Medical and psychological practices have historically been  informed by modernist clinical perspectives. The short course explores the interaction between pastoral narrative and clinical perspectives.

Medical and psychological practices have historically been  informed by modernist clinical perspectives. The short course explores the interaction between pastoral narrative and clinical perspectives. The topic for doing the aforementioned revolves, for the current year, around bulimia and anorexia.

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Course description

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

This course gives participants an overview of the main ideas informing a narrative approach as relevant in narrative therapy and community work. A narrative approach also has application beyond the context of counseling and can be used as, or, in some coaching genres, notably life coaching, or in facilitation and other helping relationships. But first, get familiar with it in its original context narrative therapy or counselling in order to understand its wider application.

The short course is built around the first 8 - 12 lectures of the Coram Deo Advanced Programme in Pastoral Narrative Therapy. Students who do this short course qualify for discount on the advanced programme either in the same year, or with new enrolment from September.  

Participants should be able to complete the online self-paced version of the course in 12 hours.

Short course outcomes in a narrative approach

• Learn how to make sense of the stories that surround us: our own, families, films, media, organisations, and society.
• How to unpack and question those stories that tear us down.
• How to build up the narratives that we want to live in and empower us to reach our full potential.
• Get a better perspective on what shapes our identity and develop our preferred way of being in the world.

This short course takes as foundational text the book of Alice Morgan. Lecturers use select aspects of the book and add to it from their own experience or other sources. Part One: What is narrative therapy? 1. Understanding our lives through stories 2. Stories in the therapeutic context 3. Externalising conversations: Naming the problem 4. Tracing the history of the problem 5. Exploring the effects of the problem 6. Situating the problem in context: Deconstruction 7. Discovering unique outcomes 8. Tracing the history and meaning of the unique outcome and naming an alternative story Part Two: Thickening the alternative story 9. Re-membering conversations 10. Therapeutic documentation 11. Therapeutic letters 12. Rituals and celebrations 13. Expanding the conversation 14. Outsider-witness groups and definitional ceremonies Participants will have to mark each lesson complete before being allowed to continue with the next lesson.

This short course takes as base text the book of Alice Morgan. Lecturers use select aspects of the book and add to it from their own experience or other sources. Part One: What is narrative therapy? 1. Understanding our lives through stories 2. Stories in the therapeutic context 3. Externalising conversations: Naming the problem 4. Tracing the history of the problem 5. Exploring the effects of the problem 6. Situating the problem in context: Deconstruction 7. Discovering unique outcomes 8. Tracing the history and meaning of the unique outcome and naming an alternative story Part Two: Thickening the alternative story 9. Re-membering conversations 10. Therapeutic documentation 11. Therapeutic letters 12. Rituals and celebrations 13. Expanding the conversation 14. Outsider-witness groups and definitional ceremonies Participants will have to mark each lesson complete before being allowed to continue with the next lesson.

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

This module/course is part of the pastoral care modules that together deal with Theology as Meaning System for Pastoral Practitioners Block 1: Narrative pastoral care (introducing the conversation). This module/course also the second module of the Advanced Programme in Pastoral Narrative Therapy.

This course/module further enriches learners' understanding of pastoral care by unpacking discourses one will encounter in pastoral care. It is the second, last, module of the pastoral care block of PNT1, Theology as Meaning System for Pastoral Practitioners. It forms the fourth, and last, module of the first year of PNT.

As an introduction to pastoral family therapy, this course introduces working with families as a context in therapy. It traces the theoretical development of the discipline over against other approaches and offers thoughts on what aspects of narrative practice are of particular importance when working with groups or families.

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This course (also a module of the Advanced Programme in Pastoral Narrative Therapy) introduces learners to prominent ideas in narrative therapy.

In the contemplative tradition of Christianity you are invited to 'sit in each other's silence.' You may also wish to join the Coram Deo contemplative group on the website where participants can continue to reflect on their experiences. The online live group comes together on most Thursday mornings. Reach out to us and we'll connect you.

This course is a CPD module in the Coram Deo CPD series. Key concepts: Intergrative organisational praxis (What it is, and a biblical grounding), Business units, Storying organisations (an evolutionary perspective), Congregational management and the pastoral role, Relational leading, Ongoing conversation about the role of pastoral and narrative therapy in said context.

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

Here supervision students can locate all the recordings of the supervision meetups.

The official course for regular supervision meetups.

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Tales of practice is a space/class/event where current students (the primary audience), public and other practitioners can meet practitioners or lecturers or other affiliated Coram Deo people of interest – to learn from the practitioner’s journey and reflect on their own.