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The Institute for Narrative Therapy and Community Work in Greece, in the context of its social response in a difficult period for each of us personally and also for our society, decided to organize a series of interactive online workshops, lectures, and discussions under the title “Narrative Walks”.
Narrative Walks will try to focus mainly on hot topics that can be addressed through the perspective of a narrative approach in the field of psychotherapy, community practice, organizations, and social responsibility.
We start with the idea that Narrative Walks are short in duration (usually half a day), host excellent professionals in their field from all over the world, are offered regularly with an affordable financial contribution, and will inspire, challenge, and create a field of constructive discussion and learning.
In the context of INT’s Narrative Walks
An online workshop
Our multi-storied body
Coming back “home”
with
Poh Lin Lee
a Chinese Malaysian Australian social worker, narrative therapist, co-researcher of trauma, writer, teacher, film protagonist, and creative consultant
and
Yannis Angelis
A Greek organizational storytelling practitioner, narrative therapist, “Warm Data” host, and narrative artist
Saturday 18th of June
17:00-20:00 (GMT+3 – Athens, Greece time)
on ZOOM
Join us for a narrative walk towards our multi-storied bodies. That’s right, we are not going walking ‘out there’ but rather slowly walking towards our bodies to invite the community of our bodies to express their polyvocal experience – at least the ones that choose to participate in this particular gathering, at this particular time.
Poh and Yannis will guide you on a deeply rewarding journey starting by unscripting ourselves and moving out of the idea of our body as a single entity, by taking up a position with our bodies as multi-storied and experientially co-researching what may emerge through this nuanced, playful and political practice. It is a gentle invitation to slow down and untangle the multiple simultaneous exchanges taking place between the members of our body finding language to articulate stories in a spirit of inclusivity and spaciousness for all voices to be welcomed in conversation.
When we grant full personhood status to the different members of our bodies we have the chance to experience what meaningful participation and democratic process can be within our multistoried bodies – when/why we have consensus and how we might both understand and respond in those times and experiences when consensus is not granted.
Bios
Poh is a Chinese Malaysian Australian social worker who brings together a thoughtful and intricate practice based on her experience and knowledge as a narrative therapist, co-researcher of trauma, writer, teacher, film protagonist, and creative consultant. Poh has been engaged in therapeutic co-research with people and communities responding to themes of experience such as family and state violence, displacement (from rights, land, home, body, identity, relationships), liminality, and reclaiming practices of preference and capability. Poh Lin worked alongside people seeking asylum through the film project with Gabrielle Brady, Island of the Hungry Ghosts (2018). Poh Lin works alongside people engaged in creative practices, processes and projects weaving and designing narrative-informed consultations and workshops to make visible possibilities in ethics, authorship, collaborative practice, audience/witness engagement, and socio-political action. Poh is a teacher for the International teaching faculty of Dulwich Centre, an honorary clinical fellow of the school of social work, University of Melbourne, and a member of the International Advisory Committee of the Latin American Journal of Clinical Social Work.
Yannis is a Greek organizational storytelling practitioner, narrative therapist, “Warm Data” host, and narrative artist. His background lies in Narrative Therapy and Gestalt Organizational Development. His work is also informed by the principles of Theory U, Warm Data, and the Art of Hosting practice.
Yannis Angelis is the co-author of “Transforming Organizations” and “Beyond Storytelling”, two books that elaborate on how to work with story-based approaches for community building and organizational change & transformation. He is a Scientific Coordinator at the Narrative Therapy and Community Practice Institute in Greece. He is a lifelong student of Nora Bateson’s philosophy of life and a certified Warm Data Host by the International Bateson Institute. He has co-founded “Beyond Storytelling”, a global network of Story Practitioners who work with the narrative approach as a transformational catalyst for leadership, learning, change, communication, and community building.
Yannis, as a narrative artist, is currently experimenting with designing web-based interactive therapeutic spaces using “maps” from narrative therapy. Yannis also, along with Tom Garcia, a shaman from Colorado, and Mary Alice Arthur, a narrative activist, are experimenting with combining narrative practices, the circle way, and fire ceremonies in a virtual environment.
Registration info:
For the students of the Institute: 20€
For participants from all over the world: 45€
For all participants after the 12th of June: 60€
Methods of payment:
- You can pay via PayPal using the email narrativetherapygr@gmail.com or
- you can deposit the respective registration fee to:
IBAN GR54 0172 2280 0052 2806 9522 814
BIC/SWIFT code: PIRBGRAAXXX Piraeus Bank, Greece.
Owner of the bank account: Institute for Narrative Therapy Greece
After registering, please send an email to narrativetherapygr@gmail.com with:
- a screenshot of the confirmation of your payment
- your full name, place of residence, and optionally a phone number just in case of urgent communication.
Your place is reserved once you have paid. After receiving your e-mail we will reply to confirm your attendance at the online workshop.
You will get the ZOOM link the day before the workshop takes place.
A Certificate of Attendance will be issued for all participants.
