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Can a young person's mischief make trouble for a problem?

The query is for "former" children who have become therapists and the young people who they are seeing. Everyone concerned with the therapy passes through the looking glass, with the young person in the lead, into a new place akin to what author Joyce Carol Oats callls the "counter-world" of the creative writer. The spirit of the idea is also found in the work of Latin American novelist Carlos Fuentes, who writes "We were as children, singular magicians. As adults we will be herd animals."

Participants will also be introduced to Epstonian inventions such is "The Grwoing Up Fairy", a sibling of the The Tooth Fairy and will see how such ideas are being used with Horses4Hope in Australia, a project closely following Monty Roberts' "Horse Sense" and much more.

This two day workshop will draw from an innovative investigation David Epston is undertaking with David Marsten of Pepperdine University and Lisa Johnson from the The Dulwich Centre International Training Program. This approach asks: "Can a young person's mischief make trouble for a problem?"

David Epston was one of the originators, along with Michael White, of what has come to be known as 'Narrative Therapy'. He attended the Universities of Auckland, Edinburgh, British Columbia and Warwick. Currently, he is co-director of the Family Therapy Centre in Auckland, New Zealand and Visiting Professor, School of Human Sciences and Community Studies, UNITEC Institute of Technology, Auckland. He was awarded a D.Lit (1996) by the Graduate School of Professional Psychology, John F. Kennedy University, Orinda, California and the Special Award for Distinguished Contributions to Family Therapy from the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy. He has published widely and is perhaps best known for White and Epston (1990), Narrative Means to Therapeutic Ends, WWNorton, New York which has been translated into 10 languages; Freeman, Epston and Lobovits (1997), Playful Approaches to Serious Problems: Narrative Therapy with Children and Their Families, WWNorton, New York; and recently, Maisel, Epston and Borden (2004), Biting the Hand that Starves You: Inspiring Resistance to Anorexia/Bulimia, WWNorton, New York. He has also made a number of training video-tapes with www.masterworks.com and co-produces the website- www.narrativeapproaches.com. with Dean Lobovits and Jennifer Freeman. His teaching style is reputed to be engaging, creative and always surprising.
This workshop is sponsored by www.narrativeapproaches.com. This may be the only time this workshop is offered in the Bay Area in 2008.

Suzanne Pregerson is the administrator of this workshop.

BBSE Credit hours: 12

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Over 4 days and evenings (Wednesday- Saturday) we are planning a smorgasbord of skills-based narrative therapy practice sessions. A range of international presenters will join Dulwich Centre Faculty members in creating a context for the exploration and practice of therapeutic skills. Each day will begin with a practice-based keynote before participants select whole day practice seminars on a range of different themes. Throughout the day there will also be opportunities for practitioners to consult faculty members for individual and group supervision sessions; to meet with publishers and writers over ways of representing their work in a written form; and to watch and reflect with others on videotapes of therapy sessions by a range of respected narrative therapists. In the evenings, apart from gathering over South Australian wines and revelling in the summer atmosphere, we will also be arranging evening talks on broader themes which are nonetheless related to narrative practice, practice, practice! We are really looking forward to this summer school and a chance to have Dulwich Centre filled with practitioners dedicated to talking about the nitty-gritty of therapeutic practice and ways of further developing skills. Inquire or Register

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