narrative therapy

The STAIR model is a skills-focused approach designed to develop and strengthen emotion regulation, interpersonal skills while promoting resiliency. Participants will address how “loss” shows up in trauma survivors, and it will enhance skill building resources to provide “safety” for clients. With a Critical Race Theory lens, participants will further examine how prejudice and complex injustice further perpetuates trauma in the media, law, and access to resources of care and healing.

Substantial research supports the importance of one’s personal narrative in overcoming challenging experiences, including life transitions and trauma. This training is designed to deepen participants understanding of how journaling can support the psychotherapeutic process. Multiple therapeutic modalities, including narrative therapy and trauma-focused CBT (TF-CBT) use the personal narrative as part of psychotherapy.

Substantial research supports the importance of one’s personal narrative in overcoming challenging experiences, including life transitions and trauma. This training is designed to deepen participants understanding of how journaling can support the psychotherapeutic process. Multiple therapeutic modalities, including narrative therapy and trauma-focused CBT (TF-CBT) use the personal narrative as part of psychotherapy.

Narrative Therapy Approaches to Trauma: Elevating Agency, Resistance and Responses 

This full day workshop examines Narrative Therapy approaches that empower individuals to reclaim their lives from trauma stories by uncovering alternative narratives of hope, acts of resistance, skills in living and surviving and the many unacknowledged ways in which people respond to hardship.

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.

This 5-day training program offers participants the opportunity to deeply explore the many exciting ideas and practices that inform narrative therapy. Narrative therapy is an excellent fit with both longer-term therapy and with time-sensitive services as it assists in creating an immediately impactful and useful conversation. It brings a philosophy and practice that attends to social justice, is competency-focused and works with people in respectful, curious and collaborative ways.

Walk-in clinics and other forms of quick access to services have become a key part of the landscape of service delivery in Ontario as outlined in the policy paper, “No More, No Less: Brief Mental Health Services for Children and Youth" (Duvall, J., Young, K.,Kays-Burden, A.,2012). Narrative therapy ideas and practices provide therapists with ways of quickly engaging people in deeply meaningful and useful conversations.

How do the stories we have, shape our lives? How can we re-author them to improve well-being? Depression is well known for diminishing hope and obscuring preferred identity stories for persons of all ages. Narrative therapy is a collaborative and non-pathologizing approach to counselling and community work which centers people as the experts of their own lives. A narrative approach views the problem of depression as separate from the person and assumes people have many skills, abilities, values, commitments, beliefs and competencies.

There is a high prevalence of people of all ages experiencing depression and seeking out professional help. This workshop will highlight and explore the effectiveness of Narrative Therapy approaches to aid those with depressive thoughts, emotions and behaviours in elevating hopefulness.

Our FREE Lunch ‘n Learns are back! Get hours for your regulatory body and/or indirect hours if you are a student. Tmr. (Wednesday) we have a virtual 2-3 pm EDT on Narrative Approaches. Email juanna@dannyseto.ça for more information and to register.

Certificate in narrative therapy

Presented by SickKids CCMH Learning Institute