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Online workshop: Photography and Narrative Therapy with Poh Lin Lee & Grace Gelder

        Narrative Walks

 

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

 

Interactive Online workshop

on

 

Photography and Narrative Therapy 

 

with

Poh Lin Lee

a Malaysian Chinese Australian social worker, narrative therapist, co-researcher of trauma, writer, teacher, film protagonist and creative consultant

and

Grace Gelder

a photographer, arts educator and PhD candidate based in the UK.

 

 

Saturday 24th of April 2021, 

16:00 PM TO 20:00 PM

(Athens Greece Time)

 

Organized by:

the Institute of Narrative Therapy & Community Work – Greece

 

For information: www.narrativetherapy.gr,

6977-186936, 6955-103581, narrativetherapygr@gmail.com

 

FEES (via web)

– Until Wednesday 21st of April: 45€ 

– After Wednesday 21st of April: 65€   

For information about the payment method check below (C2)

 

WEB CONNECTION:
The event will be held via ZOOM. Look at the instructions below (C3). Connection link will be given to you the day before the online workshop.

 

See below:

  1. INFORMATION ABOUT THE ONLINE INTERACTIVE WORKSHOP
  2. INFORMATION ABOUT THE TRAINERS
  3. ORGANIZATIONAL INFORMATION
    1. Time
    2. Fees
    3. How to connect for the seminar- workshop
    4. Certification

 

Α. INFORMATION ABOUT THE ONLINE WORKSHOP – EVENT

 

This workshop offers a personal exploration of three themes circling us both at the beginning of the year and in the global context of crisis and chaos. Narrative questions to invite us to articulate moments in our current lives and photography to transform experience into imagery from our living rooms, bedrooms, kitchens – shared or alone.

 

We will invite you (as a group) to witness people’s sharing in story and discussion (no images will be shared during the workshop) to appreciate and attend to diverse experiences spanning: culture, language, legacy, place, age, unique current circumstances. You will have time in the workshop to complete different creative invitations under the guidance and support of the facilitators. At the conclusion of the workshop people’s preferred personal photographs and significant stories/expressions will be formed into a collective document and sent to all workshop participants.

 

This workshop is not based on experience, expertise or ability. In the spirit of inclusivity all of you (including the many hats you wear) is invited to show up and participate.

 

What you need to bring:

Paper

Something to write/draw with

Camera or phone with camera

 

Furthermore,  during the workshop the participants will be invited to take photos. It is the participant’s responsibility to select images that they feel comfortable to be shared with facilitators, participants and the Institute of Narrative Therapy and Community practice, who may share at their discretion with the wider public. The facilitators will put all images submitted (with the participant’s preferred name clearly marked) into a collective sketches document.

The intention of the shared document is to visually map the workshop journey, offer a space for people’s images to be witnessed and the chance to witness the work produced in this collective space.

In order to participate in this please, sign the following document, attach and send it to narrativetherapygr@gmail.com.

Consent for Collective Photo Sketches Document

 

What people say…

“Thank you for last night’s workshop. I can’t believe how thought provoking and gently, deeply authentic the whole process is. You hold the space with such poise and humanity and it’s seriously the loveliest zoom experience I have had this whole pandemic.”

“I really enjoyed the experience of thinking and feeling with other media than words.”

“Got some fresh creative juices going for me. Encouraged me to pick up my camera for short bursts without it needing to be too cerebral with what the outcome is. Short burst exercises are quite liberating to be able to do small projects that take five minutes! Thank you!”

 

Β. INFORMATION ABOUT THE TRAINERS

 

Poh Lin Lee

Poh is a Malaysian Chinese 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.

www.narrativeimaginings.com

 

Grace Gelder

Grace is a photographer, arts educator and PhD candidate based in the UK. Her personal work explores themes that include heritage, hidden stories and performativity. Her facilitation work explores the use of photography in an arts and health context, often blending photography with other disciplines. Grace’s practice continually seeks to redefine the relational space between herself as photographer and those who are in front of the camera highlighting the ways in which process influences and shapes not only the images produced but people’s personal authorship and relation to their image.

www.gracegelder.com

 

