What we have to offer
Each training can draw material from our library of resources and online courses. As experienced practitioners and teachers, we love working together in different combinations in response to a particular request. Our workshops are interactive, engaging and practice-oriented. Our team had fun brainstorming these options as an à la carte menu to stimulate your appetite and seed your imagination. When applicable, we can invite others with particular expertise in our network to join us. Please get in touch with us with your ideas!
Foundations, Key Concepts & New Horizons
- What matters most/what is your narrative backbone?/ethical considerations
- Bringing forward Michael and David’s sense of adventure, innovation, playfulness
- Narrative Inquiry and interviewing
- Creating a collaboratory and other online innovations
- Cross-pollinating and collaborating with other cherished approaches
- What is Contemporary Narrative Therapy?
Narrative in Action
- Customized interviews around a particular theme in your work context.
- Interviews conducted in Spanish that bring together integrating narrative influences with other cultural practices.
- Exit interviews at retirement or other transitions that allow a reflective pause to reflect on the decision to leave, highlights in working experience, lessons learned with wisdom passed on, and hopes for the future.
Trauma, the Body, Emotions & the Affective Turn
- Engaging with emotions, affect, and the body
- Embodying Conversations: Integrating EMDR, cultural somatics, and interpersonal neurobiology with a narrative approach
- Our multi-storied bodies
- Multicultural considerations in responding to family and domestic violence
- Working across linguistic and cultural landscapes and alongside interpreters
- Responding to displacement, trauma, liminality, uncertainty
Building on the legacy of Michael White
- Maps of narrative practice
- Rich Story Development
- Prayer and Protest: Practices of Tender Therapy
- Practices of respect and hospitality
- Interviewing and witnessing practices
- The politics of experience
Exploring David Epston’s contributions
- Collaboration, innovation & improvisation
- Narrative lines of inquiry
- Counterstorying, Wonderfulness Enquiries, Witnessing Practeices & Possibilities from the Future.
- Playful approaches and inventions
- Narrative pedagogy and exemplary tales
Exploring innovations in writing, research, co-research, supervision and teaching practices
- Re-membering practices with writing
- Single-session therapy
- Working with transcripts
- Witnessing through letter-writing, outsider witnessing and internalized other interviewing
- Narrative pedagogy, exemplary tales and practice
Across the lifespan and differing contexts
- Working with children, adolescents, families, and schools
- Innovative work with couples, queer counseling, death and dying, refugee populations, people seeking asylum when there has been harm/violence, and other specific contexts
- Applications of the Migration of Identity Metaphor
- Intergenerational explorations
- Single session counseling
- Unique situations such as the unhoused, HIV, psychotic experiences
- Exploring the cancer experience
- Working with families in transition
- Sex, sexuality and gender
- Working with people facing serious or persistent mental health challenges
- Working in community mental health or psychiatric contexts
- Narrative approaches to working with people using psychotropic medication
Expressive arts and Narrative Practice
- Engaging with arts, music, filmmaking, and other creative contributions
- Sandplay, non-extractive approaches
- Ethics in the creative process
- Accompanying creative process and relational art-making
- Engaging with lived experience, liminality, discovery, and creative process
Beyond the Therapy Room
- Indoor, urban, rural, outdoor Ecotherapy and gardens
- Home visiting
- Linking lives, peer support, neighborly ways of being
- Public conversations work around divisive issues
- Collective practices