UP CLOSE AND PERSONAL
Why Narrative Therapists Do What They Do
Therapeutic Conversations 24 Conference
February 5th-7th, 2027
Granville Island Hotel, Vancouver Canada
Interviewing Therapist Lives and Relationships
Discussing everyday fears, doubt, values, passion, confidence, and commitments
Join us on February 5th - 7th 2027 in Supernatural Vancouver, Canada
Best of the best world-class narrative therapy informed presenters demonstrate their latest interviewing practices live ~ AND ~ discuss all too familiar 'inside the therapy room' experiences common to all of us.
Therapeutic Conversations 24
Conference Highlights:
more workshops coming soom . . .
Up Close & Personal
A New TC Conference Design
Conference faculty demonstrate (live!) their latest narrative therapy informed practices, relational questions, letters, and theoretical ideas. This sets the stage to engage intimate and revealing interviews with presenters about their relational lives, family histories, passions, commitments, values, doubts, struggles, and how they sustain narrative practices - through questions like:
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Whatever do you do to remain fresh, committed, creative and innovative?
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Do you still have practice doubts, fears and worries like the rest of us?
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How do you explain what you do to friends, lovers, family?
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Has your commitment to narrative therapy come at a cost to other relationships?
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Who were your important mentors growing up?
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What's does the experience 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 your journey of becoming a psychotherapy outsider?
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Do you ever feel like quitting therapy?
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How has narrative practice influenced other relationships in your life?
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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?
Confirmed Conference Presenters
Rosa Elena Arteaga (Mexico/Canada), Christine Dennstedt (Canada), Stephanie Disney (USA), Todd Disney (USA), Julia Gerlitz (Canada), Helene Grau Kristensen, (Denmark), Stephen Madigan (Canada), David Marsten (USA), Todd May (USA), Ottar Ness (Norway),
David Nylund (USA), Tommy Spence (Canada)
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. The TC24 February 2027 conference will prove no different. Hope you join the party.
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 30/09/2026
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
DEMONSTRATION WORKSHOPS + UP CLOSE PERSONAL INTERVIEWS
DAY 0NE
Responding to Trauma:
Gender Violence +
Sexual Abuse
~ Rosa Arteaga + Julia Gerlitz
with guest interviewers
DAY TWO
Narrative Informed
Relational Interviewing:
Grief, Death, Loss +
Intimate Relationships
~ Helené Grau, Stephen Madigan
+ guest interviewers
DAY THREE
Ten Thousand Hours Inside the Room:
Bodies, Letters, Relationships
~ 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
Beyond Emotion Regulation + other siily notions: Narratives Relational Practice
~ Rock Nylund
with guest interviewers
Poetics, Identity and Questions ~ Finding Beauty in Turbulent Times
~Todd Disney
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.
