TRAINING SCHEDULE 2011-2012

WORKSHOPS 2011-2012

ADVANCED COLLABORATIVE NARRATIVE THERAPY APPROACHES WITH COUPLE AND FAMILY RELATIONSHIPS
Friday, February 3rd, 9:00 am – 4:30 pm
Held at the Kenwood Center
2809 South Wayzata Blvd
Minneapolis, MN 55405

Walter Bera, PhD, LP, LMFT leads this popular workshop that focuses on the new, innovative advances in what may be called Collaborative Narrative Therapy for common dilemmas in couple and family therapy such as parent-child conflict, verbal/physical abuse, and secrets such as affairs, abuse, addiction and more. Walter will share clinical videos, stories, live demonstrations, documents and practices. Learn creative, honoring and skillful ways of assisting people to name the hopes, dreams, values and vision of life they hold precious to reposition themselves as allies in the face of couple or parent-child conflict and re-author thier lives and relationships.6.5 CEU's

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SUPERVISORS AND THERAPISTS: ADVANCED LEGAL/ETHICAL WORKSHOP
Friday, March 2nd, 9:00 am – 4:30 pm
Held at the Minnesota Chuch Center
122 Franklin Ave W
Minneapolis, MN 55404

This updated workshop covers current legal boundary and professional standards, while providing clear, practical prevention and management strategies and safe-guards for supervision, consultation and therapist challenges. Gary Schoener, LP leads this workshop. He is a dynamic and internationally known speaker on the challenging legal and ethical boundary issues that supervisors and all clinical professionals face. Gary creatively utilizes videotapes, exercises, real case examples and extensive handouts. 6.5 CEU's

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BUDDHIST PSYCHOLOGY, NARRATIVE AND MINDFULNESS
Friday, April 6th, 9:00 am – 4:30 pm
Held at the Kenwood Center
2809 South Wayzata Blvd
Minneapolis, MN 55405

Led by long-time psychologist, mindfulness meditator and Karate Sensei, Walter Bera, PhD, you will learn and experience the principles of Buddhist psychology, mindfulness, and narrative as they may be applied personally and therapeutically for creativity, peak performance, moods, cravings, identity, and relationships. This program is open to professional therapists and the interested public. 6.5 CEU's

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NARRATIVE THERAPY SPRING INTENSIVE:

Addressing Trauma with Individuals, Families and Communities

May 14th-18th, 2012

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Day 1. RESPONDING TO THE EFFECTS OF TRAUMA FROM A CULTURAL AND HISTORICAL CONTEXT
Monday, May 14th, 9:00 am – 4:30 pm

Walter Bera, PhD, LP, LMFT will help participants learn new, innovative and creative therapy approaches for working with those who have experienced or perpetrated sexual abuse. Narrative, Collaborative and Restorative/Transformative Justice approaches and practices can lead you to experience new enthusiasm in your life and work, while you provide new possibilities for the multiple parties affected by past sexual abuse. You will learn the Narragram, a wayof visualizing Narrative Therapy and its principles. You'll learn new paradigms and skills to overcome the common dilemmas facing therapists, social service workers and criminal justice professionals.
The workshop will be illustrated with actual clinical videotapes and cases studies, detailed handouts and role-plays for working with children, adolescents or adults who have perpetrated or experienced incest, child molestation, sexual compulsivity, clergy sexual abuse and more. . 6.5 CEU’s

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Day 2. NARRATIVE SUPERVISION AND CONSULTATION: ASSISTING PROFESSIONALS' LIVES WHO RESPOND TO TRAUMA

Tuesday, May 15th, 9:00 am - 4:30 pm

Walter will teach ways to use narrative principles and ideas to helpfully address the effects of trauma on therapists, workers and communities. The effects of trauma on memory and the ways in which narrative principles can help bring focus on their response to trauma will also be explored. You will see live supervision and consultation practices and approaches and many actual stories working with those exposed to people's war trauma, sexual abuse and domestice violence narratives. 6.5 CEU's.

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Day 3. CONVERSATIONS ABOUT GENDER, CULTURE, VIOLENCE AND NARRATIVE PRACTICE
Wednesday, May 16th, 9:00 am – 4:30 pm

Angel Yuen, MSW will lead this seminar. Full description to be announced soon. 6.5 CEU’s

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Day 4. COLLECTIVE AND COLLABORATIVE NARRATIVE PRACTICE IN RESPONSE TO TRAUMA 1
Thursday, May 17th, 9:00 am – 4:30 pm

Cheryl White and David Denborough work with Dulwich Centre Foundation International in partnership with groups and communities in Rwanda, Israel, Palestine, Bosnia, Haiti, and in a range of Aboriginal Australian communities. Through these partnerships they have co-developed a range of collective narrative methodologies with which to respond to trauma, including: the Tree of Life, Team of Life, collective narrative documents, and songs of sustenance.

This workshop will introduce key principles of collective narrative practice in response to trauma, sharing stories of work from Uganda, Australia, and elsewhere. 6.5 CEU's

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Day 5. COLLECTIVE AND COLLABORATIVE NARRATIVE PRACTICE IN RESPONSE TO TRAUMA 2
Friday, May 18th, 9:00 am – 4:30 pm

The second day of the workshop will build off of the ideas of Thursday’s presentation. Additional stories, ideas and practices will be discussed.

6.5 CEU’s

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