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Therapy Summer School 2010
Co-creating Liberating Conversations
Working with systemic, narrative and appreciative practices
Transforming peoples problems and pathologies to hope, possibilities and growth
Engaging with families, couples and individuals
Sunday 4th July to Saturday 10th July 2010
Working together with visiting therapists and practitioners to develop our skills and abilities in
Narrative Conversations
Creating freedom for people to be able to live full lives.
MONDAY
Dr William Madsen
Sustaining Collaborative Practice in the "Real World"
Many professionals committed to strengths-based collaborative practice face challenges pursuing these ideas in more traditional contexts. This workshop examines the effects of taken-for-granted professional assumptions, organizational practices, and funding mandates on our work. Drawing on ideas from Appreciative Inquiry, Narrative Therapy, and Dialogical Approaches, we'll envision a helping practice based in an ethic of possibilities, collaboration, and accountability; and develop sustainable practices to ground our work in preferred values and principles. This workshop highlights ways to use bureaucratic requirements (clinical forms, progress notes, case presentations, etc.) to support preferred helping practices, examines ways to invite colleagues into critical reflection and dialogue about these challenges, and generates strategies to reclaim our work and live into the values and commitments that brought us into the field.
William Madsen, Ph.D. is the founder and director of the Family-Centered Services Project.
Dr Bill Lax
Narratives of Liberation
Narrative ideas and practices support the reclamation and development of preferred stories in people’s lives. These are often experienced as "narratives of liberation" from problems, enabling us to step away from oppressive ideas, practices and contexts and engage in descriptions and actions and that are more consistent with our values and how we wish to live our lives.
Buddhism also supports ideas of liberation and provides a model for examining one’s life and engaging in the world, moment by moment. While aspects of Buddhism, most particularly mindfulness, have been incorporated into a wide range of psychotherapy practices, there are a number of other Buddhist concepts and practices that can be also be useful in psychotherapy, both for therapists and clients. Through discussion and exercises, we will examine some of the foundational tenets and practices of Buddhism and how they may be utilized in the development of preferred and liberating ways of being.
During his career, Bill has integrated his interests in family therapy, postmodernism and Buddhism with his practice of clinical psychology, and he has published and presented widely in these areas. His interests also include expanding the use of web-based technologies in the training and education of healthcare professionals.
Bill is the dean of graduate psychology programs at Union Institute & University and directs its Psy.D. program in clinical psychology. He was a co-founder of the Brattleboro Family Institute and is a licensed psychologist with a private practice. He has been a meditator and student in the Theravada Buddhist tradition since the 1970’s.
WEDNESDAY and THURSDAY
Monica McGoldrick and Kenneth V. Hardy
Day one: Genograms
Day two: Supervision of clinical cases
DAY ONE- MORNING
Monica will share with participants the theory of genograms and how to do genograms using yourselves as examples. She will br using miniatures to do family play genograms
DAY ONE- AFTERNOON
Kenneth will present on Cultural Genograms He will help the group focus in on cultural issues on genograms using the article co-written with Tracey Laszloffy on Cultural Genograms.
DAY TWO- MORNING
Monica McGoldrick will explore Therapists Own Family- giving an overview of the orientation to working out therapist's own issues.
Kenneth Hardy works with Self of the Therapist- giving overview of working on issues of the self of the therapist
DAY TWO- AFTERNOON
Kenneth and Monica will be working specifically with the group on clinical work and supervision of cases. They will show how culture, family, and history are connected to clinical practice and the interface between the therapist and the clients. They will be aiming to emphasise issues that come into play in supervision and leave you with a better handle on how genograms and the sense of who they are get worked on as they evolve.
Kenneth V. Hardy, Ph.D., is a Professor of Family Therapy at Drexel University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Director of the Eikenberg Institute for Relationships in New Yor k.
Monica McGoldrick, M.A., LCSW, Ph.D. (h.c.), Director of the Multicultural Family Institute in Highland Park, NJ.
FRIDAY/ SATURDAY
Dr Catherine Butler
Queer eye for the straight therapist
This workshop will explore the impact on operating within the assumption that there are prescribed ways to live and have relationships. These ideas reflect current socio-cultural perceptions of morality and normality, while they fail to capture the realities of a large percentage of the population. Together we will explore alternative discourses, including learning from lesbian, gay and bisexual lifestyles and queer theory. By the end of the workshop, participants will have developed a self-reflective position on heteronormality and have developed a further understanding of alternative discourses that can be introduced to work with heterosexual or sexual minority clients. The workshop will have a large experiential component, while also drawing on examples of client work with individuals and couples.
Catherine works as a Consultant Clinical Psychologist and systemic psychotherapist in the Infection & Immunology Department at Barts & the London Trust.
John Burnham is a systemic psychotherapist working in the independent and public sectors. His practice includes therapy, supervision, training, consultation and writing.
His main clinical work is with children, young people and families at Parkview Clinic in Birmingham where he is employed as a Consultant Systemic and Family Psychotherapist and Director of the Systemic Training Programme. John has 30 years of experience working with families, couples and individuals. He is a Trainer and formerly Director of Training at the KCC Foundation in London.
As well as training in the UK he teaches in a variety of contexts including Scandinavia, Netherlands, USA, and South America.
He has published numerous articles on the systemic approach to therapy, consultation, training and supervision. He is sole author of the classic text ‘Family Therapy: First steps towards a systemic approach', published by Routledge (copies available from the KCC Foundation Bookshop, and editor of the Special Edition of Human Systems known as ‘Voices from the Training Context'. His model ‘Approach, Method and Technique is widely used in a variety of training contexts. Currently he writing a book on Systemic Supervision.
Elspeth McAdam is an experienced trainer, therapist and consultant. She has developed extensive use of methods of systemic therapy blended with appreciative inquiry. She uses these to work with innovative and novel approaches to transforming of sexual abuse and violence. She works with organisations, commercial enterprises, communities and schools and is much sought after as a therapist.
Dr David Nylund
Treating Huckleberry Finn: A Narrative Approach to Working with Kids Diagnosed ADD / ADHD
This workshop will challenge some of the traditional assumptions of Attention Deficit Disorder (ADHD) and offer participants a more holistic approach to working with children labeled ADHD. Participants will learn some of the ideas that David Nylund discussed in his book "Treating Huckleberry Finn" a book that offers alternative ideas that focus on kid’’s special abilities and talents. Through a combination of didactic presentation, videotape case examples and experiential exercises, this workshop will give therapists new tools for this complex problem.
David Nylund, PhD, MSW is an associate professor of social work at California State University, Sacramento and a clinical supervisor at La Familia Counseling Services, River Rock Counseling, and the Sacramento Gay & Lesbian Center.
Jim Wilson
Jim is a UKCP registered systemic psychotherapist. He is currently Consultant Systemic Psychotherapist with Foster Care Associates, Consultant Family Therapist with the National Health Service in Gwent South Wales ( sessionally), and Co-Director of Partners for Collaborative Solutions an international training and consultation organisation.He is former Director of the Centre for Child Focused Practice at the Institute of Family Therapy London.
His publications include; Child Focused Practice, A Collaborative Systemic Approach ( Karnac 1998) and The Performance of Practice: Enhancing the Repertoire of Therapy with Children and Families (Karnac 2007).
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Conference dates
Sunday 4th July to Saturday 10th July 2010
Course fees
£400 for attendance on the whole course
Day Delegates
£85.00
Venue
Central London venue, to be confirmed
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