NIRI: Narrative Therapy Informed Relational Interviewing
New ways of working with Highly Conflicted Couple Relationships
Course Overview
In this course you will learn:
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Why NIRI sessions begin with remembering relational values and the origin story of the couple relationship (before the partial story of the conflict) to engage a double description and difference
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The use, structure, grammar, politic, and purpose of relational remembering and reauthoring questions
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To identify the influence of relational and cultural contexts shaping and influencing couple relationship practices
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The process of re-authoring responses to expressions of couple conflict as loss and grief of the relationships pre-problem values
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The NIRI process of asking questions and writing therapeutic letters directly to the Couple Relationship
Day 1
8:15 AM – 11 AM
Ecology of the Receiving Context NIRI Receives Conflicted Couple Relations Into:
1 a) Learn new relational ideas about: memory, relational values, norms, suffering narratives, partial stories/partial history, double description and difference, relational grief, conflict, and loss.
1 b) Learn how NIRI couple therapy involves a deliberate political and ideological practice shift towards an ecology of interlocking ideas and therapeutic practices supporting:
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non-individualism/non-essentialism
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relational-contextual inter-connectivity
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me to we consciousness
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cultural and contextual complexities
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social rituals, governing norms, and dominant beliefs
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structural inequalities, power relations
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relational responsibilities, obligations, and expectations
Day 1
12:00 PM – 3 PM
Session Video Demonstrations
Discussions on a NIRI couple therapy practice framework
Day 2
8:15 AM – 11 AM
Session Video Demonstrations
New Ideas about Relational Conflict, Grief and Loss
1) A relational response to relational distress
2) A relational protest in support of a preferred relational ethos and,
3) A relational desire to recover values of importance that have been lost
Couple Relationships Relationship to Other Relationships
Demonstrations of reconnecting the intimate relationships relationship to include all the many contextual and culturally inspired relationships their relationship is under the influence of and in relationship with - work, extended family, children, politics, religion etc.
Day 2
12:00 PM – 3 PM
Session Video Demonstrations
Writing letters of consultation directly to the couple relationship