Upcoming Events & Trainings
Registration is open for the following narrative trainings and programs. CEUs are available.
Linking Therapists’ Lives Through Shared Practice:
A Narrative Consultation Group
Dates and Times: September 10, 2025, through May 27, 2026, twice monthly on Wednesdays from 12pm to 1:30pm ET
Location: online via Zoom
Instructors: with Suzanne Gazzolo, PhD and Matt Mooney, PhD
Registration Fee: $2,000
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.
Narrative Certificate Program
Dates: September 19, 2025, through May 15, 2026
Location: online via Zoom
Instructors: with Suzanne Gazzolo, PhD; Guadalupe Morelos, LICSW; and Matt Mooney, PhD, LICSW; and ongoing inspiration from the legacy of Stephen Gaddis, PhD
Registration Fee: $3,700; a 10% discount is available if paid in full upon registration
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.
What is Narrative Therapy?
Date and Time: September 26, 2025, 10am to 5pm ET
Location: online via Zoom
Instructors: with Amy Druker, MSW
Registration Fee: Early Bird Registration Rate, available until 8/20/25 — $125.00, Regular Registration Rate, after 8/20/25 — $140.00, Student/Senior Registration Rate — $75.00
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 in 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 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 (and in life).
Next Steps for Narrative Learning 2025–2026
Dates: October 2025 through April 2026
Location: online via Zoom
Instructors: with Suzanne Gazzolo, PhD and Matt Mooney, PhD
Registration Fee: $1,500
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.
Narrative Therapy in Practice
Dates and Times: October 24 & 25 2025, 10am to 5pm ET
Location: online via Zoom
Instructors: with Suzanne Gazzolo, PhD, LCPC, and Matt Mooney, PhD, LICSW
Registration Fee: $280.00, or $255.00 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. Through practice interviews with one another, participants will 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.
Re-Engaging with Stories: A Narrative Writing Program (formerly Authoring Your Life)
Dates and Times: Saturdays, November 15 & 22, 1–5 pm ET / 10 am – 2 pm PT; December 6, 2025, 1–6 pm ET / 10 am – 3 pm PT
Location: online via Zoom
Instructors: with Sarah Beth Hughes, BSW, MSc, and Danielle Heitmann, MSW, LICSW, MA
Registration Fee: $700; a 10% discount is available if paid in full upon registration ($630).
This course invites participants to reflect on their own lives through narrative writing practices that uncover responses, values, and possibilities often overlooked in dominant stories. Together, we will explore prompts and exercises that support disrupting limiting narratives, thickening preferred ones, and connecting these practices to our work with clients. This interactive and supportive course offers opportunities for both personal discovery and professional growth, culminating in a collaborative session of sharing and witnessing each other’s writing.