When people lose sight of their capabilities they often experience their lives in a single-storied manner.  At these times life seems difficult and the basic skills and knowledges previously relied upon are experienced as hard-pressed to recapture.  Despite this, people's lives are multi-storied, and it is invariably the case that they do possess these knowledges and skills.  Narrative explorations contribute to identification and to the rich development of the alternative stories of people's lives, and to the high visibility of these knowledges and skills.

These narratives explorations can be likened to journeys, and therapists are guided in these journeys by a range of maps.  These maps do not specify the destination and they do not determine the route taken.  However, they do provide the therapist with an orientation along the way.  This orientation assists therapist to recognize avenues of possibility in the terrain of people's lives, and provides a basis for the development of powerful therapeutic questions that have the potential to speed people to their chosen destinations in life. 

This workshop will help professionals with an advanced understanding of narrative practices to further refine their knowledge and gain an increased clarity of how they might go forward in their lives consulting with others.