With Jill Freedman & Gene Combs

October 8 - 12, 2012

Ponte A Nappo Bed & Breakfast, San Gimignano, Italy

Tuscany has always been a special place for us. In October 2012 we will offer our third annual advanced intensive in the beautiful Tuscan countryside.

We plan to join with up to 12 other experienced practitioners of narrative therapy just outside the ancient walls of San Gimigmano, Italy for a 5-day intensive workshop. Our friends, the Rossi family, have made their highly-rated bed and breakfast, Podere Ponte a Nappo, exclusively available for this workshop.

We will meet for two 3-hour blocks each day, leaving time for extended walks in the town or the countryside, visits to other hill towns, drives through the Chianti country, or just relaxing in the beautiful surroundings.                                             

For more information call 847-866-7879 or email narrativetherapy@sbcglobal.net.

Level I Intensive, Spring

With Jill Freedman and Gene Combs

April 16 – 20, 2012

Tuition: paid by March 5, $700; after Sept. 19, $800

(student price: $600)

Limited to 16 participants 

This small-group intensive workshop is designed to immerse you in narrative ideas and give you hands-on experience with narrative ways of working.  The format is informal and highly interactive, so you will have lots of chances to practice putting the ideas into action. Jill and Gene will also use videotape and live interviews to demonstrate the work. Topics for the week will include: 

    Thinking in terms of the narrative metaphor

    Engaging in conversations that externalize problems

    Understanding problems in terms of their political and cultural contexts

    Asking questions to generate experience

    Developing alternative, thickly described life stories

    Working as a member of an outsider witness group

    Using documents, letters, and teams to spread the news of preferred developments

Evanston Family Therapy Center Year-Long Narrative Course 2012

With Jill Freedman and Gene Combs

Guest faculty include Cheryl White and David Denborough

Limited to 12 people

4 days every other month, 20 days total:

Tuition: General Registration, $2,500

The training group will meet in four-day blocks (Friday - Monday) approximately every two months. This format offers the advantage of four days of intensive experience followed by time for reflecting, reading, and trying out the ideas between meetings. The small group size insures carefully supervised practice and makes it possible to tailor our program to fit participants' interests and work contexts. Our focus will include:

• Learning narrative practices and gaining skills through exercises and supervised interview
• Understanding the theoretical and philosophical positions that support narrative work
• Appreciating the people we work with as the privileged authors of their own stories
• Exploring the role of culture, both in problematic stories and in preferred stories
• Appreciating the importance of communities in which alternative stories can circulate and take on meaning
• Thinking about ethics as ways of being that we embody rather than as rules we must follow to avoid punishment
• Focusing on particular problems and applications of the work tailored to the interests and contexts of group members

Completion of the year-long course qualifies participants for alumni events, such as presenter conferences.

Write us at narrativetherapy@sbcglobal.net or call us at (847)866-7879 to request an application.

Supervision by Skype                                                     

 We are now offering supervision by Skype. This can be a one-time consultation or ongoing supervision. Please email us at narrativetherapy@sbcglobal.net to arrange for individual or small-group supervision.

Explorations: An E-Journal of Narrative Practice

This free e-journal is now available!

As a Participating Partner in Explorations, we wanted to let you know that this journal will be published regularly and is an international, peer-reviewed forum for narrative practitioners. We hope that this e-journal will contribute to the creative development of narrative practices by supporting new generations of writers, and enabling free access to literature about narrative practice to people in different parts of the world.

To read the e-journal, just follow the link:         http://www.dulwichcentre.com.au/e-journal.html