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Learn from the world's most experienced Narrative Therapy teaching team 

Train with Integrity, Creativity, Politic and Purpose

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Welcome to the Vancouver School For Narrative Therapy

The Vancouver School for Narrative Therapy (VSNT) opened as the first Narrative Therapy Training Institute in the Northern Hemisphere. VSNT is home to the most experienced, most published and most highly trained Narrative Therapy Teaching Faculty in the world.​ We invite you to join our international community alongside thousands of other dedicated therapists and students to learn about the beauty, politic, ideology, justice, and creativity of this work.

**All training courses include live therapy demonstrations + faculty/client video sessions and transcripts.

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Training Opportunities in 2024
VSNT.live membership offers significant discounts to all training events

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Foundations One: 5-Day Certificate Training (30 CEC's)
 

Six world-class narrative therapists teach alongside one internationally renowned philosopher. Together, they guide participants towards a meaningful skill based and practical understanding of both narrative therapy theory and practice.

 

VSNT faculty illustrate the complexity, integrity, politic, and creativity of their interviewing practices through in depth discussion, participant practice exercise, therapy session tapes, client transcripts, and live interview demonstrations. 

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Foundations Two: 3-Day Applied Skills of Narrative Practice
(18 CEC's)

Level Two Foundations is focused on dramatically increasing a participants confidence, understanding, and skill working inside the therapy room. Participants learn through a wide range of live practice demonstrations regarding the crafting, composing, learning, and asking narrative therapeutic questions and writing therapeutic letters.

 

Participants learning moves participants through the ecology of ideas, historical meanings, and creative structures of narrative therapy questions. Learning is highly engaged where participants are taught through sets of live session counter-story interviewing exercises designed and developed by VSNT faculty.

Faculty are world renown narrative supervisors ~ Stephen Madigan and David Nylund 

Space is limited.

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Foundations Three: 5-day Advanced Skills Intensive (30 CEC's)

VSNT faculty are dramatically reshaping the ideas and practices of Narrative Therapy. Join us for a powerful, 2-weekend intensive that promises to improve your application and knowledge of narrative therapy.

International faculty:

Rosa Arteaga (Canada/Mexico), Julia Gerlitz (Canada), Helene Grau Kristensen (Denmark), Stephen Madigan (Canada), David Marsten (USA),Todd May (USA), David 'Rock' Nylund (USA)

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VSNT.live
 

An all inclusive, 24/7 access, membership only, online interactive narrative therapy interactive learning platform connecting the world wide narrative therapy community.

 

Provides the largest archive of Narrative Therapy. Including: an ever growing list of over 500 videos + 250 CEC course lessons + over 100 documents (articles/session transcripts/workshop slides) + over 100 recorded workshop lectures, Live client therapy sessions and Live interactive long play series. All with VSNT faculty and international guests discussing all of the most recent narrative ideas and therapeutic practices. 

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Therapeutic Conversations 22 Conference (November 7th-9th, 2024)

Therapeutic Conversations 22 is a conference designed for participant therapists and students to interact with some of the world's most creative therapists, theorists, and justice advocates showcasing their latest practice work - LIVE! 

All workshop presentations are skill focused, and demonstrated through Live interviewing, session videos, and unaltered client/therapist transcripts.

Cool post conference day gatherings with presenters and participants. Connect, have

a drink, relax, and meet up with colleagues from around the globe.


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Couple Therapy ~ Stephen Madigan 
Coming January 2025

Relationships are Relational: Narrative Therapy informed Relational Interviewing (NIRI) with highly conflicted couple relationships:

While modern couples are heralded for being great workers, parents, friends, and community members, these relationships often (and unknowingly) place their intimate relationship at risk.

 

Stephen teaches why the practice of NIRI is centred in relational-interconnectivity and demonstrates how all aspects of the couple relationship is indelibly influenced by and imbedded within cultural, economic, and relational contexts - filled with tremendous expectations, obligations, norms, and responsibilities. 

The work of NIRI involves a deliberate political, philosophical, and ideological practice shift away from individualizing couple conflict and moves towards an ecology of interlocking post-structural non-individualist theoretical ideas and therapeutic practices engaged with:

  • Relational-contextual inter-connectivity

  • Cultural complexities, governing traditions, and dominant beliefs

  • Structural inequalities, power relations

  • Socially sanctioned relationship norms, responsibilities, obligations, and expectations.

 

NIRI transcripts and video sessions are demonstrated highlighting Stephen’s work with conflicted couple relationships in Canada, Norway, and USA, showing:

  • Why NIRI sessions begin with remembering conversations about the full story of the couple relationship’s values (and not the partial story of the conflict)

  • The use, structure, grammar, and purpose of relational remembering questions

  • The influence of relational and cultural contexts shaping relationship practices

  • Contextualizing relational failure within the relationships relationship to cultural expectations, responsibilities, and obligations

  • Re-authoring new meanings/responses to expressions of couple conflict as loss and grief of the relationships pre-problem values

  • Writing therapeutic letters directly to the Couple Relationship

  • Couples writing letters from the relationship perspective.

WHAT PEOPLE SAY

"I loved all the information and getting it from such high quality professionals. It was amazing to be able to see them all in action. The live demonstrations were probably my favourite part, as well as all of the discussion."

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