References
THERAPY REFERENCES
(Participant workshop references at bottom of page!)
"People of Vancouver - you're lucky to have him! Stephen Madigan's clinical skill is world class. His creativity and imagination inside the therapy room is highly moving - and believe me - he will move you! Place your life in his capable hands and go see him - today!"
Bill O'Hanlon, MA - Sante Fe, New Mexico. Regular Oprah guest and author of 18 self help books including Love is a Verb and Do One Thing Different.
"Stephen Madigan is a master therapist - of which there are VERY few! His work with clients is astounding and represents some of the best therapeutic work I have witnessed over the course of my 40 year career."
Jon Carlson, PhD - Chicago, Illinois, APA Award Winning Distinguished Professor of Psychology. Author of 35 books and 150 articles on psychotherapy.
"Stephen is a wonderful couple therapist - creative, supportive, curious and brilliant! There are very few therapists alive who can do what Stephen does in the therapy room."
Esther Perel, MA - New York City. Author of the 2007 mega selling book for couples entitled Mating in Captivity - Reconciling the Erotic and the Domestic (now translated into more than 20 languages).
"Stephen Madigan's is an incredibly talented therapist who offers couples and individuals a new and innovative perspective on mental health practice. He is a gifted therapist, completely engaging, and his therapeutic approach is so refreshing to have in our field".
Scott D. Miller, Ph.D Chicago, Illinois, Author of The Heroic Client and Co-director, Institute for the Study of Therapeutic Change
"Stephen Madigan has a strong reputation for teaching, live therapy demonstrations (and that takes some courage and confidence in your agility as a practitioner!!) and has done so extensively in North America, Mexico, Africa and Europe. Whenever I teach a workshop after him, I hear nothing but praiseworthy comment. Matter of fact, it is something of a blessing to teach workshops after him as you are always so welcomed. This has something to do with his infectious charm, complete theoretical knowledge, wonderfully creative therapeutic practice and his relentless energy. You must go see him!"
David Epston, MA - Auckland, New Zealand, Co-author of Narrative Means to Therapeutic Ends and Biting the Hand that Starves You.
"Stephen Madigan is a clinician and human being of the highest integrity. His work is all about helping people claim and re-claim the authority to lead their lives with happiness and purpose. His blending of the personal and political is especially empowering. I highly recommend his therapy!"
Stephen Gilligan, PhD - San Diego, California Author of Return to Love-a Self Relations Approach to Therapy.
"Stephen Madigan is not only an incredibly talented therapist and excellent workshop presenter (who has trained thousands of therapists internationally in the ways of narrative therapy), he is also a person of integrity who acts in congruence with the ideals he teaches. I speak from personal experience when I say that Stephen often takes the high and difficult ground of questioning the taken for granted actions and theories of mental health while others simply watched. I highly encourage you to go see this great Canadian thinker."
Barry Duncan, PhD - Miami, Florida. Co-director, Institute for the Study of Therapeutic Change. Author of The Heroic Client; and What's Right with You! Debunking Dysfunction.
"Stephen Madigan is an incredibly gifted and wildly skilled therapist (he's also a great theoretician and writer). If I needed personal help I'd go and see Stephen!"
Professor David Nylund, PhD - Sacramento, California. Author of Narrative Therapy with Children, and Treating Huckleberry Finn: Working With Kids Diagnosed ADD/ADHD.
"Stephen Madigan's therapy works! His therapy is very supportive of couples. I refer my Canadian based clients to him and the feedback has always been excellent!"
Michelle Weiner Davis, MSW - Boulder, Colorado Author of the best selling book Divorce Busting.
PARTICIPANT WORKSHOP REFERENCES
"Stephen your therapy work is so beautiful. It pauses and flows at all the right times. What you do in therapy is very skilled and you must continue to find ways to translate what you do in the interview to other therapists".
Salvadore Minuchin, Washington 2009
"Amazing keynote presentation - inspiring, creative, beautiful and hopeful. Thank you so much Stephen!"
JW, Salvador, Brazil 2011
"Stephen's five day intensive was beyond incredible - it was life changing. I have found my therapy practice passion through Stephen's narrative teachings and the commitment it takes to learn the craft of narrative therapy. Thanks, Thanks, Thanks!
PT, Vancouver, Canada 2011
"I can never go back to old ways of psychological thinking and practice. Thanks so much Stephen for restoring the ethics and integrity of our work. i also thank you for your openness, humour and helping everyone feel appreciated".
DC - Calgary, Canada 2011
"This was the very best therapy workshop I have ever attended. Stephen Madigan is astounding in his knowledge, practice and humility. Please come back to France!".
BF - Bordeaux, France 2010
"Best example of Narrative Therapy work in practice that I have ever witnessed. Stephen taught us how the art and craft of questions can be a thing of beauty. Wow".
