Workshops
Friday, February 3rd, 2012
Advanced Narrative Therapy with Couple and Family Relationships
By Walter Bera, PhD
Friday, March 2nd, 2012
Supervisors and Therapists: Advanced Legal/Ethical Workshop
By Gary Schoener, LP
Friday, April 6th, 2012
Buddhist Psychology, Mindfulness, Narrative and Creativity
By Walter Bera, PhD
Salon Topics
Dates are not yet selected for these topics:
- Bullies, Monsters and the Boogie Man
- Relaxation and Guided Imagery
- Narrative Therapy Demonstrations
- Group Work (Domestic Abuse, Sexual Abuse and SHARP)
Have ideas for other salons? Want to be notified when these topics are set to a date? E-mail us and let us hear your suggestions and interest.

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Narrative Therapy Spring Intensive
Monday, May 14th, 2012
Responding and Recognizing the Cultural-Historical Context and Effects of Trauma
with Opening by American Indian Movement Leader Bill Means. Workshop by Walter Bera, PhD
Tuesday, May 15th, 2012
Narrative Supervision and Consultation for Those Who Work with Trauma: Re-authoring Professional Culture and Community
by Walter Bera, PhD
Wednesday, May 16th, 2012
Conversations About Gender, Culture, Violence and Narrative Practice
By Angel Yuen, MSW
Thursday, May 17th, 2012
Collective and Collaborative Narrative Practice In Response to Trauma (Day 1 of 2)
Opening by American Indian Movement Founder Clyde Blellacourt with Workshop by Cheryl White and David Denborough
Friday, May 18th, 2012
Collective and Collaborative Narrative Practice In Response to Trauma (Day 2 of 2)
By Cheryl White and David Denborough
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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
Register Here for the Full 5 Day Pass
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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