrative Therapy with couples...and a whole lot more! - and more than 25 book chapters and articles. She teaches internationally regularly including being on the Dulwich Centre faculty. |
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LORRAINE HEDTKE (USA) specializes in working with people who are dying, and families after a loved one has died. She is employed by VITAS Innovative Hospice Care in the US and regularly teaches in North America and internationally about narrative therapy, death, dying and bereavement. Her articles have appeared in many professional and trade journals and numerous newspapers. Lorraine is the author, along with John Winslade of the book Re-membering Lives: Conversations with the Dying and Bereaved (Baywood Publishing 2004) and a children’s book co-written with her daughter Addison, My Grandmother is Always with me. |
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MIMI KIM (USA) is a long time anti-violence advocate and activist primarily working in Asian immigrant communities in the U.S. She is a steering committee member of the Asian and Pacific Islander Domestic Violence Institute, a national resource center. Mimi is also a founding member of Incite! Women of Colour Against Violence where she has been working collectively with women of colour in the U.S. and internationally to create community-based solutions to violence. Mimi continues her advocacy as the Founder and Executive Director of Creative Interventions a resource centre promoting and creating alternative community-based interventions to interpersonal violence based in Oakland. |
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CAROLYN MARKEY (AUS) lives in Adelaide Australia and is a counselor, and teacher of narrative therapy at the Dulwich Centre. She has considerable experience and great interest in counselling children, young people, and their families or caregivers in relation to a broad range of problems that are affecting their lives. Carolyn has particular experience in the areas of family separation, effects of violence and abuse, school-related difficulties, and working with people affected by concerns about anxiety or depression. Carolyn also enjoys using narrative ideas in group settings and has considerable experience supervising other practitioners in narrative therapy. |
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RUTH PLUZNICK (CAN) is the clinical director of Oolagen, a public children's mental health centre in Toronto and a senior faculty of Narrative Therapy Centre. For the past three years, Ruth and her colleague, Natasha Kis-Sines have participated in the 'gathering stories ' project initiated by Dulwich Centre, developing narrative ideas and practices where a parent is experiencing mental health difficulties. Ruth's agency, Oolagen Community Services, is also involved in a partnership with Dulwich Centre in an initiative designed to foster intergenerational alliances within the Tamil and other multicultural communities in Toronto and the Kite of Life exercise. Ruth is recognized as one of the first trainers in narrative therapy in Toronto and has provided training to hospitals, school boards and community agencies. |
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CHERYL WHITE (AUS) is the director of Dulwich Centre and the found of Dulwich Centre Publications where she works as publisher, editor, training co-ordinator, conference host, and initiator of projects. Cheryl is the co-editor of various books, including Conversations about gender, culture, violence and narrative practice: Stories of hope and complexity from women of many cultures. More information about the work of the Dulwich Centre Publications can be found in the book A community of ideas: Behind the scenes. Cheryl is particularly interested in finding ways to support the work of practitioners in difficult and challenging contexts. She has recently launched the Dulwich Centre Foundation which is vitally interested in the interface between narrative therapy and work with wider groups and communities. |
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JOHN WINSLADE (USA) is a professor at California State University San Bernardino and also teaches part-time at the University of Wakato in New Zealand. He has co-authored six books on narrative practice including>>> Re-membering Lives: Conversations with the Dying and Bereaved (2004) and Narrative Mediation: A new approach to conflict resolution. He is also the founding managing editor of Explorations: An E-Journal of Narrative Practice. |
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ANGEL YUEN (CAN) is the director of the Narrative Therapy Centre of Toronto. She is a school social worker and private therapist in the multicultural context of Toronto using narrative approaches with children, young people, families, couples and also in supervision and teaching. In 2006 she joined the Dulwich Centre team to become a faculty member for their international training courses. Angel is co-editor with Cheryl White of the 2007 book Conversations about gender, culture, violence and narrative practice. |
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KAREN YOUNG (CAN) Karen is a faculty member with Brief Therapy Training Centres International (a division of the Hincks-Dellcrest Institute) teaching in the Institute’s Narrative Therapy Training Program and in the year-long clinical extern program in Brief and Narrative Therapy. She is the Manager of Clinical Services at Reach Out Centre for Kids in Burlington where she provides narrative supervision to staff and single session therapy services at the walk-in therapy clinic. Karen has a special interest in developing, practicing and teaching narrative therapy in brief settings such as the walk-in therapy clinic she has worked at over the past eight years. She has developed guidelines for therapeutic conversations that pull together postmodern ideas and narrative practices in ways that make it very possible to use them in any setting. Karen has a number of publications that focus on narrative practices in brief settings. |
