Try Our Self-Paced Interactive Courses!
Our courses draw from narrative practitioners’ best teaching experiences and everyday practices. Anyone can start at any time. Self-paced, you can move through each lesson and topic according to your own schedule. Every course is different, while bringing together three components:
- Course materials (text, video and audio) organized into self-paced lessons, topics, and categories. Each lesson in a course takes about two hours.
- A practice-oriented exploration guided by an experienced practitioner
- Opportunities to try out exercises, participate in webinars, post questions, share ideas and build connections.
For an additional fee, you can earn APA Approved Continuing Education Credits through Alliant International University. We welcome inquiries about adapting our courses to various contexts, such as local consultation groups, training programs, and higher education.
Read a few testimonials from our course registrants:
So much stood out! I keep coming back to this idea of panning for gold. The area I live in has a huge gold mining history. Often, when hiking in the mountains, I come across a gold miner or two working in the rivers. I remember having a conversation with a miner and him saying, ‘The miners in this area, back in the day, they barely scratched the surface. There’s still an f*#@ tonne of gold in these hills. It makes me think about how, in our conversations, we can scratch the surface, or we can take the time and intrigue to pan for the gold that is there waiting to be discovered. I think, too, it’s about refining our ‘panning craft’ and honing our eyes to see those ‘glints of gold’ that might easily be missed.
Thank you so much to all the incredible people who contributed to this course and put it together! It was wonderful to revisit the tenets of narrative therapy again, as I sorely need these continued revisitations to keep striving to be a narrative therapist! It was really nice to see all the contributors’ different points of view and journeys, helping me to see how they continue to conceptualize narrative work and develop new ideas to enrich it. Participant in the New Horizons in Narrative Therapy, Affect & the Body course
Jessica Branch, Maryland USA, TherapistUsually, when we watch a video of a master, we remember how wonderful the master is, but in all of David’s cases, we also remember how good the client is. Their goodness becomes a landmark in our career, and we can transfer that to others to say how good they are.
Register anytime for these seven self-paced courses.
Below, we feature our seven current courses, and two courses in active development. All of our current courses are in the process of being updated.
Three Interviews with David Epston: Counterstorying, Wonderfulness Enquiries, Witnessing Practices & Possibilities from the Future is a self-paced online course with David Epston and Kay Ingamells that demonstrates David’s innovative teaching methods, using immersion learning through transcripts and internalized other questioning. Registrants can earn 14 APA-approved CE credits through Alliant International University!
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Narrative Therapy: Foundations and Key Concepts is a self-paced online course guided by Peggy Sax. It gives an overview of narrative therapy, reviews some important distinctions with other approaches, honors contributions by both co-founders and situates narrative practice as a development not only within the field of family therapy but rooted in postmodern approaches and post-structuralist philosophy. Registrants can earn 12 APA-approved CE credits through Alliant International University!
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New Horizons in Narrative Therapy, Affect & the Body – our newest course- honors our narrative roots while attending to emotions and affect and possibilities for a more neurologically informed narrative therapy. Registrants can earn 18 APA Approved CE credits through Alliant International University!
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Helping Couples Develop Account-Ability with Larry Zucker gives six lessons exploring therapeutic conversations that are possible when Accountability emerges as practice distinct from Blame, and what we can do as therapists to nurture that distinction. Registrants can earn 12 APA Approved CE credits.
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An Introduction to Rich Story Development 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. Organized into six lessons, this course offers 12 APA Approved CE credits through Alliant International University!
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Rich Story Development in Action: 3 live interviews with Maggie Carey is a five-lesson course that 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 the world. 10 Alliant CE credits approved.
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Queer Counseling & Narrative Practice, the first online course in our Narrative in Action series, is facilitated by Charley Lang. This course explores the engagement of strength-based narrative practices when consulting with clients who identify as L(lesbian), G(gay), B(bisexual), T(transgender), and/or Q(queer) and addresses numerous issues pertinent to these clients and their lives. Organized into four self-paced lessons, the course offers 8 APA Approved CE credits through Alliant International University!
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Online Courses Revision and Development
Every course spends years in development. We started these courses over a decade ago, currently revising them to keep them up-to-date and folding in interactive features. Below, read about the two courses currently in active development.
Online Courses in Active Development
Two self-paced online courses now in active production build on our deep respect for narrative therapy’s philosophical foundations, key concepts and interviewing practices. We also build on the evolution of Narrative Therapy, creating spaces for an interplay with other treasured approaches to working with people experiencing serious difficulties in their lives and relationships: Contemporary Narrative Therapy, and Em-BODY-ing Conversations. Watch this site and sign up for our newsletter learn when each of the two courses in development is ready.
Em-BODY-ing Conversations- now in active development- focuses on Lynne Rosen’s approach to integrating narrative practice with EMDR, and Somatic-oriented Therapies. Watch this website and our newsletter for further information.
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Contemporary Narrative Therapy- now in active development-elebrates the emergence of a new generation of narrative practitioners. While honoring narrative therapy cofounders and mentors, we situate this new course in the changing landscape of the 21st century.
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