C. ORGANIZATIONAL INFORMATION

 

c1. Time 

Saturday 24th of April 2021,

16:00 PM TO 20:00 PM ATHENS GREECE TIME

 

c2. Fees

– Until Wednesday 21st of April: 45€ 

– After Wednesday 21st of April: 65€   

Please deposit the respective registration fee to the IBAN GR54 0172 2280 0052 2806 9522 814 in Piraeus Bank (Greece)[Owner of the bank account is Institute for Narrative Therapy (Greece)]

Your place is reserved once you have paid.
After registering, please send an email to narrativetherapygr@gmail.com with:

  • a screenshot of the confirmation of your payment
  • your full name, profession, place of living, and a phone number just in case of urgent communication.

Once we receive your email we will reply confirming your attendance at the online workshop.

You can also pay via PayPal using the same email (narrativetherapygr@gmail.com)

 

c3. How to connect for the seminar- workshop

 

a)Please make sure that you have downloaded the latest version of zoom from here: https://zoom.us/download

b)Try to secure and join from a place where you have a good internet signal and sufficient bandwidth.

c)Use a laptop or computer if you can, because there are some features that do not work well or not at all if you are using an i-pad or your smartphone.

d)Check in your computer that the camera, microphone, and connected or integrated speakers are working well and test all of them in advance as they are necessary for the interactivity that we are inviting during the workshop.

e)Ensure you have good light conditions in the room from which you will connect, and you may want to avoid having a window behind you. Headphones could help prevent background noise.

You are invited to join 15 minutes prior to the official start of the meeting so that we make sure that everything works well technically.

Plan to come having cared for your needs. Bring something to drink or eat if you like. Close all programs/apps/windows on your PC/laptop, including your browser. It’s very useful to turn off notifications, alarms, cell phone ringers, and any other distractions. This is our precious time to be online together, to connect, share, listen to each other, and learn from and with each other.

You will get the ZOOM link the day before the workshop takes place.

 

c4. Certification

All participants will be given a CERTIFICATE.

 

 

 

 

 

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Online workshop: Introduction to re-authoring diversity and inclusion with Chené Swart & Lungi Molamu 

Narrative Walks

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

 

Interactive Online workshop

on

 

Introduction to re-authoring diversity and inclusion

 

 

with

Chené Swart 

a Narrative Therapist from South Africa,

author of the book “Re-Authoring the World”

and

Lungi Molamu 

an Organisational Development Consultant from South Africa,

that has worked for over twenty years in the area of Diversity and Inclusion

 

 

Saturday 6th March 2021, 

15:00 PM TO 19:00 PM

(SAST / Greece Time)

 

 

Organized by:

the Institute of Narrative Therapy & Community Work – Greece

 

For information: www.narrativetherapy.gr,

6977-186936, 6955-103581, narrativetherapygr@gmail.com

 

FEES (via web)

– Until Wednesday 3rd of March: 45€ 

– After Wednesday 3rd of March: 65€   

For information about the payment method check below (C2)

 

WEB CONNECTION:
The event will be held via ZOOM. Look at the instructions below (C3). Connection link will be given to you the day before the online workshop.

 

See below:

  1. INFORMATION ABOUT THE ONLINE INTERACTIVE WORKSHOP
  2. INFORMATION ABOUT THE TRAINERS
  3. ORGANIZATIONAL INFORMATION
    1. Time
    2. Fees
    3. How to connect for the seminar- workshop
    4. Certification

 

Α. INFORMATION ABOUT THE ONLINE WORKSHOP – EVENT

 

In this 4-hour introductory virtual workshop with Chené Swart and Lungi Molamu, we will focus on the re-authoring ideas and practices, that can help us have conversations about the positive and negative sides of our cultural identities, as they play into our relatedness with the “other” and sometimes with the “othering”.  These ideas and practices create a re-dignifying space, where our conversations invite stories, that build bridges to the other.

Re-authoring is an invitation into the adventure of being authors and co-authors of our world.

An adventure that speaks of:

  • our acts of refusal and protest about the “way things are”
  • the folding of the richness of our lives into our identities and relationships
  • the invitation to re-member our communities and
  • the ignition of hope through alternative narratives, narratives that open up possibilities for dreaming a different future.

