Foundations Level II: Applied Skills of Narrative Practice
18 CEC's
Narrative Therapy Supervision
Developing Narrative Therapy Questions and Therapeutic Letters
March 20th-22nd, 2026
Foundations Level Two:
Creating Confidence Inside the Therapy Room
18 CE credits granted by CCPA
March 20-22, 2026
"My ability to understand and ask narrative therapy questions on a scale of 1 to 10 before the course was a low two and this course saw me progress to a high six!! All I can wonder is "Who would be least surprised I was able to achieve this level of narrative questioning?" The faculty at VSNT are so awesome!"
- Applied Skills Participant, Chicago, November 2025
"I feel so much more confident! Skills of Practice training was challenging, pushed me beyond my therapeutic limit, and I learn a ton of new practice skills. Thanks a million!"
- Applied Skills Participant, Victoria, May 2025
"I really appreciated how Rock and Stephen provided feedback about our narrative questions that was immediate, clear, and actionable – I’m going to be hearing their voices this week as I try new questions in my practice! Thanks so much!!"
- Applied Skills Participant, Vancouver, May 2024
"I've never been exposed to anything like this level of practice brilliance before and it gave all of us hope of what might some day be possible. Amazing!!
- Applied Skills Participant, Toronto, January 2024
*VSNT Supervision Skills course is designed to dramatically enhance participant practice understandings regarding the ecology of the receiving context they receive client stories into. This includes intimate personal, familial, theoretical and therapeutic experiences that influence where a therapist stands and what they stand for ~ inside the therapy room.
*Once this relational ecology is established supervisors move participants towards creating a coherent link between the ecology and the purpose, direction, politic, intention, context, history, and relational meaning of every narrative therapy question ~ they ask.
*Throughout the 3-day course legendary narrative therapy supervisors Stephen Madigan & David Nylund offer ongoing and immediate live reflections and feedback regarding each participant's questions within a supportive, safe, small group supervisory context.
Teaching Supervisors
Stephen Madigan PhD (RCC/ACS) (Canada)
David Rock Nylund PhD (USA)
Dates: March 20th-22nd, 2026
Time: 8:15 am - 3:00 pm, Pacific Daylight Time (Vancouver, BC)
Location: Classes will be taught live through Zoom video conferencing
Professional: $575 CAD (+ tax) ~ Aprox - $415 USD
Students/VSNT.live members: $450 CAD (+ tax) ~ Aprox - $325 USD
*Proof of student status is required upon registration
**The VSNT Supervision certificate course is presented through LIVE interviewing sessions. Due to issues of confidentiality and participant consent, recordings of this training will not be made available*
Daily Training Schedule
Know Your Practice ~ Grow Your Practice
"After completing your Level Two Applied Skills course I have experienced the most confident and exhilarating two weeks of therapy in my life! Rock and Stephen you are the best pair of supervisor/teachers I have ever had. With so much gratitude and love . . ."
- Applied Skills Participant, London, UK, November 2022
Question Development Training Supervisors
Stephen Madigan PhD, David Nylund PhD
Day 1
8:15 AM – 11:00 AM
Ecology of the Receiving Context
1a) Understanding the relational ecology of the receiving context participants receive client stories into
Anatomy of Therapeutic Questions
1b) Creating a coherent link between the ecology of how we receive client stories with the purpose, direction, politic, intention, context, history, and relational meaning of our narrative therapy questions
12 – 3 PM
Part one: LIVE Interview Demonstration
Supervisors Madigan and Nylund take turns engaging in Live counter-story interviews with participants. With each narrative question asked in the interview the question is typed up on the screen for everyone in the course to view. Then, each therapy question is closely studied, explained, and interrogated in terms of the Ecology of The Receiving Context the 'Client' Story was received into ~ then the questions are analyzed further by the group.
Day 2
8:15 AM – 11:00 AM
Part two: Supervision Crafting Question Development
Working in pairs, participants begin creating and adding their own novel interview questions to the live interview process. As a further response are therapeutic letters written and performed back to the participant 'client'. The client then responds back to the letter writer.
Part three: Supervision Crafting Question Development
Participant questions are typed up on the screen for everyone to view and - closely supervised, studied, explained, and closely interrogated by Stephen and Rock. As a further response are therapeutic letters written and performed back to the participant 'client'. The client then responds back to the letter writer.
12:00 PM – 3 PM
Part four: Extending the Craft of Question Development
Working in pairs, participants begin creating and adding their own novel interview questions to the live interview process. As a further response are therapeutic letters written and performed back to the participant 'client'. The client then responds back to the letter writer.
Part five: Extending the Craft of Question Development
Participant questions are typed up on the screen for everyone to view and - closely supervised, studied, explained, and closely interrogated by Stephen and Rock. As a further response are therapeutic letters written and performed back to the participant 'client'. The client then responds back to the letter writer.
Part six: Personal
Relational therapeutic letters are written to someone important to the participants' relational life.
Day 3
8:15 AM – 11 AM
Part seven: Question Categories+ Cool Short Cuts/Patterns/Tricks
David & Stephen push participants further in their understandings regarding new investigations on the structures, timing, and noticing patterns, short cuts and - share a few veteran narrative tricks to enhance participant practice. Supervisors also spend time to celebrate recent developments/advancements in the participant work.
12 PM - 3 PM
Part eight: Learning to Supervise + Final Day Fun Supervision Exercise
Working in 3's participants interview/supervise one another in small groups and return back for further supervision with the larger group. And then - a late in the final day surprise supervisory exercises.
*QUESTIONS? It's challenging to find the words to accurately describe the experience VSNT supervisors and participants create in the Level 2 Supervision Skill course. So ~ please contact VSNT if you would like a broader description. Thanks so much.