Narrative Therapy & Community Work Course

Narrative therapy is a respectful, non-blaming approach to counselling and community work, which centres people as the experts in their own lives. It views problems as separate from people and assumes people have many skills, competencies, beliefs, values, commitments and abilities that will assist them in reducing the influence of problems in their lives. Narrative approaches to therapy and community work are used by social workers, psychologists, community development workers, nurses, teachers, doctors and other health professionals in a wide range of practice settings. 

The one-year course in Narrative Therapy and Community Work provides formal training and recognition for narrative therapy and is delivered as a joint initiative of the Centre for Mental Health, SOS Children's Villages Rwanda and the Geruka Healing Centre.  The training program seeks to enable participants to develop basic skills in narrative practice and to gather a working knowledge of how the art of narrative practice is engaged differently in a diversity of contexts. Significantly, it also seeks to challenge participants to innovate their own forms of narrative practice. Participants are therefore invited to contribute to an ever-increasing diversity of narrative practice (rather than only confirming, or conforming to, what is already known).