Narrative Therapy: a Study and Practice Group
A Short Course, two Tuesday evenings per month, 6 to 8 pm with 16 CEU’s
Instructor: Corky Becker, Ph.D.
Dates: January 10 and 24, February 14 and 28; March 13 and 27, April 10 and 24; May 8 and 22 are scheduled if needed to make up for snow days.
Cost: Groups of two or more $400; regular registration rate $450 (see below for details)
Location: 51 Kondazian Street, Watertown, MA 02472
Join us as we develop and integrate Narrative therapy skills with individuals, couples and families. Exercises that embody new skills will provide everyone with an active and lively way to learn together. We’ll practice ways to be deeply empathic while empowering clients to separate themselves from their problems, actively noticing experiences of solutions, strengths, resources and resilience. Bring your case material for consultation!
Narrative therapy empowers clients to separate themselves from their problems so they can look at their responses to problems. It promotes a way for therapists to be with people that is both deeply empathic while actively noticing the client’s experiences of solutions, strengths, resources and resilience. The intent of the course will be to develop and integrate Narrative therapy skills with therapists’ existing work with individuals, couples and families.
Perhaps the most interesting and unique thing about Narrative therapy is the way it focuses on identity stories. Who we are is not just a reflection of what we feel and do, but also is reflected by our intentions, values and commitments to what, how and who we hope to be. This is the basis for the pivotal shift in narrative therapy. Narrative therapy is co-authored by the therapist and the client with a goal of finding a story that is grounded in real life experience and supports the life that the client prefers.
We will read about and practice: externalizing the problem, naming, recognizing unique outcomes and sparkling moments, co-authoring a rich preferred story, remembering, outsider witnessing, the absent but implicit.
Course will be limited to 8 people. Save your place now!
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Corky Becker is a clinical psychologist, family and couple therapist, family therapy supervisor, teacher/trainer and consultant. She is a board member of the American Family Therapy Academy and is Program Chair for the 2010 AFTA Meeting. She was on the faculty of the Family Institute of Cambridge for 25 years, where she co-directed the Intensive Program in Family Systems Therapy, and taught courses in Narrative and Couple Therapy. She has also taught at the Narrative Conferences in Australia, Chicago and Atlanta. She is a Founding Associate of the Public Conversations Project which is committed to helping people enter into dialogue about polarizing issues related to values, identity and world views; she is a trainer and dialogue facilitator, a consultant to the Project on Negotiation at the Harvard Law School, was a member of the Kosova Family Professional Education Collaborative, which developed a family systems, resource based, wrap around approach to mental health in post war Kosova, and engaged with a project focused on community resilience oriented responses to mental health post disaster. Her private practice focus is couple and family therapy. Corky is a well respected teacher whose style is to be warm and engaging, while demonstrating high quality clinical work.
NARRATIVE STUDY & PRACTICE GROUP INFORMATION AND POLICIES
Fees: Regular Registration rate is $400 for the course, with an additional $50 application fee/deposit.
Group Registration rates: We encourage you attend with your friends/ colleagues! The application fee/deposit will be waived if you register with someone else. Please mail registration forms together or indicate the person with whom you are attending on the downloaded form.
Register and pay online or mail checks made out to Liz Brenner
and send with completed registration form to:
Liz Brenner, 51 Kondazian Street, Watertown, MA 02472
Participants MUST attend 100% of the program to earn the 16 CEUs available. CEU certificates will be given at the end of the last class after fees are fully paid and the workshop evaluation form is complete.
Enrollment will be limited. Please call or email if you are registering within three weeks prior to start date to make sure there is still room to attend. Online registration automatically closes when the course is full.
No refunds are available unless a written request is received 21 days before the program starts. A $50 administrative fee will be deducted.
Email acknowledgments will be sent to confirm receipt of registration.
If you require special accommodations, please submit a written statement at least 30 days prior to the program.
Courses may be cancelled if minimum enrollment requirements are not met. In this case, full fees will be refunded or applied to future programs.
Weather cancellations are consistent with the decision of the Watertown, MA school system. If Watertown is cancelled or delayed, the class will be cancelled for that morning. Missed days due to weather will be rescheduled.
Grievance policy: submit a written complaint if instructor(s) do not resolve the issue. If the complaint cannot be resolved by Liz Brenner, she will consult with another faculty member for a second opinion.