Try Our Self-Paced Interactive Courses!
Our courses are built from the best practices of experienced narrative practitioners. Start anytime and learn at your own pace. We offer four key components:
- Self-paced materials – text, video, and audio lessons organized by topic (~2 hours each)
- Practice exploration – exercises, transcripts, and other illustrations guided by experienced practitioners
- Interactive learning – ‘Padlets’ offer optional opportunities for participants to engage in exercises, share reflections, takeaways, and emerging questions.
- Customized Discussion Groups – Join colleagues around the world for guidance through a particular course (when available).
Earn APA Approved Continuing Education Credits through Alliant International University for an additional fee. We also offer course adaptations for consultation groups, training programs, and academic settings. All current courses were updated in 2024. Below are our seven available courses and two in development.
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.
Usually, 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.
Re-Authoring Teaching’s influence has been life-changing to my mindset as a therapist. These courses —and the website —are full of resources for the community of ideas. A big Thank You to Peggy and the crew!
Adam Guss, LCSW , Philadelphia, USARegister any time for these seven self-paced courses
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!
Narrative Therapy, Affect & the Body honors our narrative roots while attending to emotions and affect and possibilities for a more neurologically informed narrative therapy. Through nine lessons, we draw from philosophy and practices associated with The Affective Turn, bringing together understandings of neurobiology, rich story development, trauma and its effects, memory theory, and emotional attunement. Registrants can earn 18 APA-approved CE credits through Alliant International University!
Where the Buses Don’t Run Yet: Counterstorying, Wonderfulness Enquiries, Witnessing Practices & Possibilities from the Future is a self-paced online course with David Epston and Kay Ingamells, demonstrating David’s innovative teaching methods through immersion learning with transcripts and internalized other questioning. Registrants can earn 14 APA-approved CE credits through Alliant International University!
Narrative Practices & Queer Counseling, facilitated by Charley Lang, offers an inclusive invitation for all to explore strength-based narrative therapy in working with LGBTQ+ clients, their allies, and their families. The eight lessons feature topical readings, instructional videos, dyadic exercises, interactive Padlets, and two full clinical sessions, one with an individual and the other with a couple. Registrants can earn 16 APA-approved CE credits through Alliant International University.
An Introduction to Rich Story Development with Maggie Carey offers a clear, concise, and down-to-earth journey through six lessons 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. Registrants can earn 12 APA-approved CE credits through Alliant International University!
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. Registrants can earn 10 APA-approved CE credits through Alliant International University!
Escaping Blame – 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 through Alliant International University!
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
We are currently developing two self-paced online courses that build on our deep respect for narrative therapy’s philosophical foundations, key concepts, and interviewing practices. These courses also honor the ongoing evolution of narrative therapy, creating opportunities to engage with other valued approaches for supporting people facing serious challenges in their lives and relationships. The upcoming courses—Contemporary Narrative Therapy and Em-BODY-ing Conversations—will each offer a unique perspective and rich learning experience.
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New Horizons in Narrative Therapy – now in active development- celebrates 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.
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.