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Marie Nathalie Beaudoin PhD
Addressing children's socio-emotional issues using the latest in brain research:
How to effectively reduce bullying,conflicts, anger, anxiety, and depression.
Winnipeg, May 2nd and 3rd 2011
Location: Canada Inn Polo Park, Winnipeg MB |
Regular Early Bird: $275
Students Early Bird: $225
Group reg 5% off
Prices do not include GST
Early Bird deadline: March 2nd 2011
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Preview: The SKiLL-ionaire in every child:
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Victoria Dickerson PhD
Couples Therapy: Working with Power & Privilege
Winnipeg, November 18th and 19th 2010 - 9 am to 4:00 pm
Location: TBA |
Regular Early Bird: $245
Students Early Bird: $175
Group reg 5% off
Prices do not include GST
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William Madsen PhD
2 DAYS INTENSIVE TRAINING WORKSHOP
Collaborative Helping in Action
*Participants are going to be able to apply the concepts to their own practice.
Winnipeg - September 23rd and 24th 2010 - 9 am to 4:00 pm
CENTRO CABOTO
CENTRE
1055 Wilkes Ave.
Winnipeg, MB |
Regular: $376.95
Students: $334.95
Group reg 5% off
Prices do not include GST
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Kenneth V. Hardy, Ph.D
Teens Who Hurt: Clinical Strategies for Working with Troubled Youth
Winnipeg - April 29th and 30th 2010 9:00 am to 4:00 pm
CENTRO CABOTO
CENTRE
1055 Wilkes Ave.
Winnipeg, MB
Regular Early Bird: $245
Students Early Bird: $175
Group reg 5% off
Prices do not include GST
Early Bird deadline:
February 28th 2010
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Kenneth Hardy, Ph.D., is the Director of the Eikenberg Institute for Relationships
in New York City and Professor of Family Therapy at Drexel University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Dr. Hardy is internationally known for his work in the area of
family therapy and diversity. He is the former Director of the Center for
Children, Families, & Trauma at the Ackerman Institute. He maintains a
private practice specializing in work with traumatized and oppressed
populations. Dr. Hardy is the author of many family therapy articles on
trauma, oppression, and racism.
Link to his Biography
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Teens Who Hurt: Clinical Strategies for Working with Troubled Youth
Kenneth V. Hardy, Ph.D.
In the current world of zero tolerance to violence, kids killing kids, and the invasion of the internet, it has become virtually impossible for those of us working with young people to see beyond their troubled behavior. As more and more young people struggle with complex mental health issues, alienation, rage, and violence, our solutions and strategies for reaching them have become increasingly more simplistic and oriented towards punishment, control, and symptom relief. In the ‘anger management,’ evidence based, punishment first era in which so many of us work, getting to the core traumatic experiences that often serve as an incubator for young people’s acting out behavior is a challenging endeavor. As they flaunt their masks of invincibility alleging that “nothing matters”, we often focus on their ‘posturing’, negative attitudes, and acting out behaviors, rather than their underlying trauma, vulnerabilities, and hurt.
This workshop will examine the hidden wounds of trauma that often underpin the acting out behaviors of troubled youth. Particular attention will be devoted to working with youth from a variety of cultural backgrounds. Specific strategies for providing effective intervention will be provided.
Objectives:
- To identify critical hidden wounds that serve as major aggravating factors connected to acting out and at-risk behaviors;
- To enhance participants’ ability to effectively engage with at-risk youth from diverse backgrounds; and
- To identify common pitfalls and traps that often impede effective work with troubled and adolescents.
- To provide clinical strategies to facilitate working effectively with teens who hurt.
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William Madsen PhD
Collaborative Helping: Working with
Multi-Stressed Families
Practice Framework for Family-Centered Services
Winnipeg - November 19th and 20th 2009 9:00 am to 4:00 pm
CENTRO CABOTO
CENTRE
1055 Wilkes Ave.
Winnipeg, MB
*Regular Enrollment $275
*Regular Full time Student & Under employed $195
*Group Registration: 5% off
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William Madsen, Ph.D. is the Director of the Family-Centered
Services Project. He provides international training and
consultation regarding collaborative practice and the
development of institutional structures and organizational
cultures that support family-centered work. Bill has written numerous articles and is the author of Collaborative Therapy with Multi-Stressed
Families (2nd Edition). He is currently working on a new book
entitled, Helping: Towards More Supportive Services, which is an
effort to honor and legitimize the work of frontline outreach and family support workers as well as highlight a practice framework that can guide that work.
