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Helping Clients Rewrite Disempowering Stories
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Description
The stories people tell themselves—and their therapists—are powerful. They can keep clients stuck, but they can also galvanize change. Although our culture often reinforces stories of personal deficit, rather than resilience and resourcefulness, narrative therapy effectively helps clients reauthor their stories within a broader context, revealing deeper truths about their lives and identities. In this workshop, you’ll explore a range of practical tools for engaging your clients in this work, including how to help them creatively remember empowering storylines after they leave a session. You’ll discover how to help clients:
- Re-evaluate, reimagine, and revise negative identity conclusions.
- Remember critical conversations that can shift their view of themselves and their relationships
- Engage with evocative Narrative Therapy questions that help contextualize their problems in a new, enlivening way
- Practice therapeutic letter writing to help alter disempowering, limiting narratives
Faculty
Stephen Madigan, PhD
Stephen Madigan, PhD, is an award-winning couple and family therapist, bestselling author, and director of training with the Vancouver School for Narrative Therapy.
Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Stephen Madigan has employment relationships with Vancouver School for Narrative Therapy, Yaletown Family Therapy and Mediation, and VSNT.live online website. He receives royalties as a published author. Stephen Madigan receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from Psychotherapy Networker and PESI, Inc. He has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Stephen Madigan is a member of the BC Association of Clinical Counsellor and Family Mediation Canada.
