Self-Paced Courses
The Success of Failure
Nearly everyone we work with — and many of us as therapists — has a relationship with a powerful story of not being good enough. These stories don't just affect confidence or self-esteem; they shape how people see themselves, what they attempt, and how they interpret their struggles. They can also slip into how we understand ourselves as helpers.
This course invites a careful, compassionate, and practice-based exploration of these stories, and offers concrete narrative ways of responding to them in therapeutic work.
Developed by Sarah Beth Hughes from a workshop Stephen Gaddis delivered in 2021 — and inspired by Michael White's 2002 article, "Addressing Personal Failure" — this course walks alongside you through video clips, written exercises, readings, and reflective opportunities. The goal: to help you understand how failure stories operate, document your own unique outcomes, and develop new clinical ideas for supporting preferred stories — for yourself and the people you work with.
You will be helped to:
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Deconstruct your relationship with Failure and document Unique Outcomes
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Identify what is not okay with you about your relationship with Failure, and why
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Develop a preferred story that you want to nourish and keep closer to you than Failure
Details:
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Hosted on Teachable
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Estimated time to complete: Approximately 6 hours
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Prerequisites: Some introduction to narrative ways of thinking is helpful, but not required
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Cost: $125 or $75 Student/Senior
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CEs: 6 CEs approved for LMFTs (NEAFAST), LMHCs (MAMHCA), and LCSWs/LICSWs (NASW-MA) | CE Certificates: $25 | Certificates of Completion: Free
