Learn from the world's most experienced Narrative Therapy teaching team
Train with Integrity, Creativity, Politic and Purpose
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.
Training Opportunities 2025
VSNT.live membership offers significant discounts to all training events
Therapeutic Conversations 23 Conference ~ October 2025
See you in Sacramento California
Therapeutic Conversations 23 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.
Couple Therapy with High Conflict Relationships
(February 2025 course sold out)
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.
Dr. Stephen Madigan 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.
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.
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.
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)
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.