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For the last 25 years, Dulwich Centre has been offering and co-ordinating a wide-range of training options for practitioners who are wishing to develop their own skills at narrative practice. These training programs are skills-based and seek to be accessible to practitioners from a range of disciplines, including: social work, counselling, therapy,  teaching, community work, nursing, medicine, psychology, psychiatry, psycho-social workers, child-care workers and so on. To learn more about Dulwich Centre's philosophy to training, read the article 'Developing training programs congruent with narrative ideas' (an extract from the book 'A community of Ideas' by Cheryl White and David Denborough) 

Upcoming events

Narrative Therapy One Week Trainings at Dulwich Centre
with Carolyn Markey and others from Dulwich Centre Faculty
Level One and Level Two: Extending narrative therapy intensives now available

Respondingto hardship: Collective narrative practices:
Narrative ways of working with individuals, groups and communities
with Cheryl White, Barbara Wingard & David Denborough
February 9th-13th 2009

Intensive training programs

Responding to hardship and trauma: The use of collective narrative practices
International training / supervision program ~ held in Australia and South Africa
For more information click here. To register your interest, email Virginia Leake.

2009-2010 International Training Program: Narrative approaches to therapy and community work
Will begin in the second half of 2009.  For more information, click here

 Training Calender
The following key training events are already organised for 2008. A range of other training events will be announced soon... so please stay tuned!

Date	At Dulwich Centre	Away from Dulwich Centre
March 13th		Lower Hutt, New Zealand Responding to collective trauma Dulwich Centre Foundation presenting at International Symposium on Therapy and Community Work in Honour of Flora Tuhaka Hosted by Just Therapy Team, New Zealand Email: tamuvasa.l@fc.org.nz
April 21st-25th	Towards collective and community practices: Narrative ways of working with groups and communities Dulwich Centre Institute of Collective Narrative Practice Featuring Cheryl White, Barbara Wingard & David Denborough.
26th May- 6th June		Hong Kong: Second teaching block of the International Training Program: Narrative Approaches to Therapy and Community Work To be held in Hong Kong
June 2nd-3rd		Hong Kong: Dulwich Centre Foundation  Narrative ways of working with groups and communities: Towards collective and community narrative practice For more information contact: Angela Tsun On-kee c/o: oktsun@hkbu.edu.au
June 23rd-29th		Alice Springs, Australia  Responding to hardship and trauma: Narrative ways of working with groups and communities Barbara Wingard, Cheryl White & David Denborough. For more information contact: Jeff Brownscombe c/o Jeff.Brownscombe@nt.gov.au Workshop full.
June 30th- July 4th		Darwin, Australia Responding to hardship and trauma: Narrative ways of working with groups and communities Barbara Wingard, Cheryl White & David Denborough For more information contact: Jeff Brownscombe c/o Jeff.Brownscombe@nt.gov.au Both workshops this week are full.
21st-22nd July		Sunshine Coast, Queensland Towards collective and community narrative practice Cheryl White & David Denborough For more information contact: Jane Hutton c/o: info@spottedchook.com.au
23rd July		Sunshine Coast, Queensland Exploring of the written word: writing and publishing David Denborough Hoping to use the written word in your counselling/community work? Hoping to publish descriptions of your work? Stuck with 'writer's block'?This one day workshop has been especially designed for you. For more information contact: Jane Hutton c/o: info@spottedchook.com.au
August 4th- 8th	Narrative Therapy One Week Trainings at Dulwich Centre with Carolyn Markey and others from Dulwich Centre Faculty
August 5th	FREE one-day workshop: The Tree of Life - responding to vulnerable children Open to those working with children from refugee families Hosted by Dulwich Centre Foundation
August 8th	FREE one-day workshop: The Tree of Life - responding to vulnerable children Open to those working within the child protection or with children at risk of becoming involved in child protection system Hosted by Dulwich Centre Foundation
August 11th-12th		Alice Springs, Australia  Responding to hardship and trauma: Narrative ways of working with groups and communities Barbara Wingard, Cheryl White & David Denborough. For more information contact: Sheryn Hemley sheryn.hemley@gpnnt.org.au Workshop full.
21st August		Recovering from the effects of trauma: Two narrative approaches designed for working with individuals, groups and communities One day workshop with David Denborough Hosted by the Bouverie Centre - Victoria's Family Institute Contact Ron Finlay: r.findlay@latrobe.edu.au
Sept 2008 -March 2009	Dulwich Centre Intensive Narrative Practice Training Program begins Linked to the 9th International Narrative Therapy and Community Work Conference Suitable for practitioners new to narrative ideas and those who are wanting a stretch!
September 14th- 15th		Israel Responding to hardship and trauma: Narrative ways of working with groups and communities Cheryl White & David Denborough Contact: Barcai Institute: Email:  barcai@barak.net.il Phone: +972-3-535-2477 & Qesem Centre: y_shalif@netvision.net.il & paran@inter.net.il  Phone: +972-50-4101909 or +972-54-4380746
29th Sept– October 3rd	Narrative Therapy One Week Trainings at Dulwich Centre with Carolyn Markey and David Newman from Dulwich Centre Faculty
16th-17th October		Winnipeg, Canada Approaching trauma: Towards collective and community narrative practice Cheryl White & David Denborough For more information contact: Mariana Sussi marianasussi@shaw.ca
November 22nd	The power of song, music and narrative practice: One day workshop with Salome Raheim and David Denborough
November 23rd-24th	Narrative therapy in action and reflection: Two day workshop with David Epston
November 24th	Re-membering Lives: A workshop for practitioners working with grief and loss One day workshop with Lorraine Hedtke & John Winslade
November 24th	Considerations of gender and culture in narrative practice Half day free workshop with Angel Yuen
November 25th	Responding to trauma and enabling contribution: The possibilities of collective narrative practice (suitable for those working with individuals, groups and/or communities) One day workshop with Cheryl White & David Denborough
November 25th	From gender dysphoria to gender euphoria One day workshop with Esben Esther Pirelli Benestad & Elsa Almaas
November 25th	Introduction to Narrative Practice: One day FREE workshop (only available to those attending Conference)
November 26th-28th	9th International Narrative Therapy and Community Work Conference Presenters will include:  Jill Freedman (USA), David Epston (NZ), Salome Raheim (USA), Stephen Madigan (Canada), the Dulwich Centre Institute of Community Practice, Lorraine Hedtke (USA), David Denborough (Australia), Angel Yuen (Canada) John Winslade (NZ/USA), Dulwich Centre Foundation, Gene Combs (USA), Esben Esther Pirelli Benestad (Norway), Yael Gershoni, Saviona Cramer, Tali Gogol-Ostrowsky (Israel), Geir Lundby (Norway), Anne Kathrine Loge (Norway), and many others from all continents (except perhaps Antarctica) !
November 29th	The mystery of the sometimes incongruent narrative practice: The burden of individualism and the psycho-industrial complex One day workshop with Stephen Madigan
November 29th	Talking about sex: Narrative practice in regard to sexuality in heterosexual relationships One day workshop with Yael Gershoni, Saviona Cramer, Tali Gogol-Ostrowsky
December 1st-2nd	A narrative approach to working with relationships: Two day workshop with Jill Freedman & Gene Combs
December 1st-12th	Final teaching block of the International Training Program: Narrative Approaches to Therapy and Community Work To be held in Adelaide.
2009 February 9th-13th	Towards collective and community practices: Narrative ways of working with groups and communities Dulwich Centre Institute of Collective Narrative Practice Featuring Cheryl White, Barbara Wingard & David Denborough.

