Dave and Julie currently conduct workshops on several topics. All of their workshops are interactive, experiential, and focused on blending theory and practice in thought-provoking and applicable ways. They can tailor the presentation to your needs

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Treating Huck Finn AND Pippi Longstocking:
Collaborative Practice with Kids

In this workshop, Dave and Julie focus on working with kids, youth, and families. Emphasis is placed on deconstructing the diagnoses and problems (e.g., ADHD, Aspergers, "anger problems," bipolar) that young people are frequently accused of having and offering an alternative practice that is based on family competence and is informed by multi-contextual factors.   

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Don't Kill Your TV Yet:
Leveraging Pop Culture in Therapy

Julie and Dave take an alternative look at pop culture's influence on youth and invite therapists to make space for young clients to talk about their interests in pop culture. The presentation will take a both/and look at pop culture, viewing it as a potential site for productive meaning making and identity development as well as a source of negative influence and reinforcement of limiting identity conclusions.

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Queer Theory, Queer Therapy:
Post-identities for the Post Modern World

Drawing from current thinking in the areas of queer theory, Dave and Julie examine the dilemmas and possibilities that emerge when identity is constructed based on gender and sexuality. Work with queer clients from a social justice framework that considers the intersectionality with other identity markers will be demonstrated.   Participants will be invited to reflect on their beliefs about gender and sexuality and efforts will be made to situate personal ideas within the broader cultural contexts that shape them.

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Life Between the Binary:
Gender Transgression and the Non-trans Helper

Dave and Julie examine transgender issues through experiential activities, critical readings of pop culture, and therapy transcripts.   The intersection of class and race with performance of gender and sexuality will also be considered as participants are invited to examine the meanings they make around gender and the factors that have influenced these meanings. Strategies for positioning oneself as an accountable ally will be presented.

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Beyond Diversity:
Positioning Yourself for a Socially Just Practice

Julie and Dave go beyond the notion of "celebrating" or "embracing" diversity and delve into an examination of the ubiquitous issues of power and privilege that serve as the under girding of systems of oppression and marginalization. Participants will explore issues of racism, classism, heterosexism/homophobia, ageism, ableism, sexism, and intersectionality. The format is interactive and experiential, encourages reflexivity, and includes practical strategies for clinical work.

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Fire Up! Battle Burnout by Rekindling the Flame:
Reclaiming Your Mission

This is a very happy-making workshop for therapists, educators, and social service providers. Julie and Dave invite participants to reclaim, rediscover, and re-remember why they are in the field they chose, what they bring to it, when they are at their best, what others most value about them, and what it is that can keep them going--individually and as a team. This is a generative process that privileges the stories and knowledges of the participants.

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Client Directed Outcome Informed Practice (CDOI)

As Certified Trainers of CDOI through the Institute for the Study of Therapeutic Change (www.talkingcure.com) Dave and Julie provide introductory and advanced training in CDOI as well as ongoing consultation in the implementation of these practices. As always, they bring their unique knack for creating fun, provocative, and useful workshops that are founded on an ethic of justice and respect.

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