5-day CERTIFICATE Training Program
Guest User
Brief Narrative Therapy
Jim Duvall
(Zoom Event )
This training will facilitate the exploration of brief narrative practices through clear presentations, digitally recorded examples of narrative therapy sessions, experiential exercises, a comprehensive handout package, and a bibliography. There will be a particular emphasis on (practice-practice-practice) micro-skill development and ways of immediately taking this work into your personal style and "real world" practice wisdom.
This training program will be of interest to counselors, therapists, community workers, psychologists, social workers, nurses, teachers, consultants, and anyone seeking to work collaboratively with people toward preferred change.
The training will emphasize the following ideas:
The social justice worldview supports time-sensitive narrative practices.
The cultural context of those problems that people bring to therapy.
The cultural context of therapy itself.
Posture with and accountability to those people seeking consultation.
The non-neutrality of all therapeutic conversations.
Master narratives and the politics of everyday life.
Externalizing conversations: the person is not the problem; the problem is the problem.
Re-membering conversations: reconsidering the memberships of our lives.
Understanding storied therapy as a Three-Act Play.
Loitering with intent and listening for subordinate storylines.
Creating questions that generate meaning.
DATES: Five Saturdays October to December 2021.
TIMES: 9:00 am – 4:00pm (CST)
Jim Duvall M.Ed. is Co-Director of JST Institute and Editor of Journal of Systemic Therapies. His experience as a therapist, consultant, speaker, editor, and author spans over four decades. He has spent over 300 hours studying and collaborating with Michael White in training, writing, and community projects.
Jim is internationally recognized for his practice, research, and innovative development in brief and narrative practices. His work aims to integrate time-sensitive narrative practices within social justice principles.
In addition to numerous articles, book chapters, and two books, Jim co-authored a policy paper (Duvall, J., Young, K., Kays-Burden, A., 2012), No more, no less; Brief mental health services for children and youth. His book (Duvall & Béres, 2011), Innovations in Narrative Therapy: Connecting Practice, Training, and Research. WW Norton & Company is the first book to integrate training and research with narrative therapy, resulting in compelling practice base evidence. The book he co-edited with Marie-Nathalie Beaudoin addresses the intersection of collaborative therapies and neurobiology.
He has provided hundreds of workshops, courses, and keynote presentations with organizations throughout Canada, the US, Australia, Asia, and Europe and is noted for his interactive teaching style. When Jim is not writing or teaching, he can be found playing music with his friends or boating on the Gulf of Mexico with his partner, children, grandchildren, and dog, Banjo.