Training workshops delivered in your organisation, town or country!

If you and others in your workplace or local community are interested in learning more about narrative approaches then it may be possible for us to arrange a training event in your location. This often saves considerable expense in relation to airfares and accommodation. Topics for these workshops include:

* Introduction to narrative therapy (one day, two day or 5 day events)
* Introduction to narrative approaches to working with individuals, groups & wider communities (two day, three day or five day events)
* Tree of Life: A narrative approach to working with vulnerable children
* Responding to trauma: narrative approaches to working with individuals, groups & communities 

Or a custom made topic depending on your area of interest and the availability of skilled trainers on that particular topic!

Outside Australia:
Over the last ten years, Dulwich Centre has co-ordinated training workshops that have taken place in a wide-range of countries. We have a network of experienced and highly regarded practitioners/trainers who are available for teaching assignments across the globe. Sometimes it is possible for these trainers to visit a country on their way to another destination - this saving considerable expense. We are used to arranging low-cost but highly professional training events in places from Mongolia, India, East Timor, South Korea, Hong Kong, Bangladesh, USA, Canada and many others...

If you are interested in trying to see if it would be possible for an experienced trainer/practitioner in narrative approaches to visit your local community, please write to us c/o dulwich@dulwichcentre.com.au  Because we have links with practitioners in every continent (except Antarctica) you never know what might be possible!

Misc information related to training

Accommodation
For information relating to accommodation whilst in Adelaide for training please click here