Workshop Topics

Workshops in the following areas which have been presented include the following:

Responding to Trauma: A narrative approach – Amity Foundation, Nanjing, China

Academic writing skills, including research and essay writing – Christian Heritage College

Assertiveness – Employ Me!

Buttons: Dealing with Transference and Counter transference – DRUG ARM Australasia

Effective Communication in the workplace – Employ Me!

Counselling [...]

A little more about narrative ideas

Is it all about me?

Many of our problems are the result of social patterns. Using a Narrative Therapy approach we will discover together how social expectations and family patterns have influenced us and how we can access resources to resist those patterns and expectations.

Is it me?

It starts like this: a Problem enters and starts to [...]

Approach to counselling

My approach to counselling focuses on helping clients to identify the Problem that is influencing their life, and then assist them to find the capacity and resources to take a stand against the Problem. I see problems as not residing “in” people, but external to the person. This view often frees people to gain [...]