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Conference Plenaries

SAFE Symposium, Auckland, New Zealand. 2009:
    Transforming Moments: using the stuff that happens in the room.

Therapeutic Conversations 8 Conference,  Vancouver and Toronto, Canada. 2007:
    Creating Storylines in the Present Moment.

Relationships New Zealand Conference, Wellington, New Zealand. 2006:
    Love, Loyalty and Lust. 

The International Conference on Family Therapy, Washington, USA. 2005:
    Gimme Shelter but Don‘t Fence Me In. 

Narrative and Community Work Conference, Chicago, USA. 2003:
    Challenging Orthodoxy.

The Pan Pacific Family Therapy Conference ,Melbourne, Australia. 2001:
    To Do No Harm

Narrative Ideas and Therapeutic Practice Conference, Vancouver, Canada. 1995:
    What I’ve been thinking about

The 2nd Australian and New Zealand Family Therapy Conference, Sydney, Australia. 1992:
    Family Therapy ... What’s in a name?

The New Zealand Family Therapy Conference. 1988:
    Where there is a relationship there is Gender

Conference Presentations

The Relational Center Conference, Los Angeles, USA. 2011:
    Community Responses to Trauma with Lynne Rosen

The Relational Center Conference, Los Angeles, USA. 2011:
    Pre-Conference Workshop Working in the present moment

The Australian Genetic Conference 2005

Supervision Conference 2004

Practice and Prevention: contemporary issues in adult sexual assault, NSW, Australia 2003

Narrative Therapy and Community Work Conference, Canberra 2001

Australian Family Therapy Conference 1987, 1990, 1991, 2001, 2006

New Zealand Family Therapy Conference 1985 to 1995, 1999

Narrative Therapy and Community Work Conference, Adalaide 1995, 1997, 1999

Therapeutic Conversations Conference, Vancouver 1996
The Hearts Narrative by Johnella Bird

Publications

Changing Narratives Changing Lives (2010, Series 2, DVD set and workbook).

Constructing Narratives to Make a Difference (2008, Series 1, DVD set and workbook).

Constructing the Narrative in Supervision (2006)

Talk That Sings: therapy in a new linguistic key (2004)

The Heart’s Narrative: therapy and navigating life’s contradictions  (2000, Reprinted 2002, Third print 2006)

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Johnella Bird, barefoot trainer

Workshops, Seminars, & Training

From 1988 to 2013 Johnella offered a comprehensive teaching program in Auckland from The Family Therapy Centre .

During the same period she also gave more than 100 workshops to public and private organsiations in 8 countries. These included:

New Zealand: Christchurch and Wellington Narrative Group; Tauranga Consultation group; Faculty of Health and Environmental Sciences, Auckland University of Technology; GSE; NZ College of Clinical Psychologists; Bethlehem Tertiary Institute; Unitec; Victoria Psychology Clinic; Waitemata Health; Career Centre; Special Education Service; Narrative Interest Group Dunedin; Sexual Assault Services, New Plymouth, Christchurch, Wellington, Palmerston North; Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services, Auckland, Whanganui, Whangarei, Invercargill, Wellington.

Australia: Eastern Domestic Violence Service EDVOS Melbourne; Laurel House North and North-West Tasmania Sexual Assault Support Services; Narrative Training Centre Melbourne; Karuna Centre Canberra; Newcastle Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services; Youth & Womens Health Services Adelaide; Relationships Australia; Combined Women’s Service Inc Townsville; Woollongong West Street Centre; Women In  Management Melbourne; The Narrative Network Group Melbourne; Education Centre Against Violence Sydney; Wesley Child & Family Services Sydney; NorthWest Community Health Counsellors Forum; Men & Family Centre Lismore; Education Centre Against Violence Sydney; Wentworth Area Services Sydney; Hunter Institute Newcastle; South Western Area Health Sydney; Australian Relationship Services Canberra, Adalaide, Darwin.

Canada: The Winnipeg Narrative Group; City University Vancouver; Yaletown Centre Vancouver; The Narrative Project Edmonton.

USA: The Relational Center, Los Angeles.

Norway: Family and Couple Services Stavanger; Family Services Risor.

Denmark: Family Centre Malov, Stok

United Kingdom: University of Bristol; Marlborough Family Service London.

South Africa: Capetown, Pretoria.

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