Elizabeth Buckley, LICSW, facilitates this narrative therapy training.
Days: Fridays bi-weekly March 15, March 29, April 12, April 26, and May 10, 2024
CEUs: 15 for eligible participants
Time: 10:00 am to 1:15pm Eastern Time convert to your time Zone here
Location: Live on Zoom. Participants must attend in real time.
Statement of Need:
Many practitioners have been introduced to narrative therapy and are drawn to its focus on collaboration and meaning making with the people we serve. A brief introduction to narrative ideas is generally not enough for people to feel confident putting these ideas into practice in a robust way. This narrative therapy training course will take introductory ideas and expand on them to enhance your practice.
DESCRIPTION: Narrative Therapy Course: Beyond the Basics
Participants will explore more fully the complex, practice enriching ideas of narrative therapy. It is expected that participants will have some exposure to narrative therapy ideas, as we are looking to strengthen your current practices and build on your knowledge base. Each class will include discussion of a key concept or idea and will allow participants to practice techniques that help implement that idea in their work. Practice will include those that are helpful in working with children, adolescents, and adults in both individual and family work.
In this narrative therapy training, together we will delve into how remembering practices, the failure conversations map, stuffed consultant work, therapeutic documents, re-authoring and outsider witness practices can expand your current practice, build your knowledge, and support your work. We will utilize readings, class discussion, and many experiential exercises including live demonstrations to make this an interactive and revitalizing class.
Our meetings will include special focus on how narrative ideas connect to social justice initiatives and anti-racism work in particular. This course will meet NASW MA requirements for CEUs that address anti-racism and anti-discrimination practices.
Elizabeth Buckley, LICSW
Instructor: Elizabeth (Betsy) Buckley, LICSW(she/her) is a social worker and family therapist with more than 25 years of working with children and families as well as consulting to mental health and child protection agencies. She specializes in narrative therapy training and helping supervisees and agencies think through strengths based, solution focused, safety organized practice. She currently has an independent practice in North Andover, MA. Betsy has been teaching about narrative therapy in academic, post-graduate, workshops and community based settings since 1998.
Learning Objectives for the Narrative Therapy Course: Beyond The Basics:
- Participants will develop a minimum of five skills to employ discrete narrative therapy interviewing practices and demonstrate these in class with their colleagues
- Participants will be able to articulate the theoretical underpinnings of the Narrative approach as they influence the practice of therapy.
- Participants will describe three ways they will integrate Narrative therapy approaches in their current practice and develop a plan sustaining these changes.
- Participants will identify how their cultural beliefs and context interact with people who are different from them and create and demonstrate techniques for being in accountable cross-cultural practice, and anti-racism work in particular.
- Participants will be able to describe how differing therapeutic ideas influence their version of therapeutic practice and to align their practice more closely with their preferred values.
- Participants will demonstrate how they can help those they serve to examine and deconstruct failures in their lives to more closely understand their values.
Appreciation from Past Participants of Betsy’s Narrative Therapy Training Course
“As always, I find the TTB trainings to be of higher quality than other trainings. I particularly enjoyed the extended, every other week format of this training. It was a great break from the regular work day routine. I felt the participants were thoughtful and enhanced the workshop. Excellent training! Thank you!” -Kim Waggoner, LICSW
“Appreciated this workshop and the mini-community that was formed.” -Kate Elliott Mayers, LICSW
“This was so fantastic! The experiential part of this course was super helpful and I do feel I’ve learned valuable new skills to employ in my practice..” -Amanda Reed, LMHC
“The course was very helpful and engaging. The instructor was interesting and knowledgeable about Narrative Therapy. Course participants added to the discussion through role play and discussion and small group exercises. Narrative therapy theory is unique and complex. Although I have participated in other courses on this topic, I learned additional information in this class. Future courses could build and expand on this material..” -Amy Michaels, LMFT
“I appreciated the content of the training as well as the group of people who attended. It was nice to connect with others in the field and learn from them. Betsy is very knowledgeable about the content, and she is a good teacher. ” -Charyti Reiter,LICSW
“Big appreciation to Elizabeth for embodying the frameworks of narrative therapy in the teaching process.” Maddox Sprengel, LICSW
Target Audience
This training is designed for helping professionals interested in the principles and practices of narrative therapy, including, but not limited to, social workers, mental health counselors, and marriage & family therapists. The program serves the needs of helping professionals with little to a moderate amount of formal narrative therapy training who are interested in deepening their knowledge, enhancing capacities for providing therapy, consultation, supervision, teaching, training, and administrative roles.
Cost
- Registration: The cost for individual registration $330. Early registration is $290. February 7, 2024 is the early registration deadline. Payment plans are available.
- CEUs: additional cost of $40 for CEUs for the professions who are eligible and people who would like to access those. CEU information below.
- Black Therapists Rock, National Association of Black Counselors, NEAFAST Members and anyone else who asks may contact us for an equity rate of $250
- Please note: you must register for the narrative course as a whole. Attendance at individual sessions of the course is not allowed to maintain the integrity of the learning group.
- Contact us for more information.
Additional Information
Participants MUST attend 100% of the program to earn the 15 CEUs approved for social workers, mental health counselors and marriage and family therapists:
- Therapy Training Boston is approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 6707 for Mental Health Counselors. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Therapy Training Boston is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.
- Application for social work continuing education credits has been submitted. Please contact us at Therapy Training Boston for the status of social work CEU accreditation.
- Application for Marriage and Family Therapists continuing education credits has been submitted. Please contact us at Therapy Training Boston for the status of LMFT CE accreditation.
- Check with your state board to see if our CEU approvals work for your license.
- Read detailed information about CEUs.
No refunds are available for cancellations by participants regardless of the reason or time frame. If participants cancel 30 days or more prior to the event beginning, they may apply the fee to a future program. Workshops may be cancelled by Therapy Training Boston if minimum enrollment requirements are not met or in the case of other unexpected circumstances. If this occurs, a full refund will be provided.
Commercial support and conflicts of interest: There is no commercial support for this program.