Training at Universities
UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN:
Part-time lecturer at the Child Guidance Clinic for the Clinical Psychology M-students
I am teaching seminars on Narrative Therapy and supervising narrative therapy work at the Child Guidance Clinic where the master students of clinical psychology receive their training. I started teaching here in 2005.
UNIVERSITY OF STELLENBOSCH:
Seminars and Workshops in the Department of Educational Psychology for the M Ed psych students
I have been involved in teaching and supervising Narrative Therapy practices with the M Ed (psych) students of the Department of Educational Psychology at the University of Stellenbosch since 1999. My involvement with these students who are often connected to a diversity of communities through their work within the Education Department and other institutions concerned with working with children and their families enriches my practice.
UNIVERSITY OF STELLENBOSCH:
Seminars and workshops in the Department of Practical Theology, M Th Clinical Pastoral Care
In 2007 I started teaching the narrative therapy course in the training of students of pastoral care students at the university of Stellenbosch. I have completed a MTh in pastoral therapy at Unisa in 2003 and has an active interest in theology.
SUPERVISOR AND CONSULTANT FOR THE INSTITUTE FOR THERAPEUTIC DEVELOPMENT:
MTh programme in Pastoral Therapy
The Institute for Therapeutic Development (ITD), which was established to offer therapeutic training on a variety of levels and in various contexts, presented courses in pastoral therapy in collaboration with the Department of Practical Theology of the University of South Africa (Unisa). Prof Dirk Kotzé from ITD approached me to assist with the training and supervision of the M Th and D Th students in the Western Cape. In 2000 I started working with the first group of students. Four groups of students had subsequently completed their internships in the Cape. Both my work as a therapist and as a trainer has benefited richly from my association and collaboration with my ITD-colleagues, Prof Dirk Kotzč, Dr Elmarie Kotzč and Dr Johann Roux. The contract that ITD had with Unisa came to an end in December 2006.
The publishing division of ITD, Ethics Alive, has been responsible for the publication of some of the work done by their students and staff members. These publications provide very accessible reading on the application of narrative ideas and practices within the South African context and about the way in which the students take the theoretical ideas to their practices.
