Narrative Therapy Approaches to Trauma: Double-storied Accounts

Narrative Therapy Approaches to Trauma: Double-storied Accounts

Narrative Therapy approaches assist people in reclaiming their lives from trauma stories and suggest that there is always another story. These are alternative stories of hope, acts of resistance, skills in living and surviving and the many unacknowledged ways in which people respond to hardship. This webinar invites practitioners to consider the context of people’s lives -i.e. poverty, race, patriarchy, and living conditions that can lead to injustice. These considerations are important as it reframes trauma as social justice and examines structural systems of power that are a part of people’s struggles. This webinar will explore and question the taken-for-granted understandings in mainstream trauma. Moreover, it will be of interest to anyone looking for hopeful and helpful ideas and practices for responding to trauma as well as ways to politicize and de-pathologize trauma.

This webinar is free for all to attend!

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Presented by the Ontario Association of Social Workers and Angel Yuen, MSW RSW

Angel Yuen works as a narrative therapist, teacher, supervisor and consultant in alternative-private practice in the Greater Toronto Area. Angel’s previous work spanning three decades included experiences in school, community, and adult and children’s mental health settings. As faculty of the Narrative Therapy Centre Angel has facilitated many narrative workshops on ‘Responding to Trauma’ locally, internationally and virtually. Within these spaces she has been honoured to share hopeful stories of the skills and wisdom of people of all ages who have re-authored trauma stories.

The Ontario Association of Social Workers (oasw.org) is the voice of the social work profession in Ontario. It is a voluntary, bilingual, non-profit association representing 9,500+ social workers. OASW works to actively speak on behalf of social workers on issues of interest to the profession and advocates for the improvement of social policies and programs directly affecting social work practice and client groups served. OASW also offers high-quality, free or low-cost professional development opportunities to social workers and other health and mental health care providers through our OASW Learning Centre (olc.oasw.org).