Are you wondering how it all works?
It’s important to us to make it easy to become a Re-Authoring Teaching member, take one of our online courses, join a consultation group, or attend one of our workshops. Please contact us if you encounter technical difficulties. We pledge to do our best to troubleshoot technical problems and sincerely apologize for any difficulties you may encounter. We’ll offer practical advice, detailed instructions and support to get you started. We are working diligently behind the scenes to make everything user-friendly, self-directed, and interactive. While each feature is unique, there several common features. Let’s first see if we can answer some of your questions here.
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Our Narrative Trainings – Workshops, Faculty Offerings, and Online Courses – are appropriate for psychologists, social workers, psychiatrists, nurses, graduate students, counselors, and other human service practitioners in work contexts that include independent practice as well as agency settings such as community mental health, parent-child centers, and hospital programs. We also welcome to our workshops community members/individuals interested in a particular topic. Contact us if you do not quite fit in this description but hope to participate anyway.
Alliant International University is approved by the American Psychological Association (APA) to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. It is also approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing to provide continuing education for Nurses. CEs approved by APA and Nursing are accepted by many professional disciplines such as licensed clinical social workers, clinical mental health counselors, licensed professional clinical counselors, marriage & family therapists and registered nurses. However, it is the individual’s responsibility to confirm this with their licensing board. For our online courses, we also offer a “Certificate of Completion” for submission to to a particular professional discipline.
Our Online Courses and Workshops offer continuing education through Alliant International University for psychologists and other mental health and social work clinicians. Each CE certificate costs an extra $25-$40. You’ll be asked to follow the regulations such as signing in and signing out, and filling out a quiz and evaluation form at completion. Just be sure to sign up for the Continuing Education option and then follow our instructions.
Our learning community continues to adapt to its members’ preferences. We are doing our best to keep up with new developments in educational technology and a growing capacity for multi-media and video conferencing. We began as an online study that connected through discussion forums. From 2015- 2023, our Collab Salon monthly met monthly through Zoom; Re-Authoring Teaching members can still access the Library of Past Salons, Featured Collab Recordings, and, more recently, the NextGen Collaboratory. Over the years, we have created and revised a number of self-paced Online Courses available for continuing education credit. Recently, we added new interactive features through Padlets. Through our Faculty Offerings, we’ve added Faculty Consultation Groups and Trainings. We now have our own Reauthoring Teaching YouTube channel. And behind the scenes we are developing new online courses and materials for Higher Education. None of this could be possible without creating a collaboratory, and the help of our Board, Faculty and Re-Authoring Teaching members.
Most of our workshops are recorded and soon afterward become available on-demand to registrants. The recordings do not include breakout room conversations or confidential client illustrations.
Anyone can start one of our online courses at any time. You can move through as quickly or slowly as you wish. Some people finish the course in one day, others go through a lesson each week or take even longer. It’s up to you. Make a commitment, think through how you want to move through the course and set aside the time.
In addition to the regular rate for each course or workshop (which varies), we offer discounts for students or fixed income, international registrants and groups of 5 or more. It costs an additional $25-$40 to earn the Alliant Continuing Education Credit certificate.
First and foremost, please accept our sincere apology for any technical problems you encounter along the way. We share your frustration with the limits of technology! Behind the scenes, we work hard to fix any glitches. Please contact us with specific details of our issue. Whether you are having trouble registering, logging in, or accessing materials, it helps if you can also take screenshots to show exactly where the problem is occurring. Together we can troubleshoot to get you back on board as quickly as possible.
Our self-paced courses are organized into lessons and topics. The different courses also try to accommodate multi-modal ways of learning in form of transcripts, videos, audios, articles, and reflective questions. With an eye toward user friendliness and ease of navigation, we strive to simplify everything. Periodically, we experience technical glitches that test everyone’s patience. If this happens to you, please contact us. With sincere apologies, we’ll do our very best to troubleshoot and to get you on track.
Multiply the number of lessons by two. Each lesson including topics should take approximately 2 hours to complete.
An annual membership is a subscription that will be automatically renewed unless cancelled. As the renewal date approaches, you will receive email notifications, which also give you the option to cancel. Please contact us if you have any difficulties subscribing or canceling. We sincerely want our membership to be a positive experience.
For an additional fee, psychologists, marriage and family therapists, clinical counselors, clinical social workers, and health care providers can sign up for CE credit through Alliant International University. The certificate costs an extra $25-$40. Follow the instructions to document your attendance and participation. Once you pass the quiz and fill out the evaluation form, email reauthoringcollaboratory@gmail.com to receive the Alliant CE certificate.
Many of our Workshops offer follow-on Consultation Groups that can help deepen your engagement with the material you learned. Some of our Online Courses also offer Consultation Groups that are scheduled periodically throughout the year. These are optional and are led either by the instructor of the course or other Re-Authoring Teaching members who have also taken the course or the workshop previously. Instructions about how to sign up for each consultation group vary depending on the online course or workshop, so please refer to your registration details for more information.
Our course content invites self-reflection. Course exercises, interviews, and practices can be enhanced when reflected on with others. All of our courses feature Padlets for registrants to share your own reflections, questions, recordings, and images. We look forward to your participation and interaction to create a space for co-learning and shared ideas.
Each self-paced Online Course is organized around lessons with topics within each lesson. Depending on the course, materials may include text, video, audio, transcripts, and exercises. Padlets are used at the end of each lesson to share your thoughts and reactions with others who have taken the course and to read previous responses to material.
The annual Re-Authoring Teaching membership begins the day you join, and lasts for an entire year. You do not need to wait until the end of a calendar year to join.
There is no pressure to share during a Zoom session. While some folks contribute, others prefer to just listen. Sometimes people feel more comfortable sharing in the smaller break-out groups. Or not. It’s really up to you!
Zoom makes it possible to join in with either video or audio. While most people join through video, others prefer to just listen. Or to start with video and then shift to audio. It’s really up to you.
There is no time limit. Please engage with the course at your own pace. Once purchased, a registrant can access course materials 24 hours a day for as long as the Re-Authoring Teaching website is up and running. When you finish the course, we hope you will use the materials as a reference to enhance your future practice.