An Introduction to Narrative Therapy a workshop for mental health professionals and helpers

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Narrative Therapy is one of the most prominent postmodern approaches of therapy. It is based on the belief that people make sense of life experiences by storying their experiences. Through stories we make sense of who we are and what we value.

Narrative therapy further holds the idea that problems are manufactured in social, cultural, and political contexts. By the time people come to counseling the stories they constructed for themselves and their lives become dominated by problems that work to oppress them. Through narrative therapy, counselors brings these problem-saturated stories to the center of therapy and help clients retell them in their preferred way of being which allow them to reconstruct their identity, hopes, and dreams. Narrative therapy does not focus on “experts” solving problems. Rather, it focuses on people discovering through conversations, their preferred and previously unacknowledged and hidden possibilities found within themselves and unrecognized story-lines.

An Introduction to Narrative Therapy a workshop for mental health professionals and helpers This workshop will look at some fundamentals of Narrative Therapy. Participants will learn through lecture, discussions, observation, and some role-play practices in small groups and in the whole group. This is a 1.5day workshop designed for mental health professionals and helpers who have completed basic counseling skill training. th

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Date:

5 -6 June 2010

Time:

9:00am ~ 5:00pm (Sat) 9.00am ~ 3.00pm (Sun)

Venue:

Turning Point Integrated Wellness

Registration Fee:

RM 350 (Promotional rate; usual rate is RM500) RM 250 (Student rate; usual rate is RM360) Fee covers course, handouts and tea breaks, lunch is not included.

Due Date:

20th May 2010 (Limited to 50 participants only)

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About Presenter: Dr. Ng Kok Mun Dr. Ng Kok Mun is an Associate Professor in the Department of Counseling at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He frequently conducts skill-based training workshops in the U.S. as well as in Malaysia. These workshops include solution-focused, family counseling, and emotional intelligence. Dr. Ng has published many research articles in peer-reviewed journals and presented many programs and papers in regional, national, and international professional conferences. Dr. Ng is a licensed professional counselor in North Carolina, Texas, and Malaysia.

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Please send in your application form to: Turning Point Integrated Wellness Sdn Bhd 10-2 & 10-3, Jalan Puteri 2/4, Bandar Puteri, 47100 Puchong, Selangor, Malaysia. or fax to : 03-80637981 or email to : [email protected] together with your cheque or bank-in slip by 20th May 2010. All cheque please make payable to Turning Point Integrated Wellness Sdn Bhd Bank Account: Citibank Puchong Account Number: 1178919003