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DATE:                        Saturday, June 8, 2019

LOCATION:               Four Points by Sheraton

                                  2501 Argentia Rd, Mississauga, ON 

TIME:                         9:00 AM to 4:00 PM

CECs: 6

Depression is well known for diminishing hope and obscuring preferred identity stories.  As described by one woman ‘The cloud of depression makes me exhausted. I could sleep all the time. I can’t describe it…it’s like a crushing fatigue. Depression has me always thinking …Where is my life going?’   

A Narrative Therapy approach offers effective and helpful skills and practices for elevating hope when working with stories of depression. 

In this one-day workshop participants will learn:

  • About the ideas that shape Narrative Therapy
  • About the narrative practices of externalizing (separating the person from the problem), double-storied accounts, and re-authoring
  • To ask questions in counselling conversations that assist people to journey from stories of depression to stories of preferred identities.
  • How to hold therapeutic conversations that consider the socio-political and cultural contexts of people’s lives
  • How to discover and explore unique outcomes – finding a ‘crack’ in the story of depression and hopelessness


Angel Yuen MSW, RSW works as a narrative therapist in private practice in Durham region. She is also a faculty member, consultant and supervisor for the Narrative Therapy Centre of Toronto, and a member of Dulwich Centre international faculty in Adelaide, Australia. Her previous work for twenty-five years at the Toronto District School Board was in inner-city schools and communitiesAngel has facilitated several Narrative Therapy workshops locally and in different countries and within these spaces she continually is honoured to share hopeful stories, skills and wisdom of the people who consult with her. She works alongside people of all ages who are struggling with depression to assist them in moving towards preferred identity stories.

Angel wrote a book just recently released titled’ Pathways beyond despair: Re-authoring lives of young people through narrative therapy. She also is co-editor with Cheryl White of the 2007 book Conversations about gender, culture, violence and narrative practice: Stories of hope and complexity from women of many cultures.

For more about the ideas of Narrative Therapy and Angel Yuen please visit www.narrativetherapycentre.com

 

Narrative Therapy Approaches to Depression

  • Saturday June 08 2019, 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM
  • 2501 Argentia Rd
    Mississauga, Ontario
    Canada
    L5N 4G8