Creating Space: Supporting Innovative ways to explore meaning
Online Workshop
with Sarah Beth Hughes
Friday, March 20, 1:00 – 4:-00 ET
- Do you enjoy writing, painting, music, dance, photography, pottery, gardening, cooking, poetry, games or?
- Are you curious to discover and develop new creative methods to play with in your work and life?
- How can we make room for meaning to emerge, not just through conversation, but through shared exploration?
There are countless ways to explore and develop rich storylines in our lives and work. This workshop invites you to go beyond talking about meaning-making and into doing it creatively and collaboratively. Together, we’ll experiment with ways to make space in our practice for new approaches, ones that draw on the wisdom, practices, and imaginations of the people we work with.
Following the workshop, we envision a dedicated consultation space for individuals who wish to explore narrative ideas through creative expression.
Learning Objectives
This program will enable participants to:
- Demonstrate creative practices—including art, photography, nature-based materials, dance, music… —as entry points into story, metaphor, and meaning-making within therapeutic conversations.
- Apply narrative practices and somatic awareness integration to support embodied experiences of healing and to deepen clients’ connection to their own creative skills and preferences.
- Design the use of metaphor and image in therapy sessions to help clients develop richer, more resonant understandings of their experiences—on their own terms.
- Compile a reflective and personal approach to therapeutic creativity, allowing space for practitioners’ own imaginations, sensory awareness, and relationship to art, place, and story to shape the work and their own lives.
Introducing Sarah Beth Hughes
Sarah Beth Hughes is a Couple and Family Therapist who lives among the mountains and lakes of British Columbia. Her journey into narrative therapy began in the 1990s, when she worked as the North American distributor of Dulwich Publications. This role offered her the rare opportunity to attend many of Michael White’s trainings—experiences that sparked a deep desire to step into the work herself.
Since then, Sarah Beth has cultivated a practice rooted in curiosity, compassion, and a love for the creative ways people make meaning in their lives. Alongside her work as a therapist, she is a supervisor and trainer of therapists, supporting others in discovering their own unique voice in the work. She also teaches writing classes that invite people to explore story as a site for reflection, imagination, and reclaiming authorship of their lives—on their own terms.
She is currently writing a book about tender and creative ways of engaging with narrative practice—an offering that draws on years of listening, learning, and wondering alongside others. At the heart of her work is a commitment to making space—for complexity, for beauty, and for people as the primary meaning-makers in their own lives.