YT, Adelaide, Australia 2010
"Brilliant! - your explanations of high post-structural theory were made easy and understandable to everyone in the workshop room. Teaching this difficult theory through your DVD's of narrative therapy practice made everything sweet and congruent. You make it look so easy. Thanks so much".
WD - Therapeutic Conversations 9, Vancouver 2010
"I am so thankful to the AZMFT committee for choosing Stephen Madigan to be this years main workshop presenter. My head is full with new narrative therapy ideas and my heart is overflowing with a refreshed appreciation for the people we work with. Thanks. PH - Phoenix, Arizona, 2010.
"Thanks for your workshop Stephen - I'm now hooked on narrative therapy. I found your narrative therapy work with clients so utterly respectful. I was especially taken by your theoretical explanations regarding an anti-individualist relational approach to therapy.
BB - Victoria, Canada 2010
"Stephen Madigan's narrative therapy workshop blew my mind. His abilities with clients are uncanny, incredible and make so much common sense. Stephen's day long workshop had such an impact that I've told my partner we have to move to Vancouver, Canada to get closer to his work! Thanks!
RT - Washington, 2009
"Oh Stephen Madigan - your Level Two advanced narrative class in November bordered on the magical. Watching you work live with clients is pure art. Thanks so much for giving us all of yourself in such beautiful ways.
RR - Vancouver 2009
"Thank you Stephen for showing up and giving us the most incredible two days of training - I liked both the one day on eating disorders and one day doing case consultations. Your live session work is absolutely breath taking to watch. My colleague and i especially enjoyed your numerous video's showing the various aspects of this narrative work - work with clients, multiple-family groups, client Leagues and what you called 'insider' consultations. You were amazing. Great job!"
AT - Miami, Florida 2009
"I watched Stephen present a full day narrative therapy workshop in Michael White's old training room. I could see the acute similarities of their therapeutic styles in the video's Stephen presented, and the questioning style he used with the clients. I was also keenly interested in how he has put his own stamp on the future of narrative therapy work. Please come again".
DC - Adelaide, Australia, 2008.
"Stephen Madigan's narrative therapy workshops keep getting more complex and interesting as each year passes. He has remarkable therapeutic skills and is a true gift to our field of family therapy. Myself and my colleagues can not thank him enough for the concerned ethics he teaches and does therapy through. Thank you all for bringing in such an excellent workshop!" MM - Washington DC 2008
Overthe past ten years I have attended ALL the great narrative therapist workshops - and NO ONE is as clear theoretically as Dr Madigan. His live session was the very best account of a ‘pure' narrative therapy session as I have ever witnessed. It represented pure artistry and passion for the work. AC - Toronto - 2009
Stephen's workshop (with a Spanish translator!!!) was very helpful to my practice and the clients I work with. His work makes allot of sense and he is a very down to earth person. Thank you for introducing narrative therapy to me in the way you did - and I really like the live session you did!! HH - Havanna 2007I keep taking Stephen's training and just when I think I have caught up, he seems to invent some new kind of thinking in his narrative therapy practice. His teaching workshops are always such a fresh and new experience! BT - Vancouver, 2004
Magnificent! By far the best new presentation I have attended in years. This man knows his narrative therapy theory inside and out. His practice of therapy is a breath of fresh air. Thanks so much and please come back soon. IK - Porto, Portugal - 2008
By far the most interesting therapy workshop I have EVER attended. Stephen's narrative therapy practice, his therapeutic letter writing and his ethics are wonderful. Thank you.TM - Glasgow, Scotland, 2000
Stephen Madigan's workshop was amazing. His relational externalizing interviews with the internalized cultural voices was absolutely brilliant! Can't wait to get him back here again. RD - Dublin 2008
Extremely interesting - his new material on internalized problem conversations and his explanations on identity are so helpful to re-thinking my clients - he was clear and patient with us and very accessible. SK - Washington DC, 2005 Psychotherapy Networker
Incredible! Fabulous! I learned more narrative therapyin these last two days with Stephen than I have for years! PR - Mexico City, 2003
Great work! He was so respectful and dignified in theway he promotes clients. I loved his work on letter writing campaigns. Please invite Stephen back again - and again! SG - Los Angeles, 2004
Stephen's narrative teaching is a throwback to family therapy training when the field actually cared less about managed care and more about client care. He is a wonderful voice of learning, skill and imagination. DV - Boston, 1999
Great presentation! You've reawakened my curiosity in narrative therapy work - THANKS! GB - Dublin, Ireland 2000
I most enjoyed how Dr. Madigan showed his taped work andit fit perfectly with his theory - I also loved his Canadian sense of humour! TR - London UK, 2000
Excellent handout! Amazing therapy! Stephen your use ofpersonal stories showed a great humility and love of the work you do -inspiring enough to make me cry. VT - International Narrative Therapy Conference Oaxaca Mexico, 2004
The presenter does therapy in a way that blew my mind - it made me remember why I got into this field in the first place! LF - Halifax 2003