NTI Folx Tales 2026
About Folx Tales
Folx Tales is a two-day, in-person gathering exploring narrative practice and community work. Participants are invited into a rich experience of narrative conversations with one another while deepening their narrative skills and exploring preferred ways of bringing the narrative worldview into their lives, communities, and professional practices.
In a time when many of us are navigating complex conversations about power, justice, and care, we believe it matters to come together in the same room to slow down, think together, and explore how narrative ideas can support ethical and relational ways of working.
Across the two days, participants will move between shared conversations and small-group experiences that invite reflection, dialogue, and practice.
Folx Tales is not a traditional conference or training. It is a place to gather and to think together about the ethical commitments that guide this work and the practices that help us sustain it.
Conference Themes
This year we will be co-creating conversations around these themes:
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Solidarity and Resistance: Exploring how narrative practice supports justice-doing and collective responses to injustice and hardship.
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Radical Tenderness: Practicing humility, attunement, and care in the conversations that matter most.
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Power: Making visible the ideas and discourses that shape how people’s lives and relationships are interpreted.
Learning Objectives
Re-imagining what a conference might be allows us to play with the phrase "learning objectives" and what that means. Everyone will likely leave with very different, unique, and particular experiences of what was meaningful to them and why. However, our collective hope is that we all might leave with:
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A deepened, richer experience of the Narrative Worldview
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Experiences of communities of solidarity of shared ethics and values
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Deeper appreciations for what becomes possible with a more relational approach to meaning-making
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Fresh, personal experiences of listening traditions that stand against judgment and evaluation in favor of resonance and transport
What to Expect
The gathering will include:
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shared conversations exploring narrative ideas and practices that support our work and relationships
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experiential sessions focused on solidarity, humility, relational rigor, and ethical practices
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a live interview and outsider witness reflecting process
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small-group dialogue and reflection
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opportunities to connect with others interested in narrative practice and justice-oriented work
Our Orientation
Our greatest wish is that everyone who attends will leave with a richer story about why they value doing work that can be so incredibly challenging and difficult. We hope this gathering opens up fresh new possibilities for reflection, understanding, and action. Our dream is that it nourishes and re-energizes participants so people might leave clear-eyed about the ways they are living intentional purposeful lives.
We invite you to join us and make this a profoundly precious experience for everyone attending.
More details, including session descriptions and the full schedule, will be shared soon.
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Transportation and accommodation information can be found here.