Through a lens and set of practices,

  1. what is taken-for-granted can be unveiled and re-examined and
  2. precious moments can be enriched into narratives that can re-author the future.

Also, practices of welcoming, dignifying and connecting will be discussed. The content of the workshop will be connected with important social issues, like the MeToo movement and the climate crisis.

Come and join our community as we invite you to see, be seen, connect, dignify, listen, question, unpack, enrich, narrate and burst into aliveness!

You can read more about the work here:

https://transformations.co.za/re-authoring-ideas-and-practices/

and about our partnership here:

https://transformations.co.za/diversity-and-inclusion-partnership/

And there is more: This workshop is an introduction to a series of six workshops that can be attended as a whole or separately with Chené Swart. These workshops address the most important themes of re-authoring ideas and practices over a 6-month period. Learn more here: https://transformations.co.za/journeys/

 

Β. INFORMATION ABOUT THE TRAINERS

 

Chené Swart is a Narrative Therapist from South Africa who has been translating narrative ideas and practices with organizations, communities and individuals from various cultures and contexts. Her work builds on the gifts of narratives, human connectedness, diversity, moving through and transformation that inspired the book, Re-authoring the World!

For the last 20 years, she has been exploring how we can take back the pen and re-author with dignity and beauty our human presence in this world. The work she brings is an offering to change and challenge the way we look, so that we can see and do differently in our relatedness with ourselves, one another and the world. She believes that “the way things are” can be challenged, re-authored and transformed. She is committed to participate in and contribute to conversations and actions that re-author our world towards the common good, one narrative at a time!

Lungi Molamu is an Organisational Development Consultant from South Africa having worked for over twenty years in the area of Diversity and Inclusion. She completed a two- year Advanced Diploma in Narrative Ideas in 2016 and has been incorporating these ideas in her work.

The gifts she brings to her work on Diversity and Inclusion as a Narrative Therapist drives her to examine and to question the plots we have taken for granted.  Her work gives us the chance to re-examine the various roles that we have created for ourselves and others over time, and to realize that we have choices in re-authoring these narratives. This re-authoring constitutes a new relationship with life and the world. It enables the person to create and recreate the self as a character in one’s own on-going story. This has a transformational character which is critical in Diversity and Inclusion.

The co-facilitators of the journey

Chené Swart and Lungi Molamu started working together in diversity and inclusion projects in 2008. They have combined their love for narrative work in workshops and client work since 2017, while giving Re-authoring Diversity and Inclusion workshops all over the world. Their work is built upon years of working together in this field, a deep friendship and a love for narrative re-authoring ideas and all this continually opens up new ideas and practices.

 

C. ORGANIZATIONAL INFORMATION

 

c1. Time 

Saturday 6th March 2021,

15:00 PM TO 19:00 PM SAST

 

c2. Fees

– Until Wednesday 3rd of March: 45€ 

– After Wednesday 3rd of March: 65€   

Please deposit the respective registration fee to the IBAN GR54 0172 2280 0052 2806 9522 814 in Piraeus Bank (Greece)[Owner of the bank account is Institute for Narrative Therapy (Greece)]

Your place is reserved once you have paid.
After registering, please send an email to narrativetherapygr@gmail.com with:

  • a screenshot of the confirmation of your payment
  • your full name, profession, place of living, and a phone number just in case of urgent communication.

Once we receive your e-mail we will reply confirming your attendance at the online workshop.

 

c3. How to connect for the seminar- workshop

 

a)Please make sure that you have downloaded the latest version of zoom from here: https://zoom.us/download

b)Try to secure and join from a place where you have a good internet signal and sufficient bandwidth.

c)Use a laptop or computer if you can, because there are some features that do not work well or not at all if you are using an i-pad or your smartphone.

d)Check in your computer that the camera, microphone, and connected or integrated speakers are working well and test all of them in advance as they are necessary for the interactivity that we are inviting during the workshop.

e)Ensure you have good light conditions in the room from which you will connect, and you may want to avoid having a window behind you. Headphones could help prevent background noise.

You are invited to join 15 minutes prior to the official start of the meeting so that we make sure that everything works well technically.