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WHO IS THIS WORKSHOP DESIGNED FOR?
Helpers holding “professional” or “non professional” degrees, Counsellors, Social workers, Psychologist, Family Therapist, Child Protection Workers, Psychiatrist, Students, Teachers, Mediators, Guidance Counsellors,
Community Workers.
Workshop Description:
Services for families across the country are undergoing profound changes and
agencies are searching for effective models to develop strength-based, culturally
responsive, empowering partnerships with families. This workshop offers a flexible
map to operationalize these family-centered principles in the everyday “messiness” of practice. Drawing on Motivational Interviewing, Appreciative Inquiry, Solution-Focused and Narrative therapies, and the Signs of Safety approach to child
protection work, this workshop highlights a five-step practice framework to help families envision desired lives, address long-standing problems, and develop proactive coping strategies in the context of their local communities. The workshop will have particular focus on helping participants engage reluctant clients and
develop sustainable practices to ground their work in a spirit of possibilities,
collaboration and accountability.
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From The Dulwich Centre (Adelaide-Australia)
Cheryl White and David Denborough
Towards Collective and Community Practices: Narrative Ways of Linking Lives With Groups and Communities
Winnipeg October 16th and 17th 2008 9:00 am to 4:30 pm
*Early Bird Enrollment $220 (until August 30th)
*Early Bird Student Enrollment $175 (until August 30th)
*Regular Enrollment $245
*Regular Full time Student & Under employed $195
*Group Registration: 5% off
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Over the past decade Cheryl White and David Denborough have been
involved in a wide range of community engagements here in Australia
and overseas. They have also been involved in supporting workers in a
variety of contexts and countries to develop culturally appropriate ways
of responding to children and adults who have experienced significant
trauma (see the recent book Trauma: Narrative responses to traumatic
experience). In many contexts, counselling or therapy is not the most
appropriate response, hence the need for more collective and
community practices. Cheryl White brings to this workshop a long history
of engagement with feminist thought and practice. David Denborough
brings a love of both the written word and song and ways that these can
inform our work with individuals, family groups and communities. Recent
teaching assignments have included Kuwait (to Iraqi workers who are
establishing a trauma centre in Basra), Jordan & Uganda.
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WHO IS THIS WORKSHOP DESIGNED FOR?
The workshop will be suitable for: those working with individuals who would like to find ways to link people together; those working with groups; those working with communities; and those wishing to work in collective and community orientated ways.
This two-day workshop will provide an immersion into ways of using narrative practices:
• to link individuals with whom you may be working and enable them to contribute to broader collective projects,
• to work with groups,
• and to engage with communities who have experienced significant trauma
The workshop will include:
• Some didactic teaching - about key principles in relation to working in collective ways, and various
key narrative concepts and practices.
• The sharing of stories and songs about hopeful work from Australia, Palestinian Territories, South
Africa, and elsewhere.
• The creation together of a collective document and song during the workshop, and the holding of
a ceremony in relation to these.
• Discussions about some of the differences between therapy and collective/community practice.
• Attention will be paid to the politics of experience and what it means to bring a feminist and collective
perspective to our work as practitioners.
• Special considerations will be given to ways of responding to groups and communities who have
experienced significant trauma.
• Particular discussion will also take place about ways in which workplaces/teams can respond to
crises with collective processes.
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Winnipeg Narrative Therapy presents
Julie Tilsen (Vancouver BC) &
David Nylund (Sacramento, CA) Biography
Winnipeg, November 19th and 20th 2007
Fort Whyte, Field Station www.fortwhyte.org
1961 McCreary Road, Winnipeg, R3P 2K9 Manitoba
BEYOND "DIVERSITY":
QUEERING YOUR PRACTICE FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE |
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“It is a rare and precious discovery to find form with substance, entertainment with education, incisive
conceptualization with pragmatic application—and two captivating people sharing an infectious chemistry without
competition. Julie and David--individually dynamic but together nothing short of combustible--bring such a unique
experience as a matter of course to a breadth of topics, from diversity and social justice to the passionate nuts and
bolts of everyday work with kids, couples, and families.”
