Where Can I Learn More About Narrative Practice?
Collaborative Narrative Network Training Calendar
This community project builds on one of Michael White and David Epston’s steadfast intentions: Strengthening a Collaborative Narrative Network. We wish to recognize the Dulwich Centre for its central role in developing narrative approaches to therapy and community work, training, publishing, and supporting practitioners in different parts of the world. In the spirit of communities in connection (rather than individuals in competition), our vision is to bring together a network of independent narrative training initiatives around the world that share the commitment to preserve, develop, and extend the legacy of narrative therapy. Together with our partners, we aspire to create a central place to find, coordinate, and support high-quality independent narrative trainings around the world including 1) training events; 2) narrative training intensives, international diplomas, and apprenticeship programs; and 3) online courses.
We’ve done our best to convert local times to New York Time. Please double-check as we sometimes discover errors due to daylight savings time changes.
NOTE: This project is a work in progress. We are very interested in hearing from you. Is this useful to you? What might make it better? Please contact us!
Workshops
Narrative Network Intensive Training Programs
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Yearlong In-Person Narrative Program 2026
Sponsor: Evanston Family Therapy Center (EFTC)
Dates:
We will meet for three five-day, in-person sessions: Jan. 21-25, June 17-21, and Nov. 11-15.
These will be supplemented with at least one online session during each of the other months throughout the year. These two-hour online meetings will offer space for practice, focus on questions, and discussion of reading.Location:
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Narrative Certificate Program
Sponsor: Narrative Therapy Initiative (NTI)
This year-long Narrative Certificate Program is for people interested in developing a rigorous personal understanding of the Narrative Worldview and its social justice ethics and practices. The goal of this course is to help participants establish a solid foundation for their narrative practitioner identity and preferred ways of helping. Drawing from participants’ personal and professional lived experiences, the course emphasizes a peer experiential-learning philosophy and community-building orientation.
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Linking Therapists' Lives Through Shared Practice: A Narrative Consultation Group, 2025–2026
Sponsor: Narrative Therapy Initiative (NTI)
This narrative practice group is for therapy practitioners interested in furthering their relationship with the Narrative Worldview and building community around shared values and purposes. We are excited to offer a program with a focus on presenting and witnessing each other’s work. We ask that you have completed a year-long narrative training program or an equivalent prior to participation.
Matt Mooney, PhD, and Suzanne Gazzolo, PhD, were inspired to offer this program after over 10 years of weekly learning and consulting together with other colleagues committed to developing skills and relationships aligned with the Narrative Worldview.
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Narrative Reflective Writing Group
Sponsor: Narrative Initiatives San Diego (NISD)
A three-part reflective writing series hosted online by Avani Counseling
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Narrative Professional Development Group (PDG)
Sponsor: Narrative Initiatives San Diego (NISD)
The next cycle of our monthly professional development group starts on 8/15. It’s an opportunity for case consultations, community-building and reflective practices. Led by NISD founder, Dr. Jan Ewing, and our colleague Julia Gerlitz from Nelson, BC, this 4-month group is open to both emerging and seasoned Narrative therapists and offers 6 CEs. Details attached.
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Certificate in NarrARTive Expressive Arts Coaching
Sponsor: Northwest Creative & Expressive Arts Institute
Instructor: Shoshana Simons, Ph.D., RDT
Dates: March 29 – September 15, 2024. Please see below “Series Schedule” for specific dates and times of each module.
Cost: $1,485.00 plus $59.00 for 42 CEs (optional) A payment plan is available.
Online Courses
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Narrative Therapy: Foundations & Key Concepts
Sponsor: Re-Authoring Teaching
Narrative Therapy: Foundations & Key Concepts (FKC) offers six lessons introducing the philosophical foundations and key concepts guiding narrative therapy in work with individuals, families, groups, communities, and organizations. The course gives an overview of narrative therapy, reviews some important distinctions with other approaches, honors the legacy of Michael White, and situates narrative practice as a development not only within the field of family therapy but rooted in postmodern approaches, post-structuralist philosophy, literary theory, and anthropology.
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Escaping Blame: Helping couples develop account-ability
Sponsor: Re-Authoring Teaching
What would it look like if we could truly escape blame as a way of talking about our lives? What sort of conversation would take its place? And to what end? Blame is an individual skill that allows us each—therapists included—to allege and assign causes for the unhappy present. Account-ability is a relationship skill that allows us to come to a shared understanding of what future we might prefer, and what stands in the way of that future. This course with Larry Zucker is about the conversations that are possible when Accountability emerges as practice distinct from Blame, and what we can do as therapists to nurture that distinction.
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An Introduction to Rich Story Development
Sponsor: Re-Authoring Teaching
This course—the first in our Rich Story Development Series with Maggie Carey—offers a clear, concise and down-to-earth journey into topics about story development, including the narrative metaphor, landscapes of stories, double listening, loitering with intent, mapping meaning and action, personal agency, listening for resonance, making links, and neurobiology. The course is organized into six lessons and illustrated with edited video clips from Maggie‘s June 2014 workshop in Shelburne, Vermont: Catching up with Narrative therapy: The Art of Going Slowly with Intent . Registration gives unlimited access to all course materials for personal use for an unlimited time. You can start this course at anytime: all course materials are available on-demand, and adaptable to personal schedules. For an additional $40, registrants can earn 12 APA-approved CE credits through Alliant International University.
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Narrative Practices for Queer Counseling
Sponsor: Re-Authoring Teaching
Narrative Practices for Queer Counseling with Charley Lang offers eight lessons exploring strength-based narrative therapy in working with clients identified as LGBTQ+, their allies, and families. Issues include heterosexism and its discontents, privileging voices from the margins, navigating non-traditional relationships, intersexuality, and narrative approaches in the treatment of trauma. The course features topical readings, instructional videos, dyadic exercises, interactive padlets, and two full clinical sessions, one with an individual and the other with a couple. For an additional $40, registrants can earn 16 APA-approved CE credits through Alliant International University.
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Where the Buses Don't Run Yet: Counterstorying, Wonderfulness Enquiries, Witnessing Practices & Possibilities from the Future
Sponsor: Re-Authoring Teaching
This self-paced course with Davd Epston and Kay Ingamells demonstrates David’s innovative teaching methods. It focuses on three interviews and uses immersion learning through transcripts and internalized other questioning to teach the craft and art of narrative inquiry training.
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New Horizons in Narrative Therapy, Affect & the Body
Sponsor: Re-Authoring Teaching
This self-paced course builds on our deep respect for narrative therapy cofounders and mentors while envisioning new horizons in attending to affect and the body in our narrative work with people experiencing difficulties in their lives and relationships.
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Rich Story Development in Action: 3 Live Interviews with Maggie Carey
Sponsor: Re-Authoring Teaching
Instructor: Maggie Carey
NEW COURSE! This five-lesson course demonstrates what a narrative interview actually looks like in practice. Each interview, illustrated on a whiteboard, shows key narrative principles in action, and specific interviewing skills guided by maps of narrative practice. Reflections throughout by skillful narrative practitioners and teachers from around of the world. 10 Alliant CE credits.