Upcoming Events & Trainings
Registration is open for the following narrative trainings and programs. CEUs are available.
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Next Steps for Narrative Learning 2026-2027
Dates and Times: Friday, October 9, 2026 through Wednesday April 2, 2027
Location: online via Zoom
Instructors: with Suzanne Gazzolo, PhD; and Matt Mooney, PhD,
Registration Fees: $2,000, or $1,750 if participant has taken NTI's Narrative Certificate Program
This year-long advanced Narrative Learning Program is for people who wish to further develop a personal understanding of the Narrative Worldview and its social justice ethics and concepts, with a focus on practice and consultation about clinical work. From our personal experiences and from what we’ve learned from participants in the Certificate Program, when we return to our particular work contexts, we can often become isolated and disconnected from our relationship with the narrative worldview. The goal of this course is to help participants stay connected to and further nourish their narrative practitioner identity and preferred ways of helping.
Working with People Facing Despair, Feelings of Unworthiness, and/or Suicidal Thoughts:
Moving Beyond Risk Assessment Towards Stories of Resistance & Hope
Date and Times: Friday, November 20, 2026, 10am to 5pm, EST
Location: online via Zoom
Instructors: Amy Druker, MSW, RSW
Registration Fees: Early Bird Registration Rate, available until 9/301/26 — $130.00, Regular Registration Rate, after 10/1/26 — $140.00
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, which can take us away from our preferred ways of being with people who are facing these difficult problems. This workshop is not about how to conduct suicide risk assessments. Rather, it invites a critical exploration of some of the taken-for-granted assumptions, practices, and discourses that shape how suicide risk assessment is commonly understood and enacted. From a narrative therapy perspective, participants will examine how these ideas influence our conversations with people experiencing suicidality and consider alternative ways of responding that foreground people's own knowledges, values, skills, preferences, etc.
What is Narrative Therapy?
Date and Times: Friday, January 8, 2027, 10am to 5pm, EST
Location: online via Zoom
Instructor: Amy Druker, MSW, RSW
Registration Fees: Early Bird Registration Rate (available until 11/15/26) — $125.00; Regular Registration Rate (after 11/15/26) — $140.00
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.
Narrative Therapy in Practice
Dates and Times: Friday, February 5 and Saturday, February 6, 2027, 10am to 5pm, EST
Location: online via Zoom
Instructors: Suzanne Gazzolo, PhD, LCPC, and Matt Mooney, PhD, LICSW
Registration Fees: Full course fee — $280.00; Fee when registrant has completed NTI's What is Narrative Therapy? training — $255.00
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 help support participants’ learning. Through practice interviews with one another, participants try out these ideas in collaborative and hands-on ways. 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.
What is Narrative Therapy?
Date and Times: Friday, May 7, 2027, 10am to 5pm, EST
Location: online via Zoom
Instructor: Amy Druker, MSW, RSW
Registration Fees: Early Bird Registration Rate (available until 2/28/27) — $125.00; Regular Registration Rate (after 2/28/27) — $140.00
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.
Narrative Therapy in Practice
Dates and Times: Friday, June 4 and Saturday, June 5, 2027, 10am to 5pm, EST
Location: online via Zoom
Instructors: Suzanne Gazzolo, PhD, LCPC, and Matt Mooney, PhD, LICSW
Registration Fees: Full course fee — $280.00; Fee when registrant has completed NTI's What is Narrative Therapy? training — $255.00
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 help support participants’ learning. Through practice interviews with one another, participants try out these ideas in collaborative and hands-on ways. 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.