—Barry Duncan, Director, Institute for the Study of Therapeutic Change; co-author, “The Heroic Client,” “The Heart and Soul of Change,” and “Escape from Babel.”
Taking the somewhat queer position that therapy is a political act where stories of resistance can be
found and brought forward, Julie and Dave invite participants to examine issues of power and
privilege that serve as the under girding of systems of oppression. In this experiential and
practice-based workshop, participants will explore issues of oppression that cut across various
social locations. Consideration for intersectionality and a focus on how these systems of
dominance impact our work will be emphasized.
Productive investigation of our own initiation into dominant ideas about race, class, sex and gender,
conceptual foundations that are just and ethical, and clinical skills that are responsive to client
preferences will be discussed and demonstrated. Self-reflection, theory, and application will be
combined as we examine work with queer clients from a social justice and critical multicultural
framework. Drawing from current thinking in the areas of critical multiculturalism, post-colonial
and queer theory, we examine the dilemmas and possibilities that emerge when identity is constructed
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From New Zealand
Johnella Bird
Winnipeg, May 14th and 15th 2007
RECONSTRUCTING RELATIONSHIPS:
WORKING WITH COUPLES
WORKSHOP MAY 14th and 15th 2007
University of Winnipeg – EG Hall 9 to 4:30
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She has co-directed The Family Therapy Centre of Auckland New Zealand (alongside David Epston) for the past twenty years, and is the author of three inspiring therapy books. Johnella is one of the most interesting and exciting presenter of narrative, collaborative, and postmodern ideas in the world today. Her workshop and her ingenious ways of interviewing clients in the present therapeutic moment are guaranteed to astound you. |
We often meet couples who are struggling to find any common ground in respect to understanding past events, present moments and future possibilities.
Consequently, we can find ourselves managing a conversation shaped by accusation and counter-accusation. In this workshop I will discuss and demonstrate a conversational process that allows us to step away from accusation in order to find a third way. The third way incorporates each person's experience while exploring the sometimes complex and contradictory moments which occur within relationships. I will also demonstrate the way I support couples to address serious concerns such as, significant betrayals of trust, long-standing conflicts, the impact of losses and grief, negotiation of change in relationships and reclaiming sexual intimacy.
By using a process that emphasizes relational language-making and contextualizing the experience of injury, I can find and language new narrative possibilities or storylines into existence. Inevitably through this work, we will expose, explore and renegotiate the often taken-for-granted notions which are shaping relationships, including the effects of power relations.
"This was an inclusive workshop focusing on all forms of couple's relationships"
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Stephen Madigan Phd
NARRATIVE IDEAS AND THERAPEUTIC PRACTICE -Intensive Training- February 23rd, 24th 9:00 to 4:30
Step-by-step analysis that "unpacks" a Narrative Therapeutic Interview.
The course provides Case Consultation and Supervision to review the unique developments and growth in the participants own work.
Provides AAMFT Approved Supervision and CE’s.
The supervision course concentrates specifically on integrating theory into the practice of therapy. Participants will experience Group and Individual Supervision over the course of two days training.
Participant’s clinical work is reviewed through a presentation of either their "live" or video/audio taped sessions.
Provides advanced course readings and extensive course handouts.
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From Adelaide Australia
Alan Jenkins
Winnipeg - November 6th and 7th, 2006
Day 1 November 6th, 2006 9:00 to 4:30
Restorative Practice After Domestic Abuse : Ethics, Justice and
Accountability
Day 2 November 7th, 2006 9:00 to 4:30
Making It Fair: Respectful Intervention With Disadvantaged Young
People Who Have Enacted Violence and Abuse.
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JUST THERAPY TEAM from New Zealand
Private conversations-Public Issues
Winnipeg- May 25th, 26th , 2006.
Charles Waldegrave - Taimalie Kiwi Tamasese - Tangihaere Walker
Therapy, Community Development, Research and Social Policy: Ethical Responses to the
Stories of Pain in Therapy
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