Saturday, June 17th

10AM-10:45AM: Opening in the Auditorium, Faculty of the Humanities, University of Cologne

11AM-1PM: Parallel Workshops

  • A1: „Das Mobile of Life®: Arbeiten mit innerem Narrativ und Lebensentwurf“  (Denise Ritter, Germany) (german)

  • A2: „Erzählungen im System – Narrative Perspektiven in der systemischen Beratung“ (Robert Baum, Germany) (german)

  • A3: „Experiencing the importance of the „invisible“. A narrative metaphor of reality in human relationships” (Mario Fernández Alameda, Spain) (english)

  • A4: Narrative Counselling in business communications (Tanya Anistratenko, Russia) (english)

 

 2:30PM–4:30PM: Parallel Workshops

  • B1: „Das Mobile of Life®: Arbeiten mit innerem Narrativ und Lebensentwurf“  (Denise Ritter, Germany) (german)

  • B2: „Working with displaced people: their self-expression through narratives and art“ (Alina Olishchuk, Ukraine) (english)
  • B3: „Retelling our stories: how effective measurement , empathy, paradoxical agenda setting and adequate therapeutic techniques can bring clients to reexamine the stories that they tell themselves” (Yehuda & Amira Bar Shalom, Israel) (english)

  • B4: „Let your Self tell you a story: Basic emotional competence as a pen for writing authentic life stories“ (Ivana Paunovic, Serbia) (english)

 

8:30PM–10PM: Open discussion
„The role of counselling in times of peace and war“ with Alina Olishchuk (Ukraine), Yehuda Bar Shalom (Israel), Tanya Anistratenko (Russia), Dirk Rohr (Germany)

 

Sunday, June 18th

9:00AM: Opening in the Auditorium, Faculty of the Humanities, University of Cologne

9:15 AM–10AM: David Denborough (Australia)
 Narrative Perspectives in Counselling (working title) (live via video call)

10AM–1PM: Jill Freedman & Gene Combs (USA)
 Narrative Therapy: A Personal History

2:30PM–3PM: Denise Ritter (Germany)

The Mobile of Life®: a creative way to transform inners narratives – and life!

 

3PM–3:30PM: Yehuda & Amira Bar Shalom (Israel)

Integrating humanistic, TEAM CBT, motivational and narrative approaches in effective counseling 

 

3:45PM–5PM: Kenneth Gergen (USA)

Constructing Worlds: Narrative and Beyond  (live via video call)

Monday, June 19th & Tuesday, June 20th

Post-Conference-Workshop "Introduction to Narrative Therapy" with Jill Freedman & Gene Combs (USA)