Curriculum.

The Apprenticeship is divided into three levels. Each period of apprenticeship is designed to be complete in itself and we anticipate that apprentices will wish to continue to develop their practice over two or more years. There are several facets to the learning outlined below.

Training through Transcripts

Each month you will present a transcript of your practice which will be studied in detail by your apprenticers (David, Tom or Kay). In their study of your transcript, they will amend your transcript by adding alternative questions (questions that they themselves would ask,) into your transcript and then meet with you for an hour over Zoom to teach you advanced counter-storying practices. Kay or Tom will work with most of your transcripts and David will work on one, later in the year, once you have had time to immerse yourself and your practice in the teachings.

Details & Practicalities
Your transcript should be sent to your apprenticer one week before your training session on Zoom

• Your apprenticer will work on your transcript for one hour before the session.
• You will meet one-on-one with your apprenticer for one hour on Zoom
• Your apprenticer will send you your amended transcript immediately after the session
• When you receive your ammended transcript, send it to your team, ready for discussion at your meeting at the end of the month.

Level One

Level One involves monthly training through transcript meetings with your apprenticers. Over the course of the year, you will participate in 10 transcript review sessions (4 each with Kay and Tom, and 2 with David and the end of the year). You will also participate in meetings with an assigned study partner to review each other's transcripts and talk about what you are learning together. 

Level Two

In addition to monthly transcript review meetings, at level two you will meet once a month with your apprenticeship cohort to study contemporary narrative therapy ideas and practices and to discuss your learning and share ideas. These meetings will include a traiing session by Kay, Tom, or David and will include a discussion related to your own learning so far. Prepare for each meeting by studying your latest transcript and bring a question for the team to discuss. Be ready to speak about what you are learning at the start of each meeting. This could be about learning about a particular question, a particular practice, or how your learning is showing up in your practice.

Level Three

While level three involves both individual transcript review and group meetings, the purpose of this level is to help apprentices move into the artistry of their own unique practice. 

Story Sessions

Several times a year, the group will meet with Kay and Tom to study stories from practice. You will write your own map of the stories as a way of playing with inventing new ways of describing narrative practice and share and discuss the maps together.

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Letter Sessions

 At least once a year, you will write a narrative letter and submit it to the group. We will meet together to learn from each other’s letter writing.

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End of Year Show

In February we will all meet together to celebrate your learning over the year. You will be asked to bring an ‘exhibit’ for the show, which tells the story of your learning. This could be a story, a letter, a reflection, or something else.

Being an Apprentice Video

For a taste of what it is to be an apprentice watch this video of a Sergovia Masterclass.