Courses

Contemporary Narrative Therapy You'll need to pay the extra CE fee on the registration page;  pass the optional quiz at the end of the course; email your quiz confirmation and Alliant CE will send you a certificate. Bookmark this page so you can easily return to it at a later time. Registration gives unlimited access to course materials for as long as we offer this course. Check out our [...]

Three Interviews with David Epston:  Counter-storying, Wonderfulness Enquiries & Witnessing Practices Sign up to earn 10 APA Approved Alliant International University CE Credits; pass the optional quiz at the end of the course; email your quiz confirmation and we will send you a certificate. Bookmark this page so you can easily return to it at a later time. Registration gives unlimited access to course materials. We've done our best to make [...]

  Narrative Online Mini-Course offered by SuEllen Hamkins, MD COVID-19 has uprooted our world and the ongoing pandemic of racism brings waves of fear, sorrow and anger to our clients, our colleagues, our loved ones and ourselves. We are called to action and we want to promote resilience in these challenging times, but we are stretched thin. We could use a few simple, practical ways to promote resilience that fit each of our [...]

We hope to interview a small group of educators, trainers, practitioners from across generations to reflect on how the legacies of these five family therapists might influence how they teach, practice and envision the future of narrative therapy. Bookmark this page so you can easily return to it at a later time. Registration gives unlimited access to course materials for as long as we offer this course. This [...]

Whenever something important was going on in the development of family therapy, Lynn Hoffman was there — so she can tell the history of family therapy as seen from the inside over the past fifty years.Lynn’s thinking has also influenced the evolution of the field. Lynn was a scholar of Giles Deleuze, Whitman and Spinoza, Bahktin, Wittgenstein and Lyotard. Having worked with many of the masters in family therapy, she settled into the world [...]

Tom Andersen was Professor of Social Psychiatry at the Institute of Community Medicine, University of Tromso, Norway, and was the initiator of Reflective Processes in therapeutic practices. He is the author of The Reflecting Team: Dialogues and Dialogues about Dialogues, 1991, and Death Talk: Conversations with Children and Families, 1997. Tom died in the spring of 2007. You'll need to pay the extra CE fee;  pass the optional quiz [...]

Harry Goolishian – along with Harlene Anderson - is known for developing the “collaborative language systems” approach to collaborative therapies. Their interest in language and the principle of not-knowing provide a challenging voice in the human services fields. You'll need to pay the extra CE fee;  pass the optional quiz at the end of the course; email your quiz confirmation and Alliant CE will send you a certificate. [...]

Gianfranco Cecchin, along with Boscolo, Prata and Selvini Palazzoli, were the originators of the Milan Systemic School of Family Therapy: His writings and presentations helped clarify concepts such as hypothesizing, circular questioning, positive connotation, and crafting interventions. He is best known for his curiosity and irreverence, and a deep-seated prejudice against prejudice. Gianfranco Cecchin might be described as irreverent. Much of his work over the past 30 years has been about criticizing the way therapy [...]