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Lifetime Access - HEALING POWER OF STORY

Duration:
One full day
Copyright:
Feb 01, 2021
Product Code:
72224
Media Type:
Expiry Extension - Also available: Digital Seminar
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Description

When a short folk tale is told in the sacred space of therapy, the story hero can become a blueprint for identity insight and development. Clients are often confronting serious, and what feels like insurmountable problems. Like the central character of many stories, our clients can experience strong feelings of fear, anger, loss and despair. The survival, success and resolution for the hero keeps alive the client’s hopes and revitalizes their own quest.

Story listening provides a safe emotional work-out: focus and imagination are activated, breathing slows down, and the nervous system is calmed as the story concludes. Story metaphors enable ideas to bypass the ‘logical watchdog’ of the conscious brain. Although a story enters the mind like the Trojan Horse, the listener’s imagination is far from passive.

Some examples of research and therapeutic change from this method will also be presented. These include the benefits of story therapy to manage pain and distress, instill a calm response and foster inspiration.

Story Medicine has many distinct aspects that will be covered in this interactive presentation: the art of selecting and telling the story, the open-ended implicit messages woven into the story, the listener’s emotional connections to the characters, the ‘turning over’ of the story in their mind, and sometimes the magical ‘ah-ha’ of a new understanding of how to address a problem.

The last stage of the method includes the use of questions shaped by Narrative Therapy and the Hero Journey map initially created by Joseph Campbell to make sense of the archetypal journey from problem to resolution, and renewed identity through suffering and being supported by helpers along the way.

There will be an opportunity to practice telling a very short story with a small group in breakout rooms, and then use the provided questions to unpack the therapeutic changes from the listener’s point of view. A discussion about this practical experience and how client changes might be explored will conclude the presentation.

A selection of three stories will be provided and a link to the Hero Journey Map.

Experiential learning activities include:

  • Reflection time for childhood story characters that may have influenced one’s identity
  • Listening to a therapeutic story told
  • Responding to the story told with a partner in breakout rooms using narrative Therapy questions provided
  • Using the Hero Journey Map to plot a personal (non-traumatic) COVID experience

 

CPD

Objectives

Learning objectives of this training:

 

  1. Aquire an overview of the storytelling therapy approach.
  2. Develop an appreciation of what happens when a client hears a story told in therapy, and what to do next to facilitate change conversations.
  3. Know when this tool might best be introduced into therapy.
  4. Experience the key after-story questions which unpack what the client was hearing and finding important for themselves
  5. Learn how to use Joseph Campbell’s The Hero Journey Map to promote new life meanings and open up discussions about post traumatic growth

“The story denies universal defeat and so gives us a glimpse of ultimate joy." J.R.R. Tolkien.   

How will you benefit from attending this training?

  • Counsellors can use this method when a client becomes stuck, and motivation has failed them, or as a case closure tool to review survival through some arduous trauma.
  • How do people make meaning of life’s way of delivering unsolicited sufferings. Often both the client and the counsellor are in limbo, which parallels how the hero comes to a place of darkness and despair. The journey map allows for and strength-based way.
  • The participant will gain practical tools which include 8 after-story narrative questions, and a map of Joseph Campbell’s Hero Journey framework. These support externalising of strong emotions and experiences in a safe way. They provide scaffolding and capture new perspectives of a person’s experiences, feelings, strengths, learnings and the purposes of their own journey.

Outline

Morning Session (includes a short break)

  • Even the simplest of old stories follow a heroic journey:
  • EXPERIENTIAL
  • What are the archetypal story stages?
  • The original 12 stages from the seminal work of Joseph Campbell:
  • EXPERIENTIAL
  • How to introduce a story:
  • EXPERIENTIAL
  • What happens:
  • EXPERIENTIAL

Afternoon Session (includes a short break)

  • After-Story Narrative Therapy Questions:
  • Research and benefits:
  • How to choose a story:
  • Cautionary use:
  • The Hero Journey Map:
  • Post traumatic growth:
  • EXPERIENTIAL
  • Questions 

Evaluation and quiz - your payment includes a quiz which when completed with a minimum of 80% correct answers, will enable you to download your Attendance Certificate.
To complete the quiz, please log into your account at pdp-catalogue.com.au and click the orange "Certificate" button under the program's title. 

For live webcasts, post-tests must be completed within one month of viewing the program.

Target Audience

This seminar has been designed to extend the clinical knowledge and applied skill of Counsellors, Psychotherapists, Coaches, Psychologists, Hypnotherapists, Social Workers, Community Workers, Mental Health Nurses and Psychiatrists, teachers all working with adults and children.

 

Webcast Schedule

Morning Session
  9:00am - 12:45pm
  Includes a short break at 10:45pm

Lunch Break
  12:45pm - 1:45pm

Afternoon Session
  1:45pm - 5:00pm
  Includes a short break at 3:15pm

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