Narrative therapy for speech and language therapists
Time: 09:30 - 16:30
Location: Keeley Street
- Course Code: XS525
- Dates: 31/01/25 - 31/01/25
- Time: 09:30 - 16:30
- Taught: Fri, Daytime
- Duration: 1 session
- Location: Keeley Street
- Tutor: Jan Logan, Anita McKiernan
Course Code: XS525
Duration: 1 session
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What is the course about?
Narrative therapy assumes we are experts in our own lives and the stories we tell about ourselves help us to make sense of things, shape our lives and the lives of others. Narrative approaches are based on the idea that people’s stories can be ‘re-authored’ to bring about insight and change.
Narrative ideas and practices can be useful for therapists supporting clients dealing with challenging problems in their lives. This practical workshop will introduce you to some of the theory which underpins narrative approaches. There will also be opportunities for you to develop practical skills for incorporating narrative ideas and practices into your particular work context.
What will we cover?
• Narrative approaches: Introduction to the theory underpinning narrative ways of working
• How the social context shapes people's lives and the stories they tell.
• The role of the therapist: De-centred practice; Respecting the client as the expert; working collaboratively and respectfully to re-author stories of people’s lives.
• Externalising conversations: Separating the person from the problem allows them to gain some distance from the problem and begin to develop a different relationship with it.
• Unique outcomes: How to listen out for openings to alternative accounts of life and identity.
• Narrative structures and questions: Exploring how narrative questioning and re-authoring can reshape client’s relationships with problems
• Ways to enrich or thicken preferred stories.
What will I achieve?
By the end of this course you should be able to...
• Identify key features of a narrative approach to therapy
• Explain the power stories have acting as a catalyst for change
• Explain what De-centred practice involves.
• Practice the skills of externalizing conversations
• Identify points of entry to new/alternative narratives
• explore how narrative ideas and practices can be used to support therapy with your clients (adults/children).
What level is the course and do I need any particular skills?
The course is suitable for qualified Speech & Language Therapists working with a range of client groups (both adults and children). To access the course, you need to be able to relate the topics being taught to your own experience and practice. You will also give and receive feedback.
How will I be taught, and will there be any work outside the class?
There will be an experiential component to the workshop as well as some theoretical input and practical sessions. Therapeutic conversations with children and adults will be shared. Handouts will be used.
Are there any other costs? Is there anything I need to bring?
There are no additional costs although you might choose to purchase books from the suggested reading list.
When I've finished, what course can I do next?
Other speech therapy professional training courses / workshops.
Anita McKiernan, BSc, MSc, Dip Coaching, Dip Counselling Skills, MRCSLT, HCPC registered. Anita is a highly specialist Speech and Language Therapist and joined CityLit as a part-time tutor in 2019. Her wider work includes children, young people & adults with Selective Mutism, Stammering and Voice Disorders. She spent several years working in the NHS in clinical & management roles. Anita is also a Visiting Lecturer & Clinical Tutor at City, University of London. She is the Chair of the National Clinical Excellence Network in Selective Mutism and is an adviser for the Royal College of Speech & Language Therapists. She is also a member of the National and Regional Clinical Excellence Networks in Fluency. Anita has completed further qualifications in areas of Coaching & Counselling and uses a range of psychological approaches in her work. As a lover of the Arts and trained improviser, Anita reslishes the creative process of working with others. She draws on various art forms as appropriate, including art-making, music, movement, improvisation and poetry. She has written songs & melodies for therapeutic use and writes poetry when the impulse strikes!.
Please note: We reserve the right to change our tutors from those advertised. This happens rarely, but if it does, we are unable to refund fees due to this. Our tutors may have different teaching styles; however we guarantee a consistent quality of teaching in all our courses.
