Co-Researching AI

Collecting Parenting Wisdom Across the Lifespan

It Takes a Village

Online Workshop
with Poh Lin Lee, Akansha Vaswani-Bye & Peggy Sax

Date to be announced (2026)

  • What stories might people tell about being parented in preferred ways?
  • How might we as a group accompany those going through turbulent times toward rich story development?
  • Are there documenting practices, such as in a brief video or a written document, that could further strengthen rich story development?
As three mothers sharing voice messages in the cracks of our day, Akansha was in the thick of it with two children under two years old, sleep-deprived with a babe on her breast, Peggy was accompanying her grandchild to visit a college campus. Poh had just finished making school lunches and trying to remember if the kids had fed the guinea pigs. Each of us experienced a growing excitement working together, envisioning a workshop devoted to parenting guided by principles that mean the most to us in our narrative journey, conveying the labors of parenting across the lifespan and in our different contexts. We envision positioning ourselves not as ‘knowers’ but in the experience of parenting from the inside out, looking at what we can learn as we go.
Following the workshop, we envision a dedicated consultation space for those who wish to engage in narrative ideas through experiential exercises and discussion to co-research their own relationship with parenting experience and stories
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Earn 3 Alliant CE credits

Learning Objectives

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Introducing Our Presenters

Peggy Sax
Peggy Sax, PhD (Cornwall, Vermont), is the founder and Executive Director of Re-Authoring Teaching – this global learning community of narrative therapy practitioners, teachers, and enthusiasts. Having apprenticed herself to narrative therapy since the early 1990s, Peggy has worked for several decades in independent practice as a licensed psychologist/family therapist, consultant, teacher and international trainer. Previously, she worked in several innovative public sector programs including birth to three infant development, intensive home-based services, parent child centers, and community mental health. Peggy is the author of several articles and the book, Re-Authoring Teaching: Creating a Collaboratory. Whether online, on-the-road or within her beautiful home state of Vermont, it gives her great joy to bring together favorite people, ideas, and practices – to learn, engage, play, and replenish together.
Navid Zamani

Navid Zamani, PhD: “I’m an Iranian-American man who was born and raised in Southern California. I was raised in the Los Angeles and Orange County areas, until I moved to Davis, CA to continue my studies. After acquiring my BA in Psychology and minor in Music from UC Davis, I moved to San Diego to continue my studies at San Diego State University in Marriage and Family Therapy. I have resided in San Diego since 2010 and have fallen in love with the cultures, geography, food and music.

There are threads in my life that have been constant, and initiatives that have developed due to opportunities at the time and/or my location. Music has always been a big part of my life, and I continue to enjoy playing the piano/keys and the drum kit. I am an avid surfer, and enjoy outdoor activities with my wife, such as camping, hiking and biking around San Diego. Reading and writing have always been a pleasure of mine, and academia became a natural fit in this way. Gardening is also one of my obsessions and I also really love my dog. All of these hobbies are situated within a framework of experiences that come along with identifying as a heterosexual male, an Iranian-American and the experiences of biculturalism that accompany that, my ability to speak Farsi and English, my education, and the values I hold.

I grew up observing the charitableness of my family, and connected with the sense of urgency and gratitude that they experienced from helping others. I watched my mom always donate her time and money to the underprivileged and underserved. I watched my aunts (who are educators in Iran) advocate and stand up for students who often didn’t have a voice. I am continuously grounded by the love and compassion my wife models in her daily life. I truly believe that my community’s health impacts my health, and I am dedicated in supporting those in need.”

Larry Zucker
Larry Zucker is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in Los Angeles, United States, where he has been practicing family therapy and training therapists for over 30 years. He offers occasional trainings through the Southern California Counseling Center and the Miracle Mile Community Practice (MMCP) and offers supervision through MMCP. He created an online couples therapy course offered through Re-authoring Teaching: Escaping Blame: Helping Couples Develop Account-ability. A chapter about his work with couples is in press in An Encyclopedia of Radical Helping, edited by Chris Hoff and to be published by Thick Press in the fall of 2024. A podcast interview about his couple work with Chris is listed below as well as a brief video presented at the Dulwich Centre’s Meet the Author series.