This series lays the foundation for all other courses. 1)Honoring Our Legacy started in 2011 as a joint collaborative project between The Taos Institute and Reauthoring Teaching highlights specific contributions, in text and recordings, by five cherished family therapist mentors: Gianfranco Cecchin, Harry Goolishian, Tom Andersen, Lynn Hoffman and Michael White. Together we share the belief that the best tribute we can give our mentors is to gather evidence that their ideas and practices have gained lives of their own even for people who never knew them; 2) Narrative Therapy: Foundations and Key Concepts offers six lessons introducing the philosophical foundations and key concepts guiding narrative therapy in work with individuals, families, groups, communities and organizations.
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Honoring the Legacy: Remembering the Influence of Five Family Therapy Mentors
Honoring Our Legacy started in 2011 as a joint collaborative project between The Taos Institute and Reauthoring Teaching. We believe the best tribute we can give our mentors is to gather evidence that their ideas and practices have gained lives of their own even for people who never knew them. We will highlight specific contributions, in text and recordings, by five cherished family therapist mentors: Gianfranco Cecchin, Harry Goolishian, Tom Andersen, Lynn Hoffman and Michael White.
Six Mini Courses
Gianfranco Cecchin, along with Boscolo, Prata and Selvini Palazzoli, were the originators of the Milan Systemic School of Family Therapy: His writings and presentations helped clarify concepts such as hypothesizing, circular questioning, positive connotation, and crafting interventions. He is best known for his curiosity and irreverence, and a deep-seated prejudice against prejudice.
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Harry Goolishian – along with Harlene Anderson – is known for developing the “collaborative language systems” approach to collaborative therapies. Their interest in language and the principle of not-knowing provide a challenging voice in the human services fields.
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Remembering Tom Andersen
Tom Andersen was Professor of Social Psychiatry at the Institute of Community Medicine, University of Tromso, Norway, and was the initiator of Reflective Processes in therapeutic practices. He is the author of The Reflecting Team: Dialogues and Dialogues about Dialogues, 1991, and Death Talk: Conversations with Children and Families, 1997. Tom died in the spring of 2007.
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Remembering Lynn Hoffman
Whenever something important was going on in the development of family therapy, Lynn Hoffman was there — so she can tell the history of family therapy as seen from the inside over the past fifty years.Lynn’s thinking has also influenced the evolution of the field. Lynn was a scholar of Giles Deleuze, Whitman and Spinoza, Bahktin, Wittgenstein and Lyotard. Having worked with many of the masters in family therapy, she settled into the world of conversational/dialogic therapies with colleagues Harry Goolishian, Harlene Anderson and Tom Andersen while co-sparking with Michael White.
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Remembering Michael White
Michael White had a profound impact on many lives, and on the development of key concepts of narrative practice. His ideas, practices and presence live on in our lives and work. It is still hard to believe he is no longer here, and that we won’t suddenly hear that he will soon be presenting a workshop at a nearby town. From 1983- January 2008, Michael was the co-director of The Dulwich Centre, an independent centre in Adelaide, Australia involved in narrative therapy, community work, training, publishing, supporting practitioners in different parts of the world, and co-hosting international conferences. In 2008 he established a new centre that soon became, “Narrative Practices Adelaide.”
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Histories for the future: Interviewing practitioners and teachers across generations
We’ve interviewed a small group of educators, trainers, practitioners from across generations to reflect on how the legacies of these five family therapists might influence how they teach, practice and envision the future of narrative therapy.
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Narrative Therapy: Foundations & Key Concepts
Narrative Therapy: Foundations & Key Concepts
Registration for this self-paced course is open and ongoing!
Narrative Therapy: Foundations & Key Concepts (FKC) offers six lessons introducing the philosophical foundations and key concepts guiding narrative therapy in work with individuals, families, groups, communities and organizations. Live Webinars are available when a group of six or more register together. For an additional $20, registrants can earn 12 APA approved CE credits through Alliant International University. For course objectives, click here.