Narrative Trauma Work (NAT)

NAT TRAINING

The NAT Training is facilitated by our senior NET Institute trainers and originators of the NAT method.

Narrative Trauma Work - NAT was developed to identify and support individuals affected by trauma and social stressors through an effective screening and counselling approach early on - before psychological and physical illnesses can manifest. This target group of highly burdened individuals remains largely unrecognized within our conservative healthcare systems globally. Consequently, not only do individuals fall ill, but cycles of transgenerational violence and suffering are maintained and perpetuated into future generations.

NAT originates both scientifically and clinically in the groundbreaking principles of Narrative Exposure Therapy (NET). The aim of NAT is to reduce, stone-by-stone, the individual building block that has formed through experiences of violence, abuse, neglect, severe stress, and social pain – often beginning in childhood and continuing throughout life. The outcome of successful NAT work is prevention of psychological ill-health and strengthening of effective self-efficacy.

Within a safe, effective and short-term four-step process, guided by an easy-to-understand traffic light system, affected individuals are identified and significantly supported within just a few NAT sessions:

• Health and Safety Screening:
  Do you need help? And if ‘yes’: What type of help?
  Followed by a traffic light evaluation.
• Checklist Interview:
  What happened to you in life?
  How heavy is the backpack of your experiences?
• Laying the Lifeline:
  Show me when and where the important events took place.
• Narrative Exploration Sessions:
  Let us talk about these most important experiences of your life.

NAT enables clients to achieve biographical integration and radical acceptance of past life events. Through the intense process of witnessing and documenting. The NAT provider engages in both, psychological counseling and active human rights work. NAT can be integrated both in population-based service provision, within e.g. a public mental health system, as a low-threshold, stepped-care intervention, or individually applied in psycho-social case work.

Especially social peers, but also non-specialist providers from diverse health and social fields as well as individuals from the legal and educational sectors, and community helpers are invited to learn and offer NAT in their respective contexts.

What is NAT

NAT SUPERVISION

Just as for NET Supervision please write to info@net-institute.org, if you like to book NAT Supervision. These sessions can be offered individually, for small groups, large groups -  on a one-off basis or regularly (e.g., monthly). 

NAT Training

Duration

We will meet either online, in person, or in a hybrid format for 8 full Input Days (09:00 am-05:00 pm or late starter trainings 3:00 pm - 11:00 pm, Central European time CET).

Additionally participants will be encouraged to practice in small groups between Input Days, so as to gain skills step-by-step. Before each new Input Day we also offer a NAT training supervision session, to ensure that participants feel confident in appying the newly acquired skills during homework practice. 

Price

Please go to home page for current NAT training announcements and pricing. 

Participants

Usually 15 - 25 participants per training.

Check Home page for current Open Seminars to register individually. 

For group offers, please inquire at info@net-institute.org

Terms of service

For all our events, please note our terms of service and our rules on confidentiality and safety