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May 19, 2019 Collab Salon: Narrative Walks

Chris Darmody ( Perth, Australia) will present Narrative Walks -a hope-based, depathologising outdoor program that was developed to engage with populations that may not be drawn to conventional methods of therapy. This structured day program encourages participants to explore 15 narrative therapy questions, and to engage in a number of other activities during a 20 kilometre walk through the bush. The program invites different perspectives on problem stories, and offers walking as a narrative metaphor. Chris will outline his own hopes for the future development of Narrative Walks as a program transferable to many people and lands.

Peggy Sax2020-01-01T08:50:36-05:00October 13th, 2018|Comments Off

June 16, 2019 Collab Salon: Different Species, Shared Stories

Daniel Angus will introduce us to PetSpace, The Headspace Primary Care and Youth Early Psychosis Program in Western Sydney, which has developed an innovative interspecies mental health program that offers a narrative informed therapy partnering with a variety of dogs, cats, horses and parrots as well as with humans. Young people registered in this program have learned how to support animals who are experiencing mental or physical health problems and in turn they learn about themselves by reflecting on their experience as an animal helper. Helping dogs experiencing anxiety or parrots who self harm have led to a variety of outcomes including the development of interspecies coping strategies, friendships among participants and reduced mental health symptoms for human helpers and animals. Working on a forthcoming book on interspecies communication, Jenny Freeman will respond to Dan's presentation as well as share a tale from her manuscript.

Peggy Sax2021-06-26T06:49:28-04:00October 13th, 2018|3 Comments

Delving into Difference Consultation Group 2019- 2020

This consultation group is for people who are interested in having perhaps difficult or uncomfortable conversations around difference with regards to race and privilege in the therapy room. Our hope is that this group will provide clinicians an opportunity to uncover possible blind spots and biases around differences and to work through situations or hiccups that we may have encountered in relationship to our clients and maybe our daily lives.

Peggy Sax2020-01-07T05:38:14-05:00July 8th, 2018|0 Comments

Working with Couples Consultation Group: 2019

This consultation group is for people who have taken- or are taking- Larry Zucker's online course: Escaping Blame: Helping Couples Develop Account-ability. We hope that this group will provide you an exciting opportunity to develop your narrative practice with couples in a small, safe and supportive context. We will divide the time up evenly so that everyone gets their share of the group’s support.

Peggy Sax2019-12-29T06:50:14-05:00June 24th, 2018|0 Comments

The Em-BODY-ing Conversations Training Group

The Em-BODY-ing Conversations Training Group is for practitioners interested in exploring an affective-discursive approach to clinical work that integrates EMDR Therapy and somatic-oriented practices with Narrative Therapy both philosophically and practically. Meeting monthly through Zoom, this training is appropriate for mental health workers who have some familiarity with one or more of the following modalities: Narrative Therapy, EMDR Therapy, Interpersonal Neurobiology, Somatic Therapies and are curious about moving toward integrative work.

Peggy Sax2019-12-29T06:57:59-05:00June 24th, 2018|0 Comments

The Em-BODY-ing Conversations Consultation Group

The EM-BODY-ing Conversations Consultation Group is limited to 12 mental health workers or educators who have had experience with either EMDR or Somatic-Oriented Therapies in addition to a Narrative Therapy approach. Some registrants will have participated in the 2017 Em-BODY-ing Conversations Consultation Group. Experienced practitioners can sign up for this consultation group while concurrently taking the Em-BODY-ing Conversations Training Group. The focus is on an affective-discursive approach to clinical work that integrates EMDR Therapy and somatic-oriented practices with a Narrative Therapy both philosophically and practically.

Peggy Sax2020-02-14T04:17:47-05:00June 24th, 2018|0 Comments

A Narrative Approach to Therapeutic Conversations at the End of Life

Thank you to all who participated in Sasha Pilkington's workshop! What a terrific gathering! On November 21, 2018 Collab Salon, Sasha will present on Virtue Inquires. Please join us! You do not need to be a Collab Member to register for- and participate in - this Salon. We hope that you will decide to Become a Member (among other benefits, members have 24/7 access to our Library of Past Salons.)

Peggy Sax2024-10-11T01:02:05-04:00May 13th, 2018|0 Comments

April 29, 2018: Reflecting on the San Diego Narrative Gathering

Reauthoring Teaching is offering a Special live online Collab Salon to reflect on and share resonances from our San Diego Narrative Gathering. ALL are welcome to this free narrative community conversation, Sunday, April 29, 2pm (PT), 5pm (ET). We're eager to hear where our conversations will be taking us! Anyone can sign up (not just members)- just be sure to register. Space is limited.

Peggy Sax2019-12-29T07:00:56-05:00April 2nd, 2018|Comments Off

CE Credit: Building on the Legacy of Michael White

15 CE Credits from Alliant International University APPROVED! Participants can earn 15 CEs for Building on the Legacy of Michael White: A decade of narrative developments March 28-30, 2018 in Coronado, CA (San Diego Bay) Please note: In order to receive the CE certificate, participants must: Pay $20 Sign in and sign out each day Fill out the evaluation at the end of the workshop Alliant International University Continuing Education is co-sponsored by the Association [...]

Peggy Sax2018-03-13T19:46:09-04:00March 10th, 2018|0 Comments

September 2018 Collab Salon: Depression: biological, psychological, or a social construct?

Have Post Modern ideas failed effective work in partnering with our clients around the role severe depression plays in people’s lives? It is Amy Gottlieb's contention it has. As someone with 43 years of lived experience with depression coming and going as an unwanted companion, she has been offered many well meaning yet unhelpful ideas from post modern practitioners. In this salon Amy endeavored to generate thought about how holding a rigid post modern stance (in the name of not being rigid) may not serve our clients as they come to us for help to get distance from depression robbing them of joy.

Peggy Sax2019-12-29T07:09:57-05:00February 1st, 2018|Comments Off

December 2018 Collab Salon: Fields of kindness: An antidote to tyrannical devaluing

Somatic therapies and a resurgence of interest in affect are two significant trends in recent times. These movements invite narrative-oriented practitioners to pause and unpack what claims are being made and their implications. In exploring challenges and possibilities, we considered the dialogical features, affective tones, emotional depictions and embodied expressions of re-membering practices. The December 2018 Collab focused on a notion of relational fields in instituting new forms of everyday living, especially giving attention to expanding relational fields of kindness when tyrannical and devaluing voices seek to usurp a person’s voice and erase their knowing about their achievements.

Peggy Sax2019-12-29T07:03:24-05:00January 31st, 2018|Comments Off

November 18, 2018 Collab Salon: Virtue Inquiries at the End of Life

Sasha Pilkington shares a practice she calls “virtue inquiry” that guides her approach to end-of-life conversations. She listens for and elicits the virtues that are valued by the people with whom she’s meeting. Virtue inquires draw on ideas and practices developed by David Epston including “getting to know the person ahead of the problem”, “researching moral character” and “wonderfulness inquiries” with children. They also build from a paper by Eve Lipchik (1988) called “Interviewing with a constructive ear” that had an influence on Sasha's early practice. Virtue inquiries take place with adults or young adults and so flow differently from “wonderfulness inquiries” (see chapter 2 in Marsten, Epston & Markham, 2016).

Peggy Sax2023-04-15T16:54:07-04:00January 24th, 2018|2 Comments

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