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Digital Seminar

Helping Clients Rewrite Disempowering Stories


Average Rating:
   282
Speaker:
STEPHEN MADIGAN, PhD
Duration:
2 Hours
Format:
Audio and Video
Copyright:
22 Mar, 2025
Product Code:
NOS096520
Media Type:
Digital Seminar
Access:
Never expires.


Description

The stories people tell themselves—and their therapists—are powerful. They can keep clients stuck, but they can also galvanise change. Although our culture often reinforces stories of personal deficit, rather than resilience and resourcefulness, narrative therapy effectively helps clients reauthor their stories within a broader context, revealing deeper truths about their lives and identities. In this workshop, you’ll explore a range of practical tools for engaging your clients in this work, including how to help them creatively remember empowering storylines after they leave a session. You’ll discover how to help clients: 

  • Re-evaluate, reimagine, and revise negative identity conclusions.  
  • Remember critical conversations that can shift their view of themselves and their relationships 
  • Engage with evocative Narrative Therapy questions that help contextualise their problems in a new, enlivening way 
  • Practice therapeutic letter writing to help alter disempowering, limiting narratives 

CPD

Planning Committee Disclosure - No relevant relationships

All members of the PESI, Inc. planning committee have provided disclosures of financial relationships with ineligible organizations and any relevant non-financial relationships prior to planning content for this activity. None of the committee members had relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies or other potentially biasing relationships to disclose to learners.  For speaker disclosures, please see the faculty biography.



CPD

This online program is worth 2 hours CPD.



Speaker

STEPHEN MADIGAN, PhD's Profile

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Stephen Madigan, PhD, is an award-winning couple and family therapist, bestselling author, and director of training with the Vancouver School for Narrative Therapy.

 

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Stephen Madigan has employment relationships with Vancouver School for Narrative Therapy, Yaletown Family Therapy and Mediation, VSNT.live online website, and Norway High Couple Conflict Teams. He receives royalties as a published author. He has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Stephen Madigan is an author with Psychotherapy Networker. He is a member of the BC Association of Clinical Counsellor and Family Mediation Canada.

 


Additional Info

Access for Self-Study (Non-Interactive)

Access never expires for this product.


Objectives

  1. Determine the role of storytelling in the therapeutic process.
  2. Demonstrate how to ask relational externalizing questions. 
  3. Describe the process of reauthoring in narrative therapy.

Outline

Introduction to Narrative Therapy  

Purpose, politic, practice and potential benefits of narrative approaches  

Practical applications for engaging clients in Narrative Therapy  

The power of non-individualist narrative therapy questions  

Reevaluating, reimagining and reauthoring negative identity conclusions  

Clinical Examples 

Risks and Limitations 

Target Audience

  • Counsellors
  • Marriage and Family Therapists
  • Social Workers
  • Physicians 
  • Psychologists

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