The Centre for Narrative Psychology and Practice
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10th International Narrative Therapy & Community Work Conference
We hope you will join us for this vibrant, diverse, warm and inclusive conference featuring the latest narrative therapy ideas and practice. In July 2011, Salvador in Brazil will be the venue for the 10th International Narrative Therapy and Community Work Conference. Salvador is a unique place, known throughout Brazil as the ‘City of Joy’. Check it out at www.bahia-online.net
Please join us and Brazilian, South American, and international colleagues from around the world. Presentations will be offered by practitioners from Brazil, Uganda, USA, UK, Israel, Australia, New Zealand, Argentina, Colombia, Mexico, Chile, France, Canada, Norway, Austria, and elsewhere.
What is your area of interest? This conference will include thoughtful and hopeful presentations on all aspects of narrative practice. It will particularly feature innovative ways of working with challenging problems. Presentations are planned on the following topics: couple therapy, working with families, responding to abuse and trauma, working in the mental health, community work, Team of Life – use of football and narrative practice, violence, drugs and alcohol, working with organisations, therapy with children, and many more. If you have further ideas or topics you’d like to see covered, just write to us and we’ll see what we can do!
Our conferences are organised as ‘community events’ that seek to be congruent with the key principles of narrative practice. Some of our aims include:
to provide high quality presentations on the latest thinking and application of narrative ideas and to do so in ways that enable people of differing experience to be both engaged and challenged
to enable people of different cultures, countries, genders, ages, class backgrounds, physical abilities, and sexual identities to come together, enjoy each other’s company, and have a sense that the conference program and processes include their perspectives, hopes, and ideas
to use the conference as a chance to acknowledge and come to terms with the history of the land on which it is held
to create an atmosphere that is non-hierarchical, with no pronounced difference between presenters and participants
to provide a forum for conversations that are expanding the field (not confirming it or simply reiterating what is already known).
We hope you will join us!