Plan to come having cared for your needs. Bring something to drink or eat if you like. Close all programs/apps/windows on your PC/laptop, including your browser. It’s very useful to turn off notifications, alarms, cell phone ringers, and any other distractions. This is our precious time to be online together, to connect, share, listen to each other, and learn from and with each other.

You will get the ZOOM link the day before the workshop takes place.

 

c4. Certification

All participants will be given a CERTIFICATE.

 

 

 

 

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Freedman & Combs on “Supervision for therapists / supervision for organizations and groups”

Web Event

Interactive open free of charge lecture

& Interactive training seminar/workshop

Supervision for therapists / supervision for organizations and groups

Ideas and practices from narrative therapy

 

with the

American narrative therapists, trainers and supervisors

of Evanston Family Therapy Center

Jill Freedman, MSW, ACSW

& Gene Combs, MD

clinical professors at the University of Melbourne

and the University of Chicago

 

 

  • Open free of charge  – lecture 

“Consulting with groups and agencies: travelling a long way in a short time”

Friday 12th February 2021, 7.00 pm – 9.30 pm (Athens time)

English and Greek Language

 

  • Training seminar-workshop

“Ideas and practices for supervision in narrative therapy”

Weekend 13th -14th February 2021

4.30 pm – 9.30 pm (Athens time)

English Language

 

The event is organized by the Institute of Narrative Therapy & Community Work – Greece.

(It is an event that is in the context of the Greek Institute’s collaboration with Dulwich Centre)

The participants will have a certificate from Dulwich Centre of Narrative Therapy (Australia), the educational and therapeutic centre that co-created Narrative Therapy.

The seminar is recognized as part of the training that leads to the Greek Narrative Therapist Certificate.

 

Apply for attendance of the free of charge lecture and / or the weekend training workshop by  sending an e-mail to narrativetherapygr@gmail.com and we will send you the link that will connect you with our ZOOM room in order to attend. (See details bellow).

………………………………………………………………………

 

See bellow: 

  1. INFORMATION ABOUT THE OPEN LECTURE AND THE SEMINAR
  2. INFORMATION ABOUT THE TRAINER
  3. ORGANIZATIONAL INFORMATION
  1. Time
  2. Fees
  3. How to connect for the free of charge lecture
  4. How to connect for the seminar – workshop
  5. Certifications and more support

 

  1. INFORMATION ABOUT THE OPEN LECTURE AND THE SEMINAR

 

  • Open lecture

This presentation will focus on the application of narrative ideas and practices in working with community groups and organizations of various sizes and missions. We will describe ways of structuring work with specific problems as well as ongoing consultations.

  • This will include ways of making a particular group member’s concerns relevant to the whole group.
  • An important focus will be ideas about using narrative questions and developing collective documents in group consultations, both to build connections between group members and to develop alternative stories.
  • We will also consider power relationships in organizations. We will think about the effects of who is included in consultation conversations and how the results of the consultation can be sensitive to other aspects of the organization.

These ideas can be applied to anything from a small circle of friends or community members gathered around a particular issue to a large professional organization.

 

  • Seminar

Different contexts and different levels of experience call for different ways of supervising. Using description, structured exercises, demonstrations, and discussion, Jill Freedman and Gene Combs will share lessons learned in over 30 years of supervising narrative therapists in a variety of settings.

Participants will practice and discuss aspects of supervision including:

  • Live supervision in groups with outsider witness responses
  • Using written transcripts of supervisees’ work
  • Interviewing supervisees’ as they are embodying people they work with.
  • Supervisees interviewing the supervisor
  • Peer group supervision
  • Reflective self-supervision

Jill and Gene will also describe and demonstrate how they collaboratively bring forth knowledge and skills from supervisee’s lived experience to help supervisees develop stories of how they are becoming the therapists they desire to be.

 

  1. INFORMATION ABOUT THE TRAINERS

Jill Freedman & Gene Combs are co-directors of Evanston Family Therapy Center, where they offer workshops, supervision, and consultation in all aspects of narrative therapy. They were fortunate to study with Michael White and David Epston for many years and have been teaching and writing about narrative therapy themselves for over 30 years.

