This course is a first-year module of the Advanced Programme in Pastoral Narrative Therapy.

This course is a second-year module of the Advanced Programme in Pastoral Narrative Therapy.

This course is a first-year module of the Advanced Programme in Pastoral Narrative Therapy.

This course is a module of the first-year programme, the Advanced programme in pastoral narrative therapy.

This course is a second-year module of the Advanced Programme in Pastoral Narrative Therapy.

Many societies today honour the role that faith plays in our lives. People are however not sure how to draw on faith experiences and our relationship with God to use it in a practical way when helping people. Furthermore, many practices that people assume to be helpful can have a quite detrimental effect. It deals with the following topics.

• In conversation with religion, faith and spirituality
• What do I believe and why do I believe that (Faith Creed)
• Interacting with religion, faith and spirituality
• A Participating Narrative Pastoral Theology and Praxis – in Construction
• Rituals, Symbols, Ceremonies & Spiritual Practices
• The Spirituality of the Therapist in the Counselling Room
• Sacred Conversations
• Destructive Spirituality

Many societies today honour the role that faith plays in our lives. People are however not sure how to draw on faith experiences and our relationship with God to use it in a practical way when helping people. Furthermore, many practices that people assume to be helpful can have a detrimental effect. Working with faith in helping relationships are influenced by many ways that people think about and practice their faith. We need to find respectful unassuming ways to work with faith that honours peoples' beliefs without putting them in boxes or to expect of them to believe in the way that we do as practitioners (counsellors, leaders, or anyone who is a believer).

Many societies today honour the role that faith plays in our lives. People are however not sure how to draw on faith experiences and our relationship with God to use it in a practical way when helping people. Furthermore, many practices that people assume to be helpful can have a detrimental effect. Working with faith in helping relationships are influenced by many ways that people think about and practice their faith. We need to find respectful unassuming ways to work with faith that honours peoples' beliefs without putting them in boxes or to expect of them to believe in the way that we do as practitioners (counsellors, leaders, or anyone who is a believer).

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This course is a CPD module in the Coram Deo CPD series.

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Learning into narrative therapy is a course as part of the first-year modules of the Advanced programme in Pastoral Narrative Therapy.

Not all stories are healthy. Stories that help us are called life sustaining. We want to live in them and in order to do that we have to thicken our preferred identities. Material covered include Life Story Interviews and Motivational Interviewing but only to the degree that supports Narrative Therapy ideas. The rest of the material comes from Freedman & Combs, on Narrative Therapy.

This course is a CPD module in the Coram Deo CPD series.

Making meaning with children is about involving children in the means and the ends of what helps them heal, grow and be resilient. The course takes a holistic approach. It is presented by various lecturers. Some of the aspects include the legal framework to consider when working with children, working with what is known as 'the voice of the child' often used in mediation practices, engaging in playful ways to work with children as well as a spiritual pastoral perspective. The course is both a module of the advanced programme pastoral narrative therapy and then on rotating years incorporated into the continued development programme of Coram Deo.

This course deals with doing narrative therapy with children and is presented with Dr Elsabe Bosch Brits.

This course is a CPD module in the Coram Deo CPD series.

This course is a CPD module in the Coram Deo CPD series.

This course is a first-year module of the Advanced Programme in Pastoral Narrative Therapy

This course (also a module of the first year of the Advanced Programme in Pastoral Narrative Therapy [PNT1]) goes deeper into different ideas of narrative therapy as encountered in the first narrative module. The metaphor of a map is used to venture into important practices that give expression to narrative therapy. It is the third module of PNT1 (and the second, last, module that deals specifically with narrative therapy during the first year).

Course description

This course is a CPD module in the Coram Deo CPD series.

The course advances participants' understanding of the medical and psychological discourses one might encounter when doing pastoral and or narrative counselling. This is important for when working in a multidisciplinary environment, for referral, and in order to stay true to the paradigm of pastoral narrative therapy.