Advanced Narrative Practice: Recent VSNT Developments
Practice demonstrations showing the future of Narrative Therapy (30 CEC's)
5-Day Intensive Certificate Course
May 2027 Dates Coming Soon
Join VSNT faculty and international colleagues for a powerful 2 weekend Advanced Practice certificate intensive course. The teaching team demonstrates how they are dramatically reshaping our understanding and practices of Narrative Therapy.
VSNT faculty welcomes participants at all levels of practice experience and theoretical understanding to join us in these new training courses. Training is skill based, purposeful, and theoretically driven.
Feedback from Participants
"Being a narrative therapist for over 15 years, I wondered what was left to learn? Your Advanced Practice course opened SO many new possibilities for new practice. Thanks to ALL of you and your beautiful work and showing me a way into the future!"
-Advanced Participant, May 2025, LA, California
"The question, then, is not what symptoms define complicated grief. The real question is: why does our society make it so complicated to grieve?"
Helené Grau - VSNT Faculty
“It's overwhelming to consider the level of VSNT teachers skill and understanding. I've done probably 5,000 hours of narrative therapy hours and feel pretty good but watching them show their work shows me just how far we can go. Really can't thank them enough. Cheers!"
- Advanced Participant, May 2025, Vancouver, BC
"I don't think that people contain many stories; I think they contain a rich history from which many different stories can be built. The import of that is that if people contain stories, then therapy remains a project of discovery--discovering the story that helps the person flourish. Alternatively, if people contain a rich history that forms a wellspring for other stories, then the emergence of other stories is a project of creation rather than simple discovery"
~ Todd May - VSNT Faculty
Details:
Recent May 2025 VSNT Teaching Faculty:
Rosa Elena Arteaga (Canada/Mexico), Christine Dennstedt (Canada), Julia Gerlitz (Canada), Helené Grau Kristensen (Denmark), Sharon Leung (Hong Kong/ London, UK), Stephen Madigan (Canada), Todd May (USA), David Nylund (USA), Jeff Zimmerman (USA)
Weekend I - Practice:
New narrative therapy practice developments with Individuals, Couples, Groups, and Families
Weekend II - Trauma:
Philosophy of the body, Narrative informed Psychedelic Medicines, Neurobiology informed narrative therapy and trauma, + Gender Violence: Narrative interviewing the body
Location:
Classes are taught live through Zoom video conferencing
Time:
8:15 am - 2:15 pm, Pacific Daylight Time (Vancouver, BC)
Rates:
5 Day Intensive with 30 CEC's:
Professional:
$850 CAD (+ tax)
Students:
$700 CAD (+ tax)
Weekend 1 Only:
Professional:
$550 CAD (+ tax)
Students:
$400 CAD (+ tax)
Weekend 2 Only:
Professional:
$400 CAD (+ tax)
Students:
325 CAD (+ tax)
Proof of student status is required upon registration
"Queering therapy is not simply about affirming LGBTQ+ identities; it is about troubling the dominant stories that constrain all of our lives"
- David 'Rock' Nylund ~ VSNT Faculty