Customized Small Group Training Opportunities!
Are you wishing to become a more skilled narrative practitioner? Do you yearn to consult closely with seasoned practitioners to develop specific applications for your narrative practice further? Are you drawn to the idea of working in a small, global consultation group? A group can form as a follow-up to a particular workshop, as a guide through an otherwise self-paced online course, or as independent customized consultation opportunities by members of our training team honing in on specific skill development. Get in touch with us here if you have any ideas for groups you’d like to be part of.
Being part of this consultation group, with gentle invitations to expeditions of my bodies, my imagines and understand further urgencies of care, needs, resonances, things to express, of the collective, in others, in me. I felt immediate possibilities to apply these findings and ideas to my current practices. The guidance of Poh and her offerings transcend the multilayering of spoken languages, sending invitations, questions.. building creative bridges to see, to be seen, to hear and be heard.
iSaAc Espinoza Hidrobo , Artist / trans activistThe multi-storied body consultation group was a place where curiosity, sharing, dialogue, and co-research were headed in new directions. It was a place where the exploration of the landscape of action opened new possibilities. It was a place where the question of “what is possible to know?” was articulated again from a different perspective and in new directions.
Yiannis Kafkas, Narrative Practitioner, PhotographerMy experience with the multi-storied bodies consultation group can be described as expansive, playful, tender, moving, and novel. Poh offered a generous and hospitable space that was both grounding and uplifting all at once, allowing each of us within an international community to co-research with radical care and unapologetic curiosity. This group became a safe passage to re-appear, re-engage, and re-imagine our relationships with not only members of our physical bodies, but also our bodies of knowledge, spirituality, ancestry, music, movement, poetry, and more. The experience enriched my politics and practices both personally and professionally.
Shuo Yuan , Online Counselor, Sy CounselingCurrent Groups (2026)
Zoom makes it possible to offer these unique learning experiences to interested colleagues worldwide! Read below to see which group is now open for registration. Please contact us to inquire about future groups.
Creative Consultation Group: Exploring Narrative Practice Through Artful Expression
- Schedule: Five monthly 120-minute sessions, Wednesday: 11:00- 1:00 pm Pacific Time (2: 00 -4:00 ET)
- Date: September 16, October 14, November 18, December 16, 2026, and January 13, 2027.
- Maximum Participants: 10
This monthly consultation group is for those who wish to explore narrative ideas through creative practice. Over four months, we’ll gather once a month to reflect, play, and deepen our work through shared exploration—drawing on creative methods like writing, painting, movement, sound, photography, collage, gardening, cooking, poetry, and more.
You don’t need to be “an artist”—just curious and open. It’s helpful – although not required – to have participated in the workshop,Creating Space: Supporting Innovative ways to explore meaning
Our multi-storied bodies: Entry Points into Practice
With Poh Lin Lee & Akansha Vaswani-Bye
1-hour free introductory workshop (for those interested in the consultation group that has questions): Sunday, September 20, 4 pm EDT: Register here
Join Akansha and Poh in exploring how to engage multi-storied body practices in diverse contexts, including brief therapeutic encounters, regular therapeutic practice, and in response to vulnerable mental health states, including expressions of violence toward self or others. All stories are cultural, and all stories include bodies. Our multistoried bodies concepts will support you in having embodied conversations across foundational narrative therapy maps (e.g. externalizing, re-authoring, re-membering) and enable new and enlivening applications of practice.
- Schedule: Six-monthly 2-hour sessions;
- Dates for 2026-27:
- Sunday @ 4:00 – 6:00 pm ET: October 25, November 22, December 13, January 24, February 28, March 28.
- Maximum Participants: 12
Working With Families and Couples in the Context of Domestic Violence: Consultation Group
Four biweekly 90-minute Mondays: October 12, October 26, November 9, November 23, 2026
1:00- 2:30 Pacific Time (4:00 -5:30 ET)
With Navid Zamani, PhD.
This small group is for people working with families and couples in the context of domestic violence. Registrants should have attended a previous training with Navid.
Are you working with families and couples in the context of domestic violence, wishing to join others who wish to attune to narrative, culture, and practice
Narrative Practices & Parenting Group
Poh Lin Lee, Akansha Vaswani-Bye & Peggy Sax
- Schedule: Four bi-weekly 2-hour sessions.
- Dates: October 23, 2026, November 6 & 20, 2026, December 4, 2026
- 3:00 – 4:30 pm ET, 12:00 – 1:30 pm PT, 7:00 – 8:30 am Aust, 9:00 – 10:30 pm Europe , 8:00 – 9:30 pm UK
- Maximum Participants: 12
This group is open for practitioners who wish to meet in a supportive parenting community, learning with and from each other as a follow-up to the workshop, Collecting Crumbs of Wisdom: Narrative Practices and Parenting.
As facilitators, Akansha, Poh, and Peggy will facilitate intentional conversations and guide you through experiential exercises to help you hone in on your expertise as a parent or carer. Together, we will engage with narrative ideas and practices to enrich our stories—interviewing one another, co-researching our relationships with the children in our lives, documenting our practices, and sharing both crumbs of wisdom and the hard-earned lessons learned along the way.
Please let us know if you wish to recommend a future Consultation Group.