They have co-authored 3 books: Symbol, story and ceremony: Using metaphor in individual and family therapy, Narrative therapy: The social construction of preferred realities, and Narrative therapy with couples… and a whole lot more! and more than 30 book chapters and articles.

They were given the Innovative Contribution to Family Therapy award by the American Family Therapy Academy in 2009 and were awarded as Honorary Associates of the Taos Institute in 2010.

They have a therapy and supervision practice in the Chicago area and have consulted to a number of schools and social service agencies. They are on the international faculty of Dulwich Centre.

Jill has joined the Dulwich team in doing community work in several contexts and teaches in the Master of Narrative Therapy Program offered by Dulwich Centre and the University of Melbourne. She was given the Excellence in Teaching Narrative Therapy Award by the Vancouver School of Narrative Therapy in 2014.

Gene has recently retired from his position as a clinical faculty member in the University of Chicago’s Family Medicine Residency Program at NorthShore University HealthSystem. He serves on the Board of the American Family Therapy Academy.

Information about their work you may find in the internet site of  Evanston Family Therapy Center narrativetherapychicago.com

 

  1. ORGANIZATIONAL DETAILS

3.a. Time

– FREE OF CHARGE EVENT via web – open to the general public

Friday 12th February 2021, 7.00 pm – 9.30 pm (Athens Greece Time)

(See below information about how to connect with us)

– SEMINAR – WORKSHOP via web

Saturday 13th February 2021, 4.30 pm – 9.30 pm (Athens Greece Time)
Sunday 14th February 2021, 4.30 pm – 9.30 pm (Athens Greece Time)

(See below about how to connect with us)

3.b. Fees

 – Open lecture fees: 0 euros

 – Weekend training seminar + workshop: 160 euros or 180 euros

    Subscription until 10th February: 160 €

    Subscription after 10th February: 180 €

          In order to subscribe, please deposit the amount to the

          IBAN GR54 0172 2280 0052 2806 9522 814 in Peiraius Bank (Greece)

[Owner of the bank account is Institute for Narrative Therapy (Greece)]

    Please also send a confirmation e-mail with your

   name, profession, place of living, telephone and e-mail in it.

 

3.c. How to connect for the free of charge lecture

  1. Send us an e-mail(at narrativetherapygr@gmail.com), in which you inform us about your interest in the open event.
  2. Two days before the event, we send you the link, which will allow you to connect with us through the ZOOM platform.
  3. 15 minutes before the start of the open event, open the e-mail we sent you and click the special link and you will automatically be connected to ZOOM. We get connected 15 minutes in advanceto make sure everything is working properly with your connection.

 

 

3.d. How to connect for the seminar – workshop

  1. After paying for the seminar (see information above on point “C.b. Fees”), you send us an e-mail(at narrativetherapygr@gmail.com), informing us of your registration
  2. Two days before the event, we send you the link, which will allow you to connect with us through the ZOOM platform.
  3. Download “Zoom client for meetings”from this link. It will take you a few seconds but please don’t leave it for doing it in the last minute: https://zoom.us/download
  4. 15 minutes before the start of the seminar, open the e-mail we have sent you, click the special linkand you will be automatically connected to ZOOM. We connect 15 minutes in advance to make sure everything is working properly with your connection.

 

 

In order to have a good time, enjoy it and make the most of it from our online seminar, we recommend the following:
• a) The most important ?: Make sure you are in a place where you have a good internet signal
• b) Use a laptop or computer if you can, because there are some features that do not work well if you are using an Ipad or your phone.
• b) Make sure your computer has a camera and microphone, as they are necessary for the interactive seminar
• c) Make sure you have good lighting in the room from which you will connect, without having a window behind you. Headphones can help prevent background noise

 

3.e. Certifications and more support

– All participants will be given a CERTIFICATE by the Institute of Narrative Psychotherapy & Community Practice and the Dulwich Center for Narrative Therapy of Australia.

– The seminar is recognized as part of the training that leads to the Greek DEGREE OF NARRATIVE THERAPY.

– The new participants will be given a preliminary EDUCATIONAL MATERIAL. Please register early so that we can send the material early.

 

 

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