Advanced Intensive in Tuscany, Italy

with Jill Freedman and Gene Combs
Dates: Sunday, September 22 - Saturday, September 28, 2024 (check-in Sunday evening, leaving the B&B on Saturday morning)
Limited to 15 participants

Tuition: $750 (US)

In Fall 2024 we will convene our eleventh advanced intensive in the Tuscan countryside. Our friends, the Rossi family, will once again welcome us to their highly rated bed and breakfast, Podere Ponte a Nappo, just outside the walls of the gorgeous hill town of San Gimignano.

Location: Ponte A Nappo Bed & Breakfast, San Gimignano, Italy

We will join with up to 15 other experienced practitioners of narrative therapy for 5 full days, with a welcoming dinner on the night before the workshop begins.

We will meet for two 3-hour blocks each day; often outside in the beautiful and lushly maintained gardens of the bed and breakfast. This will leave time for extended walks in the town or the countryside, visits to other hill towns, drives through the Chianti country, or just relaxing among the olive groves and vineyards. Partners, family members, or traveling companions will be welcome to join us for meals and excursions.

In the weeks before we meet we will correspond with participants to learn of their work contexts, the practices they are excited to develop further, and the challenges they are facing in their practice. We will use this input to plan a set of experiences that meet as many specific requests, contexts, and challenges as we can during our time together. We will also share some of our newest work and provide structure for exercises and reflection.

Registration: We plan the course with the assumption that attendees have considerable familiarity and experience with narrative ideas and practices. (Something approximating at least a year long program and currently practicing as a narrative therapist) If you want to join us, please fill out the form at the bottom of this page so that we can be sure your desires and experience fit with our intentions.

In order to qualify for group rates, we all stay at B&B Ponte a Nappo throughout the workshop. Lodging and food fees are paid directly to Ponte a Nappo, and are in addition to the workshop fee. Once you have been accepted, we will send you a link for registration with the Rossi family at Ponte a Nappo.

Continuing Education Credits: 30 total (for six hours each day). A certificate of completion will be provided to each participant on the final day. See below for details on CEUs.

Accommodations: Accommodations, which are billed separately, are arranged by participants directly with - and paid to - the bed and breakfast in San Gimignano, Ponte a Nappo. Visit Ponte A Nappo's website here to learn more about them.

**We are an approved provider of continuing education credits (CEUs) by the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation for social workers (LCSW/LSW) and marriage and family therapists (MFT) We provide certificates of attendance for our workshops and trainings. To determine the credit requirements for your professional license please contact your local agency.