Mapping Narrative Conversations
Guest User
Mapping Narrative Conversations:
Journeys Toward Preferred Identities
Jim Duvall
November 19 & 20, 2021
1:00pm – 4:30pm (CDT)
Narrative conversations are like skeleton keys that open doors to multiple worlds of experience. They inspire people to break free from taken-for-granted beliefs and embark on journeys toward what is possible to know and do about their lives. Nevertheless, the skills for facilitating a collaborative and generative narrative conversation can remain elusive even to most veteran practitioners. What is different about an inspiring, liberating conversation that opens up space for possibility, hope, and movement from a discouraging, impoverishing conversation that closes down space for possibility, hope, and movement? What questions are invitational and contribute to inspiration and action? What is the role of language? What are the elements of a conversation that elicits peoples; subordinated storylines? We will explore these questions, conversations, and more in this interactive training experience. Clear presentation, digitally recorded narrative therapy session examples, a comprehensive handout package and experiential practice exercises will create a rich training experience. There will be a particular emphasis on skill-building through practice, practice, and more practice.
Participants will:
Explore the elements of conversations that invite people into rapid and deep engagement.
Become familiar with questions that invite people to reconnect with their strongly held values.
Explore storied therapy as a 3-act play metaphor for scaffolding journey development.
Examine conversations that build on peoples local knowledge
Explore how stories contribute to the meaning of understanding and living life.
Explore clear ways of immediately taking this work into your practice wisdom.
Develop ways to map the influence of the problem in people; lives and relationships.
Explore intentional versus internal states of being.
Develop skills that facilitate respectful and meaningful conversations with people.
This workshop is of strong interest to social workers, counselors, therapists, psychologists, nurses, school personnel, consultants, and anyone wishing to increase their skills in facilitating energizing, competency-oriented conversations.