Welcome to the Vancouver School for Narrative Therapy
The Vancouver School for Narrative Therapy opened as the first Narrative Therapy Training Institute in the northern hemisphere. VSNT is home to the most experienced, well published, and highly trained Narrative Therapy Teaching Faculty in the world.
The faculty's sole mission and responsibility is to train therapists, counsellors, social workers, psychologists and graduate students to become more knowledgeable, comfortable, and confident with their clients – while sitting inside the therapy room. All VSNT courses provide participants practical experience and supervision - through session transcripts, videos, and live demonstrations of the faculty's work across a wide range of client concerns.
Train with Us
Developing Narrative Therapy Questions & Therapeutic Letters
Growing the future of narrative therapy ideas, practice values ~ together
New ways of working with Highly Conflicted
couple relationships
Practice demonstrations showing the future of Narrative Therapy
Imagine what if feels like becoming more and more confident
~ inside the therapy room
All participant learning is guided by 6 world-class Narrative therapists + one highly imaginative continental philosopher
“One way to understand the complexities involved in the process of learning therapy is to consider the relational ecology of the receiving context you receive client stories into - that interwoven symphony of ideas, beliefs, ideologies, values, cultural and social locations, familial and experiential history, etc. - you have been shaped by and are imbedded within - when receiving client stories.
What is created from the ecology of one's relational receiving context influences all our decision making on how to best respond back to the client story (through a therapeutic question/intervention). To be accountable to our clients, our life long task is to find a clarity, consistency, and coherency between what we say we stand for - and what we actually do inside the therapy room”
~ Stephen Madigan - VSNT Faculty
The VSNT participant training experience:
"I studied the narrative work of the faculty recently in grad school so to see them work live and hear them show and discuss their tapes in real time was beyond exciting. Thank you to the faculty for being humble and funny and encouraging our questions. The whole thing was an unforgettable experience."
~Participant, February 2026
"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."
~Participant, May 2026
"The Skills of Practice course encouraged me to take a deeper dive into the brilliance of narrative therapy practice ~ I was accompanied on my travels by an incredibly rich community of learners in conversation and relationship with the deeply insightful, wise and humble guidance of the amazing VSNT faculty. Without a doubt, I am a better therapist because of the time I spent with VSNT."
~Participant, June 2026
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