We are beginning our bi- yearly counseling class We offer a six month course,no homework, rich in practical experience and theoretical understanding of Narrative counseling. Our new class will be Monday evenings Narrative counseling helps the client rediscover their strength of their identity in order to live the life that makes sense d creates satisfaction
What is narrative therapy? Narrat
ive therapy is an approach to counseling and community work. It centers people as the experts in their own lives and views problems as separate from people. Narrative therapy assumes that people have many skills, resources, beliefs, values, commitments and abilities that will assist them to reduce the influence of problems in their lives. The word 'narrative' refers to the emphasis that is placed upon the stories of people's lives and the differences that can be made through particular tellings and retellings of these stories. Narrative therapy involves ways of understanding the stories of people's lives, and ways of re-authoring these stories in collaboration between the therapist / community worker and the people's whose lives are being discussed. It is a way of working that is interested in history, the broader context that is affecting people's lives and the ethics or politics of therapy If you would like to know more please feel free to look up the website www.jnti.netChana Rachel Frumin, MS, CNT is the director of Jerusalem Narrative Therapy Institute.The Institute which has been opened for 22 years teaches narrative counseling as well as offering support groups and private consultations She supervises a staff of 10 therapists with a wide variety of specializations, and practices as an individual, couple and family counselor. Some of her ares of specialization is focused on living freed from childhood trauma, support for women in challenging marriages and creating new identity in marital counseling. Her current research focuses on understanding trauma as a vehicle for reclamation of identity. Her most recent project The Shalom Project is to provide 12 weeks of subsidized therapy for marginalized individuals and couples and supervise the staff of therapists who are donating their time to this project.
