Services offered

THERAPY - individual therapy sessions are available in the Blue Mountains.
Sessions can be utilised by residents, visiting professionals, vacationers taking time out from busy working lives and by other practitioners or students who may wish to gain a personal experience of narrative ways of working.

GROUPS - Services to corporate teams, local volunteer and community development groups. Workers and group participants report that narrative approaches to group work provides a significant opportunity for change in ways that are not possible with individual therapy.

CLINICAL SUPERVISION - available for workers in health, psychological or therapeutic services. Narrative approaches may assist workers to maintain their committment to care of self as well as those they work with, and to acknowledge or affirm the values they hold that may have brought them to work with the helping professions.

TRAINING - see below for training options

INFORMATION SESSIONS

• Presentation of Narrative practices - 1 - 2hr information sessions (can be combined with other professional development activities or development days or as an 'in-service' at your workplace.

LEVEL 1

• Introduction to Narrative Practices (Level 1) - 1 day workshop.
  Externalising Conversations (Level 1) - 1 day workshop.
  Re-membering Practices (Level 1) - 1 day workshop.
  Reflective Practice - Narrative approaches to reviewing one's work (Level 1) - 1 day workshop.

Level 1 for therapists, community and human service workers who are interested or new to narrative approaches. No previous experience required to attend.

LEVEL 2

• Narrative Practice with Groups & Communities (Level 2) 1 day workshop. For therapists, community and human service workers who work with groups and communities.
  Responding to alcohol & drug misuse using narrative practices (Level 1) - 1 day workshop.
  Therapeutic & Community Documents - sustainable ways of working (Level 2) 1 day workshop.
  Introduction to Inversions - narrative approaches to inverting power operations (Level 2) 1 day workshop.

Level 2 for therapists, community and human services workers who have attended Level 1 Introduction to Narrative Practices workshop or equivalent training or other experience of using narrative ways of working.

ABOUT THE THERAPIST
Deidre Ikin has over 20 years experience working in the health, therapy and community work professions. She is an experienced presenter and workshop facilitator, who combines theroretical knowledge with experience and practical examples from her work with others. She utilises various adult learning methods with the hope that workshops are informative and interesting.

She completed the intensive International Training Program in Narrative Therapy at the Dulwich Centre, Australia.
This period of rigorous study and application of narrative practices to her work resulted in significant outcomes for those who consult her about their problems and concerns. In this way, those she works with have contributed significantly to her knowledges and understandings of ways of working and power operations in the therapeutic context.

She is working in the Blue Mountains, 2 hours west of Sydney, NSW to share the skills and knowledge gained from her experience of working with narrative practices with others.

For more information or to request a particular training for your group or workplace please email.