Workshop - Narrative Therapy with Families and Couples

In this workshop Jill will describe a structure that helps people find a viewpoint from which to witness and understand each other’s experiences. Larger cultural narratives support many relational problems. These will be explored along with therapeutic enquiry that helps people consider possibilities outside of these discourses.

Jill will describe a process called “double listening” that helps therapists carefully listen for people’s desires, hopes, and treasured ways of being that are absent but implicit within their descriptions of experience. Because conversations initiated through the absent but implicit change the tone of therapy conversations in ways that make it easier for people to fully participate, this process is particularly useful in working with couples and families.

Narrative practices also invite us to consider identity as a project that people pursue in relationship to others. This offers us the possibility of asking questions about who people become in particular relationships, and how partners and family members contribute to each other’s preferred identities.

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