The Allender Center at The Seattle School, which exists to steward and advance the legacy of Dr. Dan B. Allender’s trauma-focused narrative therapy and foster redemption and healing in people’s lives through this work, recently announced the fall lineup of offerings.
Celebrating ten years of The Story Workshop as the cornerstone of its offerings, The Allender Center is excited to continue the work of transforming lives through its popular workshops, conferences, locally-based group work, and training programs. Consider joining us this fall to enter into your story, your marriage, or your vocational work with more awareness and integrity.
The Story Workshop
Seattle, WA | August 21-24, 2014
Delve deeply into the stories of your past, experience healing and transformation in the present, and move boldly into the story of your future. The Story Workshop offers encouragement as you seek to understand, write, tell, and live your story in deeper and more transformative ways.
Register before July 28 and save $50 off the final price! Learn more and register »
Story Groups—To Be Told: Know Your Story, Shape Your Future
Seattle, WA | September 16-November 18, 2014
The 10-week To Be Told group experience invites you to explore the aspects of your story that have significantly shaped your style of relating to others and your engagement with the world as you process and journey alongside others and a trained facilitator.
Learn more and register to join this fall’s Story Group »
Intimate Mystery Conference
Seattle, WA | October 3-4, 2014
Fontana, WI | November 7-8, 2014
Explore God’s design for marriage on a journey toward deeper intimacy. Intimate Mystery is a two-day conference designed to invite you to an honest exploration of what you and your partner create together in light of your unique stories, inviting you to candidly engage the inherent joys and struggles of marriage and relationship through the categories of communication, conflict, dreams and demands, family ties, forgiveness, and sex.
Learn more and register for the Intimate Mystery Conference in Seattle, WA »
Learn more and register for the Intimate Mystery Conference in Fontana »
Women’s Recovery Week I
Chapel Hill, NC |November 30-December 5, 2014
Led by Dr. Dan B. Allender, these six-day workshops are designed to help the victim of sexual abuse explore the issues related to their recovery in a nurturing, kind environment free from normal daily distractions.
This workshop is full, but other Recovery Weeks will take place in the future. Learn more about the next Women’s Recovery Week I workshop, May 31-June 5 in Union, WA »
Advanced Counseling Certificate Program
Seattle, WA | September 25-28, 2014; November 20-23, 2014; January 29–February 1, 2015; April 9-12, 2015
The Advanced Counseling Certificate is a training designed to provide counseling professionals with a robust understanding of the Allender Center methodology, as well as a narrative framework for understanding and engaging the impact of trauma and abuse within the therapeutic relationship.
Accepting applications as seats are available. Apply today to join the fall 2014 cohort »
Lay Counseling Certificate Program
Seattle, WA | September 25-28, 2014; November 20-23, 2014; January 29–February 1, 2015; April 9-12, 2015
The Lay Counseling Certificate is a training that empowers leaders as they come alongside, listen, engage and facilitate transformation. True leadership means being able to understand and delve into the complex realms of the human condition. Designed for a diverse array of leaders who are caring for people and their stories, the Lay Counseling Certificate cultivates the ability to feel more deeply and the capacity to access the greatest gift we have to offer others—our presence.