
UP CLOSE AND PERSONAL
Interviewing Therapists Lives, Practice & Relationships
Narrative Therapy Conference
Feb. 4-6, 2027 Granville Island, Vancouver Canada
Connection. Appreciation. Celebration.
Train with Integrity, Creativity, Politic and Purpose
Join us on February 4th - 6th 2027 in Supernatural Vancouver, Canada
Experience the best of the best world-class presenters interviewed about their lives, politics, values, and passions and ~ demonstrating the latest narrative therapy informed relational interviewing practices - live.

Therapeutic Conversations 24
Conference Highlights:
Up Close & Personal
A New TC Conference Design
Conference faculty demonstrate the latest narrative therapy informed practices, relational questions, and theoretical ideas. This sets the stage for intimate and revealing interviews with the presenter to engage their relational lives, family histories, passions, commitments, values, doubts, struggles and sustaining narrative practices - through questions like:
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Whatever do you do to remain fresh, committed, creative and innovative?
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Who were your important mentors growing up?
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What's does it feel like asking your most well loved narrative questions?
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What is it about your history and values that sustains your daily inside the therapy room practice?
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What can you tell us about the journy of becoming a psychotherapy outsider?
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How has narrative practice influenced other relationships in your life?
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Do you ever feel like quitting therapy?
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What are the specific politics at the heart of your work?
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What is the one feeling you experience most inside the therapy room that no one really knows about?
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Do you still have practice doubts, fears and worries like the rest of us?
Confirmed Conference Presenters
Rosa Elena Arteaga (Mexico/Canada), Christine Dennstedt (Canada), Todd Disney (USA), Julia Gerlitz (Canada), Helene Grau (Denmark), Stephen Madigan (Canada), David Marsten (USA), Todd May (USA), Ottar Ness (Norway), David Nylund (USA), Tommy Spence (Canada), Dina Von Heimburg (Norway)
Daily Post-Conference Parties
Lets be honest - half the reason you come to VSNT conferences is to kick back, exhale, chit-chat, share a drink, laugh a lot, and connect with super cool and interesting therapists from around the globe. Our February 2027 conference will prove no different.
TRUST REGISTRATION ~ for participants who already know they're coming to the conference before the final schedule of presenters and workshops is published. A thank you to keeners who register early at a reduced rate
Offer ends 30/08/2026
Private stories of sitting inside the therapy room: the agony, ecstasy, doubt, wonder, courage, commitment, and beauty ~ we all share
1/2 DAY WORKSHOP INTERVIEWS
NEW PRACTICE DEVELOPMENTS
Narrative Practice and
Psychedelic Medicines
Live Supervision Demonstration
Evolving Therapeutic Letter Writing
Developing Narrative Therapy Questions Demonstration
Context, Politics & Power: Narrative Ideas and Disordered Eating
More workshops coming . . .
FULL DAY WORKSHOP INTERVIEWS
DAY 0NE
Responding to Trauma and
Gender Violence + Narrative Group Work with Trauma and Sexual Abuse
~ Rosa Arteaga + Julia Gerlitz
with guest interviewers
DAY TWO
Relational Interviewing with Grief, Loss + Conflicted Couple Relationshps
~ Helené Grau, Stephen Madigan
+ guest interviewers
DAY THREE
Relational Interviewing with Children, Youth and Families
~ Christine Dennstedt, David Marsten, & Rock Nylund + guest interviewers
1/2 DAY WORKSHOP INTERVIEWS
WHEN THEORY MEETS PRACTICE
Michel Foucault’s Philosophy and the Politics of Narrative Practice
~ Todd May
with guest interviewers
Poetics, Politics and Identity ~ Finding Beauty in Turbulent Times
~Todd Disney
with guest interviewers
Beyond Emotion Regulation + other siily notions: Narratives Relational Practice
~ Rock Nylund
with guest interviewers
WellFare: The relational impacts of everyday life on people’s wellbeing
~ Ottar Ness
with guest interviewers
More workshops coming...

On July 1, 2022, VSNT faculty lost their very close friend and narrative colleague Gunnar Martinsen of Bergen Norway. To celebrate and remember his wonderful full-hearted passionate spirit, we will be offering five scholarships to Therapeutic Conversations 24.
Please contact VSNT to be considered for a scholarship opportunity.

