Trainer:  Mark Hayward, Family Therapist

Mark Hayward is a local therapist working in the child and adolescent mental health service. He will share with carers his experience of using narrative therapy as a tool in direct work with children.

Aims and Objectives: By the end of the session participants will be able to:

• Understand how stories shape lives, and how re-storying can re-shape lives.
• Define structures to ask questions that can:
  • have children wanting to engage
  • separate the child from the problem
  • retrieve conversations from despair and recrimination
  • focus on children’s preferences for their own life
  • bring forward ideas for problem solving
• Understand how cultural norms affect the lives of children and adults

Date: Wednesday 7 January 2009

Time: 10 am – 3 pm

Venue: Caddsdown Business Centre, Bideford  EX39 3DX

Maximum number for this course: 24

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