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New:
Self-Paced Learning at NTI
We're excited to introduce something new: NTI's first self-paced course, The Success of Failure and the "Not Good Enough" Virus — with Sarah Beth Hughes, BSW, MSc.
Nearly everyone we work with — and many of us as therapists — has a relationship with a powerful story of not being good enough. These stories don't just affect confidence or self-esteem; they shape how people see themselves, what they attempt, and how they interpret their struggles. They can also slip quietly into how we understand ourselves as helpers.
Developed by Sarah Beth Hughes from a workshop Stephen Gaddis delivered in 2021, and grounded in Michael White's "Addressing Personal Failure," this course offers a compassionate, practice-based exploration of how failure stories sustain their power — and concrete narrative ways of responding to them, for yourself and for the people you work with.
Video clips, written exercises, readings, and reflection. No schedule. Learn at your own pace.
Welcome to the
Narrative Therapy Initiative
The Narrative Therapy Initiative is aligned with the principle that meaning-making through stories shapes lives, relationships, and communities. Our mission supports this Narrative Worldview and associated considerations of power in all relational and helping contexts.
WHAT IS NARRATIVE THERAPY?
Narrative Therapy is based on the worldview that relationships with stories constitute our experiences in life, including experiences of problems. From this perspective, considerations of power and meaning-making must be included in the ways problems are understood and help is offered.
NARRATIVE
TRAINING PROGRAM
The NTI training program includes a variety of courses that help participants grow their understandings of the Narrative Worldview and its implications in various helping contexts. The training progression is designed to help people develop their narrative skills through practice, more practice, and more practice.