The Success of "Failure"
Date: Friday, July 23, 2021; 10:00 am to 4:00 pm Eastern
Location: Online via Zoom
Instructor: Stephen Gaddis, PhD, LMFT
It seems that everyone I know personally and professionally, including myself, has a relationship with a story that they are not a good enough person. The “Not Good Enough” epidemic affects not only many of the people we meet in our work; it also seems to be quite good at infecting our understanding of ourselves as helpers. This workshop is designed to help us examine and deconstruct our relationships with those stories that successfully get us to relate to ourselves as failures. We will expose the tactics that failure stories use to sustain their power. In addition, we will have a chance to connect with stories that we prefer to have relationships with instead. My hope is that through understanding how we can change our own relationships with failure stories, we will develop new ideas for how we might help our clients with those stories as well.
In this workshop, you will be helped to:
This workshop is grounded in a Narrative Worldview. Participants can expect the workshop to be informed by narrative practices, ideas, and ethics. It will be helpful for participants to have previously had some introduction to narrative approaches to helping.
This training will be a live, interactive event using the Zoom web conferencing platform. The training will be live streamed but will not be recorded. By registering, you agree to be a participant in a live-streaming event. No segments of this training will be recorded or made available via video.
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Presenter Bio: Stephen Gaddis, LMFT, PhD, is the founder and director of the Narrative Therapy Initiative (NTI) in Salem, Mass. Steve has studied, practiced, and taught narrative therapy since 1994. He earned his International Postgraduate Diploma in Narrative Therapy at the Dulwich Centre in Adelaide, Australia, where he studied with Michael White. Steve also spent a year teaching narrative therapy in the graduate school of counseling at the University of Waikato in Hamilton, New Zealand. He has published and presented on narrative therapy nationally and internationally. Currently, Steve has a full-time narrative therapy and supervision practice in Salem, Mass., and he teaches narrative therapy at Boston College as well as independently through NTI. Steve received his doctorate in marriage and family therapy from Syracuse University.