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


  • Suicide from A Magical Realist Perspective: Incarnated Stories from the Colombian Amazons
     October 27, 2025 - December 31, 2025
     4:00 pm - 7:00 pm
     Zoom (Link TBA)

    • How might we unlearn to listen monolingually (in one or more languages) to stories of life and death beyond eurocentric conceptualizations of suicide and prevention and toward a pluriversality?
    • How can we understand and respond to ‘suicide’ otherwise when learning from communities for whom the word suicide and the physiological and anatomical body do not exist, like the indigenized communities from the Colombian Amazons including the Tikuna?



A workshop inviting therapists to a conversation on therapy and suicide, in relation to life and death liberation that steers away from an anti-psychiatry stance or dismantling and deconstructive proposals, engaging instead epistemic humility and pluriversality.


  • Illuminating Hidden Skills: Fostering Resilience, Agency, and Connectedness
     December 8, 2025
     4:00 pm - 7:00 pm
     Zoom (Link TBA)
    • How can we strengthen agency and resilience in individuals who are less verbal to assist them in overcoming problems?
    • Which foundational narrative practices can guide us in illuminating unnoticed skills and moments of resilience from just a few words spoken by a client?
    • How can we facilitate creative and unusual moments of experiencing agency, resilience, and connectedness when a person is less inclined to find unique outcomes?

A workshop adapting embodied practices derived from other fields to fit our narrative intention of exploring previously overlooked skills, experiences, or values that counter problematic experiences.


  • Em-BODY-ing Conversations: Integrating Narrative Practice, EMDR Therapy, and Somatic-oriented Therapies
     February 1, 2026 - February 1, 2030
     6:40 pm

    Em-BODY-ing Conversations: Integrating Narrative Practice, EMDR Therapy, and Somatic-oriented Therapies:


Please ignore any dates listed here. Registration for this self-paced course is open and ongoing.


  • Collecting Crumbs of Wisdom: Narrative Practice and Parenting
     February 8, 2026
     4:00 pm - 7:00 pm
     Zoom (Link TBA)
    • What stories are with us about becoming wise in the messy doing of parenting?
    • How can narrative practices contribute to supporting those of us in the thick of parenting?
    • What are we learning in our different parenting contexts about raising children with the support of family and community?

A workshop devoted to parenting guided by principles that hold the most meaning for us in our personal narrative journey, conveying the labors of parenting across the lifespan and in our diverse contexts.


  • Parenting and Narrative Practices Group
     February 13, 2026 - April 24, 2026
     3:00 pm - 4:30 pm
     Zoom (Link TBA) Following the Collecting Crumbs of Wisdom: Narrative Practice & Parenting workshop, this group is for those who wish to continue to meet in a supportive parenting community, learning with and from each other. As facilitators, Akansha, Poh, and Peggy will not position themselves as experts, but rather as guides through experiential exercises and facilitators of intentional conversations. 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.

A follow-up to the Collecting Crumbs of Wisdom Workshop


  • Creating Space: Supporting Innovative ways to explore meaning
     March 20, 2026
     1:00 pm - 4:00 pm
     Zoom (Link TBA)
    • Do you enjoy writing, painting, music, dance, photography, pottery, gardening, cooking, poetry, games or?
    • Are you curious to discover and develop new creative methods to play with in your work and life?
    • Are you curious about discovering and developing new creative methods to incorporate into your work and life?ploration?

A workshop to explore and develop rich storylines in our lives and work that go beyond talking about meaning-making and into doing it creatively and collaboratively

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