Lecture room: Lögberg – 102. Click for a map.
Presenter Bios
Elin Bjoru: Elin is a psychologist, educated at the university of Oslo in 1982, and a specialist in family therapy and counseling, working at the family office in Trondheim. She is one of two leaders of Norway’s recently established National Team for High Conflict – systemizing and developing methods for therapeutic work with high conflict between parents after divorce.
Stephen Madigan: Stephen MSW, and MSc and PhD is the Director of the Vancouver School for Narrative Therapy. In 2008 The American Family Therapy Academy (AFTA) honoured Stephen’s narrative therapy work with their Distinguished Award for Innovative Practice in Family Therapy Theory and Practice. He is the founder of therapeuticcconversations.tv, consults with Norway’s National Couple Conflict Team, and teaches and trains internationally.
Abstract
Practice: Part 2 of our 3-part workshop explores the practice of Relational Interviewing. This new narrative therapy informed interviewing practice is designed to:
Participants watch a couple therapy session video highlighting the writing of therapeutic letters directly to the relationship. Each member of the couple is then invited to write from the relationships perspective – and reads the relational letter from the relationship in the session.