Welcome to Our Event Calendar!

Monthly Collab Salons, Online Course Webinars and  Workshops are now integrated into one calendar! Check below the calendar for some further information.

A Special Year: the 10th Anniversary of Michael White’s Passing

This year will mark the 10th anniversary of Michael White’s death. It’s a time for reflection, as we trace some of Michael’s contributions to our practices and thinking including his careful attention to language, artful question-asking and respectful stance. In 2018, instead of our annual Vermont June workshop and camp, Re-authoring Teaching is partnering with Narrative Initiatives San Diego (NISD) to offer a narrative gathering on Coronado Island, San Diego in March 2018. Building on the legacy of Michael White: A decade of Narrative Developments will will look back and spring forward as we come together to reimagine narrative therapy.

Narrative Gathering on Coronado Island, San Diego: March 28-30, 2018

building on the legacy of Michael White

A Collaborative Venture: Both NISD and Re-Authoring Teaching as non-profits share common missions.  Both missions include the commitment to protecting, sharing, and expanding Narrative ideas into the future. However, while NISD’s mission centers more around growing the local community in San Diego, Re-Authoring Teaching’s mission focuses on connecting the broader international community. Themes of Local and Global knowledges are shaping this Gathering.

We hope you will join us as we look back together on the rich history of Michael’s work as well as reflect on the ways we have carried on these past 10 years after the loss of Michael, keeping close to his work and proposing further developments. The Gathering is designed with multiple formats, creating opportunities for many to speak and reflect about their continued work. We imagine coming together as a local community in San Diego and an international  global community to consider Michael’s influence on the field and how narrative practices have been developed over the last decade to influence each of us and our respective communities in particular ways.  We’re not thinking of this Gathering as a “conference” per se, in the sense of having privileged voices of experts talking and others taking notes.  Rather, we offer a context for community learning, for centering and de-centering practices, for layers of multigenerational, diverse conversations that reflect on a variety of topics, personal, local and global.

Please consider joining us.

Jan Ewing – Founder, NISD & Peggy Sax – Founder, Re-Authoring Teaching

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Building on the Legacy of Michael White

Narrative Initiatives San Diego (NISD) and Re-Authoring Teaching (RT), invite you to join us for a Narrative Gathering
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Themes: The following themes will be points of conversation at the Gathering:

  • Reflections from David Epston on the history of Narrative Therapy and the legacy of Michael White
  • Watching a Michael White video with introduction from Tom Carlson
  • Developments within multi-cultural contexts including Spanish-speaking communities with comments from Marcela Polanco
  • New developments in the work of integrative health & embodied narratives with Jan Ewing and Ron Estes
  • Expressive and performative arts with Danielle Drake and Shoshana Simons
  • Race conversations with Travis Heath
  • Global Initiatives with Peggy Sax & international guests
  • Education and Training for the future
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Current Offerings


  • Live Interviews: Our Multi-Storied Bodies Monday Consultation Group
     September 23, 2024 - December 2, 2024
     4:00 pm - 5:30 pm

    with Poh Lin Lee

    Bi-weekly Monday Consultation Group: Sept 23, October 7 & 21, November 4 & 18, December 2.
    • 4:00 - 5:30 pm EST (*please note a 1-hour time change starting November 3rd for EST):
    What happens when we shift from viewing our bodies as a single entity to experiencing them as a community of diverse members, each with their own experience, position, and stories? This consultation group is for people who are interested in centering post-structural, narrative practice, intersectional feminisms, and community ideas in accompanying individuals, couples, families, and communities in conversations that are inclusive of bodies. Following many requests, Poh will offer a consultation group in a slightly different format. Six bi-weekly sessions from September 23rd through December 9th will feature a live conversation with Poh and a group member centering multi-storied bodies practices/ideas. Fellow group members will be invited into particular witnessing exercises/positions, drawing on multi-storied body ideas. The hope is to stitch together some of the many exercises and ideas we have explored in previous groups and workshops and consider together what it means to grapple and move in dedicated co-research within an unfolding conversation. Frankie Hanman-Siegersma (they/them) will join the consultation group as a special guest and facilitate the discussion and unpacking of the live interviews.

    Layout of each session

    • 45min conversation between group member and Poh
    • 30min group discussion

    Padlet will be available as a pin-up board for noting and sharing any emerging ideas, questions, observations, or associations sparked by the consultation group and staying connected between consultations. 

    Sessions will only be recorded when requested by the group member who is being interviewed. 

    In preparation, please review:
    Lee, P.L. (2023) Our bodies as multi-storied communities: ethics & practices. Journal of Systemic Therapies

    Co-researching agreement (short video exercise): https://vimeo.com/930048872/7afd8c2449 

    Fee:  $350 USD, with one space at a reduced $250 rate. 


Live Interviews: Our Multi-Storied Bodies Consultation Group bi-weekly Mondays with Poh Lin Lee


  • Live Interviews: Our Multi-Storied Bodies Wednesday Consultation Group
     November 6, 2024 - January 22, 2025
     2:30 pm - 4:00 pm

    with Poh Lin Lee

    6 Bi-weekly Wednesday Consultation Group:  

    November 6 & 20, 2024
     December 4 & 18, 2024
    January 8 & 22, 2025

    2:30 - 4:00 pm EST (*please note 1 hr time change starting November 3rd for EST)

    These dates are aligned with the 'sweet spot' that happens at this time of the year for many time zones to have the possibility to meet!

    • 2.30pm EST
    • 6.30am Melbourne (Thursday)
    • 8.30pm France
    • 7.30pm UK
    • 11.30am LA
    What happens when we shift from viewing our bodies as a single entity to experiencing them as a community of diverse members, each with their own experience, position, and stories? This consultation group is for people who are interested in centering post-structural, narrative practice, intersectional feminisms, and community ideas in accompanying individuals, couples, families, and communities in conversations that are inclusive of bodies. Following many requests, Poh will offer a consultation group in a slightly different format. Six bi-weekly sessions will feature a live conversation with Poh and a group member centering multi-storied bodies practices/ideas. Fellow group members will be invited into particular witnessing exercises/positions, drawing on multi-storied body ideas. The hope is to stitch together some of the many exercises and ideas we have explored in previous groups and workshops and consider together what it means to grapple and move in dedicated co-research within an unfolding conversation.

    Layout of each session

    • 45min conversation between group member and Poh
    • 30min group discussion

    Padlet will be available as a pin-up board for noting and sharing any emerging ideas, questions, observations, or associations sparked by the consultation group and staying connected between consultations. 

    Sessions will only be recorded when requested by the group member who is being interviewed. 

    In preparation, please review:
    Lee, P.L. (2023) Our bodies as multi-storied communities: ethics & practices. Journal of Systemic Therapies

    Co-researching agreement (short video exercise): https://vimeo.com/930048872/7afd8c2449 

    Fee:  $350 USD, with one space at a reduced $250 rate. 


  • Regular Ticket
     November 6, 2024 - January 22, 2025
     5:15 am - 5:00 pm
     Zoom (Link TBA)

Live Interviews: Our Multi-Storied Bodies Wednesday Consultation Group with Poh Lin Lee


  •  December 19, 2024
     8:00 am - 5:00 pm
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