Narrative Therapy with Families
When: Friday, August 4 - 12:30 PM
Duration: 1 hours
Location: Zoom
Event Details:
Narrative therapy is client-driven and a type of experiential therapy that helps to empower people by separating their identity from their experiences. It helps to remove blame and shame and as a result individuals are able to re-author their stories and re-establish their experiences in the here-and-now. Through the use of narrative therapy, individuals and families are able to better understand themselves and recognize how the language of their stories shapes their lives and identity.
This webinar will review how narrative practice in family therapy attends to both the larger societal discourse as well as family intricacies at the most local level. The narrative family therapy approach brings the family or networks together to counter the problem as they see it.
After attending this webinar, participants will be able to identify and apply a line of inquiry that draws on families' collective wisdom. Co-research video demonstrations will display from the families point of view, what works best in family therapy. The goal of this offering is to improve family care by increasing the understanding of how families organize their identities through narratives.
About the Presenter
Chris Hoff, PhD, LMFT is Founder and Executive Director of the California Family Institute (CFI) in southern California. CFI is a nonprofit organization that was established as a community counseling center that provides desperately needed low-cost counseling services for the community, and for the development of research and training for those interested in social constructionist, post-structuralist, post-oppositional, and compositionist narrative therapy approaches. Chris is also host of the internationally popular Radical Therapist Podcast and is co-editor of the forthcoming Encyclopedia of Radical Helping which will be released by Thick Press in 2024.
