Upcoming Events & Trainings
Registration is open for the following narrative trainings and programs. CEUs are available.
Narrative Certificate Program, 2024–2025 – SOLD OUT
Dates: September 13, 2024, through May 16, 2025
Location: online via Zoom
Instructors: With Suzanne Gazzolo, PhD; Guadalupe Morelos, LICSW; and Matt Mooney, PhD; and ongoing inspiration from the legacy of Stephen Gaddis, PhD
Registration Fee: A non-refundable $600 deposit is required at registration or $3,700 - a 10% discount is available if paid in full upon registration. Payment plans are available.
This year-long Narrative Certificate Program is for people interested in developing a rigorous personal understanding of the Narrative Worldview and its social justice ethics and practices. The goal of this course is to help participants establish a solid foundation for their narrative practitioner identity and preferred ways of helping. Drawing from participants' personal and professional lived experiences, the course emphasizes a peer experiential-learning philosophy and community-building orientation.
Linking Therapists' Lives Through Shared Practice: A Narrative Consultation Group, 2024–2025
Dates: September 11, 2024, through May 21, 2025
Location: online via Zoom
Instructors: With Suzanne Gazzolo, PhD and Matt Mooney, PhD
Registration Fee: $2,000; a non-refundable $350 deposit is required at registration. Payment plans are available.
This narrative practice group is for therapy practitioners interested in furthering their relationship with the narrative worldview and building community around shared values and purposes. We are excited to offer a program with a focus on presenting and witnessing each other's work. We ask that you have completed a year-long Narrative training program or an equivalent prior to participation. Matt and Suzanne were inspired to offer this program after over 10 years of weekly learning and consulting together with other colleagues committed to developing skills and relationships aligned with the narrative worldview.
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Working with People Facing Despair, Feelings of Unworthiness, and/or Suicidal Thoughts: Moving Beyond Risk Assessment Towards Stories of Resistance & Hope
Date & Time: Friday, November 8, 2024, 10am to 5pm EST
Location: online via Zoom
Instructors: Amy Druker, MSW
Registration Fee: Early Bird Registration Rate (available until 9/15/24): $130.00, Regular Registration Rate (after 9/15/24): $140.00, Student/Senior Registration Rate: $75.00
Working with people who are facing Despair, Feelings of Unworthiness, and/or Suicidal Thoughts can sometimes invite worry and panic for therapists, peer workers, and other helping professionals, and can, at times, take us away from our preferred ways of being with people who are facing these difficult problems. This workshop focuses on how we can use Narrative Therapy practices and principles to stay connected to what we care about and bring social justice into our work with people who are facing Despair, Feelings of Unworthiness, and/or Suicidal Thoughts.
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What Is Narrative Therapy?
Date & Time: Friday, January 17, 2025, 10am to 5pm EST
Location: online via Zoom
Instructors: Amy Druker, MSW
Registration Fee: Early Bird Registration Rate (available until 9/30/24): $120.00, Regular Registration Rate (after 9/30/24): $135.00, Student/Senior Registration Rate: $75.00
Narrative therapy is a collaborative and non-pathologizing approach to counseling and community work that centers people as the experts of their own lives. Narrative therapy is based on the belief that people make meaning of their lives through stories. The stories people live by are not a mirror of a person’s life but are actually shaping of people’s lives and identities. Narrative therapy suggests that stories are not neutral, and are understood to be influenced by a broader context — particularly in the various dimensions of class, race, gender, sexual orientation, and ability.
This workshop is for people who are new(er) to narrative therapy and interested in learning (or learning more) about its collaborative, respectful, and socially just ways of understanding people and problems. By refusing to locate problems inside of people, and by always seeing problems within the broader cultural context in which these problems were produced, narrative therapy stands against the individualizing and pathologizing of people’s suffering. The intention of this workshop is to offer participants a taste of the politics and ethics that guide narrative therapy practices, and an opportunity to consider how and in what ways these values and ethics fit and/or don’t fit with their own values, ethics, and preferred ways of being in this work.
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Narrative Therapy in Practice
Dates & Times: January 31st and February 1st 2025, 10am to 5pm, EST
Location: online via Zoom
Instructors: With Suzanne Gazzolo, PhD and Matt Mooney, PhD
Registration Fee: $280 or $225 when registrant has completed NTI's "What is Narrative Therapy?"
This two-day training is for people wanting to learn how narrative therapy ideas are put into practice in therapeutic settings. In particular, we explore externalizing practices and skills in the context of deconstructing and re-authoring therapy conversations. Clinical examples and experiential exercises will help support participants’ learning. Participants can expect to learn how narrative practitioners work to help people separate their lives from problems and identify new steps they can take that fit with their hopes and values.