Tod Augusta-Scott
Addressing domestic violence implementing a community based approach:
How to effectively invite men who had used violence toward their partners to
become responsible not only to their mates but to the community at large.
Winnipeg MB, February 2nd and 3rd 2012
Location: Franco Manitoban Community Centre
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Workshop Overview
This presentation will focus on innovations and developments in conversations with men who perpetrate abuse.
The workshop will focus the group manual entitled, “Narrative Therapy: An Abuse Intervention Program”.
The group manual is designed to establish collaborative conversations about men’s lives and relationships as
they move away from violence. The work includes individual and group
conversations with men. Once in group, there is a four stage process men move
through over a 16-20 session group. The four
stages include:
1) preparing men to take responsibility,
2) building a narrative relapse prevention plan,
3) studying the effects of abuse, and
4) finding ways of healing and repairing the
effects of the abuse.
Videos of actual clients and role plays will be
used to illustrate narrative practice. Through
working with men, the workshop will illustrate
narrative therapy practices such as
externalizing conversations, re-authoring identity, outsider-witness
practices, and internalized-interviews.
Biography:
Tod Augusta-Scott, MSW is known internationally for his work with domestic violence
and narrative therapy. He has spent the last fifteen years as the coordinator of Bridges – a domestic violence counselling, research and training institute in Nova Scotia,
Canada. His work is primarily influenced by feminism, post-modernism and narrative
therapy. He has taught in the Social Work Department, Dalhousie University.
The group manual for working with men has been formally adopted by the
Departments of Justice in New Brunswick and Newfoundland as well as the
Department of Community Services in Nova Scotia. He has conducted training for the
Department of Health and community Services (Eastern Health) in Newfoundland to
establish domestic violence groups in the province.
Tod has also presented his work internationally in China, USA, Europe and the British
Isles. He has published his work widely. He is the co-editor and contributor to the critically acclaimed book Narrative Therapy: Making Meaning, Making Lives.
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