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TOD AUGUSTA-SCOTT, MSW (Canada) is known internationally for his work with domestic violence and narrative therapy. He has spent the last fifteen years as the coordinator of Bridges – a domestic violence counselling, research and training institute in Nova Scotia, Canada. He has taught in the Social Work Department, Dalhousie University and continues to be a guest speaker in the Department on a regular basis. Tod has presented his work in every province in Canada. In Nova Scotia, Tod conducts the domestic violence training for all the new Child Protection workers in the Province. In New Brunswick, his group manual for working with men has been adopted as the official manual used by the Department of Public Safety throughout the Province. He has conducted training for the Department of Health and Community Services (Eastern Health) in Newfoundland to establish domestic violence groups in the province. He also works nationally as a consultant to the Canadian Forces. Tod has presented his work internationally in China, USA, Europe and the British Isles. He has published work with Guilford Press (New York), Springer Press (New York) Sage Publications (California) and Dulwich Centre Publications (Australia). He is the co-editor and contributor to the critically acclaimed book Narrative Therapy: Making Meaning, Making Lives (Sage Publications, 2007). Tod is also a reviewer for the Journal of Systemic Therapies, Canadian Journal of Counselling, and Canadian Social Work. |
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LAURA BERES (Canada), M.S.W., R.S.W., Ph.D. is an Associate Professor in the School of Social Work, King’s University College at the University of Western Ontario, in London, Ontario. She teaches narrative practices within the BSW and MSW programmes, provides ongoing consultation and also maintains a small independent practice. Laura has worked as a social worker for the past twenty years. She has been developing approaches to researching narrative practices for the past twelve years. She also was involved in the narrative community project with Michael White, Jim Duvall and a team of practitioners from Six Nations and Caledonia in response to land rights/claims in 2007. She has most recently written (January 2010) “Narrative therapy group interventions with men who have used abusive behaviours,” Families in Society and (2009) “Mindfulness and reflexivity: The no-self as reflective practitioner.” In Hick, S. (Ed). Mindfulness and Social Work: Reflective Practice and Interventions, (pp. 57 – 75). Chicago: Lyceum Books. She has also co-written, with Jim Duvall (2007) “Movement of identities: A map for therapeutic conversations about trauma.” In C. Brown & T. Augusta-Scott (Eds.), Narrative therapy: making meaning, making lives (pp. 229 – 250). Thousand Oaks: Sage. With Jim Duvall, she is also currently under contract with W.W. Norton, writing Innovations in narrative therapy; Connecting practice, training and research, which is to be published in the fall of 2010. |
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LOREE STOUT (CAN) Loree Stout has been a therapist, educator and supervisor for nearly 30 years. She has a long history of connection to narrative ideas and practices that began when she attended a workshop with Michael White in the mid 80’s. Her connection to narrative practices has resulted in a commitment to privileging the voices of persons who are seeking consultation and to challenging professional discourses and institutional policies that have negative effects on people seeking help in public mental health services. Loree works as a therapist and supervisor in an outpatient mental health program with Alberta Health Services. She has consulted to psychiatric inpatients units and day programs within hospital settings. She has been a faculty member with the Family Therapy Training Program in Calgary for more than 20 years where she has taught a regular week long intensive in narrative therapy. |
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NINETTA TIVANO (CAN) is a clinical social worker with a special interest in working with children and their families and relationship concerns. Through the Narrative Project, Ninetta provides training and consultation to professionals in western Canada. She has presented nationally and internationally on narrative therapy. |
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MARIANA SUSSI (CAN) Mariana Sussi immigrated to Winnipeg with her family almost 7 years ago. She was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where she finished her studies in Clinical Psychology at the University of Buenos Aires. She has been always interested on the intersection between issues of Social Justice and Therapy. In 2004 she was introduced to Narrative Therapy by David Epston’s teaching and since then she could not stop learning and applying these ideas in her practice. Mariana has her practice in Downtown Winnipeg; she is the director for Winnipeg Narrative Therapy (www.winnipegnarrativetherapy.com). This organization provides counselling as well as training and workshops informed by narrative ideas. She has a special interest in migration and how this life event would impact in people’s lives and people’s sense of themselves. In 2007 she joined an innovative program at Aurora Family Therapy Centre at the University of Winnipeg that provides services to immigrants and refugees to Canada. She believes that in those sacred conversations that happen with the people we work with, they can reclaim their own preferred stories and define themselves according to them. By doing so they resist the definition imposed by the problem and they start experience liberation. |
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WALTER H. BERA Ph.D (USA) is the Founder and Director of the Kenwood Therapy Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota, a multidisciplinary therapy center and training institute. He is Licensed Psychologist, Marriage and Family Therapist and an AAMFT Clinical Member and Approved Supervisor who has been a therapist for almost 30 years with a special focus on issues of clinical theory and practice, abuse, addiction, power and ethics/politics. As a recipient of the Bush Leadership Fellowship he studied Narrative Therapy in New Zealand and Australia with David Epston and Michael White. His writings include “Betrayal: Clergy Sexual Abuse and Male Survivors” in Breach of Trust edited by Gonsiorek (Sage, 1995) and Male Sexual Abuse: A Trilogy of Intervention Strategies with Gonsiorek and LeTourneau (Sage, 1994). He is currently writing works tentatively entitled Trauma: Narrative, Collaborative and Restorative/Transformative Justice Approaches, Narragrams: Visualizing Narrative Therapy, Practicing Narrative Therapy in Modernist Settings and Buddhist Psychology, Mindfulness, Narrative and Creativity |
