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Narrativ Praksis

Narrativ Praksis is hosting 2012’s Narrative Conference in Copenhagen and are happy to welcome you all.

Narrativ Praksis is a Danish institute in Narrative praxis, education and therapy represented by Jannike Fogh, Helene Grau, Christian Kragh Pedersen, Rasmus Olsen and Maria Lykke. The group of five Danish psychologists originally met in Adelaide, Australia, while studying narrative ideas with Michael White, Maggie Carey and others. Returning to Denmark they decided to make a narrative center in Copenhagen for teaching and consulting. If you want to learn more about us and our work, visit our homepage at: www.narrativ-praksis.dk

Narrativ Praksis have taken on the task of being the people in charge of this conference. Furthermore we are the creators of one the three tracks on the conference: Narratives of the Body.

Narrativ Praksis is organizing the Narrative Conference in co-operation with several people, companies and organizations. The list below is the involved people’s own descriptions of who they are.

CP ORGANIZERS

ATTRACTOR
Resting upon the principles of systemic and narrative thinking, Attractor offers consultancy and educational services. In doing so, we collaborate closely with academics and systemic practitioners from around the world. Our core area of focus is on the development of individual and collective skills in groups and organizations. We offer services within executive and managerial development and training, coaching, communication, project management, team organizing and mergers as well as strategy and change processes. Read more about us on our web page: www.attractor.dk

DISPUK is one of the leading training institutes in narrative therapy in Scandinavia and probably in Europe. DISPUK was established in 1990 by Allan Holmgren. The buildings where DISPUK is now was a former private psychiatric half way house for persons between 18 and 15 years old who had had a career in psychiatric hospitals suffering from severe mental problems, and who carried "heavy diagnosis" in their lives. Michael White visited this private institution when he was in Scandinavia for the first time in 1987. Through all the years DISPUK has had a close cooperation with Michael White both while he was a part of Dulwich Centre and when he broke with Dulwich Centre to establish his own centre in Adelaide together with Maggie Carrey and Shona Russel in 2006-2007.

DISPUK offers short term and long term training programs, workshops and seminars in narrative and poststructuralist therapy and also in narrative leadership and organizational work. DISPUK offers also a lot of supervision and therapy. There are ten full time employed consultants in DISPUK, four administrative staff members and six staff members in the three kitchens in the three houses. DISPUKs two main buildings are located North of Copenhagen, South of Elsinore in Snekkersten, directly to the sea, along the coastline. The third building is located in Aarhus. See www.dispuk.dk

LONE LARSEN is an independent consultant. Lone Larsen offers and delivers consultancy services within the public and private area for individuals and groups. Lone Larsen’s core businesses are facilitations of organizational development processes, conflicts and coaching. My work is founded in the systemic, appreciative and narrative methods and theories.

Learn more about me at: www.lonelarsen.dk

NARRATIV KOMMUNIKATION & TERAPI engages therapy based on social constructionist theory and narrative method. The company specializes in HR tasks as well as business coaching. Narrativ Kommunikation & Terapi is owned by Lotte Kjær Guld who is one of the three designers behind the StoryMaking track.
StoryMaking reflects the main inspiration in the work performed by Narrativ Kommunikation & Terapi, which is the ideology that life plots change continuously and are interchangable, being woven through the pool of stories formed from larger life discourses, through to the smaller fragments of everyday life.

Learn more about me at: www.lotteguld.dk

NARRATIVE PERSPEKTIVER is a Danish company for therapy, education and consultancy. It offers 1-3 year long educations in the narrative practice for psychologist and other professionals, workshops of all kinds, coaching, and supervision of professionals from the social services and organizations of different kinds all over the country.Narrative Perspektiver covers conversations in Copenhagen with children, adolescents, couples and families often referred by their own insurance, or paid by their workplaces.

Narrative Perspektiver is owned by Anne Saxtorph. She is a colorful and engaged teacher, psychologist, Specialist and Supervisor in psychotherapy, as well as Specialist in Organizational Psychology. She is certified with the International Narrative education from Adelaide by Michael White in 2006 and have visited Art Fisher and his men's group in Novo Scotia 2009. Learn more about Narrative Perspektiver at: www.annesaxtorph.dk

STOK is the abbreviation for the Danish Association for Systemic and Narrative Therapy and Consultation and the unification in Denmark, whose task it is to gather people who work with systemic and narrative ideas and to disseminate those ideas.

The association was founded in 1988 in Copenhagen and has basically aims to raise awareness of the systemic and narrative perspective into organizations and treatment institutions. The association works on a non-profit basis and has today 4-500 members. STOK has 9 networking groups anchored around the country where members meet and exchange experiences and methodological forms. In other words STOK for many years has helped to form the idea of a very respectful and rewarding approach of social work in Denmark.

This, in both the public sector and in privately owned institutions, with people who need or are forced to be under various forms of social action.
In addition, STOK is working together with private companies and organizations that work with the systemic and narrative ideas.

Each year STOK organizes an annual meeting with keynote speakers from home and abroad as well as workshops, where practitioners from across the country has the opportunity to show their work and exchange experiences with colleagues. STOK also organizes courses for dissemination and training.
Read more at www.danskstok.dk

VILLA VENIRE is a consulting, educational and coaching company. Our primary focus is to facilitate development and productive learning environments by making it possible for individuals as well as organizations to qualify already existing experiences. In doing so, we draw upon a systemic, appreciative and narrative framework as well as our continuous pursuit to create effect.

We offer a variety of services within the field of education, workshops, organizational development, process facilitation, leadership- and employee development, teamwork, coaching and therapy. See www.villavenire.dk

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