Upcoming Events & Trainings
Registration is open for the following narrative trainings and programs. CEUs are available.
What is Narrative Therapy?
Dates and Times: Friday, January 30, 2026, 10 am – 5 pm ET
Location: online via Zoom
Instructor: with Amy Druker, MSW
Registration Fees: Early Bird (available until 12/15/26) — $125.00; Regular (after 12/15/26) $140.00; Student/Senior — $75.00
This introductory workshop offers a foundational exploration of the narrative worldview and its applications in therapy and community work. Participants will be introduced to the central ideas of narrative practice — including how stories shape our lives and identities, how broader social and cultural contexts influence those stories, and how narrative therapy invites people to relate to problems as separate from themselves. Through teaching, discussion, and a live interview demonstration, participants will gain an understanding of key narrative practices such as Externalizing, Deconstructing, Double Listening, Unique Outcomes, and Re-authoring, as well as the ethics and politics that guide this collaborative, respectful, and socially just approach to working with people and problems.
Narrative Therapy in Practice
Dates and Times: Friday, February 27, & Saturday, February 28, 2026, 10 am – 5 pm ET
Location: online via Zoom
Instructors: with 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 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.
Exploring Narrative Documentation Practices
Dates and Times: Friday, March 13 & Saturday, March 14, 2026, 10 am - 2:30 pm ET
Location: online via Zoom
Instructor: with Amy Druker, MSW
Registration Fees: Early Bird (available until 1/15/26) — $175.00; Regular (after 1/15/26) $190.00; Student/Senior — $100.00
This two-day workshop invites participants to reflect critically on traditional documentation practices and consider how these may unintentionally center problems and individualize people’s suffering. Through the lens of the narrative worldview, we’ll explore ways of bringing social justice into our documentation by engaging in practices such as narrative letter writing, counter-documents, and “consulting your consultant.” Participants will consider how documentation can serve as a powerful site of resistance and meaning-making — helping people reclaim their lives from totalizing identity conclusions and strengthening their preferred stories. With opportunities for discussion, reflection, and a live interview and writing practice, this workshop offers a deeply collaborative and ethically grounded approach to reimagining how we write about the people and communities we work with.
OUTTRAGED: A Narrative Therapy Framework for the Prevention of Gender-based Violence
Dates and Times: Monday, April 20 & Tuesday, April 21, 2026, 10 am to 5 pm ET
Location: online via Zoom
Instructor: with Ncazelo Ncube-Mlilo
Registration Fees: $280.00
Join us in exploring how narrative therapy can support meaningful change and contribute to a more just world in how we respond to gender-based violence. Developed by internationally acclaimed narrative therapist Ncazelo Ncube-Mlilo, OUTTRAGED is a collective, narrative-based methodology to support men and boys in moving from positions of perpetrating gender-based violence to becoming agents of change and violence prevention. Rooted in the narrative ethic of separating people from problems and problematic ideas, OUTTRAGED invites practitioners to engage with men and boys as competent and capable — rather than deviant or hopeless — opening up non-blaming, non-judgmental, and non-punitive spaces for honest reflection, constructive dialogue, and new possibilities for action.
What is Narrative Therapy?
Dates and Times: Friday, May 1, 2026, 10 am – 5 pm ET
Location: online via Zoom
Instructor: with Amy Druker, MSW
Registration Fees: Early Bird (available until 2/1/26) — $125.00; Regular (after 2/1/26) $140.00; Student/Senior — $75.00
This introductory workshop offers a foundational exploration of the narrative worldview and its applications in therapy and community work. Participants will be introduced to the central ideas of narrative practice — including how stories shape our lives and identities, how broader social and cultural contexts influence those stories, and how narrative therapy invites people to relate to problems as separate from themselves. Through teaching, discussion, and a live interview demonstration, participants will gain an understanding of key narrative practices such as Externalizing, Deconstructing, Double Listening, Unique Outcomes, and Re-authoring, as well as the ethics and politics that guide this collaborative, respectful, and socially just approach to working with people and problems.