Myself and my 4 colleagues who are completing the international open dialogue 2 year training for trainers in helsinki, commenced the first foundation course in peer supported open dialogue, social network and relationship skills. The five of us attended this course but had all attended previous workshops on open dialogue in addition to conferences and trainings.
The course was accredited by the university of gvorak in norway and was based on a programme that had been running for 10 years and was devised by mark hofenbeck based on a history of network meetings approaches that have been utilised in norway for over 30 years. These approaches are adapted from the work of tom andersen who started to develop a relationship and network intervention in norway in 1987.
In 1988 the finnish team who were working in tornio in western lapland visited tom andersen and from that period there was a collaboration between the finnish and norwegian teams the model also owed much to the work of live fryrand on social network therapy, he was working in oslo during this period.
This adaptation was also much influenced by work occurring in stockholm during this time at the nordic network project. The stockholm group had been influenced by developments in the usa in the early 1970’s the book family networks established this pioneering approach to therapy. This publication written by ross speck and carolyn attneave together with uri rueveni where they explain that their founding principle is that “ any help to be useful must be part of the social context of the person in distress”. The american psychologist david trimble who studied under speck and attneave was much influenced by their thinking and he proved to be a considerable influence on the development of the nordic network project in sweden. This led to a number of clinical groups developing open dialogue projects in norway in the 1990’s and a project based in valdres contacts gvorak university in 2002 subsequently a graduate training was established in 2005.
The course was accredited by the university of gvorak in norway and was based on a programme that had been running for 10 years and was devised by mark hofenbeck based on a history of network meetings approaches that have been utilised in norway for over 30 years. These approaches are adapted from the work of tom andersen who started to develop a relationship and network intervention in norway in 1987.
In 1988 the finnish team who were working in tornio in western lapland visited tom andersen and from that period there was a collaboration between the finnish and norwegian teams the model also owed much to the work of live fryrand on social network therapy, he was working in oslo during this period.
This adaptation was also much influenced by work occurring in stockholm during this time at the nordic network project. The stockholm group had been influenced by developments in the usa in the early 1970’s the book family networks established this pioneering approach to therapy. This publication written by ross speck and carolyn attneave together with uri rueveni where they explain that their founding principle is that “ any help to be useful must be part of the social context of the person in distress”. The american psychologist david trimble who studied under speck and attneave was much influenced by their thinking and he proved to be a considerable influence on the development of the nordic network project in sweden. This led to a number of clinical groups developing open dialogue projects in norway in the 1990’s and a project based in valdres contacts gvorak university in 2002 subsequently a graduate training was established in 2005.
