Training

Sustaining The Discoveries Made In Therapeutic Conversations: Letter Writing, Audio Reflection and Activities

Talk That Sings: Extending The Narrative Tradition

Vital Reflections For Managers: Finding Creative Solutions To Problems

Constructively Talking About 'Affairs'

Advancing Therapeutic Conversations

Vital Reflection: Developing Skills For Self And Peer Super-vision

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Many practitioners notice that the discoveries that people make in therapeutic conversations can begin to fade as soon as people leave the room. Consequently people can struggle to practice and experiment with these new ideas in their everyday life.

This workshop will assist practitioners to develop the skills to hold new discoveries by creating a practical narrative platform. There will be a particular focus on the following:

• Drawing conversation threads together in a comprehensive manner.
• Translating summaries into a textual form, such as letters or notes.
• Using resources other than text to hold and extend the discoveries made in therapeutic conversations.

In this workshop I will draw on examples from individual, couple and family work.

In the books, 'The Heart's Narrative' and 'Talk That Sings', I describe a therapeutic approach where practitioners participate with people to find those narrative threads that support agency and change. This approach draws our attention to the rich resource that is available when experiential and intellectual knowledge's are relationally positioned and reviewed.

Over this week participants will become familiar with the following:

• Making, finding and utilising people's experiential and intellectual resources within the therapeutic conversation.
• Developing skills to effectively research people's present-moment experience.
• Noticing and utilising change-making possibilities.
• Using the discoveries made to extend personal, couple and family narratives.
• Holding new discoveries in a narrative form, e.g. summarising and letters.
• Asking questions that invite participation in the discovery process.

Throughout this workshop I will draw on examples of individual, couple and family work. I will also demonstrate those practical skills that enable us to discover people's resources, strengths and abilities while also incorporating their struggles, disappointments and despair.

Prerequisite
Viewing the 3 DVDs Constructing Narratives To Make A Difference (3 tutorial DVDs with a detailed workbook) before attending the workshop.

Cost
Workshop........................................................$ 720.00 (GST incl.)
3 DVDs and workbook.....................................$ 110.00 (GST incl.)
normally $150 but with a 25% discount for workshop participants

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Vital Reflections For Managers: Finding Creative Solutions To Problems
28 & 29 May 2012	9.30am – 4.30pm	Cost $360.00 (GST incl.)

Everyone would agree with the premise, 'People are an organisation's greatest resource'. Yet in practice, this expensive resource is frequently squandered as managers and organisational leaders struggle to successfully resolve conflict, meet goals and utilise people's strengths.

Consequently I've developed a programme where participants learn a practical process to step back from a conflictual situation and discover new perspectives that are generative of creative solutions.

During the workshop you will be introduced to:

• The 'Vital Reflection' process.
• The practical skills of facilitation.
• The strategies that will assist you to effectively review and manage the relational environment.
• Ways to use the power deferential to facilitate effective decision-making processes.

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Constructively Talking About 'Affairs'
2 & 3 July 2012	9.30am – 4.30pm	Cost $360.00 (GST incl.)

This workshop will provide participants with strategies to assist people to acknowledge the hurt they've caused and feel whilst also taking up responsibility. I will demonstrate how we can use this acknowledgement to weave a new relationship fabric that incorporates the injury that occurs when one person has an affair.

During the workshop participants will practice the following:

• Assisting people to acknowledge the injury.
• Negotiating the movement of intentions to practices.
• Developing strategies to grieve for the losses whilst holding the possibility of hope for the relationship.
• Negotiating practical ways to move discoveries out of the therapy room.

The 'Advancing Therapeutic Conversations' workshop is orientated toward enhancing participants therapeutic skills. Consequently, people can and have attended this workshop many times with the intention of extending and developing particular therapeutic practices in a safe environment.

In this workshop participants will become familiar with the following:

• Discovering new narrative threads through an exploration of present-moment experience.
• Creating the experience of movement and thus change through the therapeutic conversation.
• Exposing the binary positions that trap people within pathologising narratives.
• Negotiating ethical positions with people (clients), eg, therapeutic relationship boundaries.
• Working with stuck places in the therapy.

The practical skills we need to conduct a resource-centred interview will be emphasised through the use of DVDs, transcripts and prismatic dialogue.

Prerequisite
Participants of this workshop will have previously attended an intensive with Johnella. Participants will also be familiar with the practices outlined in Constructing Narratives To Make A Difference (three tutorial DVDs with a detailed workbook).

Cost
Workshop....................................................$ 720.00 (GST incl.)
3 DVDs and workbook...................................$ 110.00 (GST incl.)
normally $150 but with a 25% discount for workshop participants

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Vital Reflection: Developing Skills For Self And Peer Super-vision
(2 days) Date to be advised	9.30am – 4.30pm	Cost 360.00 (GST incl.)

Clinicians often comment that there is barely enough time in super-vision to overview the dilemmas, struggles and joys they've encountered in therapeutic work. Consequently the commonly uttered lament, 'I don't have enough time to reflect on my work,' attests to many lost opportunities to reflect on both, what